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I have a collection of over 40 thousand examples. It is very important to study these themes as the middlegame is where most players get into time pressure or just cannot find a plan.
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Top 100 Women November 2013
Also a lot had changed in this rating list! The first 18 players are over 2500 now.
1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2689 0 1976
2 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2629 6 1994
3 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2618 22 1987
4 Muzychuk, Anna g SLO 2566 6 1990
5 Zhao, Xue g CHN 2565 15 1985
6 Dzagnidze, Nana g GEO 2556 0 1987
7 Lagno, Kateryna g UKR 2542 18 1989
8 Khotenashvili, Bela m GEO 2524 11 1988
9 Kosintseva, Nadezhda g RUS 2523 0 1985
10 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2520 10 1963
11 Ju, Wenjun wg CHN 2518 36 1991
12 Hoang, Thanh Trang g HUN 2511 11 1980
13 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2510 25 1984
14 Tan, Zhongyi wg CHN 2510 15 1991
15 Sebag, Marie g FRA 2510 0 1986
16 Gunina, Valentina g RUS 2509 24 1989
17 Cmilyte, Viktorija g LTU 2506 7 1983
18 Krush, Irina m USA 2502 0 1983
19 Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2499 15 1985
20 Kosintseva, Tatiana g RUS 2496 9 1986
21 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2494 22 1979
22 Ushenina, Anna g UKR 2492 6 1985
23 Muzychuk, Mariya m UKR 2491 0 1992
24 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2488 0 1976
25 Huang, Qian wg CHN 2485 15 1986
26 Harika, Dronavalli g IND 2484 21 1991
27 Zhukova, Natalia g UKR 2466 6 1979
28 Zatonskih, Anna m USA 2464 9 1978
29 Khurtsidze, Nino m GEO 2462 0 1975
30 Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2458 0 1972
31 Danielian, Elina g ARM 2457 20 1978
32 Melia, Salome m GEO 2453 0 1987
33 Guo, Qi wg CHN 2451 16 1995
34 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag m MGL 2449 16 1987
35 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2449 14 1985
36 Hunt, Harriet V m ENG 2449 0 1978
37 Bodnaruk, Anastasia m RUS 2448 9 1992
38 Dembo, Yelena m GRE 2448 0 1983
39 Girya, Olga wg RUS 2447 21 1991
40 Mkrtchian, Lilit m ARM 2447 15 1982
41 Skripchenko, Almira m FRA 2442 3 1976
42 Tania, Sachdev m IND 2441 12 1986
43 Guramishvili, Sopiko m GEO 2441 9 1991
44 Peptan, Corina-Isabela m ROU 2439 0 1978
45 Goryachkina, Aleksandra wg RUS 2438 9 1998
46 Moser, Eva m AUT 2434 2 1982
47 Socko, Monika g POL 2431 9 1978
48 Atalik, Ekaterina m TUR 2429 9 1982
49 Ding, Yixin wg CHN 2428 16 1991
50 Alexandrova, Olga m ESP 2427 0 1978
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Top 100 Players November 2013
A lot had changed in the top 50, except for the ratings of Carlsen and Anand, which is understandable :).
1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2870 0 1990
2 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2801 6 1982
3 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2793 9 1975
4 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2786 17 1987
5 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2785 17 1983
6 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2782 25 1992
7 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2777 11 1968
8 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2775 0 1969
9 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2774 6 1975
10 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2757 11 1985
11 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2756 14 1990
12 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2754 18 1983
13 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2752 14 1976
14 Adams, Michael g ENG 2752 12 1971
15 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2749 13 1983
16 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2742 12 1990
17 Vitiugov, Nikita g RUS 2741 15 1987
18 Wang, Hao g CHN 2737 25 1989
19 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2733 9 1983
20 Giri, Anish g NED 2732 19 1994
21 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2731 19 1983
22 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2731 11 1969
23 Leko, Peter g HUN 2730 7 1979
24 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2727 5 1977
25 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2727 2 1985
26 Wang, Yue g CHN 2725 7 1987
27 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2722 11 1987
28 Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2721 9 1990
29 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2721 7 1983
30 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2721 7 1974
31 Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2720 9 1986
32 So, Wesley g PHI 2719 6 1993
33 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2715 12 1987
34 Korobov, Anton g UKR 2713 7 1985
35 Ding, Liren g CHN 2711 6 1992
36 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2711 6 1987
37 Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2710 9 1990
38 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2710 1 1976
39 Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2709 10 1980
40 Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2708 13 1980
41 Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2707 15 1981
42 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2706 6 1974
43 Navara, David g CZE 2705 9 1985
44 Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2705 0 1982
45 Harikrishna, P. g IND 2704 7 1986
46 Le, Quang Liem g VIE 2703 9 1991
47 Kryvoruchko, Yuriy g UKR 2701 2 1986
48 Matlakov, Maxim g RUS 2700 15 1991
49 Movsesian, Sergei g ARM 2700 7 1978
50 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2698 9 1985
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