Live Top List
Provisional World Chess Rankings

By Hans Arild Runde

chess.liverating.org


After a stop of nearly 3 weeks, the updates were resumed on December 12th. I've written a few comments regarding my protest against FIDE's handling of the changes to the World Championship Qualification Cycle on a separate page.

Features All Players Rated above FIDE 2700 Right Now!

The Live Top List is an unofficial chess rating list that intends to cover all players with a current, live rating above 2700 in the FIDE rating system. The official FIDE list is published 4 times each year, while this list is updated and published as games and tournaments are being played, typically with daily updates during tournaments featuring top players.

Contact and 'Measure Up'

The list is maintained by Hans Arild Runde. I'm grateful for any feedback and input, which can be sent to chess@liverating.org. If you enjoy this site, you might find my newly started column Measure Up at Chessdom interesting, too. Check it out!

To check whether an event is rated, see the list of rated events in the current rating period.

[ table view | bar view ] - Last Update: July 2nd 21:59 CEST

Prev (2009070101)
Rank Name Track Rating Change # games # events Born @ FIDE
01 Topalov off 2813,0 0 0 0 1975 id-card
02 Anand off 2788,0 0 0 0 1969 id-card
03 Carlsen off 2772,0 0 0 0 1990 id-card
04 Aronian off 2768,0 0 0 0 1982 id-card
05 Gelfand off 2764,4 +9,4 10 1 1968 id-card
06 Jakovenko off 2762,3 +2,3 1 1 1983 id-card
07 Kramnik off 2759,0 0 0 0 1975 id-card
08 Radjabov off 2756,6 +0,6 10 1 1987 id-card
09 Leko off 2756,0 0 0 0 1979 id-card
10 Morozevich off 2751,0 0 0 0 1977 id-card
11 Gashimov off 2740,0 0 0 0 1986 id-card
12 Svidler off 2739,0 0 0 0 1976 id-card
13 Wang Yue off 2734,5 -1,5 2 1 1987 id-card
14 Shirov off 2734,4 +2,4 10 1 1972 id-card
15 Grischuk off 2733,0 0 0 0 1983 id-card
16 Ponomariov off 2727,0 0 0 0 1983 id-card
17 Bacrot off 2721,0 0 0 0 1983 id-card
18 Dominguez off 2720,6 +4,6 10 1 1983 id-card
19 Ivanchuk off 2720,0 +17 10 1 1969 id-card
20 Karjakin off 2717,0 0 0 0 1990 id-card
20 Mamedyarov off 2717,0 0 0 0 1985 id-card
22 Eljanov off 2716,0 0 0 0 1983 id-card
22 Movsesian off 2716,0 0 0 0 1978 id-card
24 Alekseev off 2714,0 0 0 0 1985 id-card
25 Akopian off 2712,0 0 0 0 1971 id-card
26 Motylev off 2710,2 +0,2 3 1 1979 id-card
27 Nakamura off 2710,0 0 0 0 1987 id-card
28 Malakhov off 2707,0 0 0 0 1980 id-card
29 Ni off 2705,2 +4,2 2 1 1983 id-card
30 Rublevsky off 2703,0 0 0 0 1974 id-card
31 Vachier-Lagrave off 2702,9 -0,1 1 1 1990 id-card

In a Live Top List, rating changes and number of games & events rated are relative to the official FIDE list at the time the specific Live Top List is published. Lists published in May and June are relative to the April list, lists published in July, August and September are relative to the July list, and so on.

Games/tournaments rated in addition to the July 2009 list:

Unfinished events:

Finished events:

Messages:

The Live Top List - Work In Progress

The functionality of the Live Top List is being extended - the most recent addition that changes the behaviour and capabilities, is that of a simple graph (bar) view, showing player ratings (in points above 2700) in addition to average for the top 10 and all of the 2700+ players. I intend to add at least one more bar view with more details about the top 10, and probably also some additional brush ups, like caching of the generated graphs. Currently everything is done on the fly, which is sort of nice, but a bit slow and might represent some strain on the web server during peak hours.

I don't have too much time to spend for this project, but I've (still) got more ideas for improvements and additions, and hopefully I'll get around to implementing even more of them soon - but don't hold your breath! Please do check back for rating updates, as those will take place quite regularly.

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Friends and associates

Building and maintaining chess sites can be a lonely undertaking. Fortunately we sometimes help each other out, and then it becomes a little less lonely and much more fun! Please take some time to visit a few of my friends and associates - their sites are well worth visiting!

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Link to Chessdom

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Last Update: July 2nd 21:59 CEST