Top rated Carlsen remains poised to smash the
all-time record of 2851 set by his former teacher
Garry Kasparov. His next opportunity starts this weekend at the
London Chess Classic, playing against three of the next five players in the rankings: Aronian, Kramnik and reigning
World Champion Anand. The top two Americans are also in action, with Nakamura participating in London and Kamsky bleeding rating points at the ongoing
FIDE Grand Prix in Uzbekistan. Three rounds before the end, the American-born Caruana shares the lead with Karjakin.
By my count, 14 of the top 20 players in the World compete in one of these two current tournaments.
December 2012 FIDE Rating List
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| Italian GM Fabiano Caruana, born in USA |
- Magnus Carlsen 2848
- Levon Aronian 2815
- Vladimir Kramnik 2795
- Teimour Radjabov 2793
- Fabiano Caruana 2782
- Viswanathan Anand 2775
- Sergey Karjakin 2775
- Veselin Topalov 2771
- Vassily Ivanchuk 2766
- Alexander Grischuk 2764
- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2764
- Gata Kamsky 2762
- Hikaru Nakamura 2760
- Boris Gelfand 2751
- Alexander Morozevich 2748
- Peter Svidler 2747
- Dmitry Jakovenko 2741
- Vugar Gashimov 2737
- Wang Hao 2737
- Lenier Dominguez 2734
A total of 47 players are rated 2700 and above.
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