In the November ranking list there have been some big changes at the top, with the first five shuffling around. Twelve of the 39 players have their career highest rating including several of the younger players. However the most notable of all is the case of Viswanathan Anand who has achieved his career best at age of 40.
Curiously enough I noticed earlier today that both a good friend of mine and myself also achieved our highest ever rating at the ripe old age of forty!
Here is a detailed list of the 2700 plus players:
Ranking | Previous Ranking | Name | Country | Age | Rating 1/11/10 | Rating 1/9/10 | Rating 1/7/10 | Rating 1/5/10 | Rating 1/3/10 | Career Highest |
1 | 3 | Viswanathan Anand | IND | 40 | 2804 | 2800 | 2800 | 2789 | 2787 | 2804 |
2 | 1 | Magnus Carlsen | NOR | 19 | 2802 | 2826 | 2826 | 2813 | 2813 | 2826 |
3 | 4 | Levon Aronian | ARM | 28 | 2801 | 2783 | 2783 | 2783 | 2782 | 2801 |
4 | 5 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 35 | 2791 | 2780 | 2790 | 2790 | 2790 | 2811 |
5 | 2 | Veselin Topalov | BUL | 35 | 2786 | 2803 | 2803 | 2812 | 2805 | 2813 |
6 | 7 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 27 | 2771 | 2760 | 2760 | 2760 | 2756 | 2771 |
7 | 9 | Vassily Ivanchuk | UKR | 41 | 2764 | 2754 | 2739 | 2741 | 2748 | 2787 |
8 | 8 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | AZE | 25 | 2763 | 2756 | 2761 | 2763 | 2760 | 2763 |
9 | 14 | Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 20 | 2760 | 2747 | 2747 | 2739 | 2725 | 2760 |
10 | 16 | Wang Yue | CHN | 23 | 2756 | 2732 | 2716 | 2752 | 2749 | 2756 |
11 | 11 | Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR | 27 | 2744 | 2749 | 2734 | 2733 | 2737 | 2749 |
12 | 13 | Teimour Radjabov | AZE | 23 | 2744 | 2748 | 2748 | 2740 | 2740 | 2761 |
13 | 6 | Pavel Eljanov | UKR | 27 | 2742 | 2761 | 2755 | 2751 | 2736 | 2761 |
14 | 10 | Boris Gelfand | ISR | 42 | 2741 | 2751 | 2739 | 2741 | 2750 | 2761 |
15 | 15 | Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 23 | 2741 | 2733 | 2729 | 2733 | 2735 | 2741 |
16 | 12 | Alexei Shirov | ESP | 38 | 2737 | 2749 | 2749 | 2742 | 2737 | 2755 |
17 | 26 | Vugar Gashimov | AZE | 24 | 2733 | 2719 | 2719 | 2734 | 2740 | 2759 |
18 | 22 | Wang Hao | CHN | 21 | 2727 | 2724 | 2724 | 2722 | 2715 | 2727 |
19 | 35 | Gata Kamsky | USA | 36 | 2726 | 2705 | 2713 | 2702 | 2702 | 2745 |
20 | 30 | Radoslaw Wojtaszek | POL | 23 | 2726 | 2711 | 2663 | 2663 | 2660 | 2726 |
21 | 19 | Dmitry Jakovenko | RUS | 27 | 2726 | 2726 | 2726 | 2725 | 2725 | 2760 |
22 | 18 | Michael Adams | ENG | 38 | 2723 | 2728 | 2706 | 2697 | 2704 | 2755 |
23 | 17 | Peter Svidler | RUS | 34 | 2722 | 2731 | 2734 | 2735 | 2750 | 2765 |
24 | 23 | Sergei Movsesian | SVK | 31 | 2721 | 2723 | 2723 | 2717 | 2709 | 2751 |
25 | 33 | Zoltan Almasi | HUN | 34 | 2721 | 2707 | 2717 | 2725 | 2720 | 2725 |
26 | 34 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | RUS | 20 | 2720 | 2706 | 2706 | 2695 | 2656 | 2720 |
27 | 21 | Peter Leko | HUN | 31 | 2717 | 2724 | 2734 | 2735 | 2735 | 2763 |
28 | 29 | Leinier Dominguez Perez | CUB | 27 | 2716 | 2716 | 2716 | 2713 | 2713 | 2721 |
29 | 28 | Etienne Bacrot | FRA | 27 | 2715 | 2716 | 2720 | 2710 | 2714 | 2731 |
30 | 20 | Vladimir Malakhov | RUS | 29 | 2712 | 2725 | 2732 | 2722 | 2721 | 2732 |
31 | 37 | Fabiano Caruana | ITA | 18 | 2709 | 2700 | 2697 | 2675 | 2680 | 2709 |
32 | 27 | Laurent Fressinet | FRA | 29 | 2709 | 2718 | 2697 | 2689 | 2670 | 2718 |
33 | 32 | Nikita Vitiugov | RUS | 23 | 2709 | 2709 | 2722 | 2707 | 2710 | 2722 |
34 | 24 | David Navara | CZE | 25 | 2708 | 2722 | 2731 | 2718 | 2708 | 2731 |
35 | 31 | Baadur Jobava | GEO | 26 | 2707 | 2710 | 2710 | 2715 | 2695 | 2715 |
36 | 25 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | FRA | 20 | 2703 | 2721 | 2723 | 2710 | 2727 | 2730 |
37 | - | Zahar Efimenko | UKR | 25 | 2701 | 2683 | 2689 | 2677 | 2640 | 2701 |
38 | - | Evgeny Alekseev | RUS | 24 | 2701 | 2691 | 2691 | 2700 | 2700 | 2703 |
39 | 38 | Alexander Morozevich | RUS | 33 | 2700 | 2700 | 2715 | 2715 | 2715 | 2788 |
There are two new entries Efimenko, for the first time, and Alekseev. The only player to have dropped below the magic 2700 mark is Evgeny Tomashevsky.