Ratings sometimes can go up or down. Players sometimes can have a very good or bad tournament once in a while. But who would you vote for as the top 5 strongest players right now?

Here are the top 15 based on ratings:

1 Topalov, Veselin 2813
2 Anand, Viswanathan 2779
3 Kramnik, Vladimir 2750
4 Svidler, Peter 2750
5 Morozevich, Alexander 2747
6 Ivanchuk, Vassily 2741
7 Aronian, Levon 2741
8 Leko, Peter 2741
9 Adams, Michael 2735
10 Gelfand, Boris 2733
11 Radjabov, Teimour 2729
12 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2728
13 Navara, David 2725
14 Shirov, Alexei 2720
15 Akopian, Vladimir 2713 Posted by Picasa

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