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India ranked Fifth in the World by
FIDE
By Arvind Aaron
FIDE provides plenty of statistics on its website. One of them
is the average rating of top ten players of each country. India
stands fifth in this list with 2641. Russia, Ukraine, China and
France are ahead of us in that order.
Among women, India is sixth with 2393. Only Russia, China,
Georgia, Ukraine, Hungary are ahead of us. India winning the
bronze medal in the World Team Championship on maiden attempt
and the Asian Gold at Doha in 2006 are signs of our big progress
in the team front. AICF's thrust on organizing many rating and
International tournaments, is helping us reach higher in the
World Chess ladder.
On the individual front, world No.1 Magnus Carlsen gained three
Elo rating points from the Corus Chess Tournament at Wijk aan
Zee this January while World champion Viswanathan Anand lost
three rating points from the same event in the March FIDE rating
list.
In the net, after this small change, Carlsen, of Norway
maintained his No.1 place with 2813 while Anand moved from third
place to fourth place in the March FIDE rank list.
Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria remains in second place while former
world champion Vladimir Kramnik moved from fourth place to third
place after his second finishing at Wijk aan Zee.
There are four Indians in the World Top 100. The other three
are: 44 Krishnan Sasikiran 2686, 55 S.S. Ganguly 2672 and 69 P.
Harikrishna 2660.
Among women, Koneru Humpy added eight points to reach 2622, one
Elo below her all-time best of 2623 recorded in July 2009. She
is now exactly 60 Elo points below Judit Polgar, the No.1 ranked
for over two decades.
Other Indians in the World Top 100 include: 28 D. Harika 2473,
31 S. Vijayalakshmi 2466, 72 Tania Sachdev 2373, 95 Eesha
Karavade 2366. Vijayalakshmi who was inactive for over two
years, added two Elo from the Chennai Open 2010 this
January-February in her home town.
There are 5045 rated Indian players in the list. There are 16
players who are 2500 or more. 1. V. Anand 2787, 2. K. Sasikiran
2686, 3. S.S. Ganguly 2672, 4. P. Harikrishna 2660, 5. S. Chanda
2635, 6. P. Negi 2634, 7. Koneru
Humpy 2622, 8. G.N. Gopal 2604, 9. Abhijeet Gupta 2560, 10. S.
Arun Prasad 2549, 11. P. Magesh Chandran 2543, 12. Abhijit Kunte
2528, 13. Sundararajan Kidambi 2520, 14. B. Adhiban 2510, 15.
Sriram Jha 2506, 16. Vidit Gujrathi 2504.
There are 455 rated Indian women players. The top 12 are: 1.
Koneru Humpy 2622, 2. D. Harika 2473, 3. S. Vijayalakshmi 2466,
4. Tania Sachdev 2393, 5. Eesha Karavade 2366, 6. S. Meenakshi
2348, 7. Swati Ghate 2323, 8. Padmini Rout 2319, 9. Mary Ann
Gomes 2318, 10. Nisha Mohota 2304, 11. Soumya Swaminathan 2288,
12. Kiran Mohanty 2259.
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on March 03rd 2010
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