Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri join FIDE’s elite 2,800 club
Fascinating matches in Tbilisi and Zurich propel two of the world’s best chess players into the top rank of Super GMs
By Malcolm Pein, Chess correspondent
4:33PM GMT 18 Feb 2015
Two new members of the 2800 club were inducted this week.
Anish Giri’s defeat of Peter Svidler at Tbilisi and Hikaru Nakamura’s canny demolition of Sergey Karjakin at Zurich propelled them both into the elite group of players that have held a rating of over 2800.
In both cases, the new ratings are from the live list.
To join the official FIDE list at over 2800, they both need to avoid the loss of points before February 28.
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