March ratings: Anand number one again

At 2817 World Champion Viswanathan Anand is officially the highest rated player again. On the March 1st FIDE rating list the Indian switched places with Magnus Carlsen from Norway, who has 2815. Vassily Ivanchuk is back on 5th place, while Hikaru Nakamura climbed further from 10th to 8th.

Also in November 2010 Vishy Anand surpassed Magnus Carlsen on the rating list, but two months later the Norwegian had won back the #1 spot. Now, thanks to his +4 score in Wijk aan Zee, the World Champion won 7 rating points to end on 2817, while Carlsen won just 1 point, arriving at 2815 on the current list. All this is not big news to anyone following Hans Arild Runde's "live list", of which the top 10 is also to be found in the far right column on this website.

Levon Aronian won 3 points more and so improved his all-time best rating to 2808. He remains the world's 3rd player, ahead of Vladimir Kramnik. Thanks to a superb result in Gibraltar, Vassily Ivanchuk climbed from 9th to 5th place, pushing Sergei Karjakin one spot down the list. Hikaru Nakamura climbed further from 10th to 8th and to emphasize his elite status, he cancelled the U.S. Championship and instead will prepare for his next big events: Bazna and Dortmund.

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won 13 points and re-entered the world's top 20. Fabiano Caruana lost 5 points but is still the highest rated Junior, 26 point ahead of Anish Giri. Now the strongest Dutchman, Giri entered the world's top 50 at 2690. Alexei Shirov, now rated 2701, dropped from 24 to 38.

The women's top 3 (Judit Polgar, Humpy Koneru and Hou Yifan) didn't play rated games. Nana Dzagnidze is now 4th after winning 17 points while Tatiana Kosintseva dropped to 6th place, behind her sister Nadezhda. Kateryna Lahno is back in the top 10. 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 MARCH 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	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2817 (+7)	13 (-4)
	2	1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2815 (+1)	13 (-4)
	3	3	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2808 (+3)	13 (+4)
	4	4	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2785 (+1)	13 (-3)
	5	9	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2779 (+15)	19 (+19)
	6	5	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2776 (0)	0 (-20)
	7	6	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2775 (0)	0 (-10)
	8	10	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2774 (+23)	13 (-3)
	9	8	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2772 (0)	0 (-9)
	10	7	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2747 (-26)	13 (-7)
	11	13	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2746 (+10)	9 (-1)
	12	12	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2744 (0)	0 (0)
	13	11	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2743 (-1)	13 (+13)
	14	14	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2734 (0)	0 (-21)
	15	19	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2733 (+3)	9 (+3)
	16	16	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2733 (0)	0 (-9)
	17	18	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2730 (0)	0 (-11)
	18	15	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2729 (-4)	13 (+2)
	19	31	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2728 (+13)	22 (+16)
	20	17	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2728 (-3)	13 (-20)
	21	21	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2724 (0)	0 (-9)
	22	34	Navara, David	g	CZE	2722 (+14)	22 (+22)
	23	33	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2720 (+11)	9 (-2)
	24	27	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2719 (0)	0 (-10)
	25	22	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2718 (-5)	14 (+4)
	26	28	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2718 (0)	9 (-2)
	27	29	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2717 (0)	0 (0)
	28	25	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2716 (-5)	19 (+1)
	29	26	Movsesian, Sergei	g	ARM	2716 (-5)	18 (+18)
	30	23	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2716 (-7)	10 (+3)
	31	30	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2716 (0)	0 (0)
	32	32	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2714 (0)	0 (-14)
	33	20	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2711 (-15)	22 (+22)
	34	38	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2708 (+7)	13 (+13)
	35	40	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2707 (+9)	19 (+19)
	36	41	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2707 (+12)	9 (-2)
	37	36	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2707 (0)	0 (0)
	38	24	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2701 (-21)	13 (-2)
	39	43	Dreev, Aleksey	g	RUS	2697 (+3)	9 (-9)
	40	39	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2694 (-6)	9 (+9)
	41	35	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2693 (-14)	13 (-2)
	42	42	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2692 (-3)	9 (+9)
	43	52	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2690 (+4)	15 (+8)
	44	79	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2689 (+25)	40 (+35)
	45	37	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2688 (-13)	11 (+11)
	46	49	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2688 (0)	0 (0)
	47	66	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2687 (+16)	22 (+13)
	48	55	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2687 (+6)	9 (+2)
	49	47	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2686 (-3)	9 (0)
	50	51	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2686 (0)	0 (-18)
	51	53	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2686 (0)	0 (0)
	52	54	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2684 (-1)	9 (+9)
	53	78	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2683 (+19)	13 (+6)
	54	45	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2682 (-8)	9 (0)
	55	67	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2680 (+9)	23 (+14)
	56	48	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2679 (-10)	9 (+9)
	57	46	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2678 (-11)	19 (+6)
	58	57	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2678 (0)	0 (-9)
	59	60	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2678 (0)	0 (0)
	60	62	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2677 (+1)	15 (+3)
	61	50	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2677 (-10)	9 (+6)
	62	58	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2677 (-1)	9 (+7)
	63	61	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2677 (0)	0 (-18)
	64	89	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2676 (+18)	19 (+6)
	65	75	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2676 (+9)	13 (+13)
	66	84	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2675 (+15)	20 (+8)
	67	63	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2675 (0)	0 (0)
	68	65	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2674 (+2)	11 (+2)
	69	59	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2673 (-5)	10 (+10)
	70	70	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2673 (+3)	4 (+4)
	71	76	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2672 (+6)	9 (+9)
	72	44	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2671 (-22)	23 (+16)
	73	69	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	2670 (0)	0 (0)
	74	71	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2670 (0)	0 (0)
	75	73	Meier, Georg	g	GER	2669 (+2)	7 (-3)
	76	64	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2667 (-6)	19 (+1)
	77	86	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2667 (+7)	9 (+9)
	78	72	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2666 (-3)	10 (+10)
	79	56	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2665 (-16)	19 (+19)
	80	74	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2665 (-2)	10 (+1)
	81	77	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2664 (-1)	20 (+11)
	82	83	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2663 (+3)	15 (-5)
	83	80	Bareev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2663 (0)	0 (0)
	84	100	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2662 (+13)	18 (-2)
	85	99	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	2662 (+12)	16 (-6)
	86	94	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2661 (+6)	10 (+1)
	87	102	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2661 (+12)	10 (+10)
	88	87	Socko, Bartosz	g	POL	2660 (0)	18 (+18)
	89	82	Smeets, Jan	g	NED	2660 (-2)	15 (+14)
	90	93	Zhou, Jianchao	g	CHN	2660 (+5)	9 (-17)
	91	85	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2658 (-2)	5 (-4)
	92	91	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2657 (0)	0 (0)
	93	92	Nyback, Tomi	g	FIN	2656 (0)	2 (0)
	94	81	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2653 (-9)	9 (-9)
	95	97	Potkin, Vladimir	g	RUS	2653 (+2)	8 (-3)
	96	95	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2653 (0)	0 (-9)
	97	-	Yu, Yangyi	g	CHN	2652 (+)	27 (+)
	98	88	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2650 (-8)	13 (0)
	99	68	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2647 (-23)	9 (-9)
	100	96	Gustafsson, Jan	g	GER	2647 (-5)	7 (+7)

FIDE MARCH 2011 RATING LIST: TOP 100 WOMEN

Rank		Old	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games
	1	1	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2686 (0)	0 (0)
	2	2	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2607 (0)	0 (-18)
	3	3	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2602 (0)	0 (-23)
	4	6	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2567 (+17)	10 (+6)
	5	5	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	m	RUS	2567 (+15)	10 (-1)
	6	4	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2559 (-11)	10 (-5)
	7	11	Lahno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2531 (+13)	18 (+10)
	8	8	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2528 (-1)	4 (-2)
	9	9	Cmilyte, Viktorija	g	LTU	2526 (0)	10 (-4)
	10	10	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2524 (+4)	10 (-6)
	11	7	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2523 (-23)	10 (+6)
	12	13	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2519 (+5)	9 (-8)
	13	17	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2506 (+11)	10 (0)
	14	15	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2503 (+5)	22 (+5)
	15	14	Chiburdanidze, Maia	g	GEO	2502 (0)	0 (-4)
	16	19	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2499 (+6)	10 (+4)
	17	16	Galliamova, Alisa	m	RUS	2497 (0)	0 (-11)
	18	18	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2495 (+1)	18 (-3)
	19	20	Socko, Monika	g	POL	2495 (+6)	15 (+6)
	20	21	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2489 (0)	0 (-4)
	21	12	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2484 (-32)	21 (+17)
	22	22	Xu, Yuhua	g	CHN	2484 (0)	0 (-2)
	23	24	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2480 (0)	0 (-14)
	24	25	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2476 (0)	0 (-6)
	25	37	Danielian, Elina	g	ARM	2475 (+21)	9 (+7)
	26	26	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2475 (0)	0 (-2)
	27	23	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2472 (-11)	15 (-2)
	28	29	Gunina, Valentina	wg	RUS	2472 (+1)	9 (-2)
	29	47	Khotenashvili, Bela	m	GEO	2465 (+25)	18 (+18)
	30	28	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2464 (-8)	6 (+2)
	31	41	Melia, Salome	m	GEO	2462 (+13)	21 (+21)
	32	32	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan	g	SCO	2458 (0)	0 (0)
	33	31	Skripchenko, Almira	m	FRA	2458 (0)	0 (-8)
	34	33	Dembo, Yelena	m	GRE	2457 (0)	0 (-6)
	35	34	Hoang Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2456 (0)	0 (-14)
	36	38	Hunt, Harriet V	m	ENG	2454 (0)	0 (0)
	37	36	Ushenina, Anna	m	UKR	2454 (0)	0 (-11)
	38	40	Polgar, Sofia	m	HUN	2450 (0)	0 (0)
	39	27	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2446 (-26)	18 (+5)
	40	42	Rajlich, Iweta	m	POL	2446 (0)	0 (0)
	41	43	Repkova, Eva	m	SVK	2446 (0)	0 (0)
	42	44	Atalik, Ekaterina	m	TUR	2444 (0)	0 (0)
	43	46	Zhukova, Natalia	g	UKR	2443 (+2)	10 (+8)
	44	45	Shen, Yang	wg	CHN	2443 (0)	0 (-5)
	45	48	Javakhishvili, Lela	m	GEO	2437 (-1)	17 (+17)
	46	50	Khurtsidze, Nino	m	GEO	2436 (0)	12 (+12)
	47	30	Gaponenko, Inna	m	UKR	2435 (-31)	19 (+10)
	48	62	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	m	MGL	2434 (+24)	9 (+7)
	49	39	Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman	m	IND	2431 (-23)	11 (+11)
	50	51	Turova, Irina	m	RUS	2428 (-6)	15 (+13)
	51	53	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2428 (0)	0 (-3)
	52	54	Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina	m	RUS	2427 (0)	0 (0)
	53	55	Zaiatz, Elena	m	RUS	2426 (0)	0 (0)
	54	35	Paikidze, Nazi	wg	GEO	2425 (-30)	21 (+1)
	55	61	Moser, Eva	m	AUT	2425 (+12)	14 (+14)
	56	52	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2425 (-4)	9 (-2)
	57	56	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2423 (-2)	9 (-11)
	58	49	Khukhashvili, Sopiko	m	GEO	2421 (-16)	12 (+8)
	59	57	Houska, Jovanka	m	ENG	2419 (0)	0 (-4)
	60	58	Vasilevich, Tatjana	m	UKR	2418 (0)	0 (-9)
	61	63	Foisor, Cristina-Adela	m	ROU	2416 (+11)	24 (+22)
	62	60	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	m	ROU	2415 (+1)	9 (+9)
	63	74	Tania, Sachdev	m	IND	2407 (+16)	24 (+18)
	64	59	Ovod, Evgenija	m	RUS	2405 (-9)	9 (-9)
	65	64	Romanko, Marina	m	RUS	2402 (-2)	16 (+3)
	66	66	Jackova, Jana	m	CZE	2402 (0)	0 (0)
	67	65	Madl, Ildiko	m	HUN	2402 (0)	0 (-4)
	68	67	Stockova, Zuzana	m	SVK	2400 (0)	0 (0)
	69	70	Matnadze, Ana	m	GEO	2399 (+2)	8 (-1)
	70	68	Wang, Yu A.	m	CHN	2398 (0)	0 (-5)
	71	69	Shadrina, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2397 (0)	0 (-15)
	72	73	Huang, Qian	wg	CHN	2394 (0)	0 (-17)
	73	77	Michna, Marta	wg	GER	2389 (0)	0 (0)
	74	94	Zawadzka, Jolanta	wg	POL	2386 (+15)	18 (+11)
	75	79	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2386 (0)	0 (-22)
	76	81	Zdebskaja, Natalia	wg	UKR	2384 (0)	0 (-18)
	77	71	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2383 (-14)	9 (+9)
	78	82	Gara, Anita	m	HUN	2382 (0)	0 (0)
	79	84	Alexandrova, Olga	m	ESP	2381 (0)	0 (0)
	80	85	Kononenko, Tatiana	m	UKR	2381 (0)	0 (0)
	81	86	Matveeva, Svetlana	m	RUS	2380 (0)	0 (-11)
	82	87	Bojkovic, Natasa	m	SRB	2379 (0)	0 (0)
	83	88	Tsereteli, Tamar	wg	GEO	2379 (0)	0 (0)
	84	80	Galojan, Lilit	m	ARM	2377 (-8)	9 (+9)
	85	75	Kovanova, Baira	wg	RUS	2376 (-15)	24 (+20)
	86	72	Batsiashvili, Nino	wg	GEO	2376 (-20)	12 (+3)
	87	-	Lomineishvili, Maia	m	GEO	2376 (+)	12 (+)
	88	89	Ding, Yixin	wg	CHN	2376 (0)	0 (-5)
	89	91	Charkhalashvili, Inga	wg	GEO	2375 (0)	0 (0)
	90	93	Peng, Zhaoqin	g	NED	2372 (0)	0 (-2)
	91	92	Pourkashiyan, Atousa	wg	IRI	2371 (-2)	18 (+11)
	92	76	Stepovaia, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2371 (-18)	13 (+4)
	93	-	Zozulia, Anna	m	BEL	2369 (+)	23 (+)
	94	90	Milliet, Sophie	m	FRA	2369 (-6)	11 (+7)
	95	95	Gu, Xiaobing	wg	CHN	2369 (0)	0 (0)
	96	-	Soumya, Swaminathan	wg	IND	2368 (+)	18 (+)
	97	-	Fierro Baquero, Martha L.	m	ECU	2367 (+)	9 (+)
	98	96	Goletiani, Rusudan	m	USA	2367 (0)	0 (-4)
	99	98	Vajda, Szidonia	m	HUN	2365 (0)	0 (-7)
	100	100	Gaprindashvili, Nona	g	GEO	2362 (0)	0 (-9)
	101	102	Rogule, Laura	wg	LAT	2362 (0)	0 (0)

FIDE MARCH 2011 RATING LIST: TOP 20 JUNIORS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2716	19	1992
2	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2690	15	1994
3	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2689	40	1991
4	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2667	19	1993
5	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2657	0	1991
6	Yu, Yangyi	g	CHN	2652	27	1994
7	Sjugirov, Sanan	g	RUS	2643	26	1993
8	Ding, Liren	g	CHN	2637	9	1992
9	Salgado Lopez, Ivan	g	ESP	2630	9	1991
10	Kovalyov, Anton	g	ARG	2629	0	1992
11	Safarli, Eltaj	g	AZE	2628	11	1992
12	Matlakov, Maxim	g	RUS	2625	9	1991
13	Negi, Parimarjan	g	IND	2618	11	1993
14	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2602	0	1994
15	Nabaty, Tamir	g	ISR	2581	22	1991
16	Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel	g	ARM	2575	11	1993
17	Hess, Robert L	g	USA	2565	30	1991
18	Nyzhnyk, Illya	m	UKR	2563	22	1996
19	Cordova, Emilio	g	PER	2562	5	1991
20	Zherebukh, Yaroslav	g	UKR	2560	22	1993
21	Hovhannisyan, Robert	g	ARM	2560	11	1991

FIDE MARCH 2011 RATING LIST: TOP 20 GIRLS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2602	0	1994
2	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2524	10	1991
3	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2519	9	1991
4	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2476	0	1992
5	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2428	0	1991
6	Paikidze, Nazi	wg	GEO	2425	21	1993
7	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2425	9	1991
8	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2423	9	1992
9	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2386	0	1993
10	Savina, Anastasia	wg	RUS	2383	9	1992
11	Ding, Yixin	wg	CHN	2376	0	1991
12	Sukandar, Irine Kharisma	wg	INA	2354	18	1992
13	Padmini, Rout	wg	IND	2342	11	1994
14	Bhakti, Kulkarni	c	IND	2339	39	1992
15	Guramishvili, Sopiko	wg	GEO	2334	9	1991
16	Pustovoitova, Daria	f	RUS	2333	13	1994
17	Guo, Qi		CHN	2331	9	1995
18	Nguyen, Thi Mai Hung	wm	VIE	2320	27	1994
19	Kashlinskaya, Alina	wg	RUS	2320	9	1993
20	Soloviova, Liza	wg	UKR	2318	0	1993

All data courtesy of FIDE