May 2013 FIDE Rating List
FIDE have published the official rating list for May 2013.Â
The ratings include the very recently finished Zug Grand Prix, and as a result Veselin Topalov has soared up to #4 in the rankings, gaining a whopping 22 rating points. This is Topalov's highest rating since September 2010 when he was a member of the exclusive 2800+ club.
Can Bulgaria's finest earn another shot at the world title?
In contrast Teimour Radjabov drops 48 points to fall from #4 to #14.
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Former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov
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The top 100 ranked players
| # | Name | Fed | Elo |
| 1 | Â Carlsen, Magnus | Â NOR | 2868 |
| 2 | Â Aronian, Levon | Â ARM | 2813 |
| 3 | Â Kramnik, Vladimir | Â RUS | 2811 |
| 4 | Â Topalov, Veselin | Â BUL | 2793 |
| 5 | Â Anand, Viswanathan | Â IND | 2783 |
| 6 | Â Grischuk, Alexander | Â RUS | 2779 |
| 7 | Â Nakamura, Hikaru | Â USA | 2775 |
| 8 | Â Caruana, Fabiano | Â ITA | 2774 |
| 9 | Â Svidler, Peter | Â RUS | 2769 |
| 10 | Â Karjakin, Sergey | Â RUS | 2767 |
| 11 | Â Morozevich, Alexander | Â RUS | 2760 |
| 12 | Â Ivanchuk, Vassily | Â UKR | 2755 |
| 13 | Â Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | Â AZE | 2753 |
| 14 | Â Radjabov, Teimour | Â AZE | 2745 |
| 15 | Â Gelfand, Boris | Â ISR | 2744 |
| 16 | Â Wang, Hao | Â CHN | 2743 |
| 17 | Â Ponomariov, Ruslan | Â UKR | 2742 |
| 18 | Â Kamsky, Gata | Â USA | 2741 |
| 19 | Â Leko, Peter | Â HUN | 2737 |
| 20 | Â Giri, Anish | Â NED | 2734 |
| 21 | Â Jakovenko, Dmitry | Â RUS | 2731 |
| 22 | Â Adams, Michael | Â ENG | 2729 |
| 23 | Â Bacrot, Etienne | Â FRA | 2725 |
| 24 | Â Andreikin, Dmitry | Â RUS | 2724 |
| 25 | Â Dominguez Perez, Leinier | Â CUB | 2723 |
| 26 | Â Tomashevsky, Evgeny | Â RUS | 2719 |
| 27 | Â Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | Â FRA | 2718 |
| 28 | Â Vitiugov, Nikita | Â RUS | 2718 |
| 29 | Â Le, Quang Liem | Â VIE | 2714 |
| 30 | Â Naiditsch, Arkadij | Â GER | 2710 |
| 31 | Â Malakhov, Vladimir | Â RUS | 2710 |
| 32 | Â Nepomniachtchi, Ian | Â RUS | 2710 |
| 33 | Â Areshchenko, Alexander | Â UKR | 2709 |
| 34 | Â Shirov, Alexei | Â LAT | 2708 |
| 35 | Â Riazantsev, Alexander | Â RUS | 2708 |
| 36 | Â Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | Â CUB | 2707 |
| 37 | Â Ding, Liren | Â CHN | 2707 |
| 38 | Â Wang, Yue | Â CHN | 2706 |
| 39 | Â Akopian, Vladimir | Â ARM | 2705 |
| 40 | Â So, Wesley | Â PHI | 2705 |
| 41 | Â Korobov, Anton | Â UKR | 2705 |
| 42 | Â Harikrishna, P. | Â IND | 2702 |
| 43 | Â Eljanov, Pavel | Â UKR | 2702 |
| 44 | Â Jobava, Baadur | Â GEO | 2702 |
| 45 | Â Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | Â POL | 2701 |
| 46 | Â Alekseev, Evgeny | Â RUS | 2700 |
| 47 | Â Cheparinov, Ivan | Â BUL | 2700 |
| 48 | Â Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | Â UZB | 2699 |
| 49 | Â Moiseenko, Alexander | Â UKR | 2698 |
| 50 | Â Navara, David | Â CZE | 2697 |
| 51 | Â McShane, Luke J | Â ENG | 2697 |
| 52 | Â Polgar, Judit | Â HUN | 2696 |
| 53 | Â Vallejo Pons, Francisco | Â ESP | 2695 |
| 54 | Â Rublevsky, Sergei | Â RUS | 2695 |
| 55 | Â Almasi, Zoltan | Â HUN | 2695 |
| 56 | Â Fressinet, Laurent | Â FRA | 2693 |
| 57 | Â Movsesian, Sergei | Â ARM | 2693 |
| 58 | Â Inarkiev, Ernesto | Â RUS | 2690 |
| 59 | Â Van Wely, Loek | Â NED | 2689 |
| 60 | Â Berkes, Ferenc | Â HUN | 2688 |
| 61 | Â Volokitin, Andrei | Â UKR | 2687 |
| 62 | Â Grachev, Boris | Â RUS | 2687 |
| 63 | Â Li, Chao b | Â CHN | 2686 |
| 64 | Â Short, Nigel D | Â ENG | 2681 |
| 65 | Â Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | Â ROU | 2679 |
| 66 | Â Laznicka, Viktor | Â CZE | 2679 |
| 67 | Â Efimenko, Zahar | Â UKR | 2677 |
| 68 | Â Yu, Yangyi | Â CHN | 2675 |
| 69 | Â Rapport, Richard | Â HUN | 2674 |
| 70 | Â Gareev, Timur | Â USA | 2674 |
| 71 | Â Gyimesi, Zoltan | Â HUN | 2674 |
| 72 | Â Sutovsky, Emil | Â ISR | 2673 |
| 73 | Â Bologan, Viktor | Â MDA | 2672 |
| 74 | Â Sasikiran, Krishnan | Â IND | 2669 |
| 75 | Â Motylev, Alexander | Â RUS | 2669 |
| 76 | Â Sargissian, Gabriel | Â ARM | 2667 |
| 77 | Â Ragger, Markus | Â AUT | 2666 |
| 78 | Â Onischuk, Alexander | Â USA | 2666 |
| 79 | Â Potkin, Vladimir | Â RUS | 2666 |
| 80 | Â Smirin, Ilia | Â ISR | 2663 |
| 81 | Â Bu, Xiangzhi | Â CHN | 2662 |
| 82 | Â Fedorchuk, Sergey A. | Â UKR | 2660 |
| 83 | Â Zhigalko, Sergei | Â BLR | 2660 |
| 84 | Â Edouard, Romain | Â FRA | 2659 |
| 85 | Â Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | Â UKR | 2659 |
| 86 | Â Granda Zuniga, Julio E | Â PER | 2659 |
| 87 | Â Nielsen, Peter Heine | Â DEN | 2658 |
| 88 | Â Georgiev, Kiril | Â BUL | 2657 |
| 89 | Â Gharamian, Tigran | Â FRA | 2657 |
| 90 | Â Khairullin, Ildar | Â RUS | 2657 |
| 91 | Â Meier, Georg | Â GER | 2655 |
| 92 | Â Ivanisevic, Ivan | Â SRB | 2655 |
| 93 | Â Zvjaginsev, Vadim | Â RUS | 2655 |
| 94 | Â Iturrizaga, Eduardo | Â VEN | 2655 |
| 95 | Â Kurnosov, Igor | Â RUS | 2654 |
| 96 | Â Dreev, Aleksey | Â RUS | 2654 |
| 97 | Â Matlakov, Maxim | Â RUS | 2654 |
| 98 | Â Sjugirov, Sanan | Â RUS | 2654 |
| 99 | Â Gajewski, Grzegorz | Â POL | 2653 |
| 100 | Â Khismatullin, Denis | Â RUS | 2653 |
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The top 100 women players
| # | Name | Fed | Elo |
| 1 | Â Polgar, Judit | Â HUN | 2696 |
| 2 | Â Hou, Yifan | Â CHN | 2617 |
| 3 | Â Koneru, Humpy | Â IND | 2597 |
| 4 | Â Muzychuk, Anna | Â SLO | 2585 |
| 5 | Â Zhao, Xue | Â CHN | 2565 |
| 6 | Â Lagno, Kateryna | Â UKR | 2548 |
| 7 | Â Dzagnidze, Nana | Â GEO | 2545 |
| 8 | Â Ju, Wenjun | Â CHN | 2544 |
| 9 | Â Kosintseva, Nadezhda | Â RUS | 2531 |
| 10 | Â Sebag, Marie | Â FRA | 2527 |
| 11 | Â Stefanova, Antoaneta | Â BUL | 2526 |
| 12 | Â Cramling, Pia | Â SWE | 2525 |
| 13 | Â Cmilyte, Viktorija | Â LTU | 2522 |
| 14 | Â Kosintseva, Tatiana | Â RUS | 2517 |
| 15 | Â Gunina, Valentina | Â RUS | 2514 |
| 16 | Â Khotenashvili, Bela | Â GEO | 2505 |
| 17 | Â Ruan, Lufei | Â CHN | 2501 |
| 18 | Â Harika, Dronavalli | Â IND | 2492 |
| 19 | Â Ushenina, Anna | Â UKR | 2491 |
| 20 | Â Kosteniuk, Alexandra | Â RUS | 2491 |
| 21 | Â Zhu, Chen | Â QAT | 2491 |
| 22 | Â Pogonina, Natalija | Â RUS | 2488 |
| 23 | Â Muzychuk, Mariya | Â UKR | 2483 |
| 24 | Â Tan, Zhongyi | Â CHN | 2483 |
| 25 | Â Danielian, Elina | Â ARM | 2478 |
| 26 | Â Hoang, Thanh Trang | Â HUN | 2476 |
| 27 | Â Zhukova, Natalia | Â UKR | 2476 |
| 28 | Â Krush, Irina | Â USA | 2470 |
| 29 | Â Huang, Qian | Â CHN | 2469 |
| 30 | Â Paehtz, Elisabeth | Â GER | 2466 |
| 31 | Â Zatonskih, Anna | Â USA | 2466 |
| 32 | Â Mkrtchian, Lilit | Â ARM | 2466 |
| 33 | Â Javakhishvili, Lela | Â GEO | 2464 |
| 34 | Â Girya, Olga | Â RUS | 2463 |
| 35 | Â Galliamova, Alisa | Â RUS | 2458 |
| 36 | Â Atalik, Ekaterina | Â TUR | 2455 |
| 37 | Â Moser, Eva | Â AUT | 2453 |
| 38 | Â Socko, Monika | Â POL | 2450 |
| 39 | Â Hunt, Harriet V | Â ENG | 2450 |
| 40 | Â Alexandrova, Olga | Â ESP | 2449 |
| 41 | Â Dembo, Yelena | Â GRE | 2448 |
| 42 | Â Munguntuul, Batkhuyag | Â MGL | 2442 |
| 43 | Â Bodnaruk, Anastasia | Â RUS | 2440 |
| 44 | Â Guo, Qi | Â CHN | 2439 |
| 45 | Â Peptan, Corina-Isabela | Â ROU | 2439 |
| 46 | Â Cori T., Deysi | Â PER | 2430 |
| 47 | Â Skripchenko, Almira | Â FRA | 2430 |
| 48 | Â Zaiatz, Elena | Â RUS | 2428 |
| 49 | Â Khurtsidze, Nino | Â GEO | 2428 |
| 50 | Â Ding, Yixin | Â CHN | 2427 |
| 51 | Â Guramishvili, Sopiko | Â GEO | 2426 |
| 52 | Â Melia, Salome | Â GEO | 2423 |
| 53 | Â Matnadze, Ana | Â ESP | 2412 |
| 54 | Â Rajlich, Iweta | Â POL | 2411 |
| 55 | Â Tania, Sachdev | Â IND | 2408 |
| 56 | Â Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina | Â RUS | 2407 |
| 57 | Â Bojkovic, Natasa | Â SRB | 2403 |
| 58 | Â Wang, Jue | Â CHN | 2401 |
| 59 | Â Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan | Â SCO | 2400 |
| 60 | Â Houska, Jovanka | Â ENG | 2399 |
| 61 | Â Pham, Le Thao Nguyen | Â VIE | 2399 |
| 62 | Â Karavade, Eesha | Â IND | 2398 |
| 63 | Â Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina | Â ESP | 2398 |
| 64 | Â Shen, Yang | Â CHN | 2397 |
| 65 | Â Li, Ruofan | Â SIN | 2396 |
| 66 | Â Bulmaga, Irina | Â ROU | 2393 |
| 67 | Â Gaponenko, Inna | Â UKR | 2393 |
| 68 | Â Goryachkina, Aleksandra | Â RUS | 2392 |
| 69 | Â Milliet, Sophie | Â FRA | 2391 |
| 70 | Â Batsiashvili, Nino | Â GEO | 2390 |
| 71 | Â Peng, Zhaoqin | Â NED | 2389 |
| 72 | Â Foisor, Cristina-Adela | Â ROU | 2387 |
| 73 | Â Gomes, Mary Ann | Â IND | 2387 |
| 74 | Â Ovod, Evgenija | Â RUS | 2387 |
| 75 | Â Michna, Marta | Â GER | 2386 |
| 76 | Â Zawadzka, Jolanta | Â POL | 2383 |
| 77 | Â Khukhashvili, Sopiko | Â GEO | 2383 |
| 78 | Â Melamed, Tatjana | Â GER | 2382 |
| 79 | Â Nemcova, Katerina | Â CZE | 2382 |
| 80 | Â Lujan, Carolina | Â ARG | 2380 |
| 81 | Â Matveeva, Svetlana | Â RUS | 2380 |
| 82 | Â Nakhbayeva, Guliskhan | Â KAZ | 2379 |
| 83 | Â Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman | Â IND | 2378 |
| 84 | Â Shadrina, Tatiana | Â RUS | 2377 |
| 85 | Â Szczepkowska-Horowska, Karina | Â POL | 2376 |
| 86 | Â Majdan-Gajewska, Joanna | Â POL | 2375 |
| 87 | Â Kovanova, Baira | Â RUS | 2371 |
| 88 | Â Sukandar, Irine Kharisma | Â INA | 2370 |
| 89 | Â Vasilevich, Irina | Â RUS | 2370 |
| 90 | Â Kononenko, Tatiana | Â UKR | 2369 |
| 91 | Â Paikidze, Nazi | Â GEO | 2368 |
| 92 | Â Romanko, Marina | Â RUS | 2368 |
| 93 | Â Zhang, Xiaowen | Â CHN | 2367 |
| 94 | Â Savina, Anastasia | Â RUS | 2363 |
| 95 | Â Repkova, Eva | Â SVK | 2363 |
| 96 | Â Fierro Baquero, Martha L. | Â ECU | 2362 |
| 97 | Â Ordaz Valdes, Lisandra Teresa | Â CUB | 2361 |
| 98 | Â Kachiani-Gersinska, Ketino | Â GER | 2360 |
| 99 | Â Stockova, Zuzana | Â SVK | 2359 |
| 100 | Â Wang, Yu A. | Â CHN | 2359 |
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The top 20 juniors
| # | Name | Fed | Elo | B-Year |
| 1 | Â Giri, Anish | Â NED | 2734 | 1994 |
| 2 | Â So, Wesley | Â PHI | 2705 | 1993 |
| 3 | Â Yu, Yangyi | Â CHN | 2675 | 1994 |
| 4 | Â Rapport, Richard | Â HUN | 2674 | 1996 |
| 5 | Â Sjugirov, Sanan | Â RUS | 2654 | 1993 |
| 6 | Â Negi, Parimarjan | Â IND | 2651 | 1993 |
| 7 | Â Nyzhnyk, Illya | Â UKR | 2635 | 1996 |
| 8 | Â Swiercz, Dariusz | Â POL | 2631 | 1994 |
| 9 | Â Zherebukh, Yaroslav | Â UKR | 2629 | 1993 |
| 10 | Â Dubov, Daniil | Â RUS | 2622 | 1996 |
| 11 | Â Robson, Ray | Â USA | 2620 | 1994 |
| 12 | Â Hou, Yifan | Â CHN | 2617 | 1994 |
| 13 | Â Ipatov, Alexander | Â TUR | 2588 | 1993 |
| 14 | Â Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel | Â ARM | 2582 | 1993 |
| 15 | Â Van Kampen, Robin | Â NED | 2580 | 1994 |
| 16 | Â Lalith, Babu M.R. | Â IND | 2572 | 1993 |
| 17 | Â Anton Guijarro, David | Â ESP | 2564 | 1995 |
| 18 | Â Grigoryan, Karen H. | Â ARM | 2559 | 1995 |
| 19 | Â Eliseev, Urii | Â RUS | 2557 | 1996 |
| 20 | Â Grandelius, Nils | Â SWE | 2556 | 1993 |
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Photo by Anastasiya Karlovich.
