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images/birth_ico.pngFerdinand Hellers, 1969, Sweden
images/birth_ico.pngValentin Arbakov, 1952, USSR

FIDE Ratings January 2012

1 Magnus Carlsen NORWAY 2835
2 Levon Aronian ARMENIA 2805
3 Vladimir Kramnik RUSSIA 2801
4 Viswanathan Anand INDIA 2799
5 Teimour Radjabov AZERBAJIAN 2773
6 Veselin Topalov BULGARIA 2770
7 Segey Karjakin RUSSIA 2769
8 Vasily Ivanchuk RUSSIA 2766
9 Alexander Morozevich RUSSIA 2763
10 Vugar Gashimov AZERBAJIAN 2761

Women FIDE January 2012

1 Judit Polgar HUNGARY 2710
2 Yifan Hou CHINA 2605
3 Humpy Koneru INDIA 2589
4 Anna Muzychuk SLOVENIA 2580
5 Kateryna Lahno UKRAINE 2557
6 Wenjun Ju CHINA 2552
7 Xue Zhao CHINA 2551
8 Nadezhda Kosintseva RUSSIA 2537
9 Nana Dzaganidze GEORGIA 2535
10 Antonaneta Stefanova BULGARIA 2523

CCRL 40/40 Rating List October 30 2011

1. Houdini 1.5a 64-bit 4CPU 3307

2. Rybka 4.1 64-bit4 CPU 3269

3. Critter 1.2 64-bit 3264

4. Stockfish 2.1 64-bit 4CPU 3242

5. Komodo 3 64-bit SSE 3224

6. Naum 4.2 64-bit 4CPU 3182

7. Spike 1.4 Leiden 4CPU 3139

8. Deep Shreddder 12 64-bit OA On 4CPU 3130

9. Hiarcs 13.2 4CPU 3097

10. Deep Fritz 11 4CPU 3098

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 If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage. - Alexander Kotov

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