Grischuk Third on Already Outdated May 1 Rating List

PeterDoggers

Updated: May 3, 2014, 4:09 AM | 7 | Chess Event Coverage

Alexander Grischuk moved up to third place in the world rankings on the May 1st FIDE rating list. Thanks to a splendid Russian Team Championship, the Russian grandmaster won 15 points to reach 2792 which is 8 points more than Vishy Anand. Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian continue to occupy spots #1 and #2. The May list was published by FIDE on April 30th, one day before the end of the Shamkir Chess tournament.

Magnus Carlsen improved his personal (and humanity's) rating record by one point on the May 1st rating list: the World Champion went from 2881 to 2882. This was because of his win over Vladimir Georgiev in the Norwegian league on 22 March, which was not calculated by FIDE on its April 1st list.

But that 2882 does not include the Shamkir Chess tournament, where Carlsen lost 1.2 points. This event ended on May 1st - the publication date of the rating list, which was actually already published on April 30th. It's a pity that it couldn't include the Gashimov Memorial, because this way the new top 10 was already outdated as soon as it was published.

The biggest changes at the top of the FIDE list are Alexander Grischuk's jump to third place, and Leinier Dominguez entering the world's top 10. Romain Edouard, the winner of the Dubai Open, jumped from #77 to #54. Loek van Wely dropped from #62 to #88 due to bad performances in Australia.

Below you'll find the op 26 of today's live ratings of 2700 players which includes the Shamkir Chess tournament (and one win by Caruana in the Italian Team Championship, by the way). Below that, the FIDE May 1 ratings, general and women.

Live ratings

FIDE May 1 Ratings (Top 100)

Rank	Old rank	Name	Country	Title	Rating	Old rating	Games
1	1	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	GM	2882 +1	2881	1
2	2	Aronian, Levon	ARM	GM	2815 +3	2812	3
3	6	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	GM	2792 +15	2777	7
4	3	Anand, Viswanathan	IND	GM	2785	2785	0
5	5	Caruana, Fabiano	ITA	GM	2783	2783	0
6	4	Kramnik, Vladimir	RUS	GM	2783	2783	0
7	9	Nakamura, Hikaru	USA	GM	2772	2772	0
8	8	Topalov, Veselin	BUL	GM	2772	2772	0
9	7	Karjakin, Sergey	RUS	GM	2770 -2	2772	7
10	12	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	CUB	GM	2768 +11	2757	6
11	10	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	GM	2760	2760	0
12	11	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	GM	2758	2758	0
13	13	Svidler, Peter	RUS	GM	2753 -3	2756	6
14	15	Gelfand, Boris	ISR	GM	2753	2753	0
15	16	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	GM	2753	2753	0
16	14	Adams, Michael	ENG	GM	2750 -3	2753	3
17	18	Giri, Anish	NED	GM	2746 +1	2745	4
18	17	Vitiugov, Nikita	RUS	GM	2742 -5	2747	6
19	23	Leko, Peter	HUN	GM	2737 +7	2730	7
20	22	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	RUS	GM	2735 +3	2732	6
21	20	Wang, Hao	CHN	GM	2734	2734	3
22	21	Eljanov, Pavel	UKR	GM	2732	2732	0
23	19	So, Wesley	PHI	GM	2731 -7	2738	8
24	24	Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS	GM	2730 +4	2726	5
25	25	Harikrishna, P.	IND	GM	2726	2726	0
26	31	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	POL	GM	2724 +8	2716	9
27	26	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	GM	2723	2723	0
28	27	Andreikin, Dmitry	RUS	GM	2722	2722	0
29	28	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	GM	2721 -1	2722	3
30	29	Morozevich, Alexander	RUS	GM	2719 -3	2722	6
31	36	Ding, Liren	CHN	GM	2714 +4	2710	4
32	32	Kamsky, Gata	USA	GM	2713 -1	2714	16
33	30	Wang, Yue	CHN	GM	2713 -4	2717	4
34	33	Radjabov, Teimour	AZE	GM	2713	2713	0
35	41	Jobava, Baadur	GEO	GM	2712 +6	2706	7
36	37	Le, Quang Liem	VIE	GM	2712 +2	2710	3
37	35	Fressinet, Laurent	FRA	GM	2711	2711	0
38	34	Li, Chao b	CHN	GM	2711	2711	0
39	39	Navara, David	CZE	GM	2708 +2	2706	8
40	38	Moiseenko, Alexander	UKR	GM	2707	2707	0
41	44	Shirov, Alexei	LAT	GM	2703 +1	2702	8
42	43	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy	UKR	GM	2703 -1	2704	3
43	48	Rapport, Richard	HUN	GM	2701 +3	2698	12
44	45	Areshchenko, Alexander	UKR	GM	2701	2701	0
45	40	Naiditsch, Arkadij	GER	GM	2700 -6	2706	12
46	53	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	UZB	GM	2700 +7	2693	9
47	52	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	ESP	GM	2700 +7	2693	9
48	42	Rublevsky, Sergei	RUS	GM	2698 -8	2706	5
49	49	Korobov, Anton	UKR	GM	2696 -2	2698	9
50	50	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	RUS	GM	2695 -2	2697	6
51	46	Malakhov, Vladimir	RUS	GM	2694 -7	2701	5
52	47	Bu, Xiangzhi	CHN	GM	2693 -6	2699	12
53	51	Almasi, Zoltan	HUN	GM	2693	2693	0
54	77	Edouard, Romain	FRA	GM	2692 +22	2670	9
55	56	Riazantsev, Alexander	RUS	GM	2692 +4	2688	6
56	58	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	GER	GM	2691 +5	2686	21
57	55	Matlakov, Maxim	RUS	GM	2689 -1	2690	5
58	59	Motylev, Alexander	RUS	GM	2687 +2	2685	5
59	74	Laznicka, Viktor	CZE	GM	2686 +13	2673	9
60	57	Cheparinov, Ivan	BUL	GM	2686	2686	0
61	60	Polgar, Judit	HUN	GM	2685	2685	0
62	63	Sargissian, Gabriel	ARM	GM	2684	2684	0
63	70	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	CUB	GM	2682 +4	2678	9
64	54	Inarkiev, Ernesto	RUS	GM	2682 -9	2691	6
65	64	Khismatullin, Denis	RUS	GM	2682 +1	2681	6
66	78	Yu, Yangyi	CHN	GM	2675 +8	2667	13
67	61	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	PER	GM	2675 -10	2685	9
68	71	Zhigalko, Sergei	BLR	GM	2675	2675	0
69	73	McShane, Luke J	ENG	GM	2674	2674	4
70	68	Alekseev, Evgeny	RUS	GM	2673 -5	2678	6
71	76	Movsesian, Sergei	ARM	GM	2672 +2	2670	6
72	69	Rodshtein, Maxim	ISR	GM	2672 -6	2678	3
73	66	Sasikiran, Krishnan	IND	GM	2669 -11	2680	9
74	67	Onischuk, Alexander	USA	GM	2668 -11	2679	10
75	79	Istratescu, Andrei	FRA	GM	2667	2667	10
76	72	Akopian, Vladimir	ARM	GM	2667 -7	2674	9
77	75	Dreev, Aleksey	RUS	GM	2667 -3	2670	7
78	80	Saric, Ivan	CRO	GM	2666 +1	2665	3
79	65	Berkes, Ferenc	HUN	GM	2665 -15	2680	11
80	81	Fedoseev, Vladimir	RUS	GM	2662 -1	2663	5
81	82	Lysyj, Igor	RUS	GM	2661 -1	2662	3
82	83	Short, Nigel D	ENG	GM	2661	2661	0
83	90	Smirin, Ilia	ISR	GM	2660 +4	2656	9
84	85	Mamedov, Rauf	AZE	GM	2660	2660	0
85	87	Grachev, Boris	RUS	GM	2658 -1	2659	6
86	101	Tiviakov, Sergei	NED	GM	2657 +6	2651	18
87	93	Lenic, Luka	SLO	GM	2657 +2	2655	1
88	62	Van Wely, Loek	NED	GM	2656 -29	2685	19
89	91	Safarli, Eltaj	AZE	GM	2656	2656	0
90		Landa, Konstantin	RUS	GM	2655		9
91		Bologan, Viktor	MDA	GM	2655		4
92	94	Gharamian, Tigran	FRA	GM	2655	2655	0
93	96	Howell, David W L	ENG	GM	2654	2654	0
94	97	Nielsen, Peter Heine	DEN	GM	2654	2654	0
95	95	Ni, Hua	CHN	GM	2653 -1	2654	13
96		Gareev, Timur	USA	GM	2653		6
97	92	Najer, Evgeniy	RUS	GM	2653 -2	2655	6
98	89	Balogh, Csaba	HUN	GM	2651 -5	2656	12
99	100	Erdos, Viktor	HUN	GM	2651	2651	5
100		L'Ami, Erwin	NED	GM	2651		5

FIDE May 1 ratings (women, top 30)

Rank	Old rank	Name	Country	Title	Rating	Old rating	Games
1	1	Polgar, Judit	HUN	GM	2685	2685	0
2	2	Hou, Yifan	CHN	GM	2629 +11	2618	11
3	3	Koneru, Humpy	IND	GM	2613	2613	0
4	4	Muzychuk, Anna	SLO	GM	2561 +1	2560	13
5	6	Dzagnidze, Nana	GEO	GM	2541 -9	2550	11
6	7	Lagno, Kateryna	UKR	GM	2540 -3	2543	11
7	5	Zhao, Xue	CHN	GM	2538 -14	2552	11
8	9	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	RUS	GM	2532 +5	2527	11
9	8	Ju, Wenjun	CHN	WGM	2526 -1	2527	3
10	13	Cmilyte, Viktorija	LTU	GM	2525 +14	2511	8
11	10	Muzychuk, Mariya	UKR	IM	2521 -3	2524	4
12	11	Khotenashvili, Bela	GEO	GM	2518 +5	2513	3
13	12	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	RUS	GM	2513	2513	0
14	15	Hoang, Thanh Trang	HUN	GM	2509 +1	2508	1
15	14	Gunina, Valentina	RUS	GM	2507 -1	2508	9
16	17	Cramling, Pia	SWE	GM	2507	2507	0
17	16	Harika, Dronavalli	IND	GM	2503 -4	2507	9
18	18	Ruan, Lufei	CHN	WGM	2503	2503	0
19	20	Pogonina, Natalija	RUS	WGM	2501 +2	2499	6
20	19	Ushenina, Anna	UKR	GM	2495 -6	2501	11
21	26	Huang, Qian	CHN	WGM	2494 +10	2484	4
22	24	Stefanova, Antoaneta	BUL	GM	2490 +1	2489	11
23	22	Krush, Irina	USA	GM	2489 -2	2491	5
24	23	Sebag, Marie	FRA	GM	2486 -4	2490	1
25	38	Girya, Olga	RUS	WGM	2479 +29	2450	13
26	21	Kosintseva, Tatiana	RUS	GM	2476 -20	2496	11
27	27	Javakhishvili, Lela	GEO	IM	2475	2475	0
28	28	Zatonskih, Anna	USA	IM	2469 -6	2475	5
29		Galliamova, Alisa	RUS	IM	2466		6
30	30	Zhu, Chen	QAT	GM	2461	2461	0

Data courtesy of FIDE

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Grischuk Third on Already Outdated May 1 Rating List

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