FIDÉ World Rankings

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The FIDÉ World Rankings are used in chess to calculate the strength of players that particpate in rating tournaments. It uses the Elo rating system, and publishes new ratings every three months.

[edit] Ranking

The top 20 positions in the rankings for January 2008 are as follows:

Rank Player Rating
1 Flag of Russia Vladmir Kramnik 2799
2 Flag of India Viswanathan Anand 2799
3 Flag of Bulgaria Veselin Topalov 2780
4 Flag of Russia Alexander Morozevich 2765
5 Flag of Russia Peter Svidler 2763
6 Flag of Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2760
7 Flag of Spain Alexei Shirov 2755
8 Flag of Hungary Peter Leko 2753
9 Flag of Ukraine Vassily Ivanchuk 2739
10 Flag of Armenia Levon Aronian 2751
11 Flag of Israel Boris Gelfand 2737
12 Flag of Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov 2735
13 Flag of Norway Magnus Carlsen 2733
14 Flag of Ukraine Sergey Karjakin 2732
15 Flag of the United States Gata Kamsky 2726
16 Flag of England Michael Adams 2726
17 Flag of Russia Dmitry Jakovenko 2720
18 Flag of Ukraine Ruslan Ponomariov 2719
19 Flag of Bulgaria Ivan Cheparinov 2713
20 Flag of Russia Evgeny Alekseev 2711

[edit] Source

FIDÉ official website.