ANAND BACK @ WORLD NUMBER 1!

World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India recaptured the World Number 1 position from the Norweigien Magnus Carlsen on the March 2011 FIDE list, which he lost to Carlsen in the January 2011 FIDE list! Vishy is on top with 2817 points after gaining 7 points during the recent Tata Steel Chess. This is Anand's Best & Highest ELO Rating Ever, excluding the Live Rating he had on 30-01-11, which was 2819.4!

Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian also maintained themselves above 2800 ELO, gaining 1 and 3 points respectively from the same event, Tata Steel Chess 2011. Kramnik, Ivanchuk, Karjakin, Topalov, Nakamura, Mamedyarov, and Grischuk are the rest of the players in the Top 10.

Judith Polagar is keeping her place as the top woman chess player on the planet, while Humpy Koneru of India and World Champion Yifan Hou of China are the other players above 2600. Fabiano Caruana is the top junior, followed by Anish Giri, Le
Quang Liem, and Wesley So. Top girls are Yifan Hou, Harika Dronavalli, and Ju Wenjun.

FIDE Top 100 March!

1 Anand, Viswanathan IND 2817
2 Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2815
3 Aronian, Levon ARM 2808
4 Kramnik, Vladimir RUS 2785
5 Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 2779
6 Karjakin, Sergey RUS 2776
7 Topalov, Veselin BUL 2775
8 Nakamura, Hikaru USA 2774
9 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE 2772
10 Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2747
11 Gashimov, Vugar AZE 2746
12 Radjabov, Teimour AZE 2744
13 Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR 2743
14 Wang, Yue CHN 2734
15 Kamsky, Gata USA 2733
16 Gelfand, Boris ISR 2733
17 Svidler, Peter RUS 2730
18 Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS 2729
19 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2728
20 Wang, Hao CHN 2728
21 Eljanov, Pavel UKR 2724
22 Navara, David CZE 2722
23 Vitiugov, Nikita RUS 2720
24 Almasi, Zoltan HUN 2719
25 Bacrot, Etienne FRA 2718
26 Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS 2718
27 Leko, Peter HUN 2717
28 Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2716
29 Movsesian, Sergei ARM 2716
30 Adams, Michael ENG 2716
31 Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB 2716
32 Malakhov, Vladimir RUS 2714
33 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL 2711
34 Efimenko, Zahar UKR 2708
35 Vallejo Pons, Francisco ESP 2707
36 Tomashevsky, Evgeny RUS 2707
37 Jobava, Baadur GEO 2707
38 Shirov, Alexei ESP 2701
39 Dreev, Aleksey RUS 2697
40 Morozevich, Alexander RUS 2694
41 Fressinet, Laurent FRA 2693
42 Sutovsky, Emil ISR 2692
43 Giri, Anish NED 2690
44 Le, Quang Liem VIE 2689
45 Alekseev, Evgeny RUS 2688
46 Laznicka, Viktor CZE 2688
47 Areshchenko, Alexander UKR 2687
48 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam UZB 2687
49 Andreikin, Dmitry RUS 2686
50 Bruzon Batista, Lazaro CUB 2686
51 Polgar, Judit HUN 2686
52 Naiditsch, Arkadij GER 2684
53 McShane, Luke J ENG 2683
54 Sasikiran, Krishnan IND 2682
55 Zhigalko, Sergei BLR 2680
56 Riazantsev, Alexander RUS 2679
57 Onischuk, Alexander USA 2678
58 Berkes, Ferenc HUN 2678
59 Rublevsky, Sergei RUS 2678
60 Van Wely, Loek NED 2677
61 Motylev, Alexander RUS 2677
62 Volokitin, Andrei UKR 2677
63 Bu, Xiangzhi CHN 2677
64 Short, Nigel D ENG 2676
65 Sargissian, Gabriel ARM 2676
66 Grachev, Boris RUS 2675
67 Akopian, Vladimir ARM 2675
68 Inarkiev, Ernesto RUS 2674
69 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ROU 2673
70 Moiseenko, Alexander UKR 2673
71 Kobalia, Mikhail RUS 2672
72 Bologan, Viktor MDA 2671
73 Miroshnichenko, Evgenij UKR 2670
74 Nielsen, Peter Heine DEN 2670
75 Meier, Georg GER 2669
76 So, Wesley PHI 2667
77 Mamedov, Rauf AZE 2667
78 Georgiev, Kiril BUL 2666
79 Timofeev, Artyom RUS 2665
80 Harikrishna, P. IND 2665
81 Cheparinov, Ivan BUL 2664
82 Zvjaginsev, Vadim RUS 2663
83 Bareev, Evgeny RUS 2663
84 Khismatullin, Denis RUS 2662
85 Fedorchuk, Sergey A. UKR 2662
86 Fridman, Daniel GER 2661
87 Roiz, Michael ISR 2661
88 Socko, Bartosz POL 2660
89 Smeets, Jan NED 2660
90 Zhou, Jianchao CHN 2660
91 Smirin, Ilia ISR 2658
92 Feller, Sebastien FRA 2657
93 Nyback, Tomi FIN 2656
94 Kurnosov, Igor RUS 2653
95 Potkin, Vladimir RUS 2653
96 Milov, Vadim SUI 2653
97 Yu, Yangyi CHN 2652
98 Gharamian, Tigran FRA 2650
99 Korobov, Anton UKR 2647
100 Gustafsson, Jan GER 2647
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FIDE Top 50 Women - March 2011!

1 Polgar, Judit HUN 2686
2 Koneru, Humpy IND 2607
3 Hou, Yifan CHN 2602
4 Dzagnidze, Nana GEO 2567
5 Kosintseva, Nadezhda RUS 2567
6 Kosintseva, Tatiana RUS 2559
7 Lahno, Kateryna UKR 2531
8 Muzychuk, Anna SLO 2528
9 Cmilyte, Viktorija LTU 2526
10 Harika, Dronavalli IND 2524
11 Stefanova, Antoaneta BUL 2523
12 Ju, Wenjun CHN 2519
13 Zhu, Chen QAT 2506
14 Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS 2503
15 Chiburdanidze, Maia GEO 2502
16 Zatonskih, Anna USA 2499
17 Galliamova, Alisa RUS 2497
18 Zhao, Xue CHN 2495
19 Socko, Monika POL 2495
20 Sebag, Marie FRA 2489
21 Cramling, Pia SWE 2484
22 Xu, Yuhua CHN 2484
23 Ruan, Lufei CHN 2480
24 Muzychuk, Mariya UKR 2476
25 Danielian, Elina ARM 2475
26 Mkrtchian, Lilit ARM 2475
27 Krush, Irina USA 2472
28 Gunina, Valentina RUS 2472
29 Khotenashvili, Bela GEO 2465
30 Paehtz, Elisabeth GER 2464
31 Melia, Salome GEO 2462
32 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan SCO 2458
33 Skripchenko, Almira FRA 2458
34 Dembo, Yelena GRE 2457
35 Hoang Thanh Trang HUN 2456
36 Hunt, Harriet V ENG 2454
37 Ushenina, Anna UKR 2454
38 Polgar, Sofia HUN 2450
39 Pogonina, Natalija RUS 2446
40 Rajlich, Iweta POL 2446
41 Repkova, Eva SVK 2446
42 Atalik, Ekaterina TUR 2444
43 Zhukova, Natalia UKR 2443
44 Shen, Yang CHN 2443
45 Javakhishvili, Lela GEO 2437
46 Khurtsidze, Nino GEO 2436
47 Gaponenko, Inna UKR 2435
48 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag MGL 2434
49 Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman IND 2431
50 Turova, Irina RUS 2428
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FIDE Top 21 Juniors - March 2011!

1 Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2716
2 Giri, Anish NED 2690
3 Le, Quang Liem VIE 2689
4 So, Wesley PHI 2667
5 Feller, Sebastien FRA 2657
6 Yu, Yangyi CHN 2652
7 Sjugirov, Sanan RUS 2643
8 Ding, Liren CHN 2637
9 Salgado Lopez, Ivan ESP 2630
10 Kovalyov, Anton ARG 2629
11 Safarli, Eltaj AZE 2628
12 Matlakov, Maxim RUS 2625
13 Negi, Parimarjan IND 2618
14 Hou, Yifan CHN 2602
15 Nabaty, Tamir ISR 2581
16 Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel ARM 2575
17 Hess, Robert L USA 2565
18 Nyzhnyk, Illya UKR 2563
19 Cordova, Emilio PER 2562
20 Zherebukh, Yaroslav UKR 2560
21 Hovhannisyan, Robert ARM 2560
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FIDE Top 20 Girls - March 2011!

1 Hou, Yifan CHN 2602
2 Harika, Dronavalli IND 2524
3 Ju, Wenjun CHN 2519
4 Muzychuk, Mariya UKR 2476
5 Tan, Zhongyi CHN 2428
6 Paikidze, Nazi GEO 2425
7 Girya, Olga RUS 2425
8 Bodnaruk, Anastasia RUS 2423
9 Cori T., Deysi PER 2386
10 Savina, Anastasia RUS 2383
11 Ding, Yixin CHN 2376
12 Sukandar, Irine Kharisma INA 2354
13 Padmini, Rout IND 2342
14 Bhakti, Kulkarni IND 2339
15 Guramishvili, Sopiko GEO 2334
16 Pustovoitova, Daria RUS 2333
17 Guo, Qi CHN 2331
18 Nguyen, Thi Mai Hung VIE 2320
19 Kashlinskaya, Alina RUS 2320
20 Soloviova, Liza UKR 2318