FIDE rating list
John Saba, Univ. of Ariz. Computer Center
The FIDE rating list is published in Chess Informant. I believe that I have
entered the following information correctly, but there may be typoes. I used
two-letter country codes instead of three-letter codes. You may see some
Russian names transliterated differently in other sources.
Kasparov, G. (SU) 2770
Ivanchuk, V. (SU) 2735
Karpov, A. (SU) 2730
Bareev, Y. (SU) 2680
Salov, V. (SU) 2665
Gelfand, B. (SU) 2665
Short, N. (GB) 2660
Beliavsky, A.G. (SU) 2655
Anand, V. (IN) 2650
Khalifman, A. (DE) 2630
Gurevich, M. (BE) 2630
Speelman, J. (GB) 2630
Timman, J. (NL) 2630
Polugayevsky, L. (SU) 2630
Yusupov, A. (SU) 2625
Nikolic, P. (YU) 2625
Andersson, U. (SE) 2625
Adams, M. (GB) 2615
Epishin, V. (SU) 2615
Huebner, R. (DE) 2615
Azmaiparashvili, Z. (SU) 2615
Seirawan, Y. (US) 2615
Nunn, J. (GB) 2610
Shirov, A. (SU) 2610
Korchnoi, V. (CH) 2610
Dreev, A. (SU) 2610
Mecking, H. (BR) 2610
Ehlvest, J. (SU) 2605
Chernin, A. (SU) 2605
Dolmatov, S. (SU) 2605
Chandler, M.G. (GB) 2605
Christiansen, L.M. (US) 2600
Romanishin, O. (SU) 2600
Ljubojevic, L. (YU) 2600
Hansen, C. (DK) 2600
Oll, L. (SU) 2600
Sax, G. (HU) 2600
Dorfman, I. (SU) 2600
Kamsky, G. (US) 2595
Yudasin, L. (SU) 2595
Dautov, R. (SU) 2595
Granda Zuniga, (PE) 2595
Ribli, Z. (HU) 2595
Vyzhmanavin, A. (SU) 2595
Akopian, V. (SU) 2590
Razuvaev, Y. (SU) 2590
Piket, Je. (NL) 2590
Balashov, Y.S. (SU) 2590
Georgiev, Kir. (BG) 2590
Agdestein, S. (NO) 2590
Damljanovic, B. (YU) 2590
ed.knowles
This list for me really signifies the end of an era. I never thought I'd
see the day when Spassky, Portisch, Tal, Geller, Larsen and Smyslov would
all fail to make the top 50 while still active. One has to hand it to
Korchnoi for maintaining his strength over so many decades. It seems that
the other warriors of the Fischer era are fading away. (Maybe Fischer will
return when the only world class players are those who remember him as
a legend...). Polugaevsky, Huebner, Georgiev, Beliavsky, Romanishin
and Andersson seem to have been around for a while at the top (as have
Ribli, Sax, Timman & Ljubo). But who is Dautov, Oll & Ganda Zuniga??
Bareev probably won't be there for long. He reminds of Savon, who after
winning the Soviet championship, never really became a world class player.
Sokolov seems to have taken a nose-dive also after actually being
a candidate and former number 3 in the world. I guess Seirawan and
Christiansen are America's longest "long-timers" since the Fischer
years...
Is it my imagination, or is Britain the number 2 chess power in the world!
The Soviet Union has 25 in the top 50 as well as two super-K "defectors"
(Korchnoi & Kamsky). But those Brave Brits have 5! The silver medalists
(USA) have only Seirawan, Christiansen & Kamsky...
It's good to see Mecking is back. I thought he had some kind of neurological
disease (maybe it was just too much B-6 to boost his brain power 8^). I
thought Fischer would return before Mecking. I wonder if he still has
designs on the world title? He was gone from the scene almost as long
as Fischer it seems. (Last I can remember, he lost a candidates' match
to Korchnoi in the seventies).
-Ed Knowles
N. Gowdham
>
> The FIDE rating list is published in Chess Informant. I believe that I have
> entered the following information correctly, but there may be typoes. I used
> two-letter country codes instead of three-letter codes. You may see some
> Russian names transliterated differently in other sources.
>
>
> Kasparov, G. (SU) 2770
> Ivanchuk, V. (SU) 2735
> Karpov, A. (SU) 2730
> ......................
Would results of Interpolis tournament at Tilburg affect these ratings...???
Ciao,
gautham.N
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M E Fletcher
>
>Is it my imagination, or is Britain the number 2 chess power in the world!
>The Soviet Union has 25 in the top 50 as well as two super-K "defectors"
>(Korchnoi & Kamsky). But those Brave Brits have 5! The silver medalists
>(USA) have only Seirawan, Christiansen & Kamsky...
>
>It's good to see Mecking is back. I thought he had some kind of neurological
>disease (maybe it was just too much B-6 to boost his brain power 8^). I
>thought Fischer would return before Mecking. I wonder if he still has
>designs on the world title? He was gone from the scene almost as long
>as Fischer it seems. (Last I can remember, he lost a candidates' match
>to Korchnoi in the seventies).
>
> -Ed Knowles
Of course Britain (or rather England - see below) is number two in the
world. Everyone knows this, well everyone in England anyway. In Europe
we fairly confidently assert the fact, trying not to draw to much attention
to those wily Yugoslavs, who will probably start killing eachother off soon.
First of all the attribution on the FIDE list is *wrong*! Short, Nunn ,
Speelman et al play for ENGLAND. Wales and Scotland have their own chess
unions, and enter teams for Olympiads so in chess there is no such thing as
British - despite the English Chess Federation being actually called the
British Chess Federation (BCF) and the English Championship being called
the British Championship - despite there being, once again, separate
Welsh and Scottish Championships. Confusing isn't it. Northern Ireland
and the Republic of Ireland no doubt have an even more confusing
arrangement still - they usually do.
In Britain the Welsh and Scottish get annoyed when people refer to
Britain when they mean England, so to redress the balance I must point
out that all British GMs are in fact English and Gary Kasparov could
thrash a combined Welsh/Scottish olympiad team simultaneously blindfold.
Probably.
You refer to the US team as the "silver medallists" - yes they pipped
England last time but who won silver on the previous 3 events? It begins
with an Eng...
Several "Soviet" players have started demanding to play under the flag of
their republics. If republics start sending Olympiad teams then the gold
medal will once again be up for grabs.
In Chess it reported that Mecking attributes his miraculous recovery from
some muscle wasting disease to his faith in god and is training to be
a priest. Fox and James (authors of Complete Chess Addict) in their
monthly trivia column remark that it greatly strengthens their holy
team and wonder whether Mecking should be higher than Ruy Lopez.
Matt
John Richards
>In article <1991Nov12...@uavax0.ccit.arizona.edu>, sa...@uavax0.ccit.arizona.edu (John Saba, Univ. of Ariz. Computer Center) writes:
>> Top 51 FIDE-rated Players in the World (July 1991 rating list)
>>
>> The FIDE rating list is published in Chess Informant. I believe that I have
>> entered the following information correctly, but there may be typoes. I used
>> two-letter country codes instead of three-letter codes. You may see some
>> Russian names transliterated differently in other sources.
>>
>>
>> Kasparov, G. (SU) 2770
>> Ivanchuk, V. (SU) 2735
>> Karpov, A. (SU) 2730
>> ......................
>> ......................
>Would results of Interpolis tournament at Tilburg affect these ratings...???
Yes they will and you can calculate the effects. One is that because Short
did well at Tilburg (2nd place) and Bareev did so badly (last?), Short has
gone back to 4th in the world.
However, FIDE only publish the list on a 6-monthly basis. So results
between now and the end of the year can also affect the ratings in the next
list.
BTW, why did Ed Knowles enquire whether England are the no. 2 chess country
in the world? Everyone knows this is the case, and the US's silver medal
was just lucky (they're only keeping it warm for us) :-)
It would be very interesting to see how the list would look if the USSR
splits up into its various components (Russia, Ukraine, etc). Already, some
Soviet players from the Baltic states have insisted on playing under the
Estonian, Latvian, or Lithuanian flags. Is there anyone who knows which
state each of these "Soviet" players belong to? Karpov is Russian, Kasparov
is Azerbaijani (sp?) - but what of the rest? It's possible England and the
USA could be fighting it out for the gold medal in the next olympiad if the
USSR do not compete as one entity.
--
John Richards
nfu...@vax.oxford.ac.uk
map...@gdr.bath.ac.uk (M E Fletcher) writes:
> In article <1991Nov13....@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
> e...@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (ed.knowles) writes:
>>
>>Is it my imagination, or is Britain the number 2 chess power in the world!
>>The Soviet Union has 25 in the top 50 as well as two super-K "defectors"
>>(Korchnoi & Kamsky). But those Brave Brits have 5! The silver medalists
>>(USA) have only Seirawan, Christiansen & Kamsky...
>
> world. Everyone knows this, well everyone in England anyway.
Why naturally ! It's been common knowledge for years.
> Several "Soviet" players have started demanding to play under the flag of
> their republics. If republics start sending Olympiad teams then the gold
> medal will once again be up for grabs.
Actually, this won't be the case. England will be forced
to remain in second place when 90% of the `American' grandmaster
population goes back to Mother Russia ...
Neil