Ex Corus A group featuring three players over 2800
The January rating list is just out and here are the participants of this years edition of Tata Steel 2011 with their updated ratings. The A group has a rating average of 2739, that is 3 points more per player compared to the September rating list. The biggest gainers are Levon Aronian (22 points), Nakamura (14 points) and Grischuk (13 points).
Tata Steel Wijk Aan Zee A group is a category 20 and for the first time in chess history will feature 3 grandmasters above 2800 – Carlsen, Anand, and Aronian. It is also one of the youngest top groups ever.
Tata Steel Group A
GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2814
GM Viswanathan Anand IND 2810
GM Levon Aronian ARM 2805
GM Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2784
GM Alexander Grischuk RUS 2773
GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 2751
GM Ruslan Ponomariov UKR 2744
GM Wang Hao CHN 2731
GM Alexey Shirov SPA 2722
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2721
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi RUS 2715
GM Anish Giri NED 2686
GM Jan Smeets NED 2662
GM Erwin l’Ami NED 2628
