Day 2 of three rapid games for Rounds 4, 5 and 6 of Grand Chess Tour Paris 2017: Magnus Carlsen scored another impressive 2 wins and a draw, including his Round 4 win against Wesley So.[replay]
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The first stop of the Grand Chess Tour 2017, the Grand Chess Tour Paris 2017, kicked off with three rapid games in one day.
The Grand Chess Tour Paris 2017 is composed of 9 rounds of Rapid Chess, with the time control of 25 minutes for each player for the whole game plus 10 seconds delay per move, and 18 rounds of Blitz Chess, with the time control of 5 minutes for each player for the whole game plus 3 seconds delay for each move.
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In this month’s FIDE ratings update, Vladimir Kramnik is back at No. 3 and Levon Aronian at No. 6.
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GM Wesley So is now officially the No. 2 chess player in the world, in the March 2017 FIDE Ratings list, up one notch from last month’s.
Moreover, it should be noted that this is the first time that there are 5 2800+ players in the list, after MVL made a comeback to the 2800-club.
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Following his outstanding performance in Tata Steel Masters 2017, Wesley So is now the world’s number 3 in the official FIDE Ratings List, with a rating of 2822.
Despite the Live Ratings indicating So as now No. 2 after Fabiano Caruana dropped some ELO points to today’s 2820, Caruana’s sub-optimal performance from Gibraltar are not yet in for the official tally.
Levon Aronian gained some ELO points as well from Tata Steel, to settle for 7th to 8th place, with a rating of 2785.
Wesley So starts the year 2017 being part of the 2800 club. In the official FIDE Ratings list for January 2017, he’s at the 4th place with 2808 ELO points, up 14 points from last month. He overtook Maxime Vachier-Lagrave after winning the London Chess Classic back in December.
See below the Top 20 list:
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Check out the Top 100 list for January 2017.
In the past month, Ian Nepomniachtchi won the Tal Memorial and Pavel Eljanov won the Isle of Man. Thus, we see their ratings improve in the November 2016 FIDE Ratings List. Nepomniachtchi is now at No. 12 with ELO 2767 and Eljanov at No. 16 with ELO 2757.
Vladimir Kramnik slid down from No. 2 to No. 4 with ELO 2810 after his meager performance in the Tal Memorial.
Here are the Top 20 grandmasters for November 2016:
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Check out the Top 100 list »
A few big tournaments are still ongoing, namely: Isle of Man and Tal Memorial, thus their results are not yet counted for the October update of the FIDE Ratings List.
Nevertheless, a few changes happened since last month. Vladimir Kramnik retakes the 2nd place from Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Wesley So overtakes Hikaru Nakamura at the 6th place in the October ratings update.
Anish Giri may have earned 1 rating point, but Pentala Harikrishna and Ding Liren gained 10 points and 11 points, respectively, to overtake him in the ranking. Thus, Giri slid down from 12th to 14th place.
Listed below are the top 20 players as of the October 2016 update:
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Check out the top 100 list in the October 2016 update.
It’s the beginning of the month, and thus a new ratings update. A lot of rearrangements happen in the Top 20, but the composition is basically still the same.
Fabiano Caruana gained 1 ELO rating point to catch up with Vladimir Kramnik at 2808. Wesley So gained 11 ELO rating points (2782) from his stellar performance in Sinquefield Cup, but that was not enough to catch up with Hikaru Nakamura at number 6 (2789). Anish Giri shaved off some 14 points, from 2769 to 2755, and slid down from number 9 to number 12 in September.
Below is the Top 20 table, but you may check out the full Top 100 here.
| Rk | Name | Ti. | Fed | Rtg | Gms | B-Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2857 | 0 | 1990 |
| 2 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2813 | 9 | 1990 |
| 3 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | USA | 2808 | 9 | 1992 |
| 4 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2808 | 0 | 1975 |
| 5 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2795 | 9 | 1982 |
| 6 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2789 | 9 | 1987 |
| 7 | So, Wesley | g | USA | 2782 | 9 | 1993 |
| 8 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2776 | 9 | 1969 |
| 9 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2769 | 0 | 1990 |
| 10 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2768 | 9 | 1975 |
| 11 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2761 | 7 | 1985 |
| 12 | Giri, Anish | g | NED | 2755 | 9 | 1994 |
| 13 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2754 | 0 | 1983 |
| 14 | Ding, Liren | g | CHN | 2753 | 9 | 1992 |
| 15 | Harikrishna, P. | g | IND | 2752 | 0 | 1986 |
| 16 | Rapport, Richard | g | HUN | 2752 | 0 | 1996 |
| 17 | Li, Chao b | g | CHN | 2746 | 9 | 1989 |
| 18 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2745 | 9 | 1976 |
| 19 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2743 | 0 | 1968 |
| 20 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2742 | 0 | 1985 |