05 February 2013

Putting Names to Numbers

In Countries with World Top-100 Players, I identified those countries having the most world class players as of January 2013. Who exactly are those players? The following lists show top-100 rank and FIDE rating for each player as of January 2013.

Russia (RUS); >2700, plus 13 other players on top-100

  • 02: 2810 Kramnik, Vladimir
  • 06: 2780 Karjakin, Sergey
  • 11: 2764 Grischuk, Alexander
  • 12: 2758 Morozevich, Alexander
  • 15: 2747 Svidler, Peter
  • 20: 2734 Jakovenko, Dmitry
  • 22: 2727 Andreikin, Dmitry
  • 27: 2722 Tomashevsky, Evgeny
  • 34: 2709 Malakhov, Vladimir
  • 40: 2705 Riazantsev, Alexander
  • 42: 2703 Nepomniachtchi, Ian

Ukraine (UKR)

  • 13: 2758 Ivanchuk, Vassily
  • 21: 2733 Ponomariov, Ruslan
  • 28: 2722 Volokitin, Andrei
  • 29: 2720 Areshchenko, Alexander
  • 43: 2703 Moiseenko, Alexander
  • 52: 2696 Efimenko, Zahar
  • 56: 2690 Korobov, Anton
  • 69: 2678 Eljanov, Pavel
  • 79: 2666 Kryvoruchko, Yuriy

France (FRA)

  • 30: 2713 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
  • 38: 2706 Fressinet, Laurent
  • 44: 2703 Bacrot, Etienne
  • 64: 2686 Edouard, Romain
  • 83: 2661 Gharamian, Tigran
  • 92: 2654 Istratescu, Andrei
  • 102: 2650 Tkachiev, Vladislav

China (CHN)

  • 14: 2752 Wang, Hao
  • 33: 2709 Ding, Liren
  • 46: 2702 Wang, Yue
  • 60: 2688 Yu, Yangyi
  • 73: 2675 Bu, Xiangzhi
  • 74: 2674 Li, Chao b

I could probably identify around half of those players from photos, with the Chinese players presenting the biggest challenge. Perhaps I should do some work to improve that score.

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