Azeri chess player goes up in rating of world’s strongest players
Mon 28 January 2013 10:40 GMT | 4:40 Local Time
Azerbaijani grandmaster Shahriyar Mammadyarov has climbed to the ninth place in the current ranking of the world’s strongest chess players.
It happened after a failed tournament of Italian chess player Fabiano Caruana (current rating – 2756.8) in Wijk aan Zee. Now he is at the 13th place.
Shahriyar Mammadyarov, who has not yet played in the 2013 ranking party, rose one step becoming the ninth (2766).
Leader of the rating is Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2872.3).
Teymur Rajabov (Azerbaijan, 2793) ranks fourth, while Vugar Hashimov (Azerbaijan, 2737), who has not played due to health, dropped to the 19th place.
Source: http://www.news.az
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
He’s a world contender.
Nonsense. What’s the importance to know that someone goes up in ranking without playing one single game?
How many ratings are there anyway? How much do I have to pay to have a rating? I understand its not free any more. Easier if one can just buy rating from a shop. Then lose some, win some more. As long as the money goes for chess promotion.