FIDE publishes March 1 ratings, Linares not counted

Just a few days ago Veselin Topalov won the Linares tournament and narrowed the gap with Magnus Carlsen on the live rating list to just one point. On the March 1st FIDE rating list the Norwegian leads with a personal record of 2813 and is still 8 points ahead of Topalov.

It's already an improvement to have six rating lists a year instead of four, but today we are reminded again of the fact that a monthly, or even weekly official list might be even better. While Carlsen and Topalov are just one (in fact 0.7) rating point away from each other on the "live list" by Hans Arild Runde (which you can also find in the far right column on this website), on the official list the distance is 8 points because Linares hasn't been counted yet.

World Champion Viswanathan Anand lost his third place to Vladimir Kramnik; between them there are just three points. This means that the upcoming World Championship match in Sofia will be played between the current world's number 2 and 4.

Vugar Gashimov was Azerbaijan's number one player briefly, but he's out of the top 10 again. His 6th place is now occupied by his compatriot Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who is back among the elite after a lesser period. Grischuk and Svidler climbed to spots number 7 and 8.

Vassily Ivanchuk is out of the top 10 again; he dropped slightly from 8 to 11. Hikaru Nakamura saw a strong period awarded with a 17th place. Alexander Morozevich' decline continued; the former World's number 2 can now be found on spot 24. There are now 37 players with a rating of 2700 or higher.

In the women's list nothing much changed. The difference between Judit Polgar and Humpy Koneru decreased a bit further, from 68 to 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 MARCH 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 (+3)	13 (-3)
	2	2	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2805 (0)	0 (-4)
	3	4	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2790 (+2)	13 (-3)
	4	3	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2787 (-3)	13 (+4)
	5	5	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2782 (+1)	9 (-8)
	6	11	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2760 (+19)	9 (-10)
	7	15	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2756 (+20)	16 (+8)
	8	10	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2750 (+6)	9 (-18)
	9	6	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2750 (-11)	7 (-18)
	10	9	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2749 (0)	0 (-8)
	11	8	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2748 (-1)	13 (0)
	12	7	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2740 (-19)	7 (-14)
	13	16	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2740 (+7)	7 (-6)
	14	20	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2737 (+14)	13 (-6)
	15	13	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2737 (0)	0 (-25)
	16	14	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2736 (0)	0 (-14)
	17	28	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2735 (+27)	21 (+14)
	18	12	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2735 (-4)	13 (+4)
	19	18	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2727 (-3)	9 (-12)
	20	19	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2725 (-5)	14 (-3)
	21	21	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2725 (+5)	13 (+1)
	22	22	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2721 (+5)	7 (-8)
	23	26	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2720 (+10)	9 (+2)
	24	17	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2715 (-17)	6 (-13)
	25	23	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2715 (0)	0 (-10)
	26	24	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2714 (+1)	19 (+1)
	27	25	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2713 (+1)	13 (+9)
	28	41	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2710 (+18)	15 (+7)
	29	29	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	2709 (+1)	10 (+8)
	30	31	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2708 (+3)	10 (0)
	31	27	Navara, David	g	CZE	2708 (0)	0 (-15)
	32	35	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2705 (+8)	18 (+12)
	33	39	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2704 (+10)	10 (-7)
	34	40	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2702 (+9)	28 (+22)
	35	34	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2702 (0)	0 (-2)
	36	30	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2701 (-4)	14 (0)
	37	33	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2700 (-3)	9 (-4)
	38	36	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2697 (0)	8 (+4)
	39	37	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2697 (0)	0 (0)
	40	32	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2695 (-9)	9 (-6)
	41	44	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2691 (+4)	22 (+9)
	42	93	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2689 (+42)	35 (+15)
	43	49	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2688 (+10)	9 (-1)
	44	57	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2687 (+17)	9 (+5)
	45	42	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2687 (-5)	9 (+1)
	46	83	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2686 (+33)	33 (+29)
	47	38	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2686 (-10)	13 (+6)
	48	45	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	2686 (0)	0 (0)
	49	43	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2684 (-8)	18 (+12)
	50	52	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2682 (+9)	18 (+12)
	51	46	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2682 (0)	0 (-4)
	52	51	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2680 (+5)	22 (+4)
	53	48	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2675 (-5)	15 (+3)
	54	60	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2674 (+6)	9 (-1)
	55	80	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	g	IND	2672 (+18)	13 (+9)
	56	55	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2670 (0)	10 (-2)
	57	56	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2670 (0)	0 (-6)
	58	53	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2669 (-3)	18 (+18)
	59	50	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2668 (-9)	9 (+9)
	60	82	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2667 (+14)	27 (+9)
	61	98	Bareev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2667 (+24)	18 (+8)
	62	72	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2667 (+10)	13 (+3)
	63	89	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2667 (+18)	9 (+3)
	64	77	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2665 (+9)	22 (+14)
	65	61	Najer, Evgeniy	g	RUS	2665 (0)	18 (+14)
	66	91	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2663 (+15)	9 (-8)
	67	68	Meier, Georg	g	GER	2663 (+5)	9 (-3)
	68	47	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2661 (-20)	13 (+1)
	69	54	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2660 (-12)	27 (+27)
	70	-	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2660 (+)	18 (+)
	71	63	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2660 (-1)	9 (+9)
	72	84	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2659 (+7)	9 (-7)
	73	66	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2659 (0)	0 (-9)
	74	-	Lautier, Joel	g	FRA	2658 (+)	0 (+)
	75	65	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2657 (-3)	19 (+4)
	76	86	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2657 (+6)	18 (+2)
	77	70	Beliavsky, Alexander G	g	SLO	2657 (0)	0 (-18)
	78	69	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2656 (-2)	18 (+8)
	79	76	Avrukh, Boris	g	ISR	2656 (0)	0 (-8)
	80	85	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2655 (+3)	18 (+14)
	81	62	Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	2653 (-9)	13 (+11)
	82	87	Dreev, Alexey	g	RUS	2653 (+3)	9 (0)
	83	-	Savchenko, Boris	g	RUS	2652 (+)	18 (+)
	84	94	Pashikian, Arman	g	ARM	2652 (+5)	15 (+9)
	85	78	Krasenkow, Michal	g	POL	2652 (-4)	9 (+9)
	86	75	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2652 (-5)	6 (-2)
	87	73	Smeets, Jan	g	NED	2651 (-6)	14 (+4)
	88	90	Seirawan, Yasser	g	USA	2651 (+2)	1 (-1)
	89	74	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2650 (-7)	20 (+11)
	90	79	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2650 (-4)	10 (+2)
	91	-	Zhou, Jianchao	g	CHN	2650 (+)	9 (+)
	92	-	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	2649 (+)	18 (+)
	93	58	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2648 (-20)	29 (+16)
	94	59	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2647 (-21)	14 (+3)
	95	-	Gustafsson, Jan	g	GER	2646 (+)	10 (+)
	96	-	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2645 (+)	9 (+)
	97	81	Baklan, Vladimir	g	UKR	2644 (-10)	9 (+7)
	98	96	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2644 (0)	0 (-6)
	99	-	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	g	PER	2643 (+)	18 (+)
	100	67	Lastin, Alexander	g	RUS	2643 (-16)	9 (+5)
	101	-	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2643 (+)	9 (+)

FIDE MARCH 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 100 WOMEN

Rank		Old	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games
	1	1	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2682 (0)	0 (-4)
	2	2	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2622 (+8)	10 (+2)
	3	3	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2570 (-20)	18 (+4)
	4	4	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2555 (+10)	10 (+3)
	5	5	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	m	RUS	2554 (+21)	18 (+9)
	6	7	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2533 (+10)	13 (-12)
	7	10	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2524 (+9)	18 (+10)
	8	8	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2524 (+1)	10 (0)
	9	6	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2523 (-5)	21 (+17)
	10	9	Lahno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2518 (0)	0 (-16)
	11	11	Chiburdanidze, Maia	g	GEO	2514 (0)	0 (0)
	12	13	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2506 (-4)	9 (+1)
	13	16	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2503 (0)	0 (-9)
	14	19	Javakhishvili, Lela	m	GEO	2500 (+7)	19 (+12)
	15	12	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2500 (-12)	9 (+5)
	16	17	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2496 (-5)	7 (+7)
	17	32	Zhukova, Natalia	wg	UKR	2492 (+30)	10 (+2)
	18	18	Danielian, Elina	m	ARM	2491 (-4)	2 (-9)
	19	15	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2490 (-14)	18 (+14)
	20	-	Galliamova, Alisa	m	RUS	2487 (+)	9 (+)
	21	21	Hoang Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2487 (0)	0 (0)
	22	22	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2486 (+2)	9 (0)
	23	20	Cmilyte, Viktorija	m	LTU	2485 (-4)	10 (+1)
	24	14	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2479 (-27)	20 (+1)
	25	23	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2479 (0)	0 (-2)
	26	24	Xu, Yuhua	g	CHN	2478 (0)	0 (-3)
	27	28	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2476 (+6)	7 (+3)
	28	25	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2473 (+2)	24 (+13)
	29	26	Gaponenko, Inna	m	UKR	2472 (+2)	5 (-11)
	30	53	Melia, Salome	m	GEO	2467 (+36)	31 (+22)
	31	-	Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman	m	IND	2466 (+)	11 (+)
	32	29	Qin, Kanying	wg	CHN	2466 (0)	0 (0)
	33	41	Socko, Monika	g	POL	2465 (+15)	8 (-6)
	34	31	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2464 (0)	0 (-3)
	35	37	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2461 (+6)	24 (+19)
	36	30	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2461 (-5)	10 (+10)
	37	36	Rajlich, Iweta	m	POL	2459 (+4)	8 (-5)
	38	42	Gunina, Valentina	wf	RUS	2457 (+9)	18 (+11)
	39	34	Dembo, Yelena	m	GRE	2457 (0)	0 (-8)
	40	-	Polgar, Sofia	m	HUN	2457 (+)	0 (+)
	41	35	Skripchenko, Almira	m	FRA	2456 (0)	0 (0)
	42	38	Tairova, Elena	m	RUS	2455 (0)	0 (0)
	43	40	Hunt, Harriet V	m	ENG	2452 (0)	0 (0)
	44	39	Ushenina, Anna	m	UKR	2452 (0)	0 (-6)
	45	33	Khotenashvili, Bela	m	GEO	2448 (-13)	13 (+5)
	46	43	Korbut, Ekaterina	m	RUS	2448 (0)	0 (0)
	47	27	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan	g	SCO	2447 (-23)	10 (+1)
	48	45	Atalik, Ekaterina	m	TUR	2445 (0)	0 (0)
	49	44	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2444 (-3)	13 (+13)
	50	46	Shen, Yang	wg	CHN	2444 (0)	0 (-2)
	51	48	Huang, Qian	wg	CHN	2439 (0)	0 (-3)
	52	54	Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina	m	RUS	2438 (+10)	9 (+5)
	53	56	Moser, Eva	m	AUT	2437 (+13)	7 (-1)
	54	50	Zhang, Xiaowen	wg	CHN	2437 (0)	0 (-24)
	55	61	Cori T., Deysi	wm	PER	2434 (+22)	27 (-6)
	56	59	Khurtsidze, Nino	m	GEO	2434 (+20)	13 (0)
	57	51	Repkova, Eva	m	SVK	2434 (0)	0 (0)
	58	47	Foisor, Cristina-Adela	m	ROU	2433 (-7)	9 (-1)
	59	55	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	wg	MGL	2428 (+1)	9 (-6)
	60	57	Li, Ruofan	m	SIN	2423 (0)	0 (0)
	61	58	Ovod, Evgenija	m	RUS	2421 (+6)	24 (+24)
	62	49	Khukhashvili, Sopiko	m	GEO	2421 (-17)	16 (+9)
	63	60	Vasilevich, Tatjana	m	UKR	2414 (0)	0 (0)
	64	62	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	m	ROU	2411 (0)	0 (-7)
	65	52	Romanko, Marina	m	RUS	2409 (-24)	27 (+21)
	66	64	Matnadze, Ana	m	GEO	2406 (-1)	9 (0)
	67	74	Zawadzka, Jolanta	wg	POL	2404 (+13)	8 (-11)
	68	67	Jackova, Jana	m	CZE	2403 (0)	0 (-16)
	69	68	Tsereteli, Tamar	wg	GEO	2402 (-1)	12 (+3)
	70	70	Peng, Zhaoqin	g	NED	2401 (-1)	19 (+10)
	71	72	Stockova, Zuzana	m	SVK	2401 (0)	0 (0)
	72	73	Tania, Sachdev	m	IND	2393 (-5)	26 (+15)
	73	71	Houska, Jovanka	m	ENG	2392 (-9)	19 (+1)
	74	63	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2391 (-16)	27 (+7)
	75	66	Milliet, Sophie	m	FRA	2391 (-13)	21 (+8)
	76	75	Zaiatz, Elena	m	RUS	2391 (0)	8 (+4)
	77	76	Alexandrova, Olga	m	ESP	2391 (0)	0 (0)
	78	69	Zdebskaja, Natalia	wg	UKR	2390 (-12)	17 (+1)
	79	80	Maric, Alisa	m	SRB	2387 (0)	0 (-9)
	80	81	Turova, Irina	m	RUS	2386 (0)	0 (-8)
	81	91	Lomineishvili, Maia	m	GEO	2385 (+14)	12 (+12)
	82	84	Kovanova, Baira	wg	RUS	2385 (+1)	9 (+7)
	83	82	Madl, Ildiko	m	HUN	2385 (0)	0 (-7)
	84	90	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2384 (+12)	27 (+25)
	85	83	Bojkovic, Natasa	m	SRB	2384 (0)	0 (-9)
	86	86	Pokorna, Regina	wg	SVK	2382 (0)	0 (0)
	87	85	Shadrina, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2382 (0)	0 (-9)
	88	87	Galojan, Lilit	wg	ARM	2380 (+6)	9 (+1)
	89	78	Stepovaia, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2375 (-14)	8 (0)
	90	77	Matveeva, Svetlana	m	RUS	2373 (-18)	9 (+9)
	91	93	Michna, Marta	wg	GER	2373 (+3)	7 (-1)
	92	92	Gara, Anita	m	HUN	2370 (0)	0 (-17)
	93	79	Molchanova, Tatjana	wm	RUS	2369 (-19)	16 (+8)
	94	94	Vajda, Szidonia	m	HUN	2369 (0)	0 (-17)
	95	65	Karavade, Eesha	wg	IND	2366 (-39)	25 (+14)
	96	96	Goletiani, Rusudan	m	USA	2366 (0)	0 (0)
	97	89	Majdan, Joanna	wg	POL	2364 (-10)	8 (+1)
	98	-	Lanchava, Tea	m	NED	2364 (+)	2 (+)
	99	97	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2362 (-3)	9 (-14)
	100	98	Gaprindashvili, Nona	g	GEO	2360 (0)	0 (-9)

FIDE MARCH 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 20 JUNIORS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2813	13	1990
2	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2727	9	1990
3	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2725	13	1990
4	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2689	35	1991
5	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2680	22	1992
6	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2665	22	1993
7	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2656	18	1990
8	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2645	9	1990
9	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	g	VIE	2642	16	1990
10	Negi, Parimarjan	g	IND	2634	28	1993
11	Kuzubov, Yuriy	g	UKR	2634	0	1990
12	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2624	23	1994
13	Edouard, Romain	g	FRA	2617	28	1990
14	Hammer, Jon Ludvig	g	NOR	2617	18	1990
15	Khairullin, Ildar	g	RUS	2617	9	1990
16	Howell, David W L	g	ENG	2612	22	1990
17	Kovalyov, Anton	g	ARG	2610	9	1992
18	Saric, Ivan	g	CRO	2607	11	1990
19	Safarli, Eltaj	g	AZE	2606	27	1992
20	Sjugirov, Sanan	g	RUS	2602	27	1993

FIDE MARCH 2010 RATING LIST: TOP 20 GIRLS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2570	18	1994
2	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2533	13	1990
3	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2500	9	1991
4	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2473	24	1991
5	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2464	0	1991
6	Tairova, Elena	m	RUS	2455	0	1991
7	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2444	13	1992
8	Cori T., Deysi	wm	PER	2434	27	1993
9	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2391	27	1992
10	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2384	27	1992
11	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2362	9	1991
12	Severiukhina, Zoja	wm	RUS	2355	18	1990
13	Pustovoitova, Daria		RUS	2350	18	1994
14	Muminova, Nafisa	wm	UZB	2338	22	1990
15	Kashlinskaya, Alina	wg	RUS	2332	18	1993
16	Tsatsalashvili, Keti	wm	GEO	2326	13	1992
17	Paikidze, Nazi	wm	GEO	2322	9	1993
18	Padmini, Rout	wm	IND	2319	26	1994
19	Ding, Yixin	wf	CHN	2315	0	1991
20	Rakic, Marija	wm	SRB	2306	0	1990