September FIDE ratings: Morozevich back in top 20

On the new FIDE ratings list of September 1st, 2011 Alexander Morozevich made a huge jump. Winning 43 points, the Russian grandmaster climbed from place 48 to 17. In the top 10 Kamnik and Karjakin switched places, Grischuk and Kamsky are back in while Nakamura and Mamedyarov are out.

Winning 2 modest rating points in Biel, Magnus Carlsen came to 2823 and thus extended the gap with Vishy Anand to 6 ratings points. The World Champion again didn't play rated games in this period. With his excellent Dortmund and reasonable Russian Champoinship Vladimir Kramnik gained 10 points - he his now Russia's number one again because Sergey Karjakin lost 16 points in the same period.

The United States of America also have a new number one: Gata Kamsky. He returned into the world's top ten after winning 15 points while Hikaru Nakamura dropped from 6th to 12th place after losing 17 points. Interestingly, Veselin Topalov climbed from 8th to 6th place without playing.

A bit further down the list we see the big success story of Alexander Morozevich finally in print: +43 rating points in one rating period! The Russian grandmaster climbed from spot 48 to 17. After a good period (+18 points) Michael Adams is back in the top 20, and so are Wang Hao and Peter Leko.

Anish Giri is now the top junior, and in the main list he climbed from 40 to 23. Another big talent made the second biggest jump on the list: Li Chao, going from 77 to 35, getting a 2700+ rating along the way, after winning 41 points.

Judit Polgar is also a 2700-player again. She won two points, and since Humpy Koneru lost 14 the gap between the two on the women's list is now 101 points. World Champion Hou Yifan is still 22 points behind the Indian. Kateryna Lahno had a good period, winning 18 points but China's Ju Wenjun did even better: +21. She's now among the world's 10 strongest ladies.

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 SEPTEMBER 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	1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2823 (+2)	10 (0)
	2	2	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2817 (0)	0 (0)
	3	3	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2807 (+2)	8 (+4)
	4	5	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2791 (+10)	17 (+9)
	5	4	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2772 (-16)	13 (+3)
	6	8	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2768 (0)	0 (-4)
	7	7	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2765 (-3)	15 (-5)
	8	10	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2758 (-6)	10 (-7)
	9	13	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2757 (+11)	15 (+1)
	10	15	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2756 (+15)	18 (+6)
	11	11	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2756 (-4)	9 (+9)
	12	6	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2753 (-17)	13 (-3)
	13	14	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2752 (+8)	9 (-5)
	14	9	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2746 (-19)	18 (+14)
	15	12	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2746 (0)	0 (-14)
	16	16	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2740 (+1)	14 (+14)
	17	48	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2737 (+43)	28 (+28)
	18	28	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2733 (+18)	29 (+15)
	19	24	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2733 (+15)	24 (+9)
	20	25	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2728 (+11)	9 (+9)
	21	18	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2726 (-7)	17 (+17)
	22	26	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2726 (+11)	8 (-16)
	23	40	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2722 (+21)	19 (+7)
	24	33	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2718 (+7)	16 (+16)
	25	27	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2717 (+2)	13 (-9)
	26	35	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2716 (+7)	23 (-1)
	27	17	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2716 (-20)	11 (+5)
	28	20	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2716 (-8)	9 (-9)
	29	22	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2715 (-7)	22 (+9)
	30	42	Movsesian, Sergei	g	ARM	2715 (+15)	9 (+3)
	31	29	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2713 (-1)	10 (-2)
	32	32	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2712 (+1)	20 (+11)
	33	30	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2712 (-1)	9 (-4)
	34	31	Dreev, Aleksey	g	RUS	2711 (0)	16 (+4)
	35	77	Li, Chao b	g	CHN	2710 (+41)	23 (-1)
	36	36	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2710 (+3)	11 (+11)
	37	19	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2710 (-16)	9 (+1)
	38	23	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2710 (-9)	9 (-1)
	39	39	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2710 (+4)	6 (+3)
	40	37	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2707 (+1)	16 (-8)
	41	46	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2706 (+10)	10 (-10)
	42	21	Navara, David	g	CZE	2705 (-17)	13 (-17)
	43	34	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2705 (-5)	11 (0)
	44	47	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2705 (+9)	8 (-2)
	45	55	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2704 (+21)	10 (-6)
	46	38	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2703 (-3)	8 (-4)
	47	60	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2701 (+20)	16 (+16)
	48	43	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2701 (+2)	13 (+13)
	49	51	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2698 (+11)	20 (+11)
	50	49	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2696 (+7)	26 (+19)
	51	44	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2696 (-2)	11 (-3)
	52	63	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2692 (+13)	20 (+20)
	53	41	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2690 (-10)	16 (+1)
	54	52	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2690 (+5)	6 (+3)
	55	54	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2689 (+6)	36 (+20)
	56	59	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2689 (+8)	19 (-6)
	57	50	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2688 (0)	0 (-11)
	58	61	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2687 (+6)	17 (+17)
	59	56	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2686 (+3)	5 (-6)
	60	45	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2683 (-14)	16 (-5)
	61	62	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2682 (+2)	29 (+22)
	62	70	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2682 (+9)	9 (-10)
	63	53	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2681 (-3)	11 (+9)
	64	81	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2681 (+14)	9 (0)
	65	67	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2678 (+2)	35 (+15)
	66	79	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2678 (+9)	12 (+3)
	67	75	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2676 (+6)	11 (+1)
	68	64	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2674 (-5)	18 (+18)
	69	72	Sokolov, Ivan	g	NED	2673 (+1)	9 (-5)
	70	76	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2672 (+3)	18 (-7)
	71	57	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2672 (-10)	4 (-7)
	72	58	Potkin, Vladimir	g	RUS	2671 (-11)	11 (+11)
	73	73	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2671 (0)	0 (-25)
	74	74	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2671 (0)	0 (-4)
	75	85	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2670 (+8)	36 (+21)
	76	69	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2669 (-6)	11 (+11)
	77	82	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2668 (+2)	11 (+5)
	78	78	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2668 (-1)	7 (-11)
	79	68	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2666 (-9)	27 (+3)
	80	96	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy	g	UKR	2666 (+14)	25 (+5)
	81	88	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2666 (+7)	20 (+20)
	82	93	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2664 (+10)	18 (-3)
	83	83	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2664 (-1)	18 (+18)
	84	-	Balogh, Csaba	g	HUN	2662 (+)	15 (+)
	85	87	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2662 (+3)	11 (+4)
	86	65	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2660 (-19)	14 (+14)
	87	94	Ding, Liren	g	CHN	2659 (+5)	10 (-5)
	88	84	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2658 (-5)	12 (+12)
	89	66	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2656 (-22)	25 (+25)
	90	89	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2655 (-3)	23 (0)
	91	99	Lupulescu, Constantin	g	ROU	2655 (+5)	9 (-1)
	92	97	Ragger, Markus	g	AUT	2655 (+4)	7 (-13)
	93	-	Seirawan, Yasser	g	USA	2652 (+)	16 (+)
	94	86	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2652 (-7)	10 (+2)
	95	98	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2651 (0)	0 (-16)
	96	-	Istratescu, Andrei	g	FRA	2650 (+)	41 (+)
	97	80	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2650 (-19)	29 (+29)
	98	-	Petrosian, Tigran L.	g	ARM	2649 (+)	19 (+)
	99	-	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2648 (+)	21 (+)
	100	90	Meier, Georg	g	GER	2648 (-8)	10 (-3)
	101	-	Azarov, Sergei	g	BLR	2648 (+)	0 (+)

FIDE SEPTEMBER 2011 RATING LIST: TOP 100 WOMEN

Rank		Old	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games
	1	1	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2701 (+2)	13 (+13)
	2	2	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2600 (-14)	11 (+11)
	3	3	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2578 (+3)	33 (+9)
	4	4	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	g	RUS	2560 (0)	20 (+9)
	5	8	Lahno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2554 (+18)	13 (+2)
	6	6	Muzychuk, Anna	m	SLO	2545 (+7)	16 (+4)
	7	5	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2536 (-21)	30 (+19)
	8	13	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2536 (+21)	29 (+23)
	9	10	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2528 (+4)	18 (+7)
	10	7	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2525 (-12)	22 (+11)
	11	9	Cmilyte, Viktorija	g	LTU	2525 (-3)	16 (+5)
	12	12	Danielian, Elina	g	ARM	2517 (-4)	11 (-3)
	13	15	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2512 (+2)	9 (-2)
	14	11	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2508 (-14)	19 (+8)
	15	14	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2505 (-8)	24 (+12)
	16	16	Chiburdanidze, Maia	g	GEO	2500 (0)	0 (0)
	17	22	Gunina, Valentina	m	RUS	2499 (+12)	12 (+12)
	18	18	Galliamova, Alisa	m	RUS	2498 (+6)	11 (+11)
	19	29	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2497 (+27)	29 (+24)
	20	21	Khotenashvili, Bela	m	GEO	2497 (+10)	13 (+2)
	21	19	Socko, Monika	g	POL	2490 (0)	16 (+13)
	22	23	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2490 (+5)	9 (+9)
	23	26	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2489 (+17)	15 (+1)
	24	44	Atalik, Ekaterina	m	TUR	2481 (+45)	22 (+22)
	25	24	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2477 (-2)	11 (+11)
	26	33	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2475 (+12)	24 (+13)
	27	20	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2472 (-15)	33 (+7)
	28	25	Xu, Yuhua	g	CHN	2472 (-5)	3 (+1)
	29	27	Dembo, Yelena	m	GRE	2471 (0)	0 (0)
	30	28	Skripchenko, Almira	m	FRA	2470 (0)	0 (-11)
	31	17	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2469 (-28)	20 (+9)
	32	38	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	m	MGL	2465 (+8)	12 (+4)
	33	30	Javakhishvili, Lela	m	GEO	2464 (-5)	11 (0)
	34	36	Ushenina, Anna	m	UKR	2462 (+3)	21 (+10)
	35	34	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2461 (-2)	17 (+14)
	36	32	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan	g	SCO	2456 (-8)	8 (-13)
	37	31	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2456 (-13)	8 (-3)
	38	37	Shen, Yang	wg	CHN	2448 (-11)	29 (+23)
	39	40	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2446 (+4)	9 (-2)
	40	35	Hoang, Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2446 (-13)	3 (-17)
	41	39	Gaponenko, Inna	m	UKR	2445 (+3)	39 (+21)
	42	56	Zaiatz, Elena	m	RUS	2441 (+22)	9 (+2)
	43	43	Rajlich, Iweta	m	POL	2440 (+4)	11 (+8)
	44	41	Khurtsidze, Nino	m	GEO	2440 (0)	0 (-11)
	45	47	Matnadze, Ana	m	GEO	2433 (+5)	27 (+25)
	46	45	Moser, Eva	m	AUT	2432 (0)	9 (-2)
	47	69	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2429 (+33)	29 (+14)
	48	57	Houska, Jovanka	m	ENG	2427 (+9)	20 (+3)
	49	50	Khukhashvili, Sopiko	m	GEO	2426 (0)	0 (-19)
	50	58	Vasilevich, Tatjana	m	UKR	2423 (+6)	4 (+4)
	51	51	Repkova, Eva	m	SVK	2423 (0)	0 (-5)
	52	64	Huang, Qian	wg	CHN	2421 (+17)	29 (+15)
	53	49	Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina	m	RUS	2421 (-6)	20 (+20)
	54	52	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	m	ROU	2421 (0)	0 (0)
	55	54	Tania, Sachdev	m	IND	2419 (0)	26 (+5)
	56	55	Li, Ruofan	m	SIN	2419 (0)	0 (-9)
	57	46	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2417 (-14)	18 (+7)
	58	82	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2416 (+40)	40 (+31)
	59	48	Foisor, Cristina-Adela	m	ROU	2416 (-11)	29 (+18)
	60	62	Zhukova, Natalia	g	UKR	2416 (+4)	9 (-2)
	61	60	Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman	m	IND	2415 (0)	0 (-3)
	62	77	Batsiashvili, Nino	wg	GEO	2413 (+32)	22 (+2)
	63	59	Paikidze, Nazi	wg	GEO	2412 (-4)	33 (+22)
	64	61	Turova, Irina	m	RUS	2410 (-3)	19 (+4)
	65	65	Romanko, Marina	m	RUS	2409 (+7)	27 (+16)
	66	53	Ovod, Evgenija	m	RUS	2408 (-12)	18 (+7)
	67	70	Madl, Ildiko	m	HUN	2399 (+3)	10 (-4)
	68	-	Wang, Pin	wg	CHN	2397 (+)	5 (+)
	69	42	Melia, Salome	m	GEO	2396 (-41)	22 (+11)
	70	68	Michna, Marta	wg	GER	2396 (-1)	20 (+13)
	71	91	Vasilevich, Irina	m	RUS	2393 (+26)	27 (+15)
	72	71	Alexandrova, Olga	m	ESP	2392 (-1)	9 (+9)
	73	88	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2390 (+19)	22 (+11)
	74	76	Zdebskaja, Natalia	wg	UKR	2389 (+5)	9 (+9)
	75	72	Galojan, Lilit	m	ARM	2389 (0)	0 (-20)
	76	73	Zhang, Xiaowen	wg	CHN	2387 (-2)	5 (0)
	77	75	Majdan-Gajewska, Joanna	wg	POL	2386 (0)	0 (0)
	78	99	Kashlinskaya, Alina	wg	RUS	2385 (+25)	28 (+28)
	79	80	Tsereteli, Tamar	wg	GEO	2383 (+4)	5 (+5)
	80	86	Shadrina, Tatiana	wg	RUS	2378 (+5)	9 (-2)
	81	79	Fierro Baquero, Martha L.	m	ECU	2378 (-3)	6 (+2)
	82	81	Bojkovic, Natasa	m	SRB	2378 (0)	0 (0)
	83	78	Zozulia, Anna	m	BEL	2377 (-4)	38 (+29)
	84	87	Peng, Zhaoqin	g	NED	2377 (+5)	15 (+14)
	85	74	Matveeva, Svetlana	m	RUS	2377 (-11)	9 (-2)
	86	83	Gara, Ticia	wg	HUN	2375 (0)	0 (-13)
	87	84	Kononenko, Tatiana	m	UKR	2375 (0)	0 (0)
	88	-	Milliet, Sophie	m	FRA	2374 (+)	20 (+)
	89	-	Kovanova, Baira	wg	RUS	2369 (+)	9 (+)
	90	-	L'Ami, Alina	wg	ROU	2368 (+)	18 (+)
	91	90	Guo, Qi	wg	CHN	2367 (-1)	20 (+5)
	92	92	Vajda, Szidonia	m	HUN	2367 (0)	0 (-5)
	93	94	Lomineishvili, Maia	m	GEO	2366 (0)	0 (-11)
	94	100	Pham, Le Thao Nguyen	wg	VIE	2362 (+3)	3 (-9)
	95	66	Wang, Yu A.	m	CHN	2360 (-39)	17 (+15)
	96	85	Stockova, Zuzana	m	SVK	2360 (-14)	10 (+9)
	97	98	Gaprindashvili, Nona	g	GEO	2360 (0)	0 (0)
	98	-	Guramishvili, Sopiko	wg	GEO	2359 (+)	40 (+)
	99	-	Rudolf, Anna	wg	HUN	2359 (+)	13 (+)
	100	-	Pokorna, Regina	wg	SVK	2359 (+)	0 (+)

FIDE SEPTEMBER 2011 RATING LIST: TOP 20 JUNIORS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2722	19	1994
2	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2717	13	1991
3	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2712	20	1992
4	Feller, Sebastien	g	FRA	2668	11	1991
5	Ding, Liren	g	CHN	2659	10	1992
6	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2655	23	1993
7	Yu, Yangyi	g	CHN	2646	12	1994
8	Negi, Parimarjan	g	IND	2631	16	1993
9	Matlakov, Maxim	g	RUS	2630	24	1991
10	Sjugirov, Sanan	g	RUS	2627	24	1993
11	Safarli, Eltaj	g	AZE	2627	22	1992
12	Hess, Robert L	g	USA	2625	16	1991
13	Salgado Lopez, Ivan	g	ESP	2614	23	1991
14	Kovalyov, Anton	g	ARG	2612	9	1992
15	Ipatov, Alexander	g	ESP	2591	37	1993
16	Swiercz, Dariusz	g	POL	2585	31	1994
17	Robson, Ray	g	USA	2583	22	1994
18	Zherebukh, Yaroslav	g	UKR	2580	9	1993
19	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2578	33	1994
20	Hovhannisyan, Robert	g	ARM	2578	14	1991

FIDE SEPTEMBER 2011 RATING LIST: TOP 20 GIRLS

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2578	33	1994
2	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2536	29	1991
3	Harika, Dronavalli	m	IND	2505	24	1991
4	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2456	8	1992
5	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2429	29	1991
6	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2417	18	1992
7	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2416	40	1993
8	Paikidze, Nazi	wg	GEO	2412	33	1993
9	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2390	22	1991
10	Kashlinskaya, Alina	wg	RUS	2385	28	1993
11	Guo, Qi	wg	CHN	2367	20	1995
12	Guramishvili, Sopiko	wg	GEO	2359	40	1991
13	Padmini, Rout	wg	IND	2356	26	1994
14	Ding, Yixin	wg	CHN	2340	5	1991
15	Savina, Anastasia	m	RUS	2336	27	1992
16	Arabidze, Meri	wm	GEO	2332	9	1994
17	Sukandar, Irine Kharisma	wg	INA	2330	28	1992
18	Pustovoitova, Daria	f	RUS	2315	18	1994
19	Wang, Jue		CHN	2312	17	1995
20	Bulmaga, Irina	wm	ROU	2304	25	1993

All data courtesy of FIDE