Live Top List
Provisional World Chess Rankings

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.

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

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 after July 2008 list:

Unfinished events:

• Rising Stars vs Experience (rounds 1-7 of 10) [Wang Yue, Cheparinov]
• Inventi GM Tournament (rounds 1-5 of 9) [Bu]
• Montreal International (rounds 1-3 of 9) [Nakamura]

Finished events:

• Aerosvit 2008 (11 rounds) [Carlsen, Svidler, Ivanchuk, Shirov, Karjakin, Jakovenko, Alekseev, Eljanov]
• Dortmund (7 rounds) [Kramnik, Mamedyarov, Leko, Ivanchuk]
• Greek Teams Final 4 (2 games rated) [Bacrot]
• 2008 World Open (9 rounds) [Milov]
• Greek Premier League (7 rounds) [Movsesian]
• Poikovsky (9 rounds) [Shirov, Gashimov, Jakovenko, Rublevsky, Wang Hao]
• Politiken Cup (10 rounds) [Eljanov]
• Biel 2008 (10 rounds) [Carlsen, Alekseev, Dominguez, Bacrot]
• Paris Int Championship (9 rounds) [Vachier-Lagrave]
• Marx Gyorgy Memorial (10 rounds) [Vachier-Lagrave]
• Sochi GP (13 rounds) [Ivanchuk, Radjabov, Svidler, Aronian, Grischuk, Karjakin, Kamsky, Gelfand, Gashimov, Jakovenko, Wang Yue, Cheparinov]
• Staunton Memorial (11 rounds) [Adams]
• 2008 Japan League (6 games rated) [Nakamura]
• French Championship (11 rounds) [Bacrot, Vachier-Lagrave]
• Tal Memorial (9 rounds) [Kramnik, Morozevich, Ivanchuk, Mamedyarov, Leko, Shirov, Kamsky, Gelfand, Ponomariov, Alekseev]

Messages:

• Players mentioned in brackets [] in the tournaments listing (obviously) participated in the event, and their games have been rated for the top list. Note however, that I will only list players that are or have been present in the Live Top List, even if I "secretly" might rate other participants as well. (I will soon improve the layout of the event listing.)
• The June 30th update incorporated the roundings of ratings done in the July list.

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.