FIDE Rating's List March 2012 (Active)

Top Players

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year


1 Carlsen, Magnus gm NOR 2835 13 1990

2 Aronian, Levon gm ARM 2820 13 1982

3 Kramnik, Vladimir gm RUS 2801 0 1975

4 Anand, Viswanathan gm IND 2799 0 1969

5 Radjabov, Teimour gm AZE 2784 13 1987

6 Nakamura, Hikaru gm USA 2771 23 1987

7 Caruana, Fabiano gm ITA 2767 32 1992

8 Karjakin, Sergey gm RUS 2766 13 1990

9 Morozevich, Alexander gm RUS 2765 10 1977

10 Ivanchuk, Vassily gm UKR 2764 23 1969


Top New Zealand (Active players)



# Name Title Fed Rating G B-Year

1 Wang, Puchen im NZL 2431 5 1990

2 Dive, Russell John im NZL 2340 9 1966

3 Croad, Nicolas fm NZL 2334 9 1980

4 Ker, Anthony F fm NZL 2324 8 1967

5 Garbett, Paul Anthony im NZL 2292 9 1952

6 Watson, Bruce R fm NZL 2276 0 1960

7 Smith, Robert W fm NZL 2262 9 1956

8 McLaren, Leonard NZL 2238 0 1964

9 Lukey, Stephen G fm NZL 2236 9 1968

10 Steadman, Michael fm NZL 2230 19 1962

Wang has been in America for some time now so is unfortunately not really a local player anymore. Russell Dive's world rank is 3691 (active players).

Top Palmerston North (Active Players)

34 John McDonald  2047

45 Chris Burns        1994

59 Mathew King     1966

71 Justin Davis         1926



Country rank by average rating of top 10 players


                    Average GMs IMs Total Titled

1 Russia       2744 213 485 2087

2 Ukraine     2697 79 199 485

3 China          2661 29 23 112

4 Armenia      2659 33 22 84

5 Hungary      2657 51 104 411

6 France      2657 46 95 338

7 United States of America 2647 71 119 557

8 Israel         2644 39 45 157

9 India          2642 25 76 207

10 Azerbaijan 2640 20 16 73

77 New Zealand 2296 1 6 31


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Palmerston North Speed Chess Championship

Wednesday the 7th of March is the start of the Palmerston North Chess Club Blitz Championship. It will be held over two nights with a time control of 3 mins each with a two second increment. The increment gives players a chance not to lose on time in equal positions and games can sometimes last longer than a 5 / 0, so don't be scared by only having 3 minutes.

The AGM was held recently with some positive movement. Dennis has done a good job as President/treasurer but he will not longer have the stress of these roles. Martin Sims is the now club treasurer and Mathew king (that's me) has taken on the role as club president. Stewart will maintain his role as club captain. Full minutes will come out in next week's club magazine.

Palmerston North Chess News

Palmy Champion GM Mark Noble had a recent article in last Saturday's Manawatu Standard here is the link to the online version http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/6403195/Grand-Master-coaches-as-he-beats-the-lot. Although Susan Polgar also had the article on her website some days ago my blogging is not quite as timely. Mark is also leading the New Zealand correspondence championship with only Peter Goffin having a chance of passing him or most likey getting an equal score. Here is the crosstable.

The opening night of the Palmy Chess Club is tonight Wednesday 15th 7:30pm at the hearing house 435 Church street. The AGM is scheduled for next week with the Blitz championship to follow the week after, all are welcome.