November 2012 FIDE Ratings

World #1 Magnus Carlsen, 2848 after winning the 2012 Grand Slam Tournament, 3 points short of Kasparov's record

Here are the world's highest FIDE-rated players.  There have been some major changes, as you can see.
Note: all players are FIDE Grandmasters (GMs) unless otherwise noted.

Top 20 Overall:

#	Name	Nov.	Oct.	+/-	Oct. Rk	Gms	Tournaments
1	Magnus Carlsen	2848	2843	+5	1 (=)	10	Grand Slam
2	Levon Aronian	2815	2821	-6	2 (=)	10	Grand Slam
3	Vladimir Kramnik	2795	2795	0	3 (=)	0
4	Teimour Radjabov	2793	2792	+1	4 (=)	6	Eilat
5	Fabiano Caruana	2786	2772	+14	8 (+3)	15	Grand Slam, Swiss Team
6	Vishy Anand	2775	2780	-5	7 (+1)	10	Grand Slam
7	Sergey Karjakin	2775	2780	-5	6 (-1)	10	Grand Slam
8	Veselin Topalov	2769	2751	+18	13 (+5)	17	Eilat, London
9	Alex Grischuk	2764	2752	+12	12 (+3)	17	Eilat, London
10	Shak Mamedyarov	2764	2748	+16	14 (+4)	16	Eilat, London
11	Vassily Ivanchuk	2763	2771	-8	9 (-2)	18	Eilat, London
12	Gata Kamsky	2762	2755	+7	11 (-1)	7	Eilat
13	Hikaru Nakamura	2755	2786	-31	5 (-8)	18	Eilat, London
14	Boris Gelfand	2751	2736	+15	18 (+4)	16	Eilat, London
15	Alex Morozevich	2748	2758	-10	10 (-5)	6	Eilat
16	Peter Svidler	2747	2747	0	16 (=)	6	Eilat
17	Dmitry Jakovenko	2741	2732	+9	23 (+6)	15	Eilat, Poikovskiy
18	Ruslan Ponomariov	2741	2735	+6	19 (+1)	15	Eilat, Poikovskiy
19	Wang Hao	2737	2748	-11	15 (-4)	14	London, Hangzhou
20	Vugar Gashimov	2737	2737	0	17 (-3)	0

Top 5 Women:

#	Name	Nov.	Oct.	+/-	Oct. Rk	Gms	Tournaments
1	Judit Polgar	2705	2705	0	1 (=)	0
2	Humpy Koneru	2610	2607	+3	2 (=)	7	Eilat Women
3	Hou Yifan	2606	2605	+1	3 (=)	6	Eilat Women
4	Anna Muzychuk	2586	2587	-1	4 (=)	6	Eilat Women
5	Zhao Xue	2565	2565	0	5 (=)	4	Hangzhou

Top 5 Juniors (under 21):

#	Name	Nov.	Oct.	+/-	Oct. Rk	Gms	Tournaments
1	Fabiano Caruana	2786	2772	+14	1 (=)	15	Grand Slam, Swiss Team
2	Anish Giri	2715	2730	-15	2 (=)	18	London, Eilat, Dutch Team
3	Ding Liren	2702	2702	0	3 (=)	14	SPICE Cup, Hangzhou
4	Yu Yangyi	2681	2651	+30	6 (+2)	13	Hangzhou, Jakarta
5	Wesley So	2678	2677	+1	4 (-1)	10	SPICE Cup

Top 5 Girls (under 21):

#	Name	Nov.	Oct.	+/-	Oct. Rk	Gms	Tournaments
1	Hou Yifan	2606	2605	+1	1 (=)	6	Eilat Women
2	IM M. Muzychuk	2476	2474	+2	2 (=)	15	Eilat Women, Kharkiv
3	WGM Qi Guo	2432	2391	+41	6 (+3)	13	Hangzhou, Jakarta
4	WGM Deysi Cori	2429	2411	+18	4 (=)	21	San Cristobal, Mar del Plata
5	IM A. Bodnaruk	2415	2425	-10	3 (-2)	7	Eilat Women