Chess Realm News-TOP 100 Chess players around the World

According to FIDE, list below are the TOP 100 Chess players in the World as of September 2009. Pretty old news as this was already published early this month. However, i would like to highlight a couple of significant stats:

At the helm is Vesilen Topalov followed by world Champion Vishy Anand. Aronian and my personal favorite Magnus "the Great" Carlsen is not to far behind at 3rd and 4th places respectively

Very noticeable is that the top 3 countries, in terms of number of grandmasters,are Russia (23 ), Ukraine (11), and Israel (6).

Average age of chess players is : 29. 65

32 players re passed the 2700 elite club


It is very interesting to see the next release of the list and see how the rankings would change.

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2813 0 1975 2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2788 0 1969 3 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2773 13 1982 4 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2772 10 1990 5 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2772 10 1975 6 Leko, Peter g HUN 2762 23 1979 7 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2757 10 1987 8 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2756 42 1969 9 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2756 33 1968 10 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2750 18 1977 11 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2742 24 1983 12 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2741 9 1976 13 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2741 9 1983 14 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2740 0 1986 15 Wang, Yue g CHN 2736 0 1987 16 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2735 17 1987 17 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2733 0 1983 18 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2730 18 1972 19 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2725 23 1985 20 Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2722 13 1990 21 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2721 2 1985 22 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2719 13 1983 23 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2718 31 1990 24 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2717 13 1983 25 Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2715 10 1980 26 Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2711 9 1978 27 Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2710 0 1979 28 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2709 23 1983 29 Short, Nigel D g ENG 2706 10 1965 30 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2703 0 1974 31 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2702 30 1979 32 Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2702 0 1985 33 Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2699 0 1975 34 Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2698 13 1971 35 Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2696 9 1983 36 Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2696 9 1982 37 Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2694 20 1980 38 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2692 32 1974 39 Navara, David g CZE 2692 9 1985 40 Ni, Hua g CHN 2692 8 1983 41 Miroshnichenko, Evgenij g UKR 2690 28 1978 42 Wang, Hao g CHN 2690 0 1989 43 Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2688 8 1971 44 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2688 7 1987 45 Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2687 10 1973 46 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2687 0 1976 47 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2685 10 1985 48 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2685 9 1976 49 Grachev, Boris g RUS 2684 11 1986 50 Adams, Michael g ENG 2682 25 1971 51 Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2681 17 1977 52 Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2681 2 1986 53 Vitiugov, Nikita g RUS 2681 0 1987 54 Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2678 10 1983 55 Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2676 9 1977 56 Harikrishna, P. g IND 2673 8 1986 57 Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2670 45 1973 58 Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2669 11 1973 59 Kurnosov, Igor g RUS 2669 0 1985 60 Avrukh, Boris g ISR 2668 19 1978 61 Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2668 10 1985 62 Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2667 20 1986 63 Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2667 9 1986 64 Guseinov, Gadir g AZE 2667 2 1986 65 Meier, Georg g GER 2664 18 1987 66 Inarkiev, Ernesto g RUS 2664 13 1985 67 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROU 2664 11 1976 68 Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2663 26 1965 69 Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2663 18 1985 70 Pashikian, Arman g ARM 2663 18 1987 71 Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2662 27 1969 72 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2662 17 1992 73 Fridman, Daniel g GER 2661 26 1976 74 Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2661 9 1981 75 Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2659 9 1990 76 Milov, Vadim g SUI 2659 0 1972 77 Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2658 23 1981 78 Roiz, Michael g ISR 2658 20 1983 79 Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2657 10 1968 80 Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2656 9 1953 81 Landa, Konstantin g RUS 2655 0 1972 82 Predojevic, Borki g BIH 2654 18 1987 83 Efimenko, Zahar g UKR 2654 0 1985 84 Postny, Evgeny g ISR 2651 33 1981 85 Krasenkow, Michal g POL 2651 27 1963 86 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2650 19 1972 87 Tregubov, Pavel V. g RUS 2649 9 1971 88 Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2648 17 1968 89 Kobalia, Mikhail g RUS 2648 9 1978 90 Lastin, Alexander g RUS 2648 0 1976 91 Zhigalko, Sergei g BLR 2646 32 1989 92 Baklan, Vladimir g UKR 2646 18 1978 93 Riazantsev, Alexander g RUS 2646 11 1985 94 Seirawan, Yasser g USA 2646 0 1960 95 Fier, Alexandr g BRA 2644 31 1988 96 Granda Zuniga, Julio E g PER 2644 27 1967 97 So, Wesley g PHI 2644 9 1993 98 Fedorchuk, Sergey A. g UKR 2643 37 1981 99 Amonatov, Farrukh g TJK 2643 13 1978 100 Kazhgaleyev, Murtas g KAZ 2643 9 1973

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