April Fide Rating List Out!

FIDE has released it's April rating list, GM Veselin Topalov has went over 2800 again to be the number one rated player in the world, but right behind him is World Champion GM Viswanathan Anand. I will post all players who achieved the rating of 2700, as rating lists are only updated quarterly, I would keep an eye on the much updated on liverating.org, which keeps track of all 2700 rated players and above throughout the course of the current rating period until the next rating list comes out. I will make a bigger link to this cool site for chess fans.

April 2009 FIDE Rating List, Players with 2700 and above rating listed. Link to official list can be found in the FIDE.COM newsfeed.

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year
1 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2812 17 1975
2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2783 14 1969
3 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2770 27 1990
4 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2759 0 1975
5 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2756 27 1987
6 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2754 37 1982
7 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2753 5 1983
8 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2751 13 1977
9 Leko, Peter g HUN 2751 0 1979
10 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2748 14 1983
11 Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2747 23 1978
12 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2746 37 1969
13 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2745 0 1972
14 Wang, Yue g CHN 2738 38 1987
15 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733 0 1968
16 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2730 10 1986
17 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2728 9 1983
18 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2726 25 1976
19 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2726 0 1983
20 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2725 6 1985
21 Ni, Hua g CHN 2724 16 1983
22 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2721 27 1983
23 Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2721 19 1990
24 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2720 20 1974
25 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2716 5 1985
26 Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2709 26 1980
27 Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2704 18 1985
28 Adams, Michael g ENG 2703 13 1971
29 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2702 0 1974
30 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2701 10 1987
31 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2700 21 1985

Where will the next 3 months take these players and those scratching at the door to 2700 and pretty much the accepted title of Super-GM, after all, with over 1,100 GM's in the world, what else could we call these 31 players? It will be interesting to watch, that's for sure, as well as I'm sure GM Nakamura is glad to be back above 2700, but can he keep the rating? At the moment his live rating might have dipped below 2700 due to results at the Austrian Bundesliga, but that's all unofficial at this point, all that matters is the OFFICIAL rating list. Plenty of time to worry about improvement.