FIDE TOP 10

GM Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria has lost three points, while second-placed Magnus Carlsen of Norway has gained a whopping 29, to move to an historic 2801 score, just the fifth player in history – after Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand and Topalov – to do this. Actually Topalov lost a few more points at the European Team Championships in Novi Sad, so that his inofficial "live" rating would be 2805. That would put Carlsen just four points behind the leader.

Other notatble changes at the top: Armenian GM Levon Aronian has gaind 13 points but dropped to place four (overtaken by the cometary rise of Magnus Carlsen). Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan has gained 18 to climb from 14th to 6th in the world rankings. Boris Gelfand and Peter Svidler are up a few places, Peter Leko down from 6th to 9th. Vassily Ivanchuk continues to roller coast, shedding 17 rating points and dropping from 8th to 12th.

Other notables: Hikaru Nakamura lost 20 points, Evgeny Tomashevsky gained the same number, Vallejo gained 15, Wang Yue 18, Navara 15, Almasi 19 and Adams 16.

FIDE November 1st 2009 – Top 100 Players

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2810	10	1975
2	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2801	10	1990
3	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2788	0	1969
4	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2786	13	1982
5	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2772	0	1975
6	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2758	11	1986
7	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2758	11	1968
8	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2754	17	1976
9	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2752	10	1979
10	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2750	0	1977