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It’s official: Magnus Carlsen is number one!

Posted in ChessBase on Дек 31, 2009

31.12.2009
– FIDE has just released its January 1st 2010 rating list, and it has the 19-year-old Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen with 2810 in the number one slot, five points ahead of number two Veselin Topalov, and twenty points above World Champion Viswanathan Anand. Magnus is the youngest player to cross the 2800 mark and to top the world rankings.
Congratulations!

Andrew Martin:
The Trompowsky - The easy way - 2nd Edition
Thirty years ago the Trompowsky opening was almost totally unknown. It took a few spectacular games by Rafael Vaganian to bring 2.Bg5 into the limelight, and after that, the die was cast. Today 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 is used by many of the best players in the world and a whole body of complicated theory has built up.
More information...

FIDE January 2010 Rating List

Magnus Carlsen gained nine rating points in his last sixteen
games to come in at 2810 Elo points and to occupy the number one slot in the
world rankings. Below is this prodigy's rating progress in the last nine years.

In second place is Bulgarian GM Veselin Topalov, who lost
five points in four games (at the European Team Championships in Novi Sad),
followed by World Champion Viswanathan Anand, who lost two
points in nine games. Vladimir Kramnik is number four, having
won a whopping sixteen points in sixteen games. Kramnik displaced Levon
Aronian, who lost five points and is now in place five in the world
rankings.

Other notatble changes at the top: Vassily Ivanchuk has gained ten points and
is once again in the top ten. So is Chinese GM Wang Yue, who gained fifteen
points. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov gained 22 points, while Peter Leko lost 13, Teimour
Radjabov 15 and Alexander Morozevich 18 points.

FIDE January 1st 2010 – Top 100 Players

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
 1  Carlsen,
Magnus		  g  NOR  2810  16  1990
 2  Topalov,
Veselin		  g  BUL  2805  4  1975
 3  Anand,
Viswanathan		  g  IND  2790  9  1969
 4  Kramnik,
Vladimir		  g  RUS  2788  16  1975
 5  Aronian,
Levon		  g  ARM  2781  17  1982
 6  Gelfand,
Boris		  g  ISR  2761  25  1968
 7  Gashimov,
Vugar		  g  AZE  2759  21  1986
 8  Ivanchuk,
Vassily		  g  UKR  2749  13  1969
 9  Wang,
Yue		  g  CHN  2749  8  1987
 10  Svidler,
Peter		  g  RUS  2744  27  1976
 11  Mamedyarov,
Shakhriyar		  g  AZE  2741  19  1985
 12  Leko,
Peter		  g  HUN  2739  9  1979
 13  Ponomariov,
Ruslan		  g  UKR  2737  25  1983
 14  Eljanov,
Pavel		  g  UKR  2736  14  1983
 15  Grischuk,
Alexander		  g  RUS  2736  8  1983
 16  Radjabov,
Teimour		  g  AZE  2733  13  1987
 17  Morozevich,
Alexander		  g  RUS  2732  19  1977
 18  Vachier-Lagrave,
Maxime		  g  FRA  2730  21  1990
 19  Jakovenko,
Dmitry		  g  RUS  2730  17  1983
 20  Shirov,
Alexei		  g  ESP  2723  19  1972
 21  Karjakin,
Sergey		  g  RUS  2720  12  1990
 22  Malakhov,
Vladimir		  g  RUS  2716  15  1980
 23  Wang,
Hao		  g  CHN  2715  10  1989
 24  Bacrot,
Etienne		  g  FRA  2713  18  1983
 25  Dominguez
Perez, Leinier		  g  CUB  2712  4  1983
 26  Almasi,
Zoltan		  g  HUN  2710  7  1976
 27  Navara,
David		  g  CZE  2708  15  1985
 28  Nakamura,
Hikaru		  g  USA  2708  7  1987
 29  Movsesian,
Sergei		  g  SVK  2708  2  1978
 30  Tomashevsky,
Evgeny		  g  RUS  2705  14  1987
 31  Vallejo
Pons, Francisco		  g  ESP  2705  10  1982
 32  Jobava,
Baadur		  g  GEO  2704  15  1983
 33  Alekseev,
Evgeny		  g  RUS  2703  13  1985
 34  Kasimdzhanov,
Rustam		  g  UZB  2702  2  1979
 35  Motylev,
Alexander		  g  RUS  2697  6  1979
 36  Rublevsky,
Sergei		  g  RUS  2697  4  1974
 37  Nielsen,
Peter Heine		  g  DEN  2697  0  1973
 38  Short,
Nigel D		  g  ENG  2696  7  1965
 39  Adams,
Michael		  g  ENG  2694  17  1971
 40  Kamsky,
Gata		  g  USA  2693  6  1974
 41  Vitiugov,
Nikita		  g  RUS  2692  8  1987
 42  Volokitin,
Andrei		  g  UKR  2692  8  1986
 43  Bologan,
Viktor		  g  MDA  2692  6  1971
 44  Naiditsch,
Arkadij		  g  GER  2687  13  1985
 45  Miroshnichenko,
Evgenij		  g  UKR  2686  0  1978
 46  Polgar,
Judit		  g  HUN  2682  4  1976
 47  Nisipeanu,
Liviu-Dieter		  g  ROU  2681  12  1976
 48  Sargissian,
Gabriel		  g  ARM  2680  12  1983
 49  Akopian,
Vladimir		  g  ARM  2678  10  1971
 50  Moiseenko,
Alexander		  g  UKR  2677  0  1980
 51  Caruana,
Fabiano		  g  ITA  2675  18  1992
 52  Bu,
Xiangzhi		  g  CHN  2673  6  1985
 53  Georgiev,
Kiril		  g  BUL  2672  0  1965
 54  Harikrishna,
P.		  g  IND  2672  0  1986
 55  Fressinet,
Laurent		  g  FRA  2670  12  1981
 56  Areshchenko,
Alexander		  g  UKR  2670  6  1986
 57  Onischuk,
Alexander		  g  USA  2670  4  1975
 58  Zhigalko,
Sergei		  g  BLR  2668  13  1989
 59  Smirin,
Ilia		  g  ISR  2668  11  1968
 60  Kurnosov,
Igor		  g  RUS  2668  10  1985
 61  Najer,
Evgeniy		  g  RUS  2665  4  1977
 62  Tiviakov,
Sergei		  g  NED  2662  2  1973
 63  Riazantsev,
Alexander		  g  RUS  2661  0  1985
 64  Vescovi,
Giovanni		  g  BRA  2660  20  1978
 65  Cheparinov,
Ivan		  g  BUL  2660  15  1986
 66  Berkes,
Ferenc		  g  HUN  2659  9  1985
 67  Lastin,
Alexander		  g  RUS  2659  4  1976
 68  Meier,
Georg		  g  GER  2658  12  1987
 69  Nepomniachtchi,
Ian		  g  RUS  2658  10  1990
 70  Beliavsky,
Alexander G		  g  SLO  2657  18  1953
 71  Efimenko,
Zahar		  g  UKR  2657  10  1985
 72  Ni,
Hua		  g  CHN  2657  10  1983
 73  Smeets,
Jan		  g  NED  2657  10  1985
 74  Sutovsky,
Emil		  g  ISR  2657  9  1977
 75  Roiz,
Michael		  g  ISR  2657  8  1983
 76  Avrukh,
Boris		  g  ISR  2656  8  1978
 77  So,
Wesley		  g  PHI  2656  8  1993
 78  Krasenkow,
Michal		  g  POL  2656  0  1963
 79  Fridman,
Daniel		  g  GER  2654  8  1976
 80  Ganguly,
Surya Shekhar		  g  IND  2654  4  1983
 81  Baklan,
Vladimir		  g  UKR  2654  2  1978
 82  Grachev,
Boris		  g  RUS  2653  18  1986
 83  Sasikiran,
Krishnan		  g  IND  2653  4  1981
 84  Laznicka,
Viktor		  g  CZE  2652  16  1988
 85  Timofeev,
Artyom		  g  RUS  2652  4  1985
 86  Khismatullin,
Denis		  g  RUS  2651  16  1984
 87  Dreev,
Alexey		  g  RUS  2650  9  1969
 88  Sokolov,
Ivan		  g  BIH  2649  12  1968
 89  Inarkiev,
Ernesto		  g  RUS  2649  6  1985
 90  Seirawan,
Yasser		  g  USA  2649  2  1960
 91  Korobov,
Anton		  g  UKR  2648  17  1985
 92  Postny,
Evgeny		  g  ISR  2648  7  1981
 93  Le,
Quang Liem		  g  VIE  2647  20  1991
 94  Pashikian,
Arman		  g  ARM  2647  6  1987
 95  Landa,
Konstantin		  g  RUS  2645  10  1972
 96  Milov,
Vadim		  g  SUI  2644  6  1972
 97  Nyback,
Tomi		  g  FIN  2643  13  1985
 98  Bareev,
Evgeny		  g  RUS  2643  10  1966
 99  Kazhgaleyev,
Murtas		  g  KAZ  2643  9  1973
 100  Socko,
Bartosz		  g  POL  2643  8  1978

FIDE Top 100 Women January 2010

Nothing has changed: Judit Polgar is still almost 70 points ahead of her nearest
rival, Indian GM Koneru Humpy. Chinese wonder talent Hou Yifan continues to
move slowly towards the 2600 mark and we can expect her to soon be the third
female player in history to achive this.

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Compose a position where…

Posted in ChessBase on Дек 31, 2009

31.12.2009
– ...White has only a bare king and Black has king and three pawns (no double or
triple pawns). It is Black to play and the result is a draw. That is a problem
submitted for our 2009
Christmas Puzzle series by Indian grandmaster Sandipan Chanda, who also
has a tough White-to-play-and-win position to tease the computer. There
are two more challenging positions in this December
31st installment.

Andrew Martin:
The Trompowsky - The easy way - 2nd Edition
Thirty years ago the Trompowsky opening was almost totally unknown. It took a few spectacular games by Rafael Vaganian to bring 2.Bg5 into the limelight, and after that, the die was cast. Today 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 is used by many of the best players in the world and a whole body of complicated theory has built up.
More information...

Chessbase.com

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The pawn roller

Posted in ChessBase on Дек 31, 2009

31.12.2009
– After the final rounds of the Russian Championship, our endgames expert Karsten
Müller casts an eye back at the remarkable and extremely original endgame Timofeev-Khismatullin
from round five. The position in the diagram arose after 50.bxa5, after which
the two black rooks had to take up the fight against four linked passed pawns
and a knight – and it turned out to be hopeless for them.

Karsten Müller shows you for CBM
Online how this unusual position came about and how the
game ended.

Andrew Martin:
The Trompowsky - The easy way - 2nd Edition
Thirty years ago the Trompowsky opening was almost totally unknown. It took a few spectacular games by Rafael Vaganian to bring 2.Bg5 into the limelight, and after that, the die was cast. Today 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 is used by many of the best players in the world and a whole body of complicated theory has built up.
More information...

Position after 50.bxa5

Chessbase.com

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Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
 1  Polgar,
Judit		  g  HUN  2682  4  1976
 2  Koneru,
Humpy		  g  IND  2614  8  1987
 3  Hou,
Yifan		  g  CHN  2590  14  1994
 4  Stefanova,
Antoaneta		  g  BUL  2545  7  1979
 5  Kosintseva,
Nadezhda		  m  RUS  2533  9  1985
 6  Cramling,
Pia		  g  SWE  2528  4  1963
 7  Muzychuk,
Anna		  m  SLO  2523  25  1990
 8  Kosteniuk,
Alexandra		  g  RUS  2523  10  1984
 9  Lahno,
Kateryna		  g  UKR  2518  16  1989
 10  Kosintseva,
Tatiana		  g  RUS  2515  8  1986
 11  Chiburdanidze,
Maia		  g  GEO  2514  0  1961
 12  Ju,
Wenjun		  wg  CHN  2512  4  1991
 13  Sebag,
Marie		  g  FRA  2510  8  1986
 14  Dzagnidze,
Nana		  g  GEO  2506  19  1987
 15  Zhao,
Xue		  g  CHN  2504  4  1985
 16  Mkrtchian,
Lilit		  m  ARM  2503  9  1982
 17  Pogonina,
Natalija		  wg  RUS  2501  0  1985
 18  Danielian,
Elina		  m  ARM  2495  11  1978
 19  Javakhishvili,
Lela		  m  GEO  2493  7  1984
 20  Cmilyte,
Viktorija		  m  LTU  2489  9  1983
 21  Hoang
Thanh Trang		  g  HUN  2487  0  1980
 22  Paehtz,
Elisabeth		  m  GER  2484  9  1985
 23  Ruan,
Lufei		  wg  CHN  2479  2  1987
 24  Xu,
Yuhua		  g  CHN  2478  3  1976
 25  Harika,
Dronavalli		  m  IND  2471  11  1991
 26  Gaponenko,
Inna		  m  UKR  2470  16  1976
 27  Arakhamia-Grant,
Ketevan		  g  SCO  2470  9  1968
 28  Zhu,
Chen		  g  QAT  2470  4  1976
 29  Qin,
Kanying		  wg  CHN  2466  0  1974
 30  Zatonskih,
Anna		  m  USA  2466  0  1978
 31  Tan,
Zhongyi		  wg  CHN  2464  3  1991
 32  Zhukova,
Natalia		  wg  UKR  2462  8  1979
 33  Khotenashvili,
Bela		  m  GEO  2461  8  1988
 34  Dembo,
Yelena		  m  GRE  2457  8  1983
 35  Skripchenko,
Almira		  m  FRA  2456  0  1976
 36  Rajlich,
Iweta		  m  POL  2455  13  1981
 37  Krush,
Irina		  m  USA  2455  5  1983
 38  Tairova,
Elena		  m  RUS  2455  0  1991
 39  Ushenina,
Anna		  m  UKR  2452  6  1985
 40  Hunt,
Harriet V		  m  ENG  2452  0  1978
 41  Socko,
Monika		  g  POL  2450  14  1978
 42  Gunina,
Valentina		  wf  RUS  2448  7  1989
 43  Korbut,
Ekaterina		  m  RUS  2448  0  1985
 44  Muzychuk,
Mariya		  m  UKR  2447  0  1992
 45  Atalik,
Ekaterina		  m  TUR  2445  0  1982
 46  Shen,
Yang		  wg  CHN  2444  2  1989
 47  Foisor,
Cristina-Adela		  m  ROU  2440  10  1967
 48  Huang,
Qian		  wg  CHN  2439  3  1986
 49  Khukhashvili,
Sopiko		  m  GEO  2438  7  1985
 50  Zhang,
Xiaowen		  wg  CHN  2437  24  1989
 51  Repkova,
Eva		  m  SVK  2434  0  1975
 52  Romanko,
Marina		  m  RUS  2433  6  1986
 53  Melia,
Salome		  m  GEO  2431  9  1987
 54  Kovalevskaya,
Ekaterina		  m  RUS  2428  4  1974
 55  Munguntuul,
Batkhuyag		  wg  MGL  2427  15  1987
 56  Moser,
Eva		  m  AUT  2424  8  1982
 57  Li,
Ruofan		  m  SIN  2423  0  1978
 58  Ovod,
Evgenija		  m  RUS  2415  0  1982
 59  Khurtsidze,
Nino		  m  GEO  2414  13  1975
 60  Vasilevich,
Tatjana		  m  UKR  2414  0  1977
 61  Cori
T., Deysi		  wm  PER  2412  33  1993
 62  Peptan,
Corina-Isabela		  m  ROU  2411  7  1978
 63  Savina,
Anastasia		    RUS  2407  20  1992
 64  Matnadze,
Ana		  m  GEO  2407  9  1983
 65  Karavade,
Eesha		  wg  IND  2405  11  1987
 66  Milliet,
Sophie		  m  FRA  2404  13  1983
 67  Jackova,
Jana		  m  CZE  2403  16  1982
 68  Tsereteli,
Tamar		  wg  GEO  2403  9  1985
 69  Zdebskaja,
Natalia		  wg  UKR  2402  16  1986
 70  Peng,
Zhaoqin		  g  NED  2402  9  1968
 71  Houska,
Jovanka		  m  ENG  2401  18  1980
 72  Stockova,
Zuzana		  m  SVK  2401  0  1977
 73  Tania,
Sachdev		  m  IND  2398  11  1986
 74  Zawadzka,
Jolanta		  wg  POL  2391  19  1987
 75  Zaiatz,
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