- August 2014 FIDE rating published -

Hou Yifan, a threat to Judith Polgar

The new official FIDE rating list has been published.

Here’s the important news of this new rating :

1.        Carlsen is still dominating, and it’s no surprise
2.        Caruana finally officially break the 2800 barrier, and grab the third place
3.        The French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave arrives in the 9^th place with 2768
4.        Vladimir Kramnik looses 17 points and falls to the 10^th place
5.        Hou Yifan is definitely a threat to Judith Polgar who is now just 15 points above the Chinese GM
6.        Wesley So is closer and closer to the top ten with 2755

Top 20

Rk	Name	Fed	Rtg	Games
1	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2877	0
2	Aronian, Levon	ARM	2805	0
3	Caruana, Fabiano	ITA	2801	7
4	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	2795	0
5	Nakamura, Hikaru	USA	2787	0
6	Karjakin, Sergey	RUS	2786	0
7	Anand, Viswanathan	IND	2785	0
8	Topalov, Veselin	BUL	2772	0
9	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	2768	10
10	Kramnik, Vladimir	RUS	2760	7
11	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	CUB	2760	0
12	So, Wesley	PHI	2755	15
13	Gelfand, Boris	ISR	2753	0
14	Svidler, Peter	RUS	2751	0
15	Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS	2747	0
16	Giri, Anish	NED	2745	10
17	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2744	9
18	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	2743	0
19	Ding, Liren	CHN	2742	13
20	Vitiugov, Nikita	RUS	2742	0

Rk	Name	Fed	Rtg	Games
1	Polgar, Judit	HUN	2676	0
2	Hou, Yifan	CHN	2661	21
3	Koneru, Humpy	IND	2598	11
4	Ju, Wenjun	CHN	2559	15
5	Muzychuk, Anna	UKR	2555	11
6	Dzagnidze, Nana	GEO	2550	22
7	Lagno, Kateryna	RUS	2540	0
8	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	RUS	2531	11
9	Muzychuk, Mariya	UKR	2530	11
10	Cmilyte, Viktorija	LTU	2525	0
11	Gunina, Valentina	RUS	2524	11
12	Harika, Dronavalli	IND	2521	11
13	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	RUS	2513	0
14	Zhao, Xue	CHN	2508	15
15	Stefanova, Antoaneta	BUL	2505	22
16	Ruan, Lufei	CHN	2503	0
17	Cramling, Pia	SWE	2500	16
18	Khotenashvili, Bela	GEO	2494	11
19	Kosintseva, Tatiana	RUS	2494	11
20	Danielian, Elina	ARM	2490	22