World Rankings: January 2010

Congrats to Magnus Carlsen, the official World's # 1, and the youngest to ever hold the position.

See ChessBase for a full report on the Men's and Women's top 100.

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2810 16 1990
2 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2805 4 1975
3 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2790 9 1969
4 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2788 16 1975
5 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2781 17 1982
6 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2761 25 1968
7 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2759 21 1986
8 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2749 13 1969
9 Wang, Yue g CHN 2749 8 1987
10 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2744 27 1976


Nakamura 28
Kamsky 40
Onishchuk 58
Seirawan 90

Kosteniuk 8
Zatonskih 30
Krush 37
Goletiani 97

Women's Chess Titles: Reprise

Alexandra has posted below in the comments section regarding women's titles. I've pasted it here for convenience's sake. Let me say first that I'm a fan, and I'm flattered that she's visited this blog. More importantly, she has posted thoughtfully and long on the subject of women's titles on her own blog as shown below. If you have any interest in this subject, please read her comments. I believe that we are in agreement, although she's more certain.


Alexandra Kosteniuk said...
Hi Gary!

You may want to have a look at my long article on this issue at
http://www.chessblog.com/2009/10/abolish-womens-itles-ridiculous.html

Best chess wishes to you!