April 2008 FIDE rating list released!
The latest rating list is out. Viswanathan Anand is on top… where he belongs. Magnus Carlsen has soared up to #5. Two more Chinese over 2700. ❗ I’ll let you comment on the top 50. Hikaru Nakamura is up to 2686! Future women’s champion Hou Yifan is on 2549.
| Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
| 1 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2803 | 27 | 1969 |
| 2 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2788 | 13 | 1975 |
| 3 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2774 | 11 | 1977 |
| 4 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2767 | 27 | 1975 |
| 5 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2765 | 27 | 1990 |
| 6 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2763 | 27 | 1982 |
| 7 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2752 | 13 | 1985 |
| 8 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2751 | 27 | 1987 |
| 9 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2746 | 11 | 1976 |
| 10 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2741 | 27 | 1979 |
| 11 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2740 | 35 | 1969 |
| 12 | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2740 | 14 | 1972 |
| 13 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | UKR | 2732 | 0 | 1990 |
| 14 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2729 | 13 | 1971 |
| 15 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2726 | 0 | 1974 |
| 16 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2723 | 13 | 1968 |
| 17 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2719 | 0 | 1983 |
| 18 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2716 | 11 | 1983 |
| 19 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2711 | 11 | 1983 |
| 20 | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2711 | 0 | 1985 |
| 21 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2709 | 13 | 1976 |
| 22 | Bu, Xiangzhi | g | CHN | 2708 | 16 | 1985 |
| 23 | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2705 | 13 | 1983 |
| 24 | Ni, Hua | g | CHN | 2703 | 28 | 1983 |
| 25 | Movsesian, Sergei | g | SVK | 2695 | 29 | 1978 |
| 26 | Dominguez Perez, Lenier | g | CUB | 2695 | 15 | 1983 |
| 27 | Cheparinov, Ivan | g | BUL | 2695 | 13 | 1986 |
| 28 | Rublevsky, Sergei | g | RUS | 2695 | 0 | 1974 |
| 29 | Sokolov, Ivan | g | NED | 2690 | 1 | 1968 |
| 30 | Milov, Vadim | g | SUI | 2690 | 0 | 1972 |
| 31 | Wang, Yue | g | CHN | 2689 | 33 | 1987 |
| 32 | Malakhov, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2689 | 5 | 1980 |
| 33 | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2687 | 13 | 1983 |
| 34 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2686 | 17 | 1987 |
| 35 | Wang, Hao | g | CHN | 2684 | 25 | 1989 |
| 36 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | g | RUS | 2684 | 20 | 1985 |
| 37 | Volokitin, Andrei | g | UKR | 2684 | 16 | 1986 |
| 38 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | g | ESP | 2684 | 7 | 1982 |
| 39 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | g | ROU | 2684 | 0 | 1976 |
| 40 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | g | UZB | 2681 | 0 | 1979 |
| 41 | Harikrishna, P. | g | IND | 2679 | 30 | 1986 |
| 42 | Gashimov, Vugar | g | AZE | 2679 | 18 | 1986 |
| 43 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | g | IND | 2679 | 5 | 1981 |
| 44 | Bareev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2677 | 0 | 1966 |
| 45 | Van Wely, Loek | g | NED | 2676 | 15 | 1972 |
| 46 | Nikolic, Predrag | g | BIH | 2674 | 17 | 1960 |
| 47 | Almasi, Zoltan | g | HUN | 2674 | 9 | 1976 |
| 48 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | g | RUS | 2674 | 9 | 1976 |
| 49 | Akopian, Vladimir | g | ARM | 2673 | 17 | 1971 |
| 50 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2672 | 9 | 1985 |
how far will magnus go before he hits a wall he seems to show no signs of slowing down. and will this be the year that nakamura gets his crack at the world elite?
i agree i think the chinese are on their way to the top. nakamura is a storm!! i think the loek van wely in corus is stupid! so many other up and coming players could fill that spot and make the tourney much better! i am confused as to why nakamura declined his cours invite?!
carlsen had to work his way into that group, does he think that he can just get in based on rating or chance? perhaps naka should make his own luck or chances. whenever he does get a crack at the top he will give it all he has and we will see what naka can truly do.
yeah im sure it had to be something like that because nakamura does not shy away from invites like corus,he is a fighter!, i hope they smarten up next year