Thursday, November 6, 2008

3 Chinese players among the top 30 players in the world!

Just ten to fifteen years ago China could hardly produced Grandmasters that breaches the 2600 ELO rating points. But look at them now; based on the LIVE ratings, three of their best players, Yue, Bu, Ni are rank among the top thirty each boasting a remarkable 2700+ ELO points. The strongest Chinese chess player in history, Wang Yue is occupying the number ten spot ahead of other notable players like Kamsky, Gelfand, Adams, Ponomariov, Karjakin et al.


Latest LIVE rating of the top thirty players as of November 6, 2008


Rank

Name

Rating

Change

Born

01

Topalov

2791,0

0

1975

02

Anand

2790,8

+7,8

1969

03

Ivanchuk

2788,1

+2,1

1969

04

Morozevich

2778,8

-8,2

1977

05

Carlsen

2778,7

-7,3

1990

06

Kramnik

2764,2

-7,8

1975

07

Radjabov

2756,8

+5,8

1987

08

Aronian

2752,3

-4,7

1982

09

Leko

2747,0

0

1979

10

Wang Yue

2745,0

+9

1987

11

Movsesian

2740,8

+8,8

1978

12

Jakovenko

2737,2

+0,2

1983

13

Mamedyarov

2729,7

-1,3

1985

14

Alekseev

2726,2

+11,2

1985

15

Ponomariov

2725,6

+6,6

1983

15

Shirov

2725,6

-0,4

1972

17

Svidler

2723,4

-3,6

1976

18

Grischuk

2723,3

+4,3

1983

19

Adams

2720,5

-13,5

1971

20

Dominguez

2719,0

0

1983

21

Gelfand

2718,5

-0,5

1968

22

Kamsky

2717,5

-11,5

1974

23

Ni

2715,4

+5,4

1983

24

Bu

2713,0

-1

1985

25

Eljanov

2711,5

-8,5

1983

26

Polgar

2711,0

0

1976

27

Bacrot

2710,9

+5,9

1983

28

Vachier-Lagrave

2708,8

-7,2

1990

29

Karjakin

2708,3

-21,7

1990

30

Sasikiran

2707,9

+13,9

1981

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