Monday, January 29, 2007

Wijk aan Zee results



Topalov, Aronian and Radjabov win, 1/2 point ahead of Kramnik.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

World Cup Results

Note that despite being sponsored by FIDE and being called the World Cup and taking place in 2007, this is NOT the 2007 FIDE World Cup that will determine the world championship candidate in late 2008, per FIDE's latest proposal for mis-managing the world title.


1/4 1/2 Final Winner
Sokolov






0.5-1.5 LEKO




LEKO







2-0 LEKO


RUBLEVSKY




1.5-0.5 Rublevsky



Naiditsch









3-2 LEKO

Smirin





0.5-1.5 Shirov



SHIROV






0.5-1.5 Gelfand


GELFAND





2-0 GELFAND




Nakamura












2.5-1.5 LEKO
Harikrishna






2-3 Morozevich




MOROZEVICH







0.5-1.5 Radjabov


RADJABOV




1.5-0.5 RADJABOV



Bareev









0-2 Ivanchuk

Bologan





2-3 Bacrot



BACROT






0.5-1.5 IVANCHUK


IVANCHUK





2-0 IVANCHUK




Amonatov

Monday, January 01, 2007

January 2007 Rating List

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
1 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2783 17 1975
2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2779 0 1969
3 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2766 11 1975
4 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2754 25 1985
5 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2750 33 1969
6 Leko, Peter g HUN 2749 9 1979
7 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2744 13 1982
8 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2741 15 1977
9 Adams, Michael g ENG 2735 0 1971
10 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733 19 1968
11 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2729 6 1987
12 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2728 28 1976
13 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2727 6 1976
14 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2723 15 1983
15 Navara, David g CZE 2719 16 1985
16 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2717 16 1983
17 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2715 21 1972
18 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2705 0 1983
19 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2705 0 1974
20 Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2700 15 1971
21 Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2700 14 1981

  • Topalov hangs on to the #1 slot, 4 points ahead of Anand
  • Mamedyarov moves up 8 slots to #4 with a 26-point gain
  • Svidler drops 9 slots to #12
  • Sasikiran joins the 2700 club
Another interesting factoid from this quarter's list is that Korchnoi (age 75) is #85 on the list at 2629, whereas Karpov while rated higher than Korchnoi does not appear on the list due to inactivity. Korchnoi is by far the oldest player ever to be ranked in the FIDE top 100. The second-oldest player on the list is Beliavsky (age 53).