Happy New Year 2009 Fide Chess Rating

Fide 2009 January Rating list is topped by Topalov with 2796 closely followed by World Champion Vishy Anand.

FIDE January 2009 Top Players Rating List

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2796	8	1975
2	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2791	11	1969
3	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2779	19	1969
4	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2776	17	1990
5	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2771	20	1977
6	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2761	27	1987
7	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2760	40	1983
8	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2759	20	1975
9	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2751	23	1979
10	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	2751	16	1978
11	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2750	16	1982
12	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2745	19	1972
13	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2739	28	1987
14	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2733	28	1983
15	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2733	17	1968
16	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2726	9	1983
17	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2725	16	1974
18	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2724	29	1985
19	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2723	28	1986
20	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2723	27	1976

For Bangladesh Chess, 3 of our 5 GMs are over the 2500+ marks after a good Chess Olympiad performance.

Bangladesh (Active players)

#	Name	Title	Fed	Rating	G	B-Year
1	Abdulla, Al-Rakib	g	BAN	2535	9	1980
2	Hossain, Enamul	g	BAN	2513	28	1981
3	Rahman, Ziaur	g	BAN	2509	21	1974
4	Reefat, Bin-Sattar	g	BAN	2480	9	1974
5	Murshed, Niaz	g	BAN	2429	11	1966
6	Abu Sufian, Shakil	f	BAN	2386	24	1980
7	Minhazuddin, Ahmed	f	BAN	2349	36
8	Islam, Kh. Aminul	f	BAN	2324	0	1977
9	Rahman, Md. Taibur	f	BAN	2320	11	1976
10	Ahmed, Sk. Nasir	f	BAN	2281	9	1975
11	Mohammed Abdul, Malek	f	BAN	2280	19	1983
12	Rahman, Syed Mahfuzur	f	BAN	2278	29
13	Hasan, Kayes		BAN	2249	0
14	Hasan, Mehdi	f	BAN	2243	33
15	Mohammad, Ali		BAN	2232	26	1985
16	Gosh, Chanchal Kumar		BAN	2231	0
17	Chatterjee, Debaraj		BAN	2218	38	1980
18	Ahmed, Mahtabuddin		BAN	2199	26
19	Chowdhury, Sohel		BAN	2194	37	1972
19	Ahmed, Shafiq		BAN	2194	11	1976
21	Mohammad, Javed	f	BAN	2188	34
22	Haque, Rezaul	f	BAN	2186	24	1959
23	Ahmed, Mainuddin		BAN	2182	0
24	Uddin, Saif		BAN	2181	0
25	Hossain, Monir		BAN	2180	35	1974
26	Ali, Mohammad Imran		BAN	2156	17	1989
27	Anisuzzaman, Jewel		BAN	2153	9
28	Monir, Arman		BAN	2150	33
29	Hossain, Enayet Mohammed		BAN	2147	0
30	Hossain, Delwar		BAN	2146	20