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Compared: Top 100 Players July 2009 and Top 100 Players April 2009| Rank | Old | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | | 1 | 1 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2813 (+1) | 10 (-7) | | 2 | 2 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2788 (+5) | 2 (-12) | | 3 | 3 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2772 (+2) | 12 (-15) |  | 4 | 6 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2768 (+14) | 13 (-24) |  | 5 | 7 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2760 (+7) | 15 (+10) |  | 6 | 4 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2759 (0) | 0 (0) |  | 7 | 9 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2756 (+5) | 13 (+13) |  | 8 | 5 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2756 (0) | 0 (-27) |  | 9 | 15 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2755 (+22) | 27 (+27) |  | 10 | 8 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2751 (0) | 0 (-13) |  | 11 | 16 | Gashimov, Vugar | g | AZE | 2740 (+10) | 9 (-1) |  | 12 | 18 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2739 (+13) | 36 (+11) | | 13 | 14 | Wang, Yue | g | CHN | 2736 (-2) | 10 (-28) |  | 14 | 10 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2733 (-15) | 20 (+6) |  | 15 | 13 | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2732 (-13) | 38 (+38) |  | 16 | 19 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2727 (+1) | 3 (+3) | | 17 | 17 | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2721 (-7) | 32 (+23) |  | 18 | 24 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2717 (-3) | 22 (+2) | | 19 | 20 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2717 (-8) | 17 (+11) |  | 20 | 23 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | UKR | 2717 (-4) | 13 (-6) |  | 21 | 36 | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2716 (+23) | 44 (+44) |  | 22 | 11 | Movsesian, Sergei | g | SVK | 2716 (-31) | 31 (+8) |  | 23 | 22 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | g | CUB | 2716 (-5) | 10 (-17) | | 24 | 25 | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2714 (-2) | 20 (+15) |  | 25 | 34 | Akopian, Vladimir | g | ARM | 2712 (+16) | 13 (+2) |  | 26 | 30 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2710 (+9) | 35 (+25) |  | 27 | 52 | Motylev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2710 (+33) | 16 (-13) |  | 28 | 26 | Malakhov, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2707 (-2) | 7 (-19) |  | 29 | 47 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2703 (+19) | 31 (+21) |  | 30 | 12 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2703 (-43) | 30 (-7) |  | 31 | 29 | Rublevsky, Sergei | g | RUS | 2703 (+1) | 16 (+16) |  | 32 | 27 | Bu, Xiangzhi | g | CHN | 2702 (-2) | 11 (-7) |  | 33 | 21 | Ni, Hua | g | CHN | 2701 (-23) | 17 (+1) |  | 34 | 45 | Onischuk, Alexander | g | USA | 2699 (+15) | 34 (+6) |  | 35 | 28 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2699 (-4) | 7 (-6) |  | 36 | 31 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2697 (-3) | 41 (+20) |  | 37 | 50 | Miroshnichenko, Evgenij | g | UKR | 2696 (+16) | 29 (+12) |  | 38 | 40 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | g | ESP | 2693 (+5) | 7 (-24) |  | 39 | 33 | Wang, Hao | g | CHN | 2690 (-6) | 38 (+9) |  | 40 | 39 | Bologan, Viktor | g | MDA | 2689 (-1) | 12 (+1) |  | 41 | 46 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2689 (+5) | 6 (-18) |  | 42 | 74 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2687 (+33) | 19 (-5) |  | 43 | 37 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2687 (-6) | 1 (+1) |  | 44 | 56 | Short, Nigel D | g | ENG | 2684 (+10) | 14 (+1) |  | 45 | 42 | Jobava, Baadur | g | GEO | 2684 (-3) | 2 (-14) |  | 46 | 44 | Almasi, Zoltan | g | HUN | 2684 (-1) | 1 (-8) |  | 47 | 38 | Moiseenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2682 (-8) | 9 (-6) |  | 48 | 53 | Timofeev, Artyom | g | RUS | 2681 (+4) | 7 (-13) |  | 49 | 41 | Vitiugov, Nikita | g | RUS | 2681 (-7) | 6 (-14) |  | 50 | 61 | Nielsen, Peter Heine | g | DEN | 2680 (+12) | 17 (+14) |  | 51 | 43 | Harikrishna, P. | g | IND | 2679 (-7) | 24 (-6) |  | 52 | 57 | Volokitin, Andrei | g | UKR | 2678 (+7) | 14 (-9) |  | 53 | 51 | Cheparinov, Ivan | g | BUL | 2678 (0) | 0 (-11) |  | 54 | 64 | Sutovsky, Emil | g | ISR | 2675 (+15) | 27 (+27) |  | 55 | 54 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | g | RUS | 2675 (-1) | 15 (-12) |  | 56 | 55 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | g | ROU | 2675 (0) | 10 (-1) |  | 57 | 32 | Tiviakov, Sergei | g | NED | 2674 (-23) | 34 (-4) |  | 58 | 35 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | g | UZB | 2672 (-23) | 29 (+15) |  | 59 | 78 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2670 (+21) | 25 (-6) |  | 60 | 75 | Grachev, Boris | g | RUS | 2669 (+17) | 19 (-10) |  | 61 | 48 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | g | IND | 2669 (-13) | 18 (-2) |  | 62 | 67 | Kurnosov, Igor | g | RUS | 2669 (+11) | 13 (-25) |  | 63 | 62 | Fressinet, Laurent | g | FRA | 2667 (+3) | 28 (+17) |  | 64 | 63 | Sargissian, Gabriel | g | ARM | 2667 (+7) | 18 (-5) |  | 65 | 83 | Fridman, Daniel | g | GER | 2665 (+19) | 23 (+14) |  | 66 | 65 | Guseinov, Gadir | g | AZE | 2664 (+5) | 9 (-11) |  | 67 | 59 | Najer, Evgeniy | g | RUS | 2663 (-6) | 26 (+26) |  | 68 | 91 | Beliavsky, Alexander G | g | SLO | 2662 (+22) | 23 (+2) |  | 69 | 60 | Dreev, Alexey | g | RUS | 2660 (-8) | 15 (-23) |  | 70 | 66 | Milov, Vadim | g | SUI | 2659 (0) | 2 (-16) |  | 71 | 100 | Roiz, Michael | g | ISR | 2658 (+23) | 31 (+14) |  | 72 | 88 | Meier, Georg | g | GER | 2658 (+17) | 21 (-16) |  | 73 | 95 | Socko, Bartosz | g | POL | 2656 (+19) | 30 (+20) |  | 74 | 70 | Fedorchuk, Sergey A. | g | UKR | 2655 (-1) | 41 (+16) |  | 75 | - | Landa, Konstantin | g | RUS | 2655 (+) | 33 (+) |  | 76 | - | Van Wely, Loek | g | NED | 2655 (+) | 33 (+) |  | 77 | 58 | Sokolov, Ivan | g | BIH | 2655 (-14) | 32 (+9) |  | 78 | 49 | Efimenko, Zahar | g | UKR | 2654 (-28) | 30 (+11) |  | 79 | - | Tregubov, Pavel V. | g | RUS | 2652 (+) | 30 (+) |  | 80 | 68 | Areshchenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2651 (-6) | 40 (+1) |  | 81 | 69 | Tkachiev, Vladislav | g | FRA | 2650 (-7) | 17 (+17) |  | 82 | 90 | Smirin, Ilia | g | ISR | 2650 (+9) | 15 (+6) |  | 83 | 72 | Savchenko, Boris | g | RUS | 2650 (-5) | 12 (-17) |  | 84 | 71 | Pashikian, Arman | g | ARM | 2650 (-5) | 2 (-41) |  | 85 | - | Shulman, Yuri | g | USA | 2648 (+) | 34 (+) |  | 86 | - | Andreikin, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2648 (+) | 20 (+) |  | 87 | 77 | Lastin, Alexander | g | RUS | 2648 (-2) | 16 (+7) |  | 88 | 80 | Postny, Evgeny | g | ISR | 2647 (-1) | 33 (+22) |  | 89 | - | Granda Zuniga, Julio E | g | PER | 2647 (+) | 26 (+) |  | 90 | 92 | Berkes, Ferenc | g | HUN | 2647 (+9) | 20 (-1) |  | 91 | 98 | Riazantsev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2647 (+12) | 16 (-12) |  | 92 | 89 | So, Wesley | g | PHI | 2646 (+5) | 22 (-7) |  | 93 | - | Seirawan, Yasser | g | USA | 2646 (+) | 4 (+) | | 94 | 94 | Georgiev, Kiril | g | BUL | 2645 (+8) | 18 (+7) |  | 95 | 84 | Kobalia, Mikhail | g | RUS | 2645 (0) | 0 (-26) |  | 96 | 85 | Mamedov, Rauf | g | AZE | 2645 (0) | 0 (-20) |  | 97 | 76 | Predojevic, Borki | g | BIH | 2644 (-8) | 30 (+10) |  | 98 | 86 | Karpov, Anatoly | g | RUS | 2644 (0) | 0 (0) |  | 99 | 79 | Amonatov, Farrukh | g | TJK | 2641 (-7) | 24 (+6) |  | 100 | 82 | Avrukh, Boris | g | ISR | 2641 (-6) | 13 (+3) |
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