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).