FIDE’s April 2006 ratings without Kasparov
03.04.2006 For decades we have been used to see him at the top of
every chess rating list. Now, a year after his retirement from
competitive chess, Garry Kasparov has been taken off the FIDE rating
list. His successor is the current FIDE world champion Veselin
Topalov, just one point ahead of VishyAnand.
Here are the top rankings.
FIDE April 2006 Rating Lists
For the first time in decades FIDE publishes a rating list without
Garry Kasparov, not at the top nor anywhere in the list. Kasparov has
been removes due to inactivity, as required by the ratings conventions
and announced in advance by FIDE. The above chart makes clear who the
“crown princes” are: Veselin Topalov, the current FIDE world champion;
and Viswanathan Anand, the former FIDE world champion and 1995 title
challenger in New York of Garry Kasparov.
Topalov and Anand are almost 50 points ahead of the nearest rival,
Armenian GM Levon Aronian, who has just won the Morelia/Linares
tournament. In place four we find Peter Svidler, who had some very
disappointing results and lost 22 points, but had enough on his
account to maintain his ranking – taking into account that Kasparov
vacated one place. Five points behind Svidler are Peter Leko and
Ruslan Ponomariov. The latter gained 15 points to move from tenth to
joint fifth place. Alexander Morozevich gained 9 points to climb back
into the top ten. Classical chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik lost
12 points, mainly due to illness, and dropped from sixth to eights
place.
It is interesting to note, in our age of child prodigies and teenage
grandmasters, that the average age of the top ten is over thirty.
Top 100 Players April 2006
Rank Name Title Country Rating Gms Born 1 _Topalov, Veselin_
( tml?id=3D2900084) g BUL 2804 27 1975 2 _Anand,
Viswanathan_ ( 5000017) g IND 2803
13 1969 3 _Aronian, Levon_
( l?id=3D13300474) g ARM 2756 27 1982 4 _Svidler, Peter_
( l?id=3D4102142) g RUS 2743 28 1976 5 _Leko, Peter_
( l?id=3D703303) g HUN 2738 27 1979 6
_Ponomariov, Ruslan_ ( 14103320) g UKR
2738 16 1983 7 _Morozevich, Alexander_
( phtml?id=3D4116992) g RUS 2730 10 1977 8 _Kramnik, Vladimir_
( html?id=3D4101588) g RUS 2729 11 1975 9 _Gelfand,
Boris_ ( 2805677) g ISR 2727 13
1968 10 _Ivanchuk, Vassily_
( tml?id=3D14100010) g UKR 2723 28 1969 11 _Adams, Michael_
( tml?id=3D400041) g ENG 2720 15 1971 12 _Grischuk, Alexander_
( phtml?id=3D4126025) g RUS 2719 3 1983 13
_Radjabov, Teimour_
( tml?id=3D13400924) g AZE 2717 14 1987 14 _Polgar, Judit_
( l?id=3D700070) g HUN 2711 0 1976 15 _Bacrot, Etienne_
( tml?id=3D605506) g FRA 2708 30 1983 16 _Akopian,
Vladimir_ ( 13300032) g ARM 2706
19 1971 17 _Bareev, Evgeny_
( ml?id=3D4100140) g RUS 2701 11 1966 18 _Shirov, Alexei_
( ml?id=3D2209390) g ESP 2699 10 1972 19 _Mamedyarov,
Shakhriyar_ ( 13401319) g AZE 2699 23
1985 20 _Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter_
( es.phtml?id=3D1202758) g ROM 2695 3 1976 21 _Sasikiran, Krishnan_
( html?id=3D5004985) g IND 2692 27 1981 22 _Malakhov,
Vladimir_ ( 4120787) g RUS2691 11
1980 23 _Rublevsky, Sergei_
( ml?id=3D4115309) g RUS 2687 11 1974 24 _Lautier, Joel_
( ?id=3D600016) g FRA 2682 3 1973 25 _Harikrishna, P._
( d=3D5007003) g IND 2680 7 1986 26
_Georgiev, Kiril_ ( 2900017) g BUL
2677 28 1965 27 _Sokolov, Ivan_
( ?id=3D14400030) g NED 2676 16 1968 28 _Jakovenko, Dmitry_
( ml?id=3D4122356) g RUS 2675 24 1983 29 _Kasimdzhanov,
Rustam_ ( 14200244) g UZB 2673 3
1979 30 _Dreev, Alexey_
( ml?id=3D4100107) g RUS 2673 20 1969 31 _Karpov, Anatoly_
( tml?id=3D4100026) g RUS 2672 0 1951 32 _Kamsky, Gata_
( ?id=3D2000024) g USA 2671 13 1974 33 _Korneev,
Oleg_ ( 4156803) g RUS 2671
79 1969 34 _Zvjaginsev, Vadim_
( l?id=3D4113403) g RUS 2670 11 1976 35 _Azmaiparashvili, Zurab_
( l?id=3D13601326) g GEO 2669 17 1960 36 _Tiviakov,
Sergei_ ( 1008013) g NED 2669 23
1973 37 _Short, Nigel D._
( d=3D400025) g ENG 2668 11 1965 38 _Bologan, Viktor_
( ml?id=3D13900048) g MDA 2666 22 1971 39 _Vallejo Pons,
Francisco_ ( 2205530) g ESP 2666 23
1982 40 _Eljanov, Pavel_
( l?id=3D14102951) g UKR 2665 11 1983 41 _Naiditsch, Arkadij_
( tml?id=3D4650891) g GER 2664 25 1985 42 _Nakamura, Hikaru_
( ml?id=3D2016192) g USA 2664 14 1987 43
_Efimenko, Zahar_ ( 14107201) g
UKR 2662 18 1985 44 _Smirin, Ilia_
( ?id=3D2801990) g ISR 2662 0 1968 45 _Moiseenko, Alexander_
( phtml?id=3D14102560) g UKR 2662 18 1980 46 _Karjakin,
Sergey_ ( 14109603) g UKR 2661
22 1990 47 _Motylev, Alexander_
( phtml?id=3D4121830) g RUS 2660 33 1979 48 _Volokitin, Andrei_
( ml?id=3D14107090) g UKR 2660 9 1986 49 _Areshchenko,
Alexander_ ( 14109530) g UKR
2660 19 1986 50 _Navara, David_
( l?id=3D309095) g CZE 2658 13 1985 51 _Almasi, Zoltan_
( ml?id=3D702293) g HUN 2657 13 1976 52 _Van Wely, Loek_
( ?id=3D1000268) g NED 2655 13 1972 53
_Kobalia, Mikhail_ ( 4119150) g
RUS 2654 0 1978 54 _Najer, Evgeniy_
( tml?id=3D4118987) g RUS 2653 14 1977 55 _Bruzon, Lazaro_
( ml?id=3D3503739) g CUB 2652 24 1982 56 _Krasenkow,
Michal_ ( 1113100) g POL 2650 11
1963 57 _Onischuk, Alexander_
( phtml?id=3D14101025) g USA 2650 0 1975 58 _Izoria, Zviad_
( l?id=3D13601733) g GEO 2647 16 1984 59 _Dominguez, Lenier_
( ml?id=3D3503240) g CUB 2647 9 1983 60
_Nielsen, Peter Heine_ ( 1400355)
g DEN 2646 2 1973 61 _Asrian, Karen_
( l?id=3D13300490) g ARM 2646 13 1980 62 _Carlsen, Magnus_
( ml?id=3D1503014) g NOR 2646 13 1990 63 _Timofeev,
Artyom_ ( 4140419) g RUS 2646
9 1985 64 _Miton, Kamil_
( l?id=3D1111914) g POL 2646 0 1984 65 _Jobava, Baadur_
( ml?id=3D13601520) g GEO 2646 22 1983 66 _Gashimov, Vugar_
( l?id=3D13400630) g AZE 2644 13 1986 67
_Gurevich, Mikhail_ ( 200930) g
TUR 2643 13 1959 68 _Tkachiev, Vladislav_
( phtml?id=3D618438) g FRA 2643 3 1973 69 _Khalifman, Alexander_
( phtml?id=3D4100115) g RUS 2640 20 1966 70
_Delchev, Aleksander_ ( 2900394) g BUL
2640 11 1971 71 _Alekseev, Evgeny_
( ml?id=3D4138147) g RUS 2640 9 1985 72 _Bu, Xiangzhi_
( html?id=3D8601445) g CHN 2640 9 1985 73 _Zhang, Zhong_
( l?id=3D8600694) g CHN 2640 8 1978 74
_Bauer, Christian_ ( 603767) g
FRA 2638 30 1977 75 _Ibragimov, Ildar_
( l?id=3D4102878) g USA 2637 15 1967 76 _Sakaev, Konstantin_
( .phtml?id=3D4104226) g RUS 2637 12 1974 77 _Seirawan,
Yasser_ ( 2000032) g USA 2635
0 1960 78 _Cheparinov, Ivan_
( ?id=3D2905540) g BUL 2635 29 1986 79 _Aleksandrov, Aleksej_
( tml?id=3D13500139) g BLR 2634 14 1973 80 _Fressinet,
Laurent_ ( 608742) g FRA 2633 19
1981 81 _Avrukh, Boris_
( l?id=3D2803895) g ISR 2633 0 1978 82 _Huebner, Robert Dr._
( id=3D4600010) g GER 2632 0 1948 83 _Granda Zuniga, Julio E_
( =3D3800024) g PER 2631 0 1967
84 _Sutovsky, Emil_ ( 2802007)
g ISR 2628 10 1977 85 _Sokolov, Andrei_
( ml?id=3D627089) g FRA 2628 10 1963 86 _Atalik, Suat_
( ?id=3D14401487) g TUR 2627 22 1964 87 _Zhang,
Pengxiang_ ( 8600970) g CHN 2623 9
1980 88 _Beliavsky, Alexander G_
( =3D14602377) g SLO 2622 13 1953 89 _Milov, Vadim_
( l?id=3D1304364) g SUI 2622 19 1972 90 _Vescovi, Giovanni_
( html?id=3D2100789) g BRA 2622 13 1978
91 _Istratescu, Andrei_
( ml?id=3D1200372) g ROM 2621 3 1975 92 _Volkov, Sergey_
( ml?id=3D4122763) g RUS 2620 30 1974 93 _Sadvakasov, Darmen_
( ml?id=3D13700464) g KAZ 2619 9 1979 94
_Lputian, Smbat G_ ( 13300024) g
ARM 2619 3 1958 95 _Hjartarson, Johann_
( ml?id=3D2300044) g ISL 2619 0 1963 96 _Galkin, Alexander_
( phtml?id=3D4120426) g RUS 2618 9 1979 97 _Korotylev,
Alexey_ ( 4119142) g RUS 2618
9 1977 98 _Movsesian, Sergei_
( ml?id=3D310204) g SVK 2618 9 1978 99 _Paragua, Mark_
( ?id=3D5201241) g PHI 2617 8 1984 100 _Timman, Jan H_
( =3D1000012) g NED 2616 7 1951 101
_Vladimirov, Evgeny_ ( 13700014) g
KAZ 2616 0 1957
Top Women April 2006
Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 _Polgar, Judit_
( l?id=3D700070) g HUN 2711 0 1976 2 _Koneru,
Humpy_ ( 5008123) g IND 2548 25
1987 3 _Kosteniuk, Alexandra_
( phtml?id=3D4128125) g RUS 2540 20 1984 4 _Cramling, Pia_
( id=3D1700030) g SWE 2520 35 1963 5 _Xu, Yuhua_
( l?id=3D8600635) wg CHN 2517 13 1976 6
_Chiburdanidze, Maia_ ( 13600036) g GEO
2504 8 1961 7 _Stefanova, Antoaneta_
( phtml?id=3D2902257) g BUL 2502 23 1979 8 _Kosintseva, Tatiana_
( tml?id=3D4133471) m RUS 2489 15 1986 9 _Hoang Thanh
Trang_ ( 12400149) m HUN 2487
10 1980 10 _Zhu, Chen_
( ?id=3D8600546) g CHN 2483 19 1976 11 _Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman_
( .phtml?id=3D5004098) m IND 2472 6 1979 12 _Cmilyte,
Viktorija_ ( 12801259) m LTU 2470 20
1983 13 _Galliamova, Alisa_
( l?id=3D4129725) m RUS 2470 13 1972 14 _Kosintseva, Nadezhda_
( html?id=3D4134974) m RUS 2469 11 1985 15 _Lahno, Kateryna_
( html?id=3D14109336) m UKR 2468 15 1989
16 _Qin, Kanying_ ( 8600350)
wg CHN 2465 6 1974 17 _Socko, Monika_
( ml?id=3D1106619) m POL 2465 2 1978 18 _Dembo, Yelena_
( ml?id=3D723916) m GRE 2464 12 1983 19 _Kovalevskaya,
Ekaterina_ ( 4116704) m RUS 2460
28 1974 20 _Matveeva, Svetlana_
( html?id=3D4119827) m RUS 2454 21 1969 21 _Mkrtchian, Lilit_
( l?id=3D13300601) m ARM 2453 6 1982 22 _Krush, Irina_
( l?id=3D2012782) m USA 2447 0 1983 23
_Korbut, Ekaterina_ ( 4144228)
wg RUS 2442 11 1985 24 _Dzagnidze, Nana_
( ?id=3D2012782) m GEO 2442 13 1987 25 _Pogonina, Natalija_
( html?id=3D4147855) wg RUS 2440 20 1985 26
_Radziewicz, Iweta_ ( 1108166) m
POL 2439 28 1981 27 _Paehtz, Elisabeth_
( phtml?id=3D4641833) m GER 2438 13 1985 28 _Sebag, Marie_
( l?id=3D617822) m FRA 2434 25 1986 29 _Zatonskih,
Anna_ ( 14101572) wg USA 2433 0
1978 30 _Gaponenko, Inna_
( ?id=3D14101181) m UKR 2430 21 1976 31 _Khurtsidze, Nino_
( ?id=3D13600320) m GEO 2426 28 1975 32 _Zhukova, Natalia_
( tml?id=3D14101513) wg UKR 2425 141979 33
_Ciuksyte, Dagne_ ( 12800619)
wg LTU 2423 16 1977 34 _Skripchenko, Almira_
( ml?id=3D13900145) m FRA 2423 13 1976 35 _Zhao, Xue_
( id=3D8601283) wg CHN 2423 19 1985 36
_Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan_ ( 13600168) m
GEO 2423 14 1968 37 _Hunt, Harriet_
( tml?id=3D403512) m ENG 2422 0 1978 38 _Danielian, Elina_
( l?id=3D13300210) m ARM 2422 22 1978 39 _Kachiani-G.,
Ketino_ ( 4623614) m GER 2421
0 1971 40 _Muzychuk, Anna_
( ?id=3D14111330) wg SLO 2419 171990 41 _Zaiatz, Elena_
( l?id=3D4139518) m RUS 2417 2 1969 42 _Maric, Alisa_
( l?id=3D904180) m SCG 2415 0 1970 43
_Javakhishvili, Lela_ ( 13601458) m
GEO 2410 22 1984 44 _Peptan, Corina-Isabela_
( iles.phtml?id=3D1201930) m ROM 2408 12 1978 45 _Xu, Yuanyuan_
( html?id=3D8601089) wg CHN 2405 0 1981 46 _Zimina,
Olga_ ( 4132190) wg ITA 2404 20
1982 47 _Vajda, Szidonia_
( html?id=3D723894) m HUN 2403 0 1979 48 _Lomineishvili, Maia_
( ?id=3D13600656) m GEO 2399 19 1977 49 _Ushenina, Anna_
( ?id=3D14110911) wg UKR 2397 4 1985 50
_Peng, Zhaoqin_ ( 1004786) g
NED 2395 14 1968 51 _Vasilevich, Tatjana_
( tml?id=3D14101610) m UKR 2395 0 1977 52 _Ovod, Evgenija_
( html?id=3D4131827) m RUS 2395 11 1982
Top 20 Juniors April 2006
Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 _Radjabov, Teimour_
( tml?id=3D13400924) g AZE 2717 14 1987 2
_Harikrishna, P._ ( 5007003) g IND
2680 7 1986 3 _Nakamura, Hikaru_
( ml?id=3D2016192) g USA 2664 14 1987 4 _Karjakin, Sergey_
( ml?id=3D14109603) g UKR 2661 22 1990 5 _Volokitin,
Andrei_ ( 14107090) g UKR 2660 9 1986
6 _Areshchenko, Alexander_
( phtml?id=3D14109530) g UKR 2660 19 1986 7 _Carlsen, Magnus_
( ml?id=3D1503014) g NOR 2646 13 1990 8 _Gashimov, Vugar_
( l?id=3D13400630) g AZE 2644 13 1986 9
_Cheparinov, Ivan_ ( 2905540) g
BUL 2635 29 1986 10 _Guseinov, Gadir_
( l?id=3D13401378) g AZE 2610 10 1986 11 _Pantsulaia, Levan_
( l?id=3D13602071) g GEO 2609 0 1986 12 _Wang,
Hao_ ( 8602883) g CHN 26059 1989
13 _Wang, Yue_ ( 8601429) g
CHN 2598 9 1987 14 _Wojtaszek, Radoslaw_
( html?id=3D1118358) g POL 2597 25 1987 15 _Tomashevsky, Evgeny_
( ml?id=3D4147235) g RUS 2595 20 1987 16
_Balogh, Csaba_ ( 718939)
g HUN 2576
16 1987 17 _Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime_
( ml?id=3D623539) g FRA 2576 21 1990 18 _Savchenko, Boris_
( l?id=3D4147332) m RUS 2568 17 1986 19 _Predojevic,
Borki_ ( 930849) g BIH 2566 25
1987 20 _Nguyen, Ngoc Truongson_
( phtml?id=3D12401110) g VIE 2555 16 1990
Top 20 Girls April 2006
Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 _Koneru, Humpy_
( l?id=3D5008123) g IND 2548 25 1987 2
_Kosintseva, Tatiana_ ( 4133471) m RUS
2489 15 1986 3 _Lahno, Kateryna_
( html?id=3D14109336) m UKR 2468 15 1989 4 _Dzagnidze, Nana_
( ?id=3D2012782) m GEO 2442 13 1987 5 _Sebag, Marie_
( l?id=3D617822) m FRA 2434 25 1986 6
_Muzychuk, Anna_ ( 14111330) wg
SLO 2419 17 1990 7 _Melia, Salome_
( ml?id=3D13602446) wg GEO 2393 191987 8 _Huang, Qian_
( ?id=3D8602689) wm CHN 2391 9 1986 9 _Zawadzka, Jolanta_
( tml?id=3D1122320) wg POL 2389 11 1987
10 _Mongontuul, Bathuyag_
( html?id=3D4900758) wg MGL 2378 18 1987 11 _Tania, Sachdev_
( tml?id=3D5007844) wg IND 2375 0 1986 12 _Ruan, Lufei_
( l?id=3D8602727) CHN 2370 4 1987 13
_Kadziolka, Beata_ ( 1119990) wm POL
2359 11 1986 14 _Harika, Dronavalli_
( .phtml?id=3D5015197) wg IND 2358 0 1991 15 _Gunina, Valentina_
( phtml?id=3D4167570) wf RUS 2352 9 1989 16 _Chistiakova,
Tamara_ ( 4140370) wf RUS 2351
9 1986 17 _Hoang, Thi Bao Tram_
( ?id=3D12401102) wm VIE 2349 9 1987 18 _Tairova, Elena_
( l?id=3D13503383) wm RUS 2342 221991 19 _Arutyunova,
Diana_ ( 14107244) wg UKR 2338 10
1988 20 _Kursova, Maria_
( l?id=3D4129709) wm RUS 2333 15 1986
All data by courtesy of FIDE (_ () ).
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
