FIDE ratings July 2010: Carlsen with record 2826

FIDE May 2010 Rating List

Magnus Carlsen has kept his place at the top of the world rankings, gaining 13 points and extending his lead over Veselin Topalov to 23 points. Viswanathan Anand won eleven points from his World Championship match against the Bulgarian and has moved from fourth to third place and crossed the 2800 mark again. There are two Russians (Kramnik and Grischuk) and two Azeris (Mamedyarov and Radjabov) in the top ten.

Carlsen's 2826 rating is the second highest by any player in history. Przemek Jahr of Bydgoszcz, Poland, has kept track of the peak ratings achieved by players since the inception of the FIDE rating list. Here are the top ten (the full lists for all players and for women are at the bottom of this page).

FIDE July 1st 2010 – Top 100 Players

FIDE Top 100 Women July 2010

The gap between the top ranked Judit Polgar and her nearest rival, Indian GM Koneru Humpy, was 60 points in the last list. Judit remains at 2682, but Humpy has lost 22 points, so that the difference is now 82 rating points. 16-year-old Chinese talent Hou Yifan has lost 12 points, but remains in third place and is 23 points behind Humpy.

FIDE Top 20 Juniors July 2010

Naturally Magnus remains at the top of this list, and has increased the gap to his ten month older rival Sergey Karjakin slightly, to 79 points. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France, +13 points) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia, +11) are creeping up to Karjakin (Russia, +8). We are following the progress of Anish Giri of the Netherlands, who gained 30 points and is now number eight on the list. Anish turned sixteen this Monday.

FIDE Top 20 Girls July 2010

Hou Yifan, at 16 the youngest of the top 22 juniors, is fifty points ahead of her nearest rival Anna Muzychuk (in the last list it was sixty points). Indian IM Harika Dronavalli is now in third place, having gained 13 points and at last crossed the 2500 mark.

Top gains by players

This list shows us which players gained most in the two months since the previous list appeared. It also tracks the change in ranking from the last list to the current one. The second list shows the biggest losses.

Biggest losses by players

Lists and data by courtesy of FIDE

The following lists, compiled by Przemek Jahr of Bydgoszcz, Poland, show which players peaked in which season of their careers.

Highest recorded rankings (all players)

There is only one female player that achieved a rating of over 2700: Judit Polgar, who in July 2005 was rated 2735. Przemek sent us a second list which contains top female players.

Highest recorded rankings (women)