April 2009 ratings: Topalov 29 points ahead of everyone else

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4/1/2009 – Veselin Topalov has once again crossed the 2800 mark, missing his highest-ever rating, 2813, by one point. The Bulgarian is 29 points ahead of the second-ranked player, World Champion Vishy Anand, and a resounding 53 points ahead of former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. Vassily Ivanchuk is the big loser in the latest list, shedding 33 points and dropping from third to 12th. Top lists.
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FIDE April 2009 Rating List

In the April list GM Veselin Topalov has crossed – actually bounded over – the 2800 mark to almost reach his highest ever rating: 2813 in July 2006. In the latest list he is just one point shy of that. He gained 16 points since the last list, due to his results in Nanjing 2008 and the World Championship Challengers Match against Gata Kamsky in February this year.

Topalov's dominance is quite remarkable: he is 29 points above the second-best player, World Champion Viswanathan Anand, who shed eight points, all in the 2009 Super-GM in Linares. Topalov is 42 points ahead of Magnus Carlsen, who lost six points in Corus Wijk aan Zee and Linares.

Former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik is moving steadily up the ranking list – without playing any rated games! He has moved from eighth to fourth place with his unchanged rating of 2759, which is 53 points below Topalov. Next comes Teimour Radjabov, the young Azeri GM, who lost five rating points but still moved from sixth to fifth place. Levon Aronian is back in the top ten with 2754 points and place six, up from place eleven in the previous list.

The big winners at the top are (first two columns are their rankings):

Apr09
Jan09
  Player
 Nat.
 gain
 rating
 1 
 1
  Topalov, Veselin
 BUL
+16
 2812
 10 
 14
  Grischuk, Alexander
 RUS
+15
 2748
 21 
 26
  Ni, Hua
 CHN
+15
 2724
 23 
 27
  Karjakin, Sergey
 UKR
+15
 2721
 26 
 37
  Malakhov, Vladimir
 RUS
+17
 2709
 32 
 44
  Tiviakov, Sergei
 NED
+12
 2697
 38 
 48
  Moiseenko, Alexander
 UKR
+14
 2690
 42 
 55
  Jobava, Baadur
 GEO
+18
 2687
 43 
 51
  Harikrishna, P.
 IND
+13
 2686
 45 
 65
  Onischuk, Alexander
 USA
+25
 2684
 46 
 60
  Tomashevsky, Evgeny
 RUS
+20
 2684
 50 
 58
  Miroshnichenko, Evgenij
 UKR
+13
 2680

The biggest fall was by Vassily Ivanchuk, who dropped 33 points in Nanjing, Wijk aan Zee and Linares (overplayed?). The biggest losses at the top were suffered by the following players:

Apr09
Jan09
  Player
 Nat.
 gain
 rating
 8 
 5
  Morozevich, Alexander
 RUS
-20
 2751
 12 
 3
  Ivanchuk, Vassily
 UKR
-33
 2746
 40 
 28
  Vallejo Pons, Francisco
 ESP
-14
 2688
 47 
 33
  Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
 FRA
-12
 2684
 48 
 25
  Sasikiran, Krishnan
 IND
-29
 2682

FIDE April 1st 2009 – Top 100 Players

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
 1  Topalov, Veselin  g  BUL  2812  17  1975
 2  Anand, Viswanathan  g  IND  2783  14  1969
 3  Carlsen, Magnus  g  NOR  2770  27  1990
 4  Kramnik, Vladimir  g  RUS  2759  0  1975
 5  Radjabov, Teimour  g  AZE  2756  27  1987
 6  Aronian, Levon  g  ARM  2754  37  1982
 7  Jakovenko, Dmitry  g  RUS  2753  5  1983
 8  Morozevich, Alexander  g  RUS  2751  13  1977
 9  Leko, Peter  g  HUN  2751  0  1979
 10  Grischuk, Alexander  g  RUS  2748  14  1983
 11  Movsesian, Sergei  g  SVK  2747  23  1978
 12  Ivanchuk, Vassily  g  UKR  2746  37  1969
 13  Shirov, Alexei  g  ESP  2745  0  1972
 14  Wang, Yue  g  CHN  2738  38  1987
 15  Gelfand, Boris  g  ISR  2733  0  1968
 16  Gashimov, Vugar  g  AZE  2730  10  1986
 17  Bacrot, Etienne  g  FRA  2728  9  1983
 18  Svidler, Peter  g  RUS  2726  25  1976
 19  Ponomariov, Ruslan  g  UKR  2726  0  1983
 20  Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar  g  AZE  2725  6  1985
 21  Ni, Hua  g  CHN  2724  16  1983
 22  Dominguez Perez, Leinier  g  CUB  2721  27  1983
 23  Karjakin, Sergey  g  UKR  2721  19  1990
 24  Kamsky, Gata  g  USA  2720  20  1974
 25  Alekseev, Evgeny  g  RUS  2716  5  1985
 26  Malakhov, Vladimir  g  RUS  2709  26  1980
 27  Bu, Xiangzhi  g  CHN  2704  18  1985
 28  Adams, Michael  g  ENG  2703  13  1971
 29  Rublevsky, Sergei  g  RUS  2702  0  1974
 30  Nakamura, Hikaru  g  USA  2701  10  1987
 31  Naiditsch, Arkadij  g  GER  2700  21  1985
 32  Tiviakov, Sergei  g  NED  2697  38  1973
 33  Wang, Hao  g  CHN  2696  29  1989
 34  Akopian, Vladimir  g  ARM  2696  11  1971
 35  Kasimdzhanov, Rustam  g  UZB  2695  14  1979
 36  Eljanov, Pavel  g  UKR  2693  0  1983
 37  Polgar, Judit  g  HUN  2693  0  1976
 38  Moiseenko, Alexander  g  UKR  2690  15  1980
 39  Bologan, Viktor  g  MDA  2690  11  1971
 40  Vallejo Pons, Francisco  g  ESP  2688  31  1982
 41  Vitiugov, Nikita  g  RUS  2688  20  1987
 42  Jobava, Baadur  g  GEO  2687  16  1983
 43  Harikrishna, P.  g  IND  2686  30  1986
 44  Almasi, Zoltan  g  HUN  2685  9  1976
 45  Onischuk, Alexander  g  USA  2684  28  1975
 46  Tomashevsky, Evgeny  g  RUS  2684  24  1987
 47  Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime  g  FRA  2684  10  1990
 48  Sasikiran, Krishnan  g  IND  2682  20  1981
 49  Efimenko, Zahar  g  UKR  2682  19  1985
 50  Miroshnichenko, Evgenij  g  UKR  2680  17  1978
 51  Cheparinov, Ivan  g  BUL  2678  11  1986
 52  Motylev, Alexander  g  RUS  2677  29  1979
 53  Timofeev, Artyom  g  RUS  2677  20  1985
 54  Inarkiev, Ernesto  g  RUS  2676  27  1985
 55  Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter  g  ROU  2675  11  1976
 56  Short, Nigel D  g  ENG  2674  13  1965
 57  Volokitin, Andrei  g  UKR  2671  23  1986
 58  Sokolov, Ivan  g  NED  2669  23  1968
 59  Najer, Evgeniy  g  RUS  2669  0  1977
 60  Dreev, Alexey  g  RUS  2668  38  1969
 61  Nielsen, Peter Heine  g  DEN  2668  3  1973
 62  Fressinet, Laurent  g  FRA  2664  11  1981
 63  Sargissian, Gabriel  g  ARM  2660  23  1983
 64  Sutovsky, Emil  g  ISR  2660  0  1977
 65  Guseinov, Gadir  g  AZE  2659  20  1986
 66  Milov, Vadim  g  SUI  2659  18  1972
 67  Kurnosov, Igor  g  RUS  2658  38  1985
 68  Areshchenko, Alexander  g  UKR  2657  39  1986
 69  Tkachiev, Vladislav  g  FRA  2657  0  1973
 70  Fedorchuk, Sergey A.  g  UKR  2656  25  1981
 71  Pashikian, Arman  g  ARM  2655  43  1987
 72  Savchenko, Boris  g  RUS  2655  29  1986
 73  Nyback, Tomi  g  FIN  2655  13  1985
 74  Navara, David  g  CZE  2654  24  1985
 75  Grachev, Boris  g  RUS  2652  29  1986
 76  Predojevic, Borki  g  BIH  2652  20  1987
 77  Lastin, Alexander  g  RUS  2650  9  1976
 78  Caruana, Fabiano  g  ITA  2649  31  1992
 79  Amonatov, Farrukh  g  TJK  2648  18  1978
 80  Postny, Evgeny  g  ISR  2648  11  1981
 81  Delchev, Aleksander  g  BUL  2648  7  1971
 82  Avrukh, Boris  g  ISR  2647  10  1978
 83  Fridman, Daniel  g  GER  2646  9  1976
 84  Kobalia, Mikhail  g  RUS  2645  26  1978
 85  Mamedov, Rauf  g  AZE  2645  20  1988
 86  Karpov, Anatoly  g  RUS  2644  0  1951
 87  Li, Chao b  g  CHN  2643  46  1989
 88  Meier, Georg  g  GER  2641  37  1987
 89  So, Wesley  g  PHI  2641  29  1993
 90  Smirin, Ilia  g  ISR  2641  9  1968
 91  Beliavsky, Alexander G  g  SLO  2640  21  1953
 92  Berkes, Ferenc  g  HUN  2638  21  1985
 93  Zhang, Pengxiang  g  CHN  2638  6  1980
 94  Georgiev, Kiril  g  BUL  2637  11  1965
 95  Socko, Bartosz  g  POL  2637  10  1978
 96  Bareev, Evgeny  g  RUS  2636  9  1966
 97  Zhou, Jianchao  g  CHN  2635  35  1988
 98  Riazantsev, Alexander  g  RUS  2635  28  1985
 99  Zvjaginsev, Vadim  g  RUS  2635  22  1976
 100  Roiz, Michael  g  ISR  2635  17  1983

FIDE Top 101 Women April 2009

Judit Polgar still leads, by 81 points, especially since the second highest rated female player in history, Koneru Humpy, dropped nine points. China's super talent Hou Yifan gained 19 points and is just 22 points behind the Indian GM. Former Women's World Champion Antoaneta Stefanova remains in fourth, even though she lost eight points since the previous list.

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
 1  Polgar, Judit  g  HUN  2693  0  1976
 2  Koneru, Humpy  g  IND  2612  17  1987
 3  Hou, Yifan  g  CHN  2590  29  1994
 4  Stefanova, Antoaneta  g  BUL  2549  21  1979
 5  Dzagnidze, Nana  g  GEO  2541  24  1987
 6  Muzychuk, Anna  m  SLO  2533  28  1990
 7  Zhao, Xue  g  CHN  2531  22  1985
 8  Cramling, Pia  g  SWE  2528  37  1963
 9  Sebag, Marie  g  FRA  2527  11  1986
 10  Kosintseva, Tatiana  m  RUS  2522  25  1986
 11  Kosteniuk, Alexandra  g  RUS  2516  0  1984
 12  Chiburdanidze, Maia  g  GEO  2506  11  1961
 13  Danielian, Elina  m  ARM  2503  34  1978
 14  Pogonina, Natalija  wg  RUS  2501  25  1985
 15  Cmilyte, Viktorija  m  LTU  2498  13  1983
 16  Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan  g  SCO  2492  23  1968
 17  Kosintseva, Nadezhda  m  RUS  2491  14  1985
 18  Zhu, Chen  g  QAT  2491  2  1976
 19  Hoang Thanh Trang  g  HUN  2490  11  1980
 20  Ruan, Lufei  wg  CHN  2486  7  1987
 21  Xu, Yuhua  g  CHN  2479  12  1976
 22  Mkrtchian, Lilit  m  ARM  2479  11  1982
 23  Ushenina, Anna  m  UKR  2478  20  1985
 24  Lahno, Kateryna  g  UKR  2478  11  1989
 25  Harika, Dronavalli  m  IND  2474  18  1991
 26  Romanko, Marina  wg  RUS  2466  29  1986
 27  Dembo, Yelena  m  GRE  2466  11  1983
 28  Qin, Kanying  wg  CHN  2466  6  1974
 29  Javakhishvili, Lela  m  GEO  2463  0  1984
 30  Zhukova, Natalia  wg  UKR  2461  20  1979
 31  Zatonskih, Anna  m  USA  2461  14  1978
 32  Hunt, Harriet V  m  ENG  2461  2  1978
 33  Paehtz, Elisabeth  m  GER  2459  29  1985
 34  Socko, Monika  g  POL  2456  21  1978
 35  Ju, Wenjun    CHN  2454  30  1991
 36  Krush, Irina  m  USA  2452  29  1983
 37  Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina  m  RUS  2450  28  1974
 38  Skripchenko, Almira  m  FRA  2449  4  1976
 39  Korbut, Ekaterina  m  RUS  2448  5  1985
 40  Lomineishvili, Maia  m  GEO  2447  22  1977
 41  Muzychuk, Mariya  m  UKR  2441  29  1992
 42  Melia, Salome  m  GEO  2440  31  1987
 43  Munguntuul, Batkhuyag  wg  MGL  2440  19  1987
 44  Ovod, Evgenija  m  RUS  2440  11  1982
 45  Peng, Zhaoqin  g  NED  2439  22  1968
 46  Zdebskaja, Natalia  wg  UKR  2438  18  1986
 47  Tan, Zhongyi    CHN  2436  22  1991
 48  Atalik, Ekaterina  m  TUR  2434  0  1982
 49  Shadrina, Tatiana  wg  RUS  2431  20  1974
 50  Gaponenko, Inna  m  UKR  2428  29  1976
 51  Bojkovic, Natasa  m  SRB  2426  0  1971
 52  Khukhashvili, Sopiko  m  GEO  2424  26  1985
 53  Khurtsidze, Nino  m  GEO  2424  22  1975
 54  Rajlich, Iweta  m  POL  2424  13  1981
 55  Repkova, Eva  m  SVK  2424  12  1975
 56  Foisor, Cristina-Adela  m  ROU  2423  38  1967
 57  Tania, Sachdev  m  IND  2423  30  1986
 58  Li, Ruofan  wg  SIN  2423  6  1978
 59  Tairova, Elena  m  RUS  2422  0  1991
 60  Shen, Yang  wg  CHN  2420  55  1989
 61  Moser, Eva  m  AUT  2418  7  1982
 62  Stockova, Zuzana  m  SVK  2417  5  1977
 63  Matnadze, Ana  m  GEO  2414  20  1983
 64  Fierro Baquero, Martha L.  m  ECU  2411  19  1977
 65  Gunina, Valentina  wf  RUS  2411  18  1989
 66  Huang, Qian  wg  CHN  2410  26  1986
 67  Matveeva, Svetlana  m  RUS  2410  20  1969
 68  Maric, Alisa  m  SRB  2407  0  1970
 69  Wang, Pin  wg  CHN  2407  0  1974
 70  Houska, Jovanka  m  ENG  2402  23  1980
 71  Vasilevich, Tatjana  m  UKR  2399  7  1977
 72  Kovanova, Baira  wg  RUS  2398  20  1987
 73  Turova, Irina  m  RUS  2396  20  1979
 74  Peptan, Corina-Isabela  m  ROU  2392  20  1978
 75  Goletiani, Rusudan  wg  USA  2391  0  1980
 76  Zawadzka, Jolanta  wg  POL  2390  20  1987
 77  Michna, Marta  wg  GER  2388  0  1978
 78  Borsuk, Angela  m  ISR  2385  8  1967
 79  Jackova, Jana  m  CZE  2385  0  1982
 80  Madl, Ildiko  m  HUN  2385  0  1969
 81  Alexandrova, Olga  m  ESP  2383  0  1978
 82  Majdan, Joanna  wg  POL  2382  20  1988
 83  Vajda, Szidonia  m  HUN  2381  0  1979
 84  Milliet, Sophie  m  FRA  2379  18  1983
 85  Sergeyeva, Maria  wg  KAZ  2377  0  1983
 86  Demina, Julia  wg  RUS  2375  20  1969
 87  Bodnaruk, Anastasia  wg  RUS  2373  29  1992
 88  Zozulia, Anna  m  BEL  2371  34  1980
 89  Pokorna, Regina  wg  SVK  2368  31  1982
 90  Kachiani-Gersinska, Ketino  m  GER  2367  0  1971
 91  Stepovaia, Tatiana  wg  RUS  2365  11  1965
 92  Tsereteli, Tamar  wg  GEO  2365  9  1985
 93  Wang, Yu A.  m  CHN  2364  23  1982
 94  Gvetadze, Sopio  m  GEO  2364  22  1983
 95  Khotenashvili, Bela  wg  GEO  2364  18  1988
 96  Chelushkina, Irina  wg  SRB  2364  9  1961
 97  Charkhalashvili, Inga  wg  GEO  2363  30  1983
 98  Dworakowska, Joanna  m  POL  2363  11  1978
 99  Zaiatz, Elena  m  RUS  2362  11  1969
 100  Nadig, Kruttika  wm  IND  2361  30  1988
 101  Cherednichenko, Svetlana  wg  UKR  2361  11  1984

FIDE Top 20 Juniors April 2009

At eighteen Norwegian GM Magnus Carlsen leads the Juniors list by 49 points, since his Ukrainian "twin" Sergey Karjakin has gained 15 points (Magnus lost six). Wang Hao has switched places with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana has climbed a notch, while Wesley So has moved from place nine to seven. We are pleased to note that Hou Yifan has been included in this list – the last one left her out in spite of the fact that she was amongst the top twenty.

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
 1  Carlsen, Magnus  g  NOR  2770  27  1990
 2  Karjakin, Sergey  g  UKR  2721  19  1990
 3  Wang, Hao  g  CHN  2696  29  1989
 4  Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime  g  FRA  2684  10  1990
 5  Caruana, Fabiano  g  ITA  2649  31  1992
 6  Li, Chao b  g  CHN  2643  46  1989
 7  So, Wesley  g  PHI  2641  29  1993
 8  Kuzubov, Yuriy  g  UKR  2632  56  1990
 9  Rodshtein, Maxim  g  ISR  2627  20  1989
 10  Andreikin, Dmitry  g  RUS  2625  18  1990
 11  Nepomniachtchi, Ian  g  RUS  2624  35  1990
 12  Zhigalko, Sergei  g  BLR  2622  29  1989
 13  Howell, David W L  g  ENG  2613  22  1990
 14  Khairullin, Ildar  g  RUS  2606  38  1990
 15  Safarli, Eltaj  g  AZE  2599  47  1992
 16  Edouard, Romain  m  FRA  2594  36  1990
 17  Andriasian, Zaven  g  ARM  2593  39  1989
 18  Negi, Parimarjan  g  IND  2592  22  1993
 19  Le, Quang Liem  g  VIE  2591  0  1991
 20  Hou, Yifan  g  CHN  2590  29  1994

FIDE Top 20 Girls April 2009

Naturally GM Hou Yifan of China, who turned 15 a month ago, is still dominating this list completely. She is 57 points ahead of the second strongest girl, IM Anna Muzychuk. GM Kateryna Lahno has lost ten points but still remains in place three.

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
 1  Hou, Yifan  g  CHN  2590  29  1994
 2  Muzychuk, Anna  m  SLO  2533  28  1990
 3  Lahno, Kateryna  g  UKR  2478  11  1989
 4  Harika, Dronavalli  m  IND  2474  18  1991
 5  Ju, Wenjun    CHN  2454  30  1991
 6  Muzychuk, Mariya  m  UKR  2441  29  1992
 7  Tan, Zhongyi    CHN  2436  22  1991
 8  Tairova, Elena  m  RUS  2422  0  1991
 9  Shen, Yang  wg  CHN  2420  55  1989
 10  Gunina, Valentina  wf  RUS  2411  18  1989
 11  Bodnaruk, Anastasia  wg  RUS  2373  29  1992
 12  Kashlinskaya, Alina  wm  RUS  2344  35  1993
 13  Zhang, Xiaowen  wm  CHN  2340  27  1989
 14  Girya, Olga  wf  RUS  2335  37  1991
 15  Severiukhina, Zoja  wf  RUS  2332  39  1990
 16  Gomes, Mary Ann  wg  IND  2332  11  1989
 17  Vojinovic, Jovana  wm  MNE  2328  20  1992
 18  Guramishvili, Sopiko  wm  GEO  2325  38  1991
 19  Paulet, Iozefina  wg  ROU  2322  30  1989
 20  Foisor, Sabina-Francesca  wg  USA  2311  4  1989

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