Carlsen regains #1 spot FIDE ratings

At 2814 Magnus Carlsen is officially the highest rated player again. On the January 1st FIDE rating list the Norwegian switched places with World Champion Viswanathan Anand from India, who has 2810. Sergei Karjakin climbed further to a 5th place, while Hikaru Nakamura entered the top 10 for the first time.

For two months World Champion Viswanathan Anand was also the highest rated player after he had surpassed Magnus Carlsen on the previous rating list. Carlsen had underperformed at the Olympiad and in Bilbao, and his victory at the Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing wasn't calculated for the November 1st list. Now it has been, and together with his result at the London Chess Classic the Norwegian ended up with four rating points more than Anand. All this was to be expected thanks to Hans Arild Runde's "live list", of which the top 10 is also to be found in the far right column on this website.

Sergei Karjakin, who entered the top 10 for the first time in the previous list, climbed even further. The Moscovite, who turns 21 this month, is now the world's 5th player after passing Veselin Topalov from Bulgaria and compatriot Alexander Grischuk. Hikaru Nakamura (USA) entered the top 10 for the first time in his career, at spot number 10.

Partly because of his victory at the Russian Championship Superfinal, Ian Nepomniachtchi is now the world's number 15. Pavel Eljanov went down from 13 to 21. Fabiano Caruana (Italy), now the top junior player as Carlsen and Karjakin have turned 20 in the past year, can be found on spot #25 in the general list. Nigel Short has lost 22 points on this list and was surpassed by Luke McShane, who won 19 points.

The women's top 10 again didn't change much. Humpy Koneru won 7 points so the gap with Judit Polgar decreased from 86 to 79 points. Third is Women World Champion Hou Yifan who is now also a proud 2600 player. Obviously she dominates the Girls list as well. Below you'll find the new top 100, the top 100 women, the top 20 juniors and the top 20 girls. We give the first two lists including the changes with the previous lists.

FIDE JANUARY 2011 RATING LIST: TOP 100 PLAYERS Legend:
black color - player remained on the same position
green color - player moved up in the list
red color - player moved down in the list
blue color - player is new to the current Top list
Old represents player's position in the previous period list

Rank		Old	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games
	1	2	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2814 (+12)	17 (+3)
	2	1	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2810 (+6)	17 (+11)
	3	3	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2805 (+4)	9 (-13)
	4	4	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2784 (-7)	16 (-5)
	5	9	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2776 (+16)	20 (+4)
	6	5	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2775 (-11)	10 (+1)
	7	6	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2773 (+2)	20 (+5)
	8	8	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2772 (+9)	9 (-7)
	9	7	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2764 (0)	0 (-16)
	10	15	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2751 (+10)	16 (+1)
	11	11	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2744 (0)	0 (-20)
	12	12	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2744 (0)	0 (-14)
	13	17	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2736 (+3)	10 (0)
	14	10	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2734 (-22)	21 (0)
	15	26	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2733 (+13)	11 (-15)
	16	14	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2733 (-8)	9 (-7)
	17	18	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2731 (+4)	33 (+11)
	18	23	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2730 (+8)	11 (-5)
	19	19	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2730 (+4)	6 (-20)
	20	20	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2726 (0)	0 (-18)
	21	13	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2724 (-18)	9 (-16)
	22	29	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2723 (+8)	10 (+4)
	23	22	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2723 (0)	7 (-11)
	24	16	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2722 (-13)	15 (-17)
	25	31	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2721 (+12)	18 (-1)
	26	24	Movsesian, Sergei	g	ARM	2721 (0)	0 (-26)
	27	25	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2719 (-2)	10 (-5)
	28	21	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2718 (-8)	11 (-6)
	29	27	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2717 (0)	0 (-10)
	30	28	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2716 (0)	0 (-10)
	31	36	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2715 (+12)	6 (-23)
	32	30	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2714 (+2)	14 (-11)
	33	33	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2709 (0)	11 (-4)
	34	34	Navara, David	g	CZE	2708 (0)	0 (-28)
	35	32	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2707 (-2)	15 (0)
	36	35	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2707 (0)	0 (-16)
	37	38	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2701 (0)	0 (-25)
	38	37	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2701 (0)	0 (-27)
	39	39	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2700 (0)	0 (0)
	40	41	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2698 (0)	0 (-31)
	41	40	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2695 (-4)	11 (-14)
	42	42	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2695 (0)	0 (-24)
	43	66	Dreev, Aleksey	g	RUS	2694 (+20)	18 (-4)
	44	48	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2693 (+7)	7 (-10)
	45	47	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2690 (+2)	9 (-2)
	46	53	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2689 (+6)	13 (+3)
	47	54	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2689 (+6)	9 (+3)
	48	45	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2689 (0)	0 (-16)
	49	46	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2688 (0)	0 (-22)
	50	43	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2687 (-5)	3 (-19)
	51	75	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2686 (+18)	18 (+3)
	52	55	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2686 (+4)	7 (-5)
	53	49	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2686 (0)	0 (-10)
	54	51	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2685 (0)	0 (-15)
	55	50	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2681 (-4)	7 (-14)
	56	56	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2681 (0)	0 (-19)
	57	59	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2678 (-2)	9 (-1)
	58	63	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2678 (+2)	2 (-15)
	59	61	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2678 (0)	0 (-13)
	60	60	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2678 (0)	0 (-27)
	61	57	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2677 (-3)	18 (+2)
	62	78	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2676 (+10)	12 (-3)
	63	65	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2675 (0)	0 (-29)
	64	73	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2673 (+4)	18 (-1)
	65	77	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2672 (+5)	9 (-1)
	66	82	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2671 (+10)	9 (+3)
	67	80	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2671 (+6)	9 (-23)
	68	52	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2670 (-14)	18 (+11)
	69	68	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	2670 (0)	0 (-19)
	70	69	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2670 (0)	0 (-16)
	71	70	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2670 (0)	0 (-7)
	72	71	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2669 (0)	0 (-31)
	73	89	Meier, Georg	g	GER	2667 (+11)	10 (-4)
	74	87	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2667 (+10)	9 (-7)
	75	76	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2667 (0)	0 (-24)
	76	79	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2666 (0)	0 (-7)
	77	74	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2665 (-3)	9 (-12)
	78	100	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2664 (+19)	7 (-9)
	79	44	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2664 (-25)	5 (-15)
	80	81	Bareev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2663 (0)	0 (0)
	81	62	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2662 (-14)	18 (-3)
	82	85	Smeets, Jan	g	NED	2662 (+2)	1 (-14)
	83	64	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2660 (-16)	20 (+5)
	84	91	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2660 (+6)	12 (-7)
	85	90	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2660 (+6)	9 (-12)
	86	83	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2660 (0)	0 (-21)
	87	84	Socko, Bartosz	g	POL	2660 (0)	0 (-16)
	88	94	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2658 (+8)	13 (+12)
	89	58	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2658 (-22)	13 (0)
	90	-	Sokolov, Ivan	g	NED	2657 (+)	9 (+)
	91	88	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2657 (0)	0 (-9)
	92	93	Nyback, Tomi	g	FIN	2656 (+6)	2 (-14)
	93	72	Zhou, Jianchao	g	CHN	2655 (-14)	26 (+3)
	94	102	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2655 (+10)	9 (+9)
	95	-	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2653 (+)	9 (+)
	96	92	Gustafsson, Jan	g	GER	2652 (0)	0 (-13)
	97	99	Potkin, Vladimir	g	RUS	2651 (+5)	11 (+1)
	98	-	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	g	IND	2651 (+)	8 (+)
	99	67	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	2650 (-24)	22 (+5)
	100	86	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2649 (-10)	20 (-1)
	101	-	Li, Chao b	g	CHN	2649 (+)	18 (+)
	102	96	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2649 (0)	0 (-13)

FIDE JANUARY 2011 RATING LIST: TOP 100 WOMEN

Rank		Old	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games
	1	1	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2686 (0)	0 (-10)
	2	2	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2607 (+7)	18 (+11)
	3	3	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2602 (+11)	23 (0)
	4	4	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2570 (-11)	15 (+5)
	5	5	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	m	RUS	2552 (-24)	11 (+1)
	6	6	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2550 (-1)	4 (-16)
	7	7	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2546 (-2)	4 (-11)
	8	8	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2529 (-1)	6 (-9)
	9	13	Cmilyte, Viktorija	g	LTU	2526 (+12)	14 (-1)
	10	10	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2520 (-5)	16 (-1)
	11	12	Lahno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2518 (-4)	8 (-6)
	12	9	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2516 (-10)	4 (-11)
	13	11	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2514 (-10)	17 (0)
	14	15	Chiburdanidze, Maia	g	GEO	2502 (0)	4 (-1)
	15	14	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2498 (-9)	17 (+3)
	16	19	Galliamova, Alisa	m	RUS	2497 (+10)	11 (+4)
	17	26	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2496 (+22)	30 (+6)
	18	25	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2495 (+18)	10 (0)
	19	24	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2493 (+15)	6 (-4)
	20	16	Socko, Monika	g	POL	2489 (-6)	9 (-18)
	21	18	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2489 (-5)	4 (-5)
	22	20	Xu, Yuhua	g	CHN	2484 (+1)	2 (-12)
	23	17	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2483 (-12)	17 (+6)
	24	21	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2480 (0)	14 (+14)
	25	32	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2476 (+14)	6 (-16)
	26	22	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2475 (-4)	2 (-16)
	27	29	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2472 (0)	13 (-5)
	28	27	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2472 (-2)	4 (-5)
	29	23	Gunina, Valentina	wg	RUS	2471 (-8)	11 (+4)
	30	30	Gaponenko, Inna	m	UKR	2466 (-3)	9 (-14)
	31	35	Skripchenko, Almira	m	FRA	2458 (-2)	8 (+4)
	32	36	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan	g	SCO	2458 (0)	0 (-15)
	33	37	Dembo, Yelena	m	GRE	2457 (+3)	6 (-4)
	34	28	Hoang Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2456 (-17)	14 (+3)
	35	67	Paikidze, Nazi	wg	GEO	2455 (+54)	20 (+2)
	36	33	Shen, Yang	wg	CHN	2455 (-6)	14 (-1)
	37	34	Ushenina, Anna	m	UKR	2454 (-6)	11 (-4)
	38	31	Danielian, Elina	g	ARM	2454 (-12)	2 (-16)
	39	39	Hunt, Harriet V	m	ENG	2454 (0)	0 (0)
	40	38	Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman	m	IND	2454 (0)	0 (-9)
	41	40	Polgar, Sofia	m	HUN	2450 (0)	0 (0)
	42	41	Melia, Salome	m	GEO	2449 (0)	0 (-17)
	43	44	Rajlich, Iweta	m	POL	2446 (0)	0 (0)
	44	43	Repkova, Eva	m	SVK	2446 (0)	0 (-15)
	45	45	Atalik, Ekaterina	m	TUR	2444 (0)	0 (-16)
	46	42	Zhukova, Natalia	g	UKR	2441 (-6)	2 (-23)
	47	46	Khotenashvili, Bela	m	GEO	2440 (0)	0 (-12)
	48	48	Javakhishvili, Lela	m	GEO	2438 (0)	0 (-26)
	49	52	Khukhashvili, Sopiko	m	GEO	2437 (+7)	4 (-9)
	50	49	Khurtsidze, Nino	m	GEO	2436 (0)	0 (-6)
	51	47	Turova, Irina	m	RUS	2434 (-5)	2 (-7)
	52	50	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2429 (-6)	11 (-8)
	53	51	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2428 (-2)	3 (-12)
	54	53	Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina	m	RUS	2427 (0)	0 (-9)
	55	54	Zaiatz, Elena	m	RUS	2426 (0)	0 (-16)
	56	62	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2425 (+18)	20 (+1)
	57	55	Houska, Jovanka	m	ENG	2419 (-2)	4 (-11)
	58	56	Vasilevich, Tatjana	m	UKR	2418 (+1)	9 (-15)
	59	74	Ovod, Evgenija	m	RUS	2414 (+27)	18 (+9)
	60	58	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	m	ROU	2414 (0)	0 (-6)
	61	59	Moser, Eva	m	AUT	2413 (0)	0 (-20)
	62	61	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	m	MGL	2410 (+1)	2 (-22)
	63	63	Foisor, Cristina-Adela	m	ROU	2405 (+2)	2 (-23)
	64	57	Romanko, Marina	m	RUS	2404 (-10)	13 (-5)
	65	68	Madl, Ildiko	m	HUN	2402 (+2)	4 (-7)
	66	66	Jackova, Jana	m	CZE	2402 (0)	0 (0)
	67	69	Stockova, Zuzana	m	SVK	2400 (0)	0 (0)
	68	64	Wang, Yu A.	m	CHN	2398 (-5)	5 (-4)
	69	99	Pourkashiyan, Atousa	wg	IRI	2397 (+30)	15 (-20)
	70	80	Shadrina, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2397 (+13)	15 (+6)
	71	60	Matnadze, Ana	m	GEO	2397 (-13)	9 (-9)
	72	70	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2397 (0)	0 (-18)
	73	71	Batsiashvili, Nino	wg	GEO	2396 (+6)	9 (+9)
	74	65	Huang, Qian	wg	CHN	2394 (-8)	17 (-5)
	75	78	Tania, Sachdev	m	IND	2391 (+6)	6 (-3)
	76	86	Kovanova, Baira	wg	RUS	2391 (+11)	4 (-14)
	77	77	Stepovaia, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2389 (+4)	9 (-7)
	78	73	Michna, Marta	wg	GER	2389 (0)	0 (-9)
	79	89	Nebolsina, Vera	wg	RUS	2388 (+11)	26 (+17)
	80	79	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2386 (+2)	22 (+1)
	81	76	Galojan, Lilit	m	ARM	2385 (0)	0 (-18)
	82	81	Zdebskaja, Natalia	wg	UKR	2384 (+1)	18 (-6)
	83	83	Gara, Anita	m	HUN	2382 (0)	0 (0)
	84	82	Sukandar, Irine Kharisma	wg	INA	2382 (0)	0 (-19)
	85	85	Alexandrova, Olga	m	ESP	2381 (0)	0 (0)
	86	84	Kononenko, Tatiana	m	UKR	2381 (0)	0 (-7)
	87	72	Matveeva, Svetlana	m	RUS	2380 (-9)	11 (+2)
	88	87	Bojkovic, Natasa	m	SRB	2379 (0)	0 (-26)
	89	88	Tsereteli, Tamar	wg	GEO	2379 (0)	0 (-9)
	90	93	Ding, Yixin	wg	CHN	2376 (+6)	5 (-10)
	91	90	Milliet, Sophie	m	FRA	2375 (0)	4 (-4)
	92	91	Charkhalashvili, Inga	wg	GEO	2375 (0)	0 (0)
	93	97	Peng, Zhaoqin	g	NED	2372 (+4)	2 (-16)
	94	96	Zawadzka, Jolanta	wg	POL	2371 (+3)	7 (-12)
	95	-	Goletiani, Rusudan	m	USA	2367 (+)	4 (+)
	96	-	Manakova, Maria	wg	SRB	2366 (+)	0 (+)
	97	-	Vajda, Szidonia	m	HUN	2365 (+)	7 (+)
	98	94	Gu, Xiaobing	wg	CHN	2364 (-5)	9 (-9)
	99	-	Molchanova, Tatjana	wg	RUS	2363 (+)	0 (+)
	100	-	Gaprindashvili, Nona	g	GEO	2362 (+)	9 (+)
	101	92	Mikadze, Miranda	wm	GEO	2362 (-13)	8 (+8)
	102	-	Rogule, Laura	wg	LAT	2362 (+)	0 (+)

FIDE JANUARY 2011 RATING LIST: TOP 20 JUNIORS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2721	18	1992
2	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2686	7	1994
3	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2673	18	1993
4	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2664	5	1991
5	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2657	0	1991
6	Kovalyov, Anton	g	ARG	2629	10	1992
7	Safarli, Eltaj	g	AZE	2629	9	1992
8	Salgado Lopez, Ivan	g	ESP	2626	9	1991
9	Sjugirov, Sanan	g	RUS	2626	0	1993
10	Matlakov, Maxim	g	RUS	2616	9	1991
11	Negi, Parimarjan	g	IND	2607	22	1993
12	Yu, Yangyi	g	CHN	2607	18	1994
13	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2602	23	1994
14	Hess, Robert L	g	USA	2572	10	1991
15	Cordova, Emilio	g	PER	2567	30	1991
16	Nabaty, Tamir	m	ISR	2565	18	1991
17	Zherebukh, Yaroslav	g	UKR	2565	9	1993
18	Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel	g	ARM	2560	11	1993
19	Sethuraman, S.P.	m	IND	2545	33	1993
20	Prohaszka, Peter	g	HUN	2542	17	1992

FIDE JANUARY 2011 RATING LIST: TOP 20 GIRLS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2602	23	1994
2	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2520	16	1991
3	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2514	17	1991
4	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2476	6	1992
5	Paikidze, Nazi	wg	GEO	2455	20	1993
6	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2429	11	1991
7	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2428	3	1991
8	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2425	20	1992
9	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2397	0	1992
10	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2386	22	1993
11	Sukandar, Irine Kharisma	wg	INA	2382	0	1992
12	Ding, Yixin	wg	CHN	2376	5	1991
13	Padmini, Rout	wg	IND	2336	13	1994
14	Pustovoitova, Daria	f	RUS	2331	7	1994
15	Guramishvili, Sopiko	wg	GEO	2330	9	1991
16	Kashlinskaya, Alina	wg	RUS	2327	0	1993
17	Soloviova, Liza	wg	UKR	2318	9	1993
18	Arabidze, Meri	wm	GEO	2315	28	1994
19	Ziaziulkina, Nastassia	wm	BLR	2301	19	1995
20	Kazimova, Narmin Nizami qizi	wm	AZE	2298	11	1993

All data courtesy of FIDE