| Rnk | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
| 1 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2786 | 27 | 1969 |
| 2 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2772 | 27 | 1975 |
| 3 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2772 | 13 | 1975 |
| 4 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2762 | 21 | 1977 |
| 5 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2759 | 27 | 1982 |
| 6 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2757 | 3 | 1985 |
| 7 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2747 | 13 | 1987 |
| 8 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2738 | 14 | 1979 |
| 9 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2736 | 27 | 1976 |
| 10 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2734 | 1 | 1971 |
| 11 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2733 | 0 | 1968 |
| 12 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2729 | 24 | 1969 |
| 13 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2727 | 0 | 1976 |
| 14 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2720 | 19 | 1985 |
| 15 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2717 | 13 | 1983 |
| 16 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2717 | 0 | 1983 |
| 17 | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2709 | 3 | 1983 |
| 18 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2708 | 32 | 1983 |
| 19 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2705 | 0 | 1974 |
| 20 | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2699 | 20 | 1972 |
The original list...
| Rnk | Name | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
| 1 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2791 | 13 | 1975 |
| 2 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2778 | 13 | 1969 |
| 3 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2772 | 13 | 1975 |
| 4 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2759 | 13 | 1982 |
| 5 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2757 | 3 | 1985 |
| 6 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2756 | 7 | 1977 |
| 7 | Leko, Peter | HUN | 2749 | 0 | 1979 |
| 8 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2747 | 13 | 1987 |
| 9 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2735 | 10 | 1969 |
| 10 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2734 | 1 | 1971 |
| 11 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2733 | 0 | 1968 |
| 12 | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2731 | 13 | 1976 |
| 13 | Polgar, Judit | HUN | 2727 | 0 | 1976 |
| 14 | Navara, David | CZE | 2720 | 19 | 1985 |
| 15 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2717 | 13 | 1983 |
| 16 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2717 | 0 | 1983 |
| 17 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2709 | 3 | 1983 |
| 18 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2708 | 32 | 1983 |
| 19 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2705 | 0 | 1974 |
| 20 | Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | 2703 | 18 | 1971 |
It was a surprise to me that Viswanathan Anand is not in the number one slot – it is still Veselin Topalov, 13 points ahead of Anand. Apparently the Linares tournament, which Anand won, was not included. The Indian Chess Federation has protested. According to calculations made by chess experts all over the world Anand should have been in the number one spot, after his superb win in Morelia/Linares (where Topalov, at the same time, shed a number of rating points.
The final games in Linares were played on March 10th, 2007, and thus the tournament could be considered ineligible for the calculations of the April list, since the deadline for submissions of tournaments for the April ratings is Feburary 28. However, in the past FIDE has always included this key tournament in its April list. This is certainly true of the April lists for 2006 (Linares finished on March 11); 2005 (finished on March 11); and for the previous years 2004, 2003 and 2002. That is as far as we have easily accessible records on the subject. Colleagues in India tell us that the practice of including Linares goes back to when the April list was first introduced.
So why was Linares excluded this time? FIDE Presidential Board member Nigel Freeman has posted a statement on the subject: "Before the conspiracy theories get out of hand, perhaps I can explain what happened to the best of my knowledge. With regards to Morelia-Linares, in order to be completely fair, the Ratings Committee has decided that only tournaments that finished a month before the rating list comes into effect should be rated. Once one starts to make exceptions, where does one stop? Why Morelia-Linares and not a whole host of others?"
Two points can be made here: Why, then, was Linares included in the calculations of all previous April lists? When was a change in the practical application of the guidlines for the ratings decided? Was it announced before Morelia/Linares, or did the decision come after the event had been completed? And secondly: if we are not mistaken the 2007 Asian Cities Chess Championship in Tehran, which was held entirely in March (from 1st to 9th) was included in the tournaments used to calculate the April 2007 list. At least three other events that spilled into March were used in the calculations.
