JANUARY 2009 FIDE RATINGS

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Topalov leads in the January 2009 FIDE ratings

31.12.2008 – The latest rating list does not count the Nanjing Super-GM, but even without it Veselin Topalov has stayed in first place, with a rating just four points shy of 2800. In second place is the World Champion Viswanathan Anand, who gained eight points from his match against Vladimir Kramnik (now eighth) to end at 2791. Vassily Ivanchuk is third, Magnus Carlsen fourth. January 2009 ratings.

FIDE January 2009 Rating List

The January list includes tournaments up to 15 December 2008, and FIDE events such as the Grand Prix in Elista, which ended 28 December. Bulgarian GM Veselin Topalov has stayed in first place with a rating just four points shy of 2800. He is five points higher than in the previous list, and he gained these five points at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden. The first place in the Nanjing Super-GM has not been counted, since that event ended on December 22nd.

In second place on the FIDE list we find World Champion Viswanathan Anand, who has gained eight points from his match in Bonn with Vladimir Kramnik. The latter lost eight points from the Anand match, and five more points at the Chess Olympiad. We find Kramnik at number eight, two places lower than on the previous list.

Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, who turns 40 on March 18, has 2779 points, seven fewer than in October, but retains his third rank. The 18-year-old Magnus Carlsen of Norway dropped ten points and is now at 2776, but he too retained his fourth place. Alexander Morozevich, who was second on the previous list, dropped to fifth place with 2771 points.

Next on the list we find two climbers, Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan with 2761 points and Dimitry Jakovenko of Russia with 2760. They are followed by Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko and Sergei Movsesian to complete the top ten in the world.

Looking further down the list we see Alexei Shirov gaining 19 points to climb from 18th to 12th. The Azeri GM Vugar Gashimov gained 20 points to leap from 31st to 19th. The top British GM Michael Adams lost 22 points and "the other" hot prodigy Sergey Karjakin (who is the same age as Magnus Carlsen) dropped 24 points. The Spanish GM Francisco Vallejo Pons made the biggest jump, gaining 38 points and rising from 55th to 28th.

FIDE January 2009 Top Players Rating List

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2796	8	1975
2	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2791	11	1969
3	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2779	19	1969
4	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2776	17	1990
5	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2771	20	1977
6	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2761	27	1987
7	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2760	40	1983
8	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2759	20	1975
9	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2751	23	1979
10	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	2751	16	1978
11	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2750	16	1982
12	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2745	19	1972
13	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2739	28	1987
14	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2733	28	1983
15	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2733	17	1968
16	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2726	9	1983
17	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2725	16	1974
18	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2724	29	1985
19	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2723	28	1986
20	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2723	27	1976
21	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2722	40	1983
22	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2718	33	1985
23	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2717	10	1983
24	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2712	29	1971
25	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2711	24	1981
26	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2709	15	1983
27	Karjakin, Sergey	g	UKR	2706	17	1990
28	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2702	34	1982
29	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2702	9	1985
30	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2702	0	1974
31	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2700	33	1971
32	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2699	19	1987
33	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2696	28	1990
34	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2693	29	1983
35	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2693	17	1985
36	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2693	8	1976
37	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2692	18	1980
38	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2691	7	1989
39	Dreev, Alexey	g	RUS	2688	24	1969
40	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2688	15	1985
41	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2687	28	1987
42	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2687	22	1979
43	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2687	15	1971
44	Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	2684	10	1973
45	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2680	27	1976
46	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2679	31	1986
47	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2678	20	1983
48	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2676	9	1980
49	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2676	6	1979
50	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2675	25	1976
51	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2673	26	1986
52	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2673	5	1986
53	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2671	26	1985
54	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2671	21	1986
55	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2669	24	1983
56	Najer, Evgeniy	g	RUS	2669	18	1977
57	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2669	10	1972
58	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	2667	23	1978
59	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2666	8	1981
60	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2664	19	1987
61	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2663	31	1965
62	Guseinov, Gadir	g	AZE	2661	17	1986
63	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2660	10	1973
64	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2660	7	1977
65	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2659	25	1975
66	Sokolov, Ivan	g	NED	2657	17	1968
67	Tkachiev, Vladislav	g	FRA	2657	8	1973
68	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2656	30	1985
69	Zhang, Zhong	g	SIN	2656	9	1978
70	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2655	14	1986
71	Savchenko, Boris	g	RUS	2654	19	1986
72	Postny, Evgeny	g	ISR	2652	28	1981
73	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2651	9	1985
74	Predojevic, Borki	g	BIH	2650	36	1987
75	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2650	30	1976
76	Rodshtein, Maxim	g	ISR	2650	25	1989
77	Bocharov, Dmitry	g	RUS	2647	36	1982
78	Amonatov, Farrukh	g	TJK	2647	26	1978
79	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2647	24	1983
80	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2647	14	1968
81	Delchev, Aleksander	g	BUL	2647	9	1971
82	Tregubov, Pavel V.	g	RUS	2647	9	1971
83	Beliavsky, Alexander G	g	SLO	2646	35	1953
84	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2646	22	1992
85	Avrukh, Boris	g	ISR	2645	23	1978
86	Bareev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2645	4	1966
87	Nyback, Tomi	g	FIN	2644	15	1985
88	Khenkin, Igor	g	GER	2644	10	1968
89	Karpov, Anatoly	g	RUS	2644	8	1951
90	Zhang, Pengxiang	g	CHN	2644	7	1980
91	Lastin, Alexander	g	RUS	2643	13	1976
92	Graf, Alexander	g	GER	2643	9	1962
93	Shulman, Yuri	g	USA	2639	20	1975
94	Mamedov, Rauf	g	AZE	2638	16	1988
95	Navara, David	g	CZE	2638	10	1985
96	Aleksandrov, Aleksej	g	BLR	2636	29	1973
97	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2636	11	1976
98	Vescovi, Giovanni	g	BRA	2635	0	1978
99	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2634	28	1965
100	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2634	19	1985
101	Gustafsson, Jan	g	GER	2634	8	1979
102	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2634	7	1978