Friday, July 3, 2009

July FIDE Rating List

Country rank by average rating of top 10 players

Top Countries

1. Russia 191 GM's
2. Ukraine 72 GM's
3. Israel 42 GM's
4. China 25 GM's
5. Azerbaijan 17 GM's
6. United States of America 65 GM's
58. Australia 3 GM's
71. New Zealand 1 GM

Russia has a total of 1906 titled players compared to New Zealand's 28!

The Top 5 Players

1. GM V. Topalov (Bulgaria) 2813
2. World Champion V. Anand (India) 2788
3. GM M. Carlsen (Norwegian) 2772
4. GM L. Aronian (Armenia) 2768
5. GM D. Jakovenko (Russia) 2760

New Zealand's Top 5

1. GM M. Chandler 2518
2. IM P. Wang 2465
3. IM R. Dive 2371
4. FM R. Nokes 2327
5. IM A. Ker 2321

Local players

Wanganui
J. McDonald 2080
C.Burns 2054

Palmerston North
M. King 1963
J. Davis 1939

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who is Ronald Scott?

Anonymous said...

New Zealand Rating list July 2009

Top 5
Stand Rapid

1. Murray Chandler 2542 i
2. Ben Martin 2409 i
3. Russell Dive 2407 2343
4. Anthony Ker 2385 2345
5. Roger Nokes 2370 i

Wanganui

29. John McDonald 2085 1973
31. Chris Burns 2077 2004
74. Prince Vetharaniam 1897 1869
75= James Stewart 1893 i

Palmerston North

24. Charles Ker 2108 2002
55. Justin Davis 1970 1881
77. Mathew King 1889 1750