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Top 100 Players January 2012 Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2835 17 1990 2 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2805 25 1982 3 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2801 17 1975 4 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2799 17 1969 5 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2773 9 1987 6 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2770 9 1975 7 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2769 16 1990 8 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2766 16 1969 9 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2763 6 1977 10 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2761 9 1986 11 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2761 8 1983 12 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2759 17 1987 13 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2749 17 1976 14 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2747 9 1985 15 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2740 0 1987 16 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2739 9 1968 17 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2736 19 1992 18 Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2735 16 1990 19 Wang, Hao g CHN 2733 6 1989 20 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2732 0 1974 21 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2730 6 1983 22 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2729 0 1983 23 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2727 13 1983 24 Vitiugov, Nikita g RUS 2726 1 1987 25 Adams, Michael g ENG 2724 17 1971 26 Leko, Peter g HUN 2720 9 1979 27 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2717 8 1976 28 Giri, Anish g NED 2714 15 1994 29 Le, Quang Liem g VIE 2714 0 1991 30 Navara, David g CZE 2712 8 1985 31 Shirov, Alexei g LAT 2710 13 1972 32 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2710 0 1976 33 Riazantsev, Alexander g RUS 2710 0 1985 34 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2706 8 1987 35 Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2706 7 1980 36 Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2705 15 1982 37 Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2705 0 1980 38 Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2704 23 1983 39 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2704 14 1983 40 Laznicka, Viktor g CZE 2704 8 1988 41 Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2703 8 1977 42 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2702 14 1985 43 Movsesian, Sergei g ARM 2700 9 1978 44 Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2700 9 1981 45 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2699 13 1990 46 Dreev, Aleksey g RUS 2698 6 1969 47 Efimenko, Zahar g UKR 2695 8 1985 48 Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2695 0 1986 49 Wang, Yue g CHN 2694 6 1987 50 Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2693 17 1981 51 Li, Chao b g CHN 2693 6 1989 52 Grachev, Boris g RUS 2693 0 1986 53 Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2693 0 1973 54 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2692 13 1972 55 Bruzon Batista, Lazaro g CUB 2691 19 1982 56 McShane, Luke J g ENG 2691 8 1984 57 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2690 10 1983 58 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2689 14 1979 59 Inarkiev, Ernesto g RUS 2689 6 1985 60 Zvjaginsev, Vadim g RUS 2688 8 1976 61 Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS

IM (2008); GM (2011). Oliver Barbosa was born in Pasig City, Manila. He was the 1997 Shell Philippines National Youth Grand Finals Champion. In 2004 he reached the Philippines National semi-finals. The same year he was both the Philippines national under-18 Champion, and the Philippines National Junior Champion. In 2006, he came equal third behind Wesley So and Ronald Dableo at the 2nd Prospero Pichay Cup in Manila. Later that year he was a member of the successful Philippines team that defeated Myanmar in a team contest, his personal contribution being to score 8/12 to assist a clean sweep of all boards. Towards the end of 2010, he competed in the Penang Heritage City Open International Chess Tournament where he came equal first alongside Oliver Dimakiling with 7.5/9. He continued his good form immediately afterwards in the Asean Open Championships 2010 in Singapore, where he again came equal first, this time with Georgian GM Zurab Azmaiparashvili, with a score of 6.5/9, drawing his individual game with the co-leader. 2011 started off with a successful result in the Moscow Open 2011 E, where he came equal second with 7.5/9, half a point behind the winner Vladimir Belous, losing only to Alexander Beliavsky, but defeating his other two GM opponents, namely Pavel Kotsur from Kazakhstan and Russia's Sergey Volkov. In March he came =2nd at the Brunei 2011 IM Tournament 1 behind Dzhurabek Khamrakulov and then came equal first in the Brunei 2011 IM Tournament 2, also played in March. He scored 5/9 - and his first GM norm - at the 10th Asian Individual Championships (2011) in May, and in July he took outright first at the Campomanes Memorial Yangon International Open 2011 in Myanmar, with 7.5/9. Also in July he scored 8/13 to place =2nd with veteran GM Eugenio Torre, half a point behind prodigy GM Wesley So in the National Championships played in Manila, securing his second GM norm. His 3rd GM norm came at the Raja Nazrin Shah Invitational Masters in Kuala Lumpur in September. As his rating is already over 2500, his GM title was ratified by FIDE at its Congress in later October 2011. Barbosa was a silver medalist of the 2005 SEA games. In 2003 he coached the Taytay team.

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров, Russian pronunciation: [ˈɡarʲɪ ˈkʲiməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsparəf]; born Garry Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963, Baku, Azerbaijan) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time.[1] Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at the age of 22.[2] He held the official FIDE world title until 1993, when a dispute with FIDE led him to set up a rival organization, the Professional Chess Association. He continued to hold the "Classical" World Chess Championship until his defeat by Vladimir Kramnik in 2000. He is also widely known for being the first world chess champion to lose a match to a computer under standard time controls, when he lost to Deep Blue in 1997. Kasparov's ratings achievements include being rated world No. 1 according to Elo rating almost continuously from 1986 until his retirement in 2005 and holding the all-time highest rating of 2851.[3]He was the world No. 1 ranked player for 255 months, by far the most of all-time and nearly three times as long as his closest rival, Anatoly Karpov. He also holds records for consecutive tournament victories and Chess Oscars. Kasparov announced his retirement from professional chess on 10 March 2005, to devote his time to politics and writing. He formed the United Civil Front movement, and joined as a member of The Other Russia, a coalition opposing the administration of Vladimir Putin. He was considered to become a candidate for the 2008 Russian presidential race, but later withdrew. Widely regarded in the West as a symbol of opposition to Putin, Kasparov's support in Russia is low.[4]