MOSCOW, 1 Dec - R-Sport. Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik has dropped from eighth to ninth place in the chart international chess Federation (FIDE), the New version of which is published on the Internet representation of the organization.

The leader of the rating is the world champion Norwegian Magnus Carlsen 2850 points.

Top ten men's FIDE rating is as follows: 1 (1 place in the previous version of the rating). Magnus Carlsen (Norway) - 2850 points, 2 (4). Hikaru Nakamura (USA) - 2816, 3 (3). Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) - 2813, 4 (2). Viswanathan Anand (India) - 2803, 5 (6). Anish Giri (The Netherlands) - 2798, 6 (5). Fabio Caruana (USA) - 2796, 7 (11). Levon Aronian (Armenia) - 2784, 8 (7). Ligang Dean (China) - 2782, 9 (8). Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) - 2777, 10 (10). Alexander Grischuk (Russia) - 2774.

in a female chart Valentina Gunina went up to the seventh place, Alexandra Kosteniuk dropped to ninth place: 1 (1). HOU Yifan (China) - 2671, 2 (2). Humpy Koneru (India) - 2578, 3 (3). Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia) - 2573, 4 (4). Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine) - 2549, 5 (5). Jiuyi Vagnsson (China) - 2542, 6 (6). Viktorija Cmilyte (Lithuania) - 2534, 7 (8). Valentina Gunina (Russia) - 2529, 8 (9). Maria Muzychuk (Ukraine) - 2528, 9 (7). Alexandra Kosteniuk (Russia) - 2525, 10 (10). Zhao Xue (China) - 2524.

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