FIDE Ratings Update — August 2016

The FIDE Ratings update for the month of August 2016 is out.
There are a lot of changes in the top 10, including MVL‘s jump from number 4 to number 2 after a 21 ELO rating points boost from 2798 to 2819. Let’s find out if he can keep his momentum in the upcoming Sinquefield Cup.
Ding Liren lost 23 ELO points after his loss in his mini match against Alexander Grischuk, among others, and thus slid down from number 8 to number 13.
Anish Giri and Sergey Karjakin lost ground as well after their dismal performances in Bilbao, and thus enabling Wesley So to gain control of the 7th spot.
You’ll find below the top 20 list:
FIDE Ratings Top 20 - August 2016
Rk | Name | Ti. | Fed | Rtg | Gms | B-Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2857 | 10 | 1990 |
2 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2819 | 11 | 1990 |
3 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2808 | 7 | 1975 |
4 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | USA | 2807 | 7 | 1992 |
5 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2792 | 0 | 1982 |
6 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2791 | 10 | 1987 |
7 | So, Wesley | g | USA | 2771 | 10 | 1993 |
8 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2770 | 0 | 1969 |
9 | Giri, Anish | g | NED | 2769 | 10 | 1994 |
10 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2769 | 10 | 1990 |
11 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2764 | 0 | 1985 |
12 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2761 | 0 | 1975 |
13 | Ding, Liren | g | CHN | 2755 | 16 | 1992 |
14 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2754 | 4 | 1983 |
15 | Li, Chao b | g | CHN | 2753 | 9 | 1989 |
16 | Harikrishna, P. | g | IND | 2752 | 13 | 1986 |
17 | Rapport, Richard | g | HUN | 2752 | 0 | 1996 |
18 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2751 | 4 | 1976 |
19 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2743 | 6 | 1968 |
20 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2742 | 7 | 1985 |