Statistically, the average rating of the top 100 players grows to the psychological 2700 barrier. That means that a player needs 56 ELO points more than in the year 2000 to hope for a spot in top 100.Here is the full rating list of the top 100 players....
10/4/2022 – At the beginning of October the FIDE published its new ranking list. With a rating of 2856 Magnus Carlsen continues to lead the list though he lost 5 points in the Sinquefield Cup. Currently, Carlsen is 44 ratings points away from 2900 but also 45 rating points ahead of ...
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Ding also refuted the conspiracy theory that he might lose on purpose today to get two Chinese players into the Candidates' Tournament. The theory held that if he hadn't qualified via the World Cup, Ding would have almost certainly qualified by rating. NowAnish Giriis most probably going to...
1/3/2022 – At the beginning of the new year FIDE published its new World Ranking List. Magnus Carlsen gained nine rating points in the World Championship match against Ian Nepomniachtchi, and with a rating of 2865 he is now 35 points away from 2900 but 61 points ahead of Alireza Firou...
At 2468, the aforementioned Zhansaya Abdumalik not only leads the top girls list, but she is also the only young woman on the overall Top Juniors list above — sneaking in at number 100! Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Abdumalik, Zhansaya m KAZ 2468 5 2000 2 Shuvalova,...
After Carlsen's success in Wijk aan Zee he again leads the rating list with an impressive margin of 34 points. This is also roughly the gap between the world's number two, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, and the world's number ten, Anish Giri. Five players in the top ten were not active in...
FIDE didn't make the mistake of not including the world championship in their latest rating list, and must be commended for publishing it just hours after the tournament had ended. The result was that Anand gained nine points and crossed the magic 2800 m
The FIDE world ranking lists in October 2021 are headed by the "usual suspects". With a rating of 2855 Magnus Carlsen is still the clear number one, but though he played 13 rated games in September he did not win or lose any points. Alireza Firouzja is s
The new monthly list of the FIDE is a bit weird. Only a few players had the opportunity to play before tournaments came to a halt. Magnus Carlsen is still number one and Fabiano Caruana is still the world's number two, but there are a few small changes i