FIDE Amend Ratings: Nakamura is #6
FIDE has released a correction to the latest official chess rating list, issued on 1 July, this time including the games played in the match between Hikaru Nakamura (pictured) and Ruslan Ponomariov in May.
As a result, Nakamura rises from #9 to #6, and Ponomariov falls from #7 to #10.
Good news for Nakamura, and nice to see that the error was rectified.
The official top 10 now looks like this:
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2821 |
| 2 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2817 |
| 3 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2805 |
| 4 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2788 |
| 5 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2781 |
| 6 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2770 |
| 7 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2768 |
| 8 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2768 |
| 9 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2765 |
| 10 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2764 |
