Magnus Carlsen and Veselin Topalov were distracted during the Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk. A logical explanation for the not so stellar performance at the Chess Olympiad by the top 2 players in the world is they were involved with additional activities in Khanty-Mansiysk. Magnus is an Ambassador for the successful Tromsø 2014 Chess Olympiad bid while Veselin was busy with the Danailov for ECU Presidential election. Therefore, their ratings suffered.
The biggest changes at the top are -15.3 for Carlsen, -17.5 for Topalov, +17.9 for Ivanchuk, and +16 each for Karjakin and Wang Yue. There are also many other big changes, including Caruana, Nepomniachtchi, Wojtaszek, and Kamsky, etc. Vallejo and Alekseev are both back in the 2700 club.
Efimenko broke the 2700 mark after his excellent performance at the Olympiad to help Ukraine win the Gold medal. It is also worth noting that Almasi (participant of the 2010 SPICE Cup A group) has taken over the #1 spot from Leko in Hungary on the LIVE rating list.
Here is the latest LIVE rating list with the first 10 rounds of the Olympiad:
| 01 | Carlsen | 2810,7 | -15,3 |
| 02 | Anand | 2800,0 | 0 |
| 03 | Aronian | 2789,7 | +6,7 |
| 04 | Topalov | 2785,5 | -17,5 |
| 05 | Kramnik | 2775,0 | -5 |
| 06 | Ivanchuk | 2771,9 | +17,9 |
| 07 | Grischuk | 2763,2 | +3,2 |
| 08 | Karjakin | 2763,0 | +16 |
| 09 | Mamedyarov | 2760,4 | +4,4 |
| 10 | Shirov | 2755,4 | +6,4 |
| 11 | Wang Yue | 2748,0 | +16 |
| 12 | Ponomariov | 2745,5 | -3,5 |
| 13 | Gelfand | 2745,3 | -5,7 |
| 14 | Radjabov | 2745,1 | -2,9 |
| 15 | Eljanov | 2741,4 | -19,6 |
| 16 | Nakamura | 2740,7 | +7,7 |
| 17 | Gashimov | 2733,4 | +14,4 |
| 18 | Wang Hao | 2732,6 | +8,6 |
| 19 | Svidler | 2730,5 | -0,5 |
| 20 | Movsesian | 2730,3 | +7,3 |
| 21 | Jakovenko | 2728,2 | +2,2 |
| 22 | Nepomniachtchi | 2727,5 | +21,5 |
| 23 | Wojtaszek | 2725,3 | +14,3 |
| 24 | Adams | 2724,0 | -4 |
| 25 | Almasi | 2717,0 | +10 |
| 26 | Kamsky | 2716,7 | +11,7 |
| 26 | Leko | 2716,7 | -7,3 |
| 28 | Vachier-Lagrave | 2715,4 | -5,6 |
| 29 | Dominguez | 2715,3 | -0,7 |
| 30 | Jobava | 2715,0 | +5 |
| 31 | Bacrot | 2714,7 | -1,3 |
| 31 | Caruana | 2714,7 | +14,7 |
| 33 | Malakhov | 2714,3 | -10,7 |
| 34 | Fressinet | 2713,1 | -4,9 |
| 35 | Vitiugov | 2711,0 | +2 |
| 36 | Efimenko | 2707,2 | +24,2 |
| 37 | Alekseev | 2705,2 | +14,2 |
| 38 | Navara | 2703,6 | -18,4 |
| 39 | Vallejo | 2700,7 | +3,7 |
| 40 | Morozevich | 2700,0 | 0 |
These ratings do not include the last round.
Nice job by Almasi.
At this rate Anand will soon become the world No.1 and Aronian closing in.
While Topalov – Danailov form a Siamese pair beyond redemption, Carlsen needs to be guided and told that his chess playing skills alone matters.
Yeah Susan but their best guy usin their traditonal concepts only made it to 2850 then he quit, besides the olympiad games just looks semiultra anyway, they just practicing, Susan this is too easy really.
The young king is still on top, but watch Kramnik’s fall and Nakamura’s climb to the top!
I never know what Lionel Davis is trying to say. Can’t you try plain English once in a while?
“I never know what Lionel Davis is trying to say. Can’t you try plain English once in a while?”
Why you comin’ out your neck Jive Honky?
Brotha Lionel represents Hip Hop Chess to da extreme! Step off Winfro!
Lionel Davis is not understood by many people because he’s a genius.
What additional activities for Topalov ? Wearing a t-shirt for the Danailov-campaign ?
Topalov lost games and points because
he doesn’t want to waste his precious
preparation for a competition where his team has very little chances of winning a medal, if any.
As a pure “practical player” without opening surprises, Topalov is not worth 2800 elo (unlike Anand).
As for Carlsen, he will continue to go further down if he doesn’t stop with all these pr-events, interviews, fotoshoots,… which have nothing to do with chess.
Please ban super fly for using the racial slur: honky
Please ban Anonymouse for being an imbecile.
Thank you.