Magnus Carlsen with record rating in the FIDE January 2013 rating list
January 2013 FIDE rating list has three players with rating over 2800 ELO. Magnus Carlsen’s rating record has been made official by the World Chess Federation, as now he is sitting on top of the list with 2861 points, after a 13 points gain during the last London Classic. Second position in the rating list is for Vladimir Kramnik with 2810 ELO, who overtakes the third 2800 club player, the Olympic champion Levon Aronian.
The world’s top 10 chess players list is completed by Radjabov, Caruana, Karjakin, Anand, Topalov, Nakamura, and Mamedyarov, as the 10th position mark is at 2766 ELO. That is 5 points more than the January 2012 rating list, 22 points more than the January 2010 rating list, 43 points more than the January 2006 rating list, and 62 points higher than 12 years ago.
A total of 47 players are above 2700 ELO in January 2013. The top 100 mark is set by Eduardo Iturrizaga with 2650. As the month of December was low period for tournament, there are only a few newcomers to the list. Ildar Khairullin is 99th with 2650, Denis Khismatullin is 94th with 2652, and Hrant Melkumyan is 88th with 2656.
An interesting month is ahead, as with the coming Tata Steel Chess 2013 Magnus Carlsen will be trying to improve his own rating record for the first time. He will play in the A group of the competition, where some of his main opponents like Caruana and Karjakin are also going to take a shot at entering the 2800 ELO club. The 2700 club will also be very active with the 2013 Gibraltar Chess Festival and the Tata Steel 2013 group B. All games from Tata Steel and Gibraltar will be live with computer and GM analysis at Chessdom.
Top 100 players list January 2013
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2861 | ||
| 2 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2810 | ||
| 3 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2802 | ||
| 4 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2793 | ||
| 5 | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2781 | ||
| 6 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2780 | ||
| 7 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2772 | ||
| 8 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2771 | ||
| 9 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2769 | ||
| 10 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2766 | ||
| 11 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2764 | ||
| 12 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2758 | ||
| 13 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2758 | ||
| 14 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 2752 | ||
| 15 | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2747 | ||
| 16 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2740 | ||
| 17 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2740 | ||
| 18 | Gashimov, Vugar | AZE | 2737 | ||
| 19 | Leko, Peter | HUN | 2735 | ||
| 20 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2734 | ||
| 21 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2733 | ||
| 22 | Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | 2727 | ||
| 23 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2725 | ||
| 24 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2725 | ||
| 25 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | 2723 | ||
| 26 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2723 | ||
| 27 | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2722 | ||
| 28 | Areshchenko, Alexander | UKR | 2720 | ||
| 29 | Giri, Anish | NED | 2720 | ||
| 30 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2711 | ||
| 31 | Moiseenko, Alexander | UKR | 2710 | ||
| 32 | Navara, David | CZE | 2710 | ||
| 33 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2709 | ||
| 34 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 2709 | ||
| 35 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 2709 | ||
| 36 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2709 | ||
| 37 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | 2708 | ||
| 38 | Shirov, Alexei | LAT | 2708 | ||
| 39 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2705 | ||
| 40 | Riazantsev, Alexander | RUS | 2705 | ||
| 41 | Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | 2704 | ||
| 42 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2703 | ||
| 43 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2703 | ||
| 44 | Berkes, Ferenc | HUN | 2702 | ||
| 45 | Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 2702 | ||
| 46 | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | CUB | 2701 | ||
| 47 | Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 2700 | ||
| 48 | McShane, Luke J | ENG | 2698 | ||
| 49 | Harikrishna, P. | IND | 2698 | ||
| 50 | Polgar, Judit | HUN | 2696 | ||
| 51 | Short, Nigel D | ENG | 2696 | ||
| 52 | Efimenko, Zahar | UKR | 2696 | ||
| 53 | Wang, Yue | CHN | 2696 | ||
| 54 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 2694 | ||
| 55 | Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 2694 | ||
| 56 | Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 2691 | ||
| 57 | Korobov, Anton | UKR | 2690 | ||
| 58 | Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | 2689 | ||
| 59 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | 2688 | ||
| 60 | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2688 | ||
| 61 | Grachev, Boris | RUS | 2688 | ||
| 62 | Movsesian, Sergei | ARM | 2688 | ||
| 63 | Rublevsky, Sergei | RUS | 2688 | ||
| 64 | Edouard, Romain | FRA | 2686 | ||
| 65 | Sutovsky, Emil | ISR | 2684 | ||
| 66 | So, Wesley | PHI | 2682 | ||
| 67 | Bologan, Viktor | MDA | 2681 | ||
| 68 | Van Wely, Loek | NED | 2679 | ||
| 69 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2678 | ||
| 70 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2677 | ||
| 71 | Motylev, Alexander | RUS | 2676 | ||
| 72 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | 2676 | ||
| 73 | Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2675 | ||
| 74 | Li, Chao b | CHN | 2674 | ||
| 75 | Gyimesi, Zoltan | HUN | 2674 | ||
| 76 | Laznicka, Viktor | CZE | 2674 | ||
| 77 | Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | UKR | 2671 | ||
| 78 | Fridman, Daniel | GER | 2667 | ||
| 79 | Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2666 | ||
| 80 | Gareev, Timur | USA | 2665 | ||
| 81 | Potkin, Vladimir | RUS | 2665 | ||
| 82 | Sokolov, Ivan | NED | 2663 | ||
| 83 | Gharamian, Tigran | FRA | 2661 | ||
| 84 | Onischuk, Alexander | USA | 2660 | ||
| 85 | Khenkin, Igor | GER | 2659 | ||
| 86 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | RUS | 2658 | ||
| 87 | Melkumyan, Hrant | ARM | 2656 | ||
| 88 | Nielsen, Peter Heine | DEN | 2656 | ||
| 89 | Tiviakov, Sergei | NED | 2655 | ||
| 90 | Ragger, Markus | AUT | 2655 | ||
| 91 | Dreev, Aleksey | RUS | 2654 | ||
| 92 | Istratescu, Andrei | FRA | 2654 | ||
| 93 | Matlakov, Maxim | RUS | 2653 | ||
| 94 | Khismatullin, Denis | RUS | 2652 | ||
| 95 | Filippov, Anton | UZB | 2652 | ||
| 96 | Kobalia, Mikhail | RUS | 2652 | ||
| 97 | Smirin, Ilia | ISR | 2652 | ||
| 98 | Zhigalko, Sergei | BLR | 2651 | ||
| 99 | Khairullin, Ildar | RUS | 2650 | ||
| 100 | Iturrizaga, Eduardo | VEN | 2650 |
