Eljanov is Ukraine's number one

Magnus Carlsen (2813) tops the world rankings by one point. On the May 1 FIDE rating list Veselin Topalov has won seven rating points to reach 2812. Vassily Ivanchuk is not the highest rated Ukrainian anymore; Pavel Eljanov confirmed his steady progress and surpassed him to enter the world's top 10. And Alexei Shirov is back there too.

FIDE published its May 1st rating list and this time there's not a big difference between the official top 10 and the "live" top 10 of Hans Arild Runde (which you can also find in the far right column on this website). Only Anand's and Topalov's ratings are different because of the current World Championship match: virtually speaking Topalov has dropped back to 2806 and Anand is just 3.6 points away from the 2800 barrier.

The biggest news this time is that Vassily Ivanchuk isn't Ukraine's number one player anymore, for the first time in years. Winning another 15 points in 20 games, on the May 2010 list Pavel Eljanov has reached a 9th spot, while Ivanchuk lost seven points and dropped slightly from 11 to 12.

With solid results in not so many games Wang Yue climbed from 10 to 8, and the 10th place is now occupied by Alexei Shirov. Boris Gelfand is out of the top 10 again but only lost 9 rating points. Sergey Karjakin might see the first results of his switch of federations and trainers: he climbed from 21 to 14. Alexander Morozevich didn't play this period but still dropped three places, to 27 now. Anand's seconds Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Peter Heine Nielsen can be found next to each other on the list: numbers 39 and 40.

One of the biggest climbers was Ian Nepomniachtchi, who won no less than 39 points and went up from 78 to 42. Reaching 97, Anish Giri is a top 100 player for the first time.

The women's list has been stable for a long time now, with very few changes in the top 10. Both Judit Polgar and Humpy Koneru didn't play, so the gap is still 60 points. 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. All data courtesy of FIDE.

FIDE MAY 2010 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	1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2813 (0)	0 (-13)
	2	2	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2812 (+7)	10 (+10)
	3	3	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2790 (0)	0 (-13)
	4	4	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2789 (+2)	2 (-11)
	5	5	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2783 (+1)	10 (+1)
	6	6	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2763 (+3)	4 (-5)
	7	7	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2760 (+4)	18 (+2)
	8	10	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2752 (+3)	7 (+7)
	9	16	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2751 (+15)	20 (+20)
	10	14	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2742 (+5)	10 (-3)
	11	9	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2741 (-9)	16 (+9)
	12	11	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2741 (-7)	10 (-3)
	13	13	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2740 (0)	0 (-7)
	14	21	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2739 (+14)	7 (-6)
	15	8	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2735 (-15)	15 (+6)
	16	18	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2735 (0)	0 (-13)
	17	12	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2734 (-6)	14 (+7)
	18	15	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2733 (-4)	7 (+7)
	19	17	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2733 (-2)	4 (-17)
	20	23	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2725 (+5)	11 (+2)
	21	20	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2725 (0)	10 (-4)
	22	22	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2722 (+1)	12 (+5)
	23	25	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2722 (+7)	10 (+10)
	24	31	Navara, David	g	CZE	2718 (+10)	24 (+24)
	25	29	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	2717 (+8)	35 (+25)
	26	40	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2715 (+20)	11 (+2)
	27	24	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2715 (0)	0 (-6)
	28	27	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2713 (0)	0 (-13)
	29	26	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2710 (-4)	25 (+6)
	30	19	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2710 (-17)	15 (+6)
	31	36	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2708 (+7)	18 (+4)
	32	28	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2707 (-3)	18 (+3)
	33	32	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2704 (-1)	21 (+3)
	34	38	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2704 (+7)	9 (+1)
	35	30	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2703 (-5)	30 (+20)
	36	34	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2702 (0)	9 (-19)
	37	37	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2700 (0)	20 (+11)
	38	44	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2699 (+12)	9 (0)
	39	35	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2699 (-3)	3 (+3)
	40	39	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2698 (+1)	9 (+9)
	41	33	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2697 (-7)	19 (+9)
	42	78	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2695 (+39)	20 (+2)
	43	43	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2694 (+6)	11 (+2)
	44	46	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2690 (+4)	6 (-27)
	45	56	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2689 (+19)	28 (+18)
	46	42	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2687 (-2)	13 (-22)
	47	41	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2686 (-5)	34 (+12)
	48	47	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2685 (-1)	9 (-4)
	49	48	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	2684 (-2)	4 (+4)
	50	51	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2682 (0)	0 (0)
	51	50	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2681 (-1)	3 (-15)
	52	54	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2680 (+6)	28 (+19)
	53	-	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2677 (+)	29 (+)
	54	80	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2677 (+22)	18 (0)
	55	53	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2677 (+2)	11 (-4)
	56	73	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2676 (+17)	19 (+19)
	57	52	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2675 (-5)	21 (-1)
	58	71	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2674 (+14)	20 (+11)
	59	68	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2672 (+11)	19 (+6)
	60	55	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	g	IND	2672 (0)	0 (-13)
	61	63	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2669 (+2)	18 (+9)
	62	59	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2669 (+1)	17 (+8)
	63	-	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2668 (+)	27 (+)
	64	49	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2668 (-16)	21 (+3)
	65	60	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2667 (0)	17 (-10)
	66	62	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2667 (0)	7 (-6)
	67	64	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2665 (0)	0 (-22)
	68	86	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2664 (+12)	27 (+21)
	69	45	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2664 (-23)	25 (+16)
	70	65	Najer, Evgeniy	g	RUS	2663 (-2)	28 (+10)
	71	57	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2663 (-7)	22 (+22)
	72	61	Bareev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2663 (-4)	11 (-7)
	73	70	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2663 (+3)	5 (-13)
	74	58	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2662 (-7)	24 (+6)
	75	89	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2661 (+11)	11 (-9)
	76	69	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2660 (0)	0 (-27)
	77	87	Smeets, Jan	g	NED	2659 (+8)	6 (-8)
	78	76	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2657 (0)	18 (0)
	79	101	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2656 (+13)	18 (+9)
	80	79	Avrukh, Boris	g	ISR	2656 (0)	0 (0)
	81	82	Dreev, Alexey	g	RUS	2655 (+2)	21 (+12)
	82	90	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2654 (+4)	36 (+26)
	83	-	Sokolov, Ivan	g	BIH	2654 (+)	25 (+)
	84	-	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2653 (+)	13 (+)
	85	-	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2653 (+)	11 (+)
	86	91	Zhou, Jianchao	g	CHN	2652 (+2)	4 (-5)
	87	66	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2649 (-14)	13 (+4)
	88	-	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2648 (+)	20 (+)
	89	93	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2647 (-1)	20 (-9)
	90	92	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	2646 (-3)	13 (-5)
	91	77	Beliavsky, Alexander G	g	SLO	2645 (-12)	25 (+25)
	92	-	Socko, Bartosz	g	POL	2644 (+)	18 (+)
	93	88	Seirawan, Yasser	g	USA	2644 (-7)	3 (+2)
	94	98	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2644 (0)	0 (0)
	95	96	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2643 (-2)	5 (-4)
	96	100	Lastin, Alexander	g	RUS	2643 (0)	0 (-9)
	97	-	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2642 (+)	24 (+)
	98	83	Savchenko, Boris	g	RUS	2642 (-10)	17 (-1)
	99	-	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	g	VIE	2642 (+)	0 (+)
	100	95	Gustafsson, Jan	g	GER	2640 (-6)	24 (+14)
	101	75	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2640 (-17)	11 (-8)
	102	-	Vuckovic, Bojan	g	SRB	2640 (+)	11 (+)
	103	-	Sandipan, Chanda	g	IND	2640 (+)	2 (+)

FIDE MAY 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 100 WOMEN

Rank		Old	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games
	1	1	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2682 (0)	0 (0)
	2	2	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2622 (0)	0 (-10)
	3	3	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2589 (+19)	12 (-6)
	4	4	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2560 (+5)	16 (+6)
	5	5	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	m	RUS	2553 (-1)	11 (-7)
	6	9	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2536 (+13)	21 (0)
	7	7	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2534 (+10)	11 (-7)
	8	6	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2529 (-4)	22 (+9)
	9	10	Lahno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2527 (+9)	3 (+3)
	10	12	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2524 (+18)	14 (+5)
	11	8	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2519 (-5)	6 (-4)
	12	23	Cmilyte, Viktorija	m	LTU	2514 (+29)	24 (+14)
	13	11	Chiburdanidze, Maia	g	GEO	2514 (0)	0 (0)
	14	16	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2501 (+5)	6 (-1)
	15	15	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2500 (0)	0 (-9)
	16	17	Zhukova, Natalia	wg	UKR	2499 (+7)	17 (+7)
	17	19	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2493 (+3)	8 (-10)
	18	28	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2491 (+18)	9 (-15)
	19	20	Galliamova, Alisa	m	RUS	2487 (0)	0 (-9)
	20	22	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2485 (-1)	30 (+21)
	21	33	Socko, Monika	g	POL	2485 (+20)	21 (+13)
	22	26	Xu, Yuhua	g	CHN	2484 (+6)	2 (+2)
	23	21	Hoang Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2482 (-5)	11 (+11)
	24	14	Javakhishvili, Lela	m	GEO	2482 (-18)	11 (-8)
	25	24	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2478 (-1)	11 (-9)
	26	13	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2477 (-26)	11 (+11)
	27	27	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2476 (0)	0 (-7)
	28	25	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2474 (-5)	1 (+1)
	29	18	Danielian, Elina	m	ARM	2473 (-18)	12 (+10)
	30	36	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2470 (+9)	27 (+17)
	31	39	Dembo, Yelena	m	GRE	2470 (+13)	11 (+11)
	32	44	Ushenina, Anna	m	UKR	2468 (+16)	15 (+15)
	33	30	Melia, Salome	m	GEO	2466 (-1)	20 (-11)
	34	31	Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman	m	IND	2466 (0)	0 (-11)
	35	29	Gaponenko, Inna	m	UKR	2465 (-7)	20 (+15)
	36	41	Skripchenko, Almira	m	FRA	2464 (+8)	17 (+17)
	37	34	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2464 (0)	2 (+2)
	38	37	Rajlich, Iweta	m	POL	2460 (+1)	22 (+14)
	39	38	Gunina, Valentina	wf	RUS	2457 (0)	15 (-3)
	40	40	Polgar, Sofia	m	HUN	2457 (0)	0 (0)
	41	35	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2455 (-6)	23 (-1)
	42	42	Tairova, Elena	m	RUS	2455 (0)	0 (0)
	43	49	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2452 (+8)	32 (+19)
	44	50	Shen, Yang	wg	CHN	2452 (+8)	3 (+3)
	45	43	Hunt, Harriet V	m	ENG	2452 (0)	0 (0)
	46	47	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan	g	SCO	2449 (+2)	16 (+6)
	47	56	Khurtsidze, Nino	m	GEO	2448 (+14)	11 (-2)
	48	52	Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina	m	RUS	2447 (+9)	16 (+7)
	49	48	Atalik, Ekaterina	m	TUR	2444 (-1)	5 (+5)
	50	53	Moser, Eva	m	AUT	2440 (+3)	32 (+25)
	51	51	Huang, Qian	wg	CHN	2437 (-2)	3 (+3)
	52	57	Repkova, Eva	m	SVK	2434 (0)	29 (+29)
	53	54	Zhang, Xiaowen	wg	CHN	2426 (-11)	4 (+4)
	54	62	Khukhashvili, Sopiko	m	GEO	2421 (0)	0 (-16)
	55	61	Ovod, Evgenija	m	RUS	2418 (-3)	20 (-4)
	56	73	Houska, Jovanka	m	ENG	2417 (+25)	17 (-2)
	57	64	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	m	ROU	2416 (+5)	9 (+9)
	58	67	Zawadzka, Jolanta	wg	POL	2415 (+11)	11 (+3)
	59	59	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	m	MGL	2413 (-15)	13 (+4)
	60	74	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2412 (+21)	15 (-12)
	61	65	Romanko, Marina	m	RUS	2411 (+2)	17 (-10)
	62	45	Khotenashvili, Bela	m	GEO	2410 (-38)	20 (+7)
	63	84	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2410 (+26)	15 (-12)
	64	55	Cori T., Deysi	wm	PER	2409 (-25)	27 (0)
	65	66	Matnadze, Ana	m	GEO	2409 (+3)	10 (+1)
	66	88	Galojan, Lilit	wg	ARM	2402 (+22)	11 (+2)
	67	68	Jackova, Jana	m	CZE	2402 (-1)	2 (+2)
	68	69	Tsereteli, Tamar	wg	GEO	2402 (0)	0 (-12)
	69	58	Foisor, Cristina-Adela	m	ROU	2401 (-32)	21 (+12)
	70	71	Stockova, Zuzana	m	SVK	2400 (-1)	18 (+18)
	71	63	Vasilevich, Tatjana	m	UKR	2399 (-15)	23 (+23)
	72	72	Tania, Sachdev	m	IND	2398 (+5)	9 (-17)
	73	70	Peng, Zhaoqin	g	NED	2397 (-4)	13 (-6)
	74	80	Turova, Irina	m	RUS	2394 (+8)	9 (+9)
	75	91	Michna, Marta	wg	GER	2393 (+20)	18 (+11)
	76	83	Madl, Ildiko	m	HUN	2393 (+8)	17 (+17)
	77	76	Zaiatz, Elena	m	RUS	2392 (+1)	11 (+3)
	78	86	Pokorna, Regina	wg	SVK	2388 (+6)	8 (+8)
	79	79	Maric, Alisa	m	SRB	2387 (0)	0 (0)
	80	92	Gara, Anita	m	HUN	2385 (+15)	11 (+11)
	81	78	Zdebskaja, Natalia	wg	UKR	2383 (-7)	11 (-6)
	82	93	Molchanova, Tatjana	wm	RUS	2381 (+12)	16 (0)
	83	77	Alexandrova, Olga	m	ESP	2381 (-10)	11 (+11)
	84	90	Matveeva, Svetlana	m	RUS	2379 (+6)	16 (+7)
	85	75	Milliet, Sophie	m	FRA	2378 (-13)	23 (+2)
	86	95	Karavade, Eesha	wg	IND	2377 (+11)	9 (-16)
	87	89	Stepovaia, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2375 (0)	0 (-8)
	88	-	Kononenko, Tatiana	m	UKR	2374 (+)	11 (+)
	89	87	Shadrina, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2374 (-8)	2 (+2)
	90	-	Cosma, Elena-Luminita	wg	ROU	2370 (+)	20 (+)
	91	81	Lomineishvili, Maia	m	GEO	2370 (-15)	11 (-1)
	92	85	Bojkovic, Natasa	m	SRB	2368 (-16)	11 (+11)
	93	82	Kovanova, Baira	wg	RUS	2366 (-19)	15 (+6)
	94	96	Goletiani, Rusudan	m	USA	2366 (0)	0 (0)
	95	98	Lanchava, Tea	m	NED	2364 (0)	1 (-1)
	96	94	Vajda, Szidonia	m	HUN	2363 (-6)	17 (+17)
	97	-	Gvetadze, Sopio	m	GEO	2363 (+)	11 (+)
	98	-	Fierro Baquero, Martha L.	m	ECU	2363 (+)	9 (+)
	99	-	Kulovana, Eva	wg	CZE	2362 (+)	22 (+)
	100	-	Gu, Xiaobing	wg	CHN	2361 (+)	2 (+)

FIDE MAY 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 20 JUNIORS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2813	0	1990
2	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2739	7	1990
3	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2710	15	1990
4	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2695	20	1990
5	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2687	13	1991
6	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2675	21	1992
7	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2665	0	1993
8	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2643	5	1990
9	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2642	24	1994
10	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	g	VIE	2642	0	1990
11	Negi, Parimarjan	g	IND	2636	7	1993
12	Kuzubov, Yuriy	g	UKR	2628	23	1990
13	Howell, David W L	g	ENG	2620	18	1990
14	Khairullin, Ildar	g	RUS	2617	19	1990
15	Kovalyov, Anton	g	ARG	2615	9	1992
16	Edouard, Romain	g	FRA	2611	30	1990
17	Sjugirov, Sanan	g	RUS	2610	20	1993
18	Safarli, Eltaj	g	AZE	2610	11	1992
19	Hammer, Jon Ludvig	g	NOR	2610	7	1990
20	Salgado Lopez, Ivan	g	ESP	2606	11	1991

FIDE MAY 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 20 GIRLS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2589	12	1994
2	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2529	22	1990
3	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2500	0	1991
4	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2491	9	1991
5	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2464	2	1991
6	Tairova, Elena	m	RUS	2455	0	1991
7	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2452	32	1992
8	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2412	15	1992
9	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2410	15	1992
10	Cori T., Deysi	wm	PER	2409	27	1993
11	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2353	15	1991
12	Pustovoitova, Daria		RUS	2352	9	1994
13	Kashlinskaya, Alina	wg	RUS	2346	10	1993
14	Ding, Yixin	wf	CHN	2327	3	1991
15	Severiukhina, Zoja	wm	RUS	2321	11	1990
16	Padmini, Rout	wm	IND	2319	0	1994
17	Paikidze, Nazi	wm	GEO	2317	27	1993
18	Muminova, Nafisa	wm	UZB	2311	18	1990
19	Ohme, Melanie	wm	GER	2309	20	1990
20	Rakic, Marija	wm	SRB	2306	0	1990