All-time High For Carlsen on March FIDE Rating List

PeterDoggers

Updated: Feb 28, 2014, 7:28 AM | 30 | Chess Event Coverage

Magnus Carlsen improved his rating record of 2872 by nine points and reached 2881 on the new FIDE rating list, published today on the FIDE website. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave entered the world's top 10 for the first time in his career.

Today the March FIDE rating list was published on the FIDE website. Compared to the February list, the top 9 didn't change - some players only played Zurich, while Vishy Anand played Zurich and the Bundesliga. The biggest news is Magnus Carlsen's rating win of 9 points, which meant a jump from 2872 to 2881.

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave entered the world's top 10 for the first time in his career, with a rating of 2758. Boris Gelfand, who was number 10 last month, dropped to 15th place. Vassily Ivanchuk's good performance in Gibraltar was good for getting from #17 to #14.

Below you can see the full top 100.

FIDE Ratings March 2014 | Top 100

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2881	5	1990
2	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2830	5	1982
3	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2787	0	1975
4	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2785	0	1975
5	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2783	5	1992
6	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2777	0	1983
7	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2772	5	1987
8	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2770	7	1969
9	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2766	0	1990
10	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2758	12	1990
11	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2758	0	1976
12	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2757	0	1983
13	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2757	0	1985
14	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2753	10	1969
15	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2753	5	1968
16	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2751	10	1971
17	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2747	9	1987
18	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2745	4	1994
19	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2739	4	1983
20	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2738	0	1993
21	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2734	0	1989
22	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2732	0	1990
23	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2730	0	1979
24	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2723	11	1983
25	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2723	0	1983
26	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2722	0	1977
27	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2721	0	1983
28	Korobov, Anton	g	UKR	2719	9	1985
29	Ding, Liren	g	CHN	2717	0	1992
30	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2717	0	1980
31	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2717	0	1987
32	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2716	9	1983
33	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2714	12	1986
34	Khismatullin, Denis	g	RUS	2714	9	1984
35	Shirov, Alexei	g	LAT	2713	4	1972
36	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2713	2	1987
37	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2713	0	1987
38	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2712	9	1980
39	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2711	10	1987
40	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2709	10	1974
41	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2709	2	1981
42	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2709	0	1990
43	Le, Quang Liem	g	VIE	2709	0	1991
44	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2706	6	1985
45	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy	g	UKR	2706	2	1986
46	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2706	0	1974
47	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2705	4	1986
48	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2704	1	1976
49	Li, Chao b	g	CHN	2700	19	1989
50	Navara, David	g	CZE	2700	10	1985
51	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2699	0	1985
52	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2698	0	1985
53	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2697	11	1982
54	Matlakov, Maxim	g	RUS	2695	9	1991
55	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2695	3	1976
56	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2693	0	1976
57	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2692	5	1985
58	Rodshtein, Maxim	g	ISR	2691	12	1989
59	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2690	3	1979
60	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2689	0	1985
61	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2687	2	1985
62	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2684	2	1972
63	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2683	2	1984
64	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2682	9	1971
65	Rapport, Richard	g	HUN	2681	13	1996
66	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2681	10	1986
67	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2681	0	1988
68	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	g	PER	2680	0	1967
69	Dreev, Aleksey	g	RUS	2679	10	1969
70	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2679	0	1975
71	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	g	CUB	2678	16	1982
72	Movsesian, Sergei	g	ARM	2678	10	1978
73	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2676	9	1983
74	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2676	0	1981
75	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2675	18	1986
76	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2674	10	1965
77	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2674	4	1986
78	Istratescu, Andrei	g	FRA	2672	14	1975
79	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2671	9	1989
80	Edouard, Romain	g	FRA	2670	16	1990
81	Yu, Yangyi	g	CHN	2664	0	1994
82	Bartel, Mateusz	g	POL	2662	11	1985
83	Saric, Ivan	g	CRO	2661	11	1990
84	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2660	9	1988
85	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2658	0	1983
86	Khairullin, Ildar	g	RUS	2657	18	1990
87	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2657	4	1985
88	Amin, Bassem	g	EGY	2657	3	1988
89	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2656	9	1979
90	Safarli, Eltaj	g	AZE	2656	9	1992
91	Gharamian, Tigran	g	FRA	2655	0	1984
92	Lysyj, Igor	g	RUS	2655	0	1987
93	Socko, Bartosz	g	POL	2654	10	1978
94	Lenic, Luka	g	SLO	2654	8	1988
95	Erdos, Viktor	g	HUN	2654	6	1987
96	Sjugirov, Sanan	g	RUS	2653	9	1993
97	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2653	4	1973
98	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2653	0	1976
99	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2652	14	1977
100	Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	2651	10	1973
101	Balogh, Csaba	g	HUN	2651	4	1987
102	Jones, Gawain C B	g	ENG	2651	2	1987

In the women's list Mariya Muzychuk, the sister of world #4 Anna Muzychuk, entered the world's top 10 for the first time. Thanks to her great tournament in Gibraltar she got her rating up to 2524, good for a 9th place.

FIDE Ratings March 2014 (Women) | Top 50

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2693	0	1976
2	Hou, Yifan	g	CHN	2629	0	1994
3	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2613	0	1987
4	Muzychuk, Anna	g	SLO	2560	9	1990
5	Zhao, Xue	g	CHN	2552	10	1985
6	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2546	0	1987
7	Lagno, Kateryna	g	UKR	2543	0	1989
8	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	g	RUS	2527	0	1984
9	Muzychuk, Mariya	m	UKR	2524	10	1992
10	Ju, Wenjun	wg	CHN	2520	0	1991
11	Khotenashvili, Bela	g	GEO	2518	10	1988
12	Cmilyte, Viktorija	g	LTU	2514	11	1983
13	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	g	RUS	2513	0	1985
14	Hoang, Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2510	11	1980
15	Gunina, Valentina	g	RUS	2503	0	1989
16	Ruan, Lufei	wg	CHN	2503	0	1987
17	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2501	11	1963
18	Ushenina, Anna	g	UKR	2501	0	1985
19	Pogonina, Natalija	wg	RUS	2499	10	1985
20	Tan, Zhongyi	wg	CHN	2499	9	1991
21	Kosintseva, Tatiana	g	RUS	2496	0	1986
22	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2490	10	1986
23	Krush, Irina	g	USA	2490	0	1983
24	Harika, Dronavalli	g	IND	2487	4	1991
25	Huang, Qian	wg	CHN	2484	0	1986
26	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2476	12	1979
27	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2472	3	1978
28	Danielian, Elina	g	ARM	2467	0	1978
29	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2465	0	1982
30	Guo, Qi	wg	CHN	2462	9	1995
31	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2461	10	1976
32	Zhukova, Natalia	g	UKR	2459	19	1979
33	Galliamova, Alisa	m	RUS	2458	0	1972
34	Khurtsidze, Nino	m	GEO	2456	0	1975
35	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	m	RUS	2455	9	1992
36	Javakhishvili, Lela	m	GEO	2453	10	1984
37	Melia, Salome	m	GEO	2453	0	1987
38	Moser, Eva	m	AUT	2452	3	1982
39	Girya, Olga	wg	RUS	2450	9	1991
40	Paehtz, Elisabeth	m	GER	2446	12	1985
41	Socko, Monika	g	POL	2446	0	1978
42	Atalik, Ekaterina	m	TUR	2442	9	1982
43	Skripchenko, Almira	m	FRA	2442	0	1976
44	Kashlinskaya, Alina	wg	RUS	2440	9	1993
45	Hunt, Harriet V	m	ENG	2438	0	1978
46	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	m	ROU	2438	0	1978
47	Shen, Yang	m	CHN	2435	0	1989
48	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	m	MGL	2432	10	1987
49	Ding, Yixin	wg	CHN	2429	0	1991
50	Cori T., Deysi	wg	PER	2428	0	1993

Data courtesy of FIDE

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