FIDE March 2013 Rating List

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Thursday, 28 February 2013

52 players in the world have FIDE ratings of 2700+ as of March 2013. Wesley So has entered the elite club for the first time in his life. Andrei Volokitin has improved his personal record from 2724 to 2725.

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Nikita Vitiugov is back on form: he won Gibraltar Open and earned 18 rating points

Rank	Old Rank	Name	Country	Title	Rating	Old Rating	Games
1	1	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	GM	2872	2872	0
2	2	Kramnik, Vladimir	RUS	GM	2810	2810	0
3	3	Aronian, Levon	ARM	GM	2809	2809	0
4	4	Radjabov, Teimour	AZE	GM	2793	2793	0
5	5	Karjakin, Sergey	RUS	GM	2786	2786	0
6	6	Anand, Viswanathan	IND	GM	2784 +4	2780	10
7	7	Topalov, Veselin	BUL	GM	2771	2771	0
8	8	Nakamura, Hikaru	USA	GM	2767	2767	0
9	9	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	GM	2766	2766	0
10	10	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	GM	2764	2764	0
11	13	Caruana, Fabiano	ITA	GM	2760 +3	2757	10
12	12	Morozevich, Alexander	RUS	GM	2758	2758	0
13	11	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	GM	2757 -1	2758	10
14	14	Svidler, Peter	RUS	GM	2747	2747	0
15	15	Leko, Peter	HUN	GM	2744	2744	0
16	16	Wang, Hao	CHN	GM	2743	2743	0
17	18	Kamsky, Gata	USA	GM	2741 +1	2740	10
18	17	Gelfand, Boris	ISR	GM	2740	2740	0
19	19	Gashimov, Vugar	AZE	GM	2737	2737	0
20	20	Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS	GM	2734	2734	0
21	21	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	GM	2733	2733	0
22	25	Giri, Anish	NED	GM	2729 +7	2722	11
23	23	Adams, Michael	ENG	GM	2727 +2	2725	20
24	22	Andreikin, Dmitry	RUS	GM	2727	2727	0
25	27	Volokitin, Andrei	UKR	GM	2725 +3	2722	3
26	24	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	CUB	GM	2723	2723	0
27	30	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	GM	2722 +7	2715	20
28	26	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	RUS	GM	2722	2722	0
29	28	Areshchenko, Alexander	UKR	GM	2720	2720	0
30	57	Vitiugov, Nikita	RUS	GM	2712 +18	2694	10
31	42	Le, Quang Liem	VIE	GM	2709 +4	2705	10
32	36	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	UZB	GM	2709	2709	0
33	37	Malakhov, Vladimir	RUS	GM	2709	2709	0
34	47	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	RUS	GM	2708 +5	2703	9
35	35	Ding, Liren	CHN	GM	2707 -2	2709	10
36	38	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	CUB	GM	2707	2707	0
37	32	Navara, David	CZE	GM	2706 -4	2710	20
38	34	Cheparinov, Ivan	BUL	GM	2706 -3	2709	19
39	29	Naiditsch, Arkadij	GER	GM	2706 -10	2716	10
40	40	Fressinet, Laurent	FRA	GM	2706	2706	0
41	39	Wang, Yue	CHN	GM	2706	2706	0
42	44	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	GM	2705 +1	2704	9
43	41	Harikrishna, P.	IND	GM	2705	2705	0
44	43	Riazantsev, Alexander	RUS	GM	2705	2705	0
45	45	Akopian, Vladimir	ARM	GM	2704	2704	0
46	46	Moiseenko, Alexander	UKR	GM	2703	2703	0
47	49	Berkes, Ferenc	HUN	GM	2702	2702	0
48	50	Jobava, Baadur	GEO	GM	2702	2702	0
49	48	Korobov, Anton	UKR	GM	2702	2702	0
50	66	So, Wesley	PHI	GM	2701 +17	2684	19
51	33	Shirov, Alexei	LAT	GM	2700 -9	2709	10
52	31	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	POL	GM	2700 -10	2710	10

Biggest gains: Vitiugov +18, So +17,
Greatest losses: Naiditsch -10, Wojtaszek -10

Inna Gaponenko won 16 rating points at Pfalz Open, thus barely qualifying for our post (at #52)

Marie Sebag has improved her personal best rating from 2533 to 2537. You can check out the all-time highest women's ratings here.

Other results:

Rank	Old Rank	Name	Country	Title	Rating	Old Rating	Games
1	1	Polgar, Judit	HUN	GM	2696	2696	0
2	2	Hou, Yifan	CHN	GM	2617	2617	0
3	3	Koneru, Humpy	IND	GM	2597	2597	0
4	4	Muzychuk, Anna	SLO	GM	2585 +3	2582	10
5	6	Zhao, Xue	CHN	GM	2565 +11	2554	10
6	5	Dzagnidze, Nana	GEO	GM	2554 -1	2555	15
7	7	Lagno, Kateryna	UKR	GM	2547	2547	0
8	9	Sebag, Marie	FRA	GM	2537 +7	2530	2
9	8	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	RUS	GM	2531	2531	0
10	12	Stefanova, Antoaneta	BUL	GM	2530 +14	2516	10
11	10	Cramling, Pia	SWE	GM	2525 +2	2523	10
12	11	Kosintseva, Tatiana	RUS	GM	2517	2517	0
13	13	Cmilyte, Viktorija	LTU	GM	2514 -1	2515	10
14	14	Harika, Dronavalli	IND	GM	2510 -4	2514	19
15	21	Gunina, Valentina	RUS	IM	2505 +15	2490	10
16	15	Ju, Wenjun	CHN	WGM	2505	2505	10
17	16	Ruan, Lufei	CHN	WGM	2501	2501	0
18	17	Khotenashvili, Bela	GEO	IM	2499	2499	0
19	18	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	RUS	GM	2495	2495	0
20	20	Zhu, Chen	QAT	GM	2491	2491	0
21	22	Paehtz, Elisabeth	GER	IM	2487 +5	2482	10
22	26	Muzychuk, Mariya	UKR	IM	2479 +8	2471	10
23	24	Ushenina, Anna	UKR	GM	2477	2477	0
24	28	Hoang, Thanh Trang	HUN	GM	2476 +7	2469	10
25	23	Huang, Qian	CHN	WGM	2476 -2	2478	10
26	25	Pogonina, Natalija	RUS	WGM	2475	2475	0
27	19	Zatonskih, Anna	USA	IM	2474 -17	2491	10
28	30	Tan, Zhongyi	CHN	WGM	2471 +5	2466	10
29	27	Zhukova, Natalia	UKR	GM	2471	2471	0
30	29	Danielian, Elina	ARM	GM	2466	2466	0
31	31	Javakhishvili, Lela	GEO	IM	2464 +3	2461	5
32	33	Galliamova, Alisa	RUS	IM	2459	2459	0
33	34	Mkrtchian, Lilit	ARM	IM	2458	2458	0
34	35	Atalik, Ekaterina	TUR	IM	2455	2455	0
35	37	Socko, Monika	POL	GM	2452	2452	0
36	38	Hunt, Harriet V	ENG	IM	2450	2450	0
37	32	Krush, Irina	USA	IM	2448 -12	2460	10
38	39	Dembo, Yelena	GRE	IM	2448	2448	0
39	40	Moser, Eva	AUT	IM	2446	2446	0
40	42	Girya, Olga	RUS	WGM	2440 -1	2441	9
41	41	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	ROU	IM	2439 -4	2443	9
42	43	Khurtsidze, Nino	GEO	IM	2437	2437	0
43	36	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	MGL	IM	2436 -17	2453	9
44	44	Skripchenko, Almira	FRA	IM	2436	2436	0
45	45	Guo, Qi	CHN	WGM	2435 +4	2431	9
46	51	Cori T., Deysi	PER	WGM	2430 +7	2423	19
47	46	Zaiatz, Elena	RUS	IM	2430	2430	0
48	47	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	RUS	IM	2429 -1	2430	9
49	48	Alexandrova, Olga	ESP	IM	2427	2427	0
50	49	Ding, Yixin	CHN	WGM	2427	2427	0
51	50	Pham, Le Thao Nguyen	VIE	IM	2422 -4	2426	9
52	60	Gaponenko, Inna	UKR	IM	2421 +16	2405	9