Friday, November 30

World Top 20 - December 2012

Top rated Carlsen remains poised to smash the all-time record of 2851 set by his former teacher Garry Kasparov.  His next opportunity starts this weekend at the London Chess Classic, playing against three of the next five players in the rankings: Aronian, Kramnik and reigning World Champion Anand.  The top two Americans are also in action, with Nakamura participating in London and Kamsky bleeding rating points at the ongoing FIDE Grand Prix in Uzbekistan.  Three rounds before the end, the American-born Caruana shares the lead with Karjakin.  By my count, 14 of the top 20 players in the World compete in one of these two current tournaments.

December 2012 FIDE Rating List
Italian GM Fabiano Caruana, born in USA
  1. Magnus Carlsen 2848
  2. Levon Aronian 2815
  3. Vladimir Kramnik 2795
  4. Teimour Radjabov 2793
  5. Fabiano Caruana 2782
  6. Viswanathan Anand 2775
  7. Sergey Karjakin 2775
  8. Veselin Topalov 2771
  9. Vassily Ivanchuk 2766
  10. Alexander Grischuk 2764
  11. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2764
  12. Gata Kamsky 2762
  13. Hikaru Nakamura 2760
  14. Boris Gelfand 2751
  15. Alexander Morozevich 2748
  16. Peter Svidler 2747
  17. Dmitry Jakovenko 2741
  18. Vugar Gashimov 2737
  19. Wang Hao 2737
  20. Lenier Dominguez 2734
A total of 47 players are rated 2700 and above.

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