Top 100 Women September 2013

Lots of rating changes here due to a large amount of tournaments! And I am still on the 38th place :).

1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2696 0 1976
2 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2609 0 1994
3 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2607 0 1987
4 Muzychuk, Anna g SLO 2585 11 1990
5 Zhao, Xue g CHN 2579 29 1985
6 Dzagnidze, Nana g GEO 2556 11 1987
7 Ju, Wenjun wg CHN 2535 0 1991
8 Lagno, Kateryna g UKR 2532 11 1989
9 Kosintseva, Nadezhda g RUS 2531 0 1985
10 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2515 11 1963
11 Kosintseva, Tatiana g RUS 2515 11 1986
12 Khotenashvili, Bela m GEO 2514 11 1988
13 Sebag, Marie g FRA 2510 11 1986
14 Gunina, Valentina g RUS 2506 11 1989
15 Cmilyte, Viktorija g LTU 2505 11 1983
16 Ruan, Lufei wg CHN 2501 0 1987
17 Ushenina, Anna g UKR 2500 0 1985
18 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2496 11 1979
19 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2495 15 1984
20 Huang, Qian wg CHN 2494 11 1986
21 Hoang, Thanh Trang g HUN 2493 11 1980
22 Krush, Irina m USA 2492 4 1983
23 Tan, Zhongyi wg CHN 2490 0 1991
24 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2488 0 1976
25 Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2485 11 1985
26 Muzychuk, Mariya m UKR 2478 11 1992
27 Harika, Dronavalli g IND 2475 9 1991
28 Zatonskih, Anna m USA 2471 4 1978
29 Danielian, Elina g ARM 2470 0 1978
30 Mkrtchian, Lilit m ARM 2469 11 1982
31 Bodnaruk, Anastasia m RUS 2462 11 1992
32 Khurtsidze, Nino m GEO 2460 11 1975
33 Javakhishvili, Lela m GEO 2459 11 1984
34 Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2458 0 1972
35 Zhukova, Natalia g UKR 2456 11 1979
36 Melia, Salome m GEO 2453 11 1987
37 Hunt, Harriet V m ENG 2449 0 1978
38 Dembo, Yelena m GRE 2448 0 1983
39 Socko, Monika g POL 2444 20 1978
40 Tania, Sachdev m IND 2443 18 1986
41 Guo, Qi wg CHN 2443 0 1995
42 Skripchenko, Almira m FRA 2441 0 1976
43 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2440 11 1985
44 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag m MGL 2440 0 1987
45 Girya, Olga wg RUS 2439 11 1991
46 Moser, Eva m AUT 2436 9 1982
47 Kashlinskaya, Alina wg RUS 2434 11 1993
48 Cori T., Deysi wg PER 2433 16 1993
49 Atalik, Ekaterina m TUR 2433 11 1982
50 Guramishvili, Sopiko m GEO 2431 11 1991
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Top 100 Players September 2013

Almost nothing happened in the top 10 last month :).

1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2862 0 1990
2 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2813 0 1982
3 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2794 9 1975
4 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2785 0 1983
5 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2779 9 1992
6 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2775 0 1969
7 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2775 0 1985
8 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2772 0 1990
9 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2772 0 1987
10 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2769 0 1975
11 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2764 0 1968
12 Adams, Michael g ENG 2761 9 1971
13 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2757 0 1983
14 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2756 0 1983
15 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2746 0 1976
16 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2741 0 1974
17 Leko, Peter g HUN 2740 9 1979
18 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2739 0 1977
19 Giri, Anish g NED 2737 0 1994
20 Wang, Hao g CHN 2736 9 1989
21 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2733 0 1987
22 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2731 0 1969
23 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2724 0 1983
24 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2723 10 1983
25 Ding, Liren g CHN 2722 10 1992
26 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2722 10 1990
27 Korobov, Anton g UKR 2720 0 1985
28 Vitiugov, Nikita g RUS 2719 0 1987
29 Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2717 10 1990
30 Navara, David g CZE 2715 0 1985
31 Wang, Yue g CHN 2713 0 1987
32 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2710 9 1985
33 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2710 0 1985
34 So, Wesley g PHI 2710 0 1993
35 Harikrishna, P. g IND 2709 20 1986
36 Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2709 9 1990
37 Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2709 0 1986
38 Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2708 0 1981
39 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2707 0 1976
40 Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2707 0 1980
41 Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2706 10 1980
42 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2706 3 1983
43 Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2706 0 1982
44 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2703 2 1987
45 Le, Quang Liem g VIE 2702 0 1991
46 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2701 0 1972
47 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2701 0 1987
48 Riazantsev, Alexander g RUS 2700 0 1985
49 Bruzon Batista, Lazaro g CUB 2699 9 1982
50 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2699 0 1979
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FIDE World Cup in Tromso 2013

Andreikin-Kramnik
(Photo taken from chess-news.ru)

The 2nd game finished in a draw after lots of sacrifices/exchanges and it looks like all was prepared by Kramnik at home! He is leading 1.5-0.5 and is playing White today.

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