World's Top Juniors Race Towards 2700 (UPDATE)

Nineteen year old GM Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia is the top ELO points gainer with a +39.3 ELO from his combined exploits in topping the 11th European Individual Championship alone on March 6th to 18th 2010 in Rijeka, Croatia with a 2868 performance and a +27.7 ELO and secondly also scoring a +11.6 ELO at The Russian Team Chess Championships that took place in Dagomys 1st-10th April 2010. GM Nepomniachtchi needing only +4.7 ELO dislodged the former leader GM Le, Quang Liem of Vietnam in their race towards Hyper GM Status at 2700 ELO.

GM Fabiano Caruana of Italy who has a live rating of 2674.5 and GM Wesley So of the Philippines @ 2669.1 basically retained their 3rd and 4th places respectively.

The youngest at 15 among the Juniors Top 10 Super GMs Anish Giri of Netherlands was the 2nd top gainer @ +18.2 who had good results in his participation at the German Chess "Bundesliga" … the strongest team championships in the world and at the 11th European Individual Championship. GM Giri with a 2642.2 live rating now ranked #6 from his previous 9th place in March 2010.

The World’s Top 3 Juniors GMs Magnus Carlsen NOR(2813), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA(2727) & Sergey Karjakin RUS(2725) were not included in the computations since they are already in the Hyper-GM Status (2700+).

The computed LIVE RATINGS were based on March 2010 FIDE's Ratings + FIDE’s Individual Calculations for May 2010 as of 30 April 2010 + the results of 9th Asian Continental Championship @ Subic, Phils (April 20-30, 2010).

B. Top 20 Juniors May 2010 - Archive

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Day
1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2813 0 1990-11-30
2 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2739 7 1990-01-12
3 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2710 15 1990-10-21
4 Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2695 20 1990-07-14
5 Le, Quang Liem g VIE 2687 13 1991-03-13
6 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2675 21 1992-07-30
7 So, Wesley g PHI 2665 0 1993-10-09
8 Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2643 5 1990-02-05
9 Giri, Anish g NED 2642 24 1994-06-28
10 Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son g VIE 2642 0 1990-02-23
11 Negi, Parimarjan g IND 2636 7 1993-02-09
12 Kuzubov, Yuriy g UKR 2628 23 1990-01-26
13 Howell, David W L g ENG 2620 18 1990-11-14

Answers:

1. The World’s Top 3 Juniors GMs Magnus Carlsen NOR(2813), Sergey Karjakin RUS(2739) & Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA(2710) were not included in the computations since they are already in the Hyper-GM Status (2700+).

2. The respective LIVE Ratings has been rounded off to the nearest whole number.

Example: 
Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS 2695.3 = 2695 (May 2010)
Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2674.5 = 2675 (May 2010)

3. GM Le Quang Liem VIE previous March 2010 rating was 2689 and his (FIDE rtg +/-) at Vietnam National Championship was (-2.3) 

2689+ (-2.3) = 2686.7 (Live rating before rounding off to May 2010 FIDE Rating)

2687 (Final May 2010 FIDE Rating)

4. The results of 9th Asian Continental Championship (ACC) @ Subic, Phils (April 20-30, 2010) for GMs Le Quang Liem VIE, So Wesley PHI & Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son VIE had not been submitted in time and was not included for "May 2010 FIDE Rating List" ! Their respective Gain/Loss ratings from ACC will be carried over in their respective live ratings ... May 2010 FIDE Rating + (FIDE rtg +/-) @ ACC.

Therefore their respective UPDATED LIVE RATINGS as of 1 May 2010 should be:

GM Le Quang Liem VIE: 2687+ (-6,1) = 2680.9 (New computed Live Rating)
GM Wesley So: 2665+4.1 = 2669.1
GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son VIE: 2642+(-13,9) = 2628.1

posted by: joeyj of PACLAND
30 April 2010