FIDE Rating October 2008

TOPALOV World No 1

It seems Veselin Topalov took over as World No 1 after winning the Bilbao Masters. Viswanathan Anand has dropped to #5 after an abysmal performance in Bilboa. I wonder how Anand is going to cope the World Chess Championship which going to be held in few weeks times against Vladimir Kramnik with difference of only 11 points. Levon Aronian has rebounded and is inching toward the top after gaining a handsome 20 points after winning the FIDE Grand Prix and finishing 50% in a strong Bilboa Masters from rank 12 to 7. FIDE Grand Prix current leaders Wang Yue had just missed the top 10 by just 1 point difference from Dmitry Jakovenko. A real rising star is 18-year-old French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who gained 35 points to jump from place 39 in the world to 24. He has overtaken Etienne Bacrot, who is on place 29, to become his country's top ranked player.

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Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2791	10	1975
2	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2787	9	1977
3	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2786	50	1969
4	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2786	31	1990
5	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2783	10	1969
6	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2772	16	1975
7	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2757	23	1982
8	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2751	23	1987
9	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2747	16	1979
10	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2737	39	1983
11	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2736	23	1987
12	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2734	16	1971
13	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	2732	12	1978
14	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2731	16	1985
15	Karjakin, Sergey	g	UKR	2730	24	1990
16	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2729	22	1974
17	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2727	24	1976
18	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2726	34	1972
19	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2720	26	1983
20	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2719	27	1968
21	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2719	15	1983
22	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2719	14	1983
23	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2719	13	1983
24	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2716	30	1990
25	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2715	30	1985
26	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2714	9	1985
27	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2711	0	1976
28	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2710	5	1983
29	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2705	23	1983
30	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2704	6	1987
31	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2703	27	1986
32	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2702	14	1974
33	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2696	28	1986
34	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2696	9	1989
35	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2694	9	1981
36	Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	2686	56	1973
37	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2684	19	1976
38	Najer, Evgeniy	g	RUS	2682	20	1977
39	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2682	9	1971
40	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2681	9	1972
41	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2680	10	1985
42	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2679	5	1971
43	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2678	40	1980
44	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2678	17	1985
45	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2677	32	1983
46	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2676	12	1981
47	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2675	21	1980
48	Postny, Evgeny	g	ISR	2674	40	1981
49	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2672	11	1979
50	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2672	5	1979