Live Top List Archive
Provisional World Chess Rankings

Featured: All Players Rated FIDE 2700 and Above!

The Live Top List has been an unofficial chess rating list that covered all players with live ratings of 2700 and above in the FIDE rating system. The official FIDE list is published 6 times each year, while this list has been updated and published as games and tournaments have been played, typically with daily updates during tournaments featuring top players.

In 2011 the work of keeping the site updated proved to require more than time and resources allowed for, and since I never managed to bring myself completely out of the loop, despite excellent help from Dambi, I've decided to stop providing live updates. The site lives on, though, currently as a live rating archive for the period from April 2008 to August 2011 - a total of 778 updates. More rating related content can be expected to be added to this site later, hopefully including both articles, statistics and more.

For anyone wanting to stay current on live ratings, I recommend going to 2700chess.com or visiting Dambi's ChessPro based forum where ratings typically are updated once per day and often even more frequently. I think it's great that someone with more time on their hands have taken up the challenge of continuing what I started, and I wish all of them good luck!

In a Live Top List, rating changes and number of games & events rated are relative to the official FIDE list at the time the specific Live Top List is published. Lists published in September and October are relative to the September list, lists published in November and December are relative to the November list, and so on.

Messages:

• I want to thank Dambi for the great work he did both during our formal cooperation and prior to it! Thanks a lot, mate! I also want to thank Peter of Chessvibes and Anton of Chessdom for helping to popularize my site. Thanks, guys!
• The following represents the state of rated events in the archive when the last update (so far) to the Live Top List was made for games played until and up to August 17th 2011.

Games/tournaments in addition to the July 2011 list:

Ongoing events (rated):

• Summer universiade (Rounds 1-4 of 9) [ Wang Hao, Wang Yue ]
• Championnat de France (Rounds 1-4 of 11) [ Vachier-Lagrave, Bacrot, Fressinet ]
• SMM 2011 (Rounds 1-5 of 9) [ Caruana, Dreev ]

Finished events (rated):

• HL Men's 64th RUS Champs 2011 (11 rounds) [ Vitiugov, Jakovenko, Tomashevsky, Morozevich ]
• IX Gyorgy Marx Memorial (10 rounds)[ Wojtaszek, Berkes ]
• Coupe de France - Finale (1 game rated) [ Vachier-Lagrave ]
• AAI International Grandmasters (10 rounds) [ Caruana, Laznicka ]
• Dutch Championship (9 rounds) [ Giri ]
• World Open (9 rounds) [ Kamsky, Adams, Van Wely ]
• Greek Team Championship (7 rounds) [ Ivanchuk, Navara, Naiditsch, Polgar ]
• World Team Championship (9 rounds) [ Aronian, Karjakin, Ivanchuk, Mamedyarov, Gashimov, Grischuk, Radjabov, Kamsky, Svidler, Vitiugov, Almasi,Wang Hao,Leko, Moiseenko, Nepomniachtchi, Wang Yue, Efimenko, Movsesian, Sutovsky, Polgar ]
• ACCENTUS GM Tournament Biel (10 rounds) [ Carlsen, Vachier-Lagrave, Shirov, Caruana, Morozevich ]
• Lake Sevan (9 rounds) [ Jobava ]
• Dortmunder Sparkassen Chess Meeting (10 rounds) [ Kramnik, Nakamura, Ponomariov, Giri, Le Quang Liem ]
• Chinese Chess League Division B (8 games rated) [ Dreev ]
• Curacao Chess Festival (9 rounds) [ Van Wely ]
• Commonwealth & South African Open (11 rounds) [ Short ]
• British Championship (11 rounds) [ Adams, Short ]
• Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament (9 rounds) [ Naiditsch ]
• Match Navara - Laznicka (6 rounds) [ Navara, Laznicka ]
• US Open (9 rounds) [ Nakamura (only 3 games), Van Wely ]
• Chinese Chess League Division A rounds 7-12 (6 rounds) [ Wang Hao, Le Quang Liem, Malakhov, Wang Yue ]
• Baku Open (9 rounds) [ Mamedyarov, Vallejo, Dominguez, Dreev, Sutovsky, Andreikin ]
• Russian Superfinal (7 rounds) [ Kramnik, Karjakin, Grischuk, Svidler, Morozevich, Nepomniachtchi ]

The Live Top List Archive

The Live Top List has become the Live Top List Archive - for the time being. The site will not go away, and all the 778 lists published between April 2008 and August 2011 will be kept around as historical items. I also intend to improve the look-up mechanisms so that it becomes easier to browse and look at the lists and the players that entered the lists during the period updates were actively produced.

I'm happy that so many found my site useful during the 3+ years I published live ratings. I'm also grateful for all the help I got from numerous people to stay up to date, ranging from normal chess fans to managers and elite players themselves. I do intend to continue to provide rating-related data on this site, so it might be worthwhile to check back at some later time. However, I expect to announce new content here through other, wide-read sources, so don't strain your mouse finger unnecessarily. Meanwhile I recommend going to www.2700chess.com for daily rating updates - they're doing a great job!