MAGNUS-Numero Uno

FIDE has just released its January 1st 2010 rating list, and it has the 19-year-old Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen with 2810 in the number one slot, five points ahead of number two Veselin Topalov, and twenty points above World Champion Viswanathan Anand. Magnus is the youngest player to cross the 2800 mark and to top the world rankings. Congratulations!

Rank Name Title Country Rating 1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2810 2 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2805 3 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2790 4 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2788 5 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2781 6 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2761 7 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2759 8 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2749 9 Wang, Yue g CHN 2749 10 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2744 11 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2741 12 Leko, Peter g HUN 2739 13 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2737 14 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2736 15 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2736 16 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2733 17 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2732 18 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2730 19 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2730 20 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2723 21 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2720 22 Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2716 23 Wang, Hao g CHN 2715 24 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2713 25 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2712 26 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2710 27 Navara, David g CZE 2708 28 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2708 29 Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2708 30 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2705 31 Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2705 32 Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2704 33 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2703 34 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2702 35 Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2697 36 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2697 37 Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2697 38 Short, Nigel D g ENG 2696 39 Adams, Michael g ENG 2694 40 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2693 41 Vitiugov, Nikita g RUS 2692 42 Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2692 43 Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2692 44 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2687 45 Miroshnichenko, Evgenij g UKR 2686 46 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2682 47 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROU 2681 48 Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2680 49 Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2678 50 Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2677 51 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2675 52 Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2673 53 Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2672 54 Harikrishna, P. g IND 2672 55 Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2670 56 Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2670 57 Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2670 58 Zhigalko, Sergei g BLR 2668 59 Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2668 60 Kurnosov, Igor g RUS 2668 61 Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2665 62 Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2662 63 Riazantsev, Alexander g RUS 2661 64 Vescovi, Giovanni g BRA 2660 65 Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2660 66 Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2659 67 Lastin, Alexander g RUS 2659 68 Meier, Georg g GER 2658 69 Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2658 70 Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2657 71 Efimenko, Zahar g UKR 2657 72 Ni, Hua g CHN 2657 73 Smeets, Jan g NED 2657 74 Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2657 75 Roiz, Michael g ISR 2657 76 Avrukh, Boris g ISR 2656 77 So, Wesley g PHI 2656 78 Krasenkow, Michal g POL 2656 79 Fridman, Daniel g GER 2654 80 Ganguly, Surya Shekhar g IND 2654 81 Baklan, Vladimir g UKR 2654 82 Grachev, Boris g RUS 2653 83 Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2653 84 Laznicka, Viktor g CZE 2652 85 Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2652 86 Khismatullin, Denis g RUS 2651 87 Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2650 88 Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2649 89 Inarkiev, Ernesto g RUS 2649 90 Seirawan, Yasser g USA 2649 91 Korobov, Anton g UKR 2648 92 Postny, Evgeny g ISR 2648 93 Le, Quang Liem g VIE 2647 94 Pashikian, Arman g ARM 2647 95 Landa, Konstantin g RUS 2645 96 Milov, Vadim g SUI 2644 97 Nyback, Tomi g FIN 2643 98 Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2643 99 Kazhgaleyev, Murtas g KAZ 2643 100 Socko, Bartosz g POL 2643