Levon Aronian close to Carlsen with ELO in the FIDE rating list

le=”text-align: justify; “>FIDE has published its May rating list.

Magnus Carlsen is the first in FIDE Top 100 list with 2835 ELO, no change and no games since the January rating list. He is closely followed by Levon Aronian with 2825 ELO, who raises 5 ELO from 3 games in the Bundesliga.

Third position is for Vladimir Kramnik, the last player over 2800 ELO in the list. Top 10 is completed by Anand (2791), Radjabov (2784), Karjakin (2779), Nakamura (2775), Caruana (2770), Morozevich (2769), and Ivanchuk (2764).

A total of 45 players are above 2700 ELO, with the average of the list being 2704 ELO, or 4 points inflation over the previous list.  Read more... (1326 words, 13 images)

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