A new entry to the 2700-club is the swashbuckling Russian Alexander Riazantsev. The only other one is Frenchman Laurent Fressinet who had previously dropped out a few months back.
Three players have slipped below the 2700 mark in November; Baadur Jobava, Dmitry Andreikin and Wang Yue. The latter was recently in the World's top ten, but poor form at that level costs one dear!
Apart from Magnus Carlsen, the other top ten player at their highest-ever level is Teimour Radjabov. Another notable riser is Evgeny Tomashevsky, up to the dizzy heights of 15th and 2740.
Here are the World's 2700s as of the 1st of November:
Rank | Rank July 2011 | Name | Country | Age | Rating 1/11/11 (Bold=rise) | Rating 1/9/11 | rating 1/7/11 | rating 1/5/11 | rating 1/3/11 | Rating One year ago | Career Highest (Bold= now) |
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1 | 1 | Magnus Carlsen | NOR | 20 | 2826 | 2823 | 2821 | 2815 | 2815 | 2802 | 2826 |
2 | 2 | Viswanathan Anand | IND | 41 | 2811 | 2817 | 2817 | 2817 | 2817 | 2804 | 2817 |
3 | 3 | Levon Aronian | ARM | 29 | 2802 | 2807 | 2805 | 2808 | 2808 | 2801 | 2808 |
4 | 4 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 36 | 2800 | 2791 | 2781 | 2785 | 2785 | 2791 | 2811 |
5 | 13 | Teimour Radjabov | AZE | 24 | 2781 | 2752 | 2744 | 2744 | 2744 | 2744 | 2781 |
6 | 7 | Vassily Ivanchuk | UKR | 42 | 2775 | 2765 | 2768 | 2776 | 2779 | 2764 | 2787 |
7 | 6 | Veselin Topalov | BUL | 36 | 2768 | 2768 | 2768 | 2775 | 2775 | 2803 | 2813 |
8 | 5 | Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 21 | 2763 | 2772 | 2788 | 2776 | 2776 | 2760 | 2788 |
9 | 17 | Alexander Morozevich | RUS | 34 | 2762 | 2737 | 2694 | 2694 | 2694 | 2700 | 2788 |
10 | 12 | Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 23 | 2758 | 2753 | 2766 | 2774 | 2774 | 2741 | 2774 |
11 | 11 | Vugar Gashimov | AZE | 25 | 2757 | 2756 | 2760 | 2760 | 2746 | 2733 | 2760 |
12 | 16 | Peter Svidler | RUS | 35 | 2755 | 2740 | 2739 | 2739 | 2730 | 2722 | 2765 |
13 | 9 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 28 | 2752 | 2757 | 2746 | 2747 | 2747 | 2771 | 2773 |
14 | 15 | Boris Gelfand | ISR | 43 | 2744 | 2746 | 2746 | 2733 | 2733 | 2741 | 2761 |
15 | 36 | Evgeny Tomashevsky | RUS | 24 | 2740 | 2710 | 2707 | 2707 | 2707 | 2699 | 2740 |
16 | 19 | Wang Hao | CHN | 22 | 2736 | 2731 | 2718 | 2732 | 2728 | 2727 | 2736 |
17 | 18 | Michael Adams | ENG | 39 | 2734 | 2725 | 2715 | 2726 | 2716 | 2723 | 2755 |
18 | 14 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | AZE | 26 | 2733 | 2746 | 2765 | 2772 | 2772 | 2763 | 2772 |
19 | 10 | Gata Kamsky | USA | 37 | 2732 | 2756 | 2741 | 2732 | 2733 | 2726 | 2756 |
20 | 24 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | RUS | 21 | 2730 | 2718 | 2711 | 2711 | 2729 | 2720 | 2733 |
21 | 27 | Dmitry Jakovenko | RUS | 28 | 2729 | 2716 | 2736 | 2732 | 2718 | 2726 | 2760 |
22 | 21 | Nikita Vitiugov | RUS | 24 | 2729 | 2726 | 2733 | 2733 | 2720 | 2709 | 2733 |
23 | 32 | Fabiano Caruana | ITA | 19 | 2727 | 2712 | 2711 | 2714 | 2716 | 2709 | 2727 |
24 | 42 | David Navara | CZE | 26 | 2724 | 2705 | 2722 | 2702 | 2722 | 2708 | 2731 |
25 | 8 | Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR | 28 | 2723 | 2758 | 2768 | 2754 | 2743 | 2744 | 2768 |
26 | 20 | Peter Leko | HUN | 32 | 2720 | 2728 | 2717 | 2717 | 2717 | 2717 | 2763 |
27 | 22 | Alexander Moiseenko | UKR | 31 | 2715 | 2726 | 2715 | 2679 | 2673 | 2670 | 2726 |
28 | 25 | Le Quang Liem | VIE | 20 | 2714 | 2717 | 2715 | 2687 | 2689 | 2689 | 2717 |
29 | 43 | Etienne Bacrot | FRA | 28 | 2714 | 2705 | 2710 | 2705 | 2718 | 2715 | 2731 |
30 | 23 | Anish Giri | NDL | 17 | 2714 | 2722 | 2701 | 2687 | 2690 | 2682 | 2722 |
31 | 40 | Arkadij Naiditsch | GER | 26 | 2712 | 2707 | 2706 | 2716 | 2684 | 2674 | 2716 |
32 | 38 | Leinier Dominguez Perez | CUB | 28 | 2712 | 2710 | 2719 | 2726 | 2716 | 2716 | 2726 |
33 | 34 | Alexei Dreev | RUS | 42 | 2710 | 2711 | 2711 | 2703 | 2697 | 2674 | 2711 |
34 | 30 | Sergei Movsesian | ARM | 32 | 2710 | 2715 | 2700 | 2705 | 2716 | 2721 | 2751 |
35 | 48 | Judit Polgar | HUN | 35 | 2710 | 2701 | 2699 | 2699 | 2688 | 2688 | 2735 |
36 | 57 | Alexander Riazantsev | RUS | 25 | 2710 | 2688 | 2688 | 2679 | 2679 | 2689 | 2710 |
37 | 29 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | FRA | 21 | 2710 | 2715 | 2722 | 2731 | 2728 | 2703 | 2731 |
38 | 37 | Zoltan Almasi | HUN | 27 | 2707 | 2710 | 2726 | 2719 | 2719 | 2721 | 2726 |
39 | 31 | Alexei Shirov | ESP | 39 | 2705 | 2713 | 2714 | 2709 | 2701 | 2735 | 2755 |
40 | 28 | Francisco Vallejo Pons | ESP | 29 | 2705 | 2716 | 2724 | 2722 | 2707 | 2698 | 2724 |
41 | 45 | Radoslaw Wojtaczek | POL | 24 | 2705 | 2704 | 2683 | 2721 | 2711 | 2726 | 2726 |
42 | 41 | Ferenc Berkes | HUN | 26 | 2705 | 2706 | 2696 | 2693 | 2678 | 2680 | 2706 |
43 | 39 | Vladimir Malakhov | RUS | 30 | 2705 | 2710 | 2706 | 2704 | 2714 | 2712 | 2732 |
44 | 47 | Viktor Laznicka | CZE | 23 | 2703 | 2701 | 2681 | 2681 | 2688 | 2688 | 2703 |
45 | 46 | Zahar Efimenko | UKR | 26 | 2702 | 2703 | 2706 | 2701 | 2708 | 2701 | 2708 |
46 | 35 | Li Chao b | CHN | 22 | 2700 | 2710 | 2669 | 2656 | 2646 | 2632 | 2710 |
47 | 51 | Laurent Fressinet | FRA | 29 | 2700 | 2696 | 2698 | 2677 | 2693 | 2709 | 2718 |
Several countries have a new number one; Azerbaijan, the USA and France. In Spain the top two are level-pegging on 2705!
Nine of the top 22 are Russian.
Here are those players now with their highest-ever rating along with their ages:
Carlsen 20, Radjabov 24, Tomashevsky 24, Wang Hao 22, Caruana 19, Riazantsev 24 and Laznicka 23.
Chess at the top level is becoming a young player's game!
A good source of further information is the International Chess Federation site FIDE