December 2012 FIDE Rating List

Italian-American Fabiano Caruana is World #5 and top Junior on the 12/12 Rating List

Today, FIDE released the December 2012 FIDE Rating List.  All players listed are GMs unless otherwise stated.  Players in Bold are American.  Players in Italics are mentioned in another list.

Here are the top 50 players overall and their changes in position from the November 2012 Rating List:


1. Magnus Carlsen 2848 (=)
2. Levon Aronian 2815 (=)
3. Vladimir Kramnik 2795 (=)
4. Teimour Radjabov 2793 (=)
5. Fabiano Caruana 2782 (=)
6-7. Viswanathan Anand, Sergey Karjakin 2775 (=, =)
8. Veselin Topalov 2771 (=)
9. Vassily Ivanchuk 2766 (+2)
10-11. Alexander Grischuk, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2764 (-1, =)
12. Gata Kamsky 2762 (=)
13. Hikaru Nakamura 2760 (=)
14. Boris Gelfand 2751 (=)
15. Alexander Morozevich 2748 (=)
16. Peter Svidler 2747 (=)
17. Dmitry Jakovenko 2741 (=)
18-19. Vugar Gashimov, Wang Hao 2737 (+2, =)
20-21. Leinier Dominguez Perez, Radoslaw Wojtaszek 2734 (+3, =)
22-23. Ruslan Ponomariov, Peter Leko 2732 (-4, =)
24. Evgeny Tomashevsky 2725 (=)
25. Dmitry Andreiken 2723 (=)
26. Andrei Volokitin 2722 (=)
27-28. Anish Giri, Alexander Areshchenko 2720 (=, +4)
29. Luke McShane 2713 (=)
30-31. Baadur Jobava, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2711 (+5, =)
32-34. Alexander Moiseenko, Michael Adams, David Navara 2710 (+16, =, =)

35-36. Ivan Cheparinov, Vladimir Malakhov 2709 (=, =)

37-38. Arkadij Naiditsch, Alexei Shirov 2708 (=, +20)

39. Ian Nepomniachtchi 2707 (-1)

40-42. Le Quang Liem, Judit Polgar, Alexander Riazantsev 2705 (=, =, =)

43. Vladimir Akopian 2704 (+2)

44. Etienne Bacrot 2703 (+5)

45-46. Ding Liren, Anton Korobov 2702 (+2, =)

47. Laurent Fressinet 2700 (-3)

48. Pentala Harikrishna 2698 (+11)

49-51. Zahar Efimenko, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Wang Yue (2696) (+3, =, +4)

Top 20 Women:

1. Judit Polgar 2705 (=)

2. Humpy Koneru 2610 (=)

3. Hou Yifan 2606 (=)

4. Anna Muzychuk 2586 (=)

5. Zhao Xue 2565 (=)

6. Nana Dzagnidze 2555 (=)

7. Kateryna Lahno 2553 (=)

8. Nadezhda Kosintseva 2539 (=)

9. Viktorija Cmilyte 2524 (=)

10. Marie Sebag 2521 (=)

11. IM Valentina Gunina 2517 (=)

12. Pia Cramling 2516 (=)

13. Tatiana Kosintseva 2515 (=)

14. Harika Dronavalli 2512 (=)

15. IM Bela Khotenashvili 2504 (=)

16-18. WGM Wenjun Ju, Alexandra Kosteniuk, WGM Ruan Lufei 2501 (=, = ,=)

19-20. Antoaneta Stefanova, Zhu Chen 2491 (=, =)

Top 20 Juniors (under 21):

1. Fabiano Caruana 2782  (=)

2. Anish Giri 2720 (=)

3. Ding Liren 2702 (=)

4. Wesley So 2682 (+1)

5. Yu Yangyi 2681 (-1)

6. Sanan Sjugirov 2643 (+4)

7. Parimarjan Negi 2641 (-1)

8. Illya Nyzhnyk 2637 (+1)

9. Aleksandr Shimanov 2630 (+7)

10. Dariucz Swiercz 2627 (+3)

11. Eltaj Safarli 2626 (-3)

12. Yaroslav Zherebukh 2623 (-5)

13. Richard Rapport 2621 (-2)

14. Ray Robson 2615 (-2)

15-16. Anton Kovalyov, Hou Yifan 2606 (+2, -1)

17. Daniil Dubov 2600 (-2)

18-19. Alexander Ipatov, Vasif Durarbayli 2587 (=, =)

20. Nils Grandelius (=)