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Monday, 31 December 2012

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The Association of Chess Professionals is maintaining a ranking system which indicates how active and how successful the players have been each year. Here are the top-10 lists for the Open and Women's Tours in 2012.

Open:

¹	Player	Tournaments	Points
1	Caruana, Fabiano	11	3519
2	Karjakin, Sergey	6	2653
3	Jakovenko, Dmitry	9	2601
4	Vachier-Lagrave...	13	2305
5	Ivanchuk, Vasyl	8	2300
6	Nakamura, Hikaru	7	2031
7	Mamedyarov, Sha...	6	1749
8	Andreikin, Dmitry	8	1596
9	Edouard, Romain	10	1511
10	Kamsky, Gata	5	1449

Full standings

Women:

¹	Player	Tournaments	Points
1	Hou, Yifan	8	3141
2	Muzychuk, Anna	10	2468
3	Koneru, Humpy	8	2407
4	Lahno, Kateryna	11	1740
5	Stefanova, Antoaneta	7	1324
6	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	6	1313
7	Zhao, Xue	7	1279
8	Kosintseva, Tatiana	5	1162
9	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	9	1116
10	Pogonina, Natalia	4	1095

Full standings

At least 8 qualifiers of the ACP Tour will be invited to play in the ACP Cup in 2013. A few wild cards may also be granted.

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