Carlsen still number one

The official World Chess Federation (FIDE) rating list has come out with Magnus Carlsen still officially number one, but when Linares is counted Topalov will be pushing him close.
Kramnik has moved up to third place ahead of Anand.

The FIDE rating lists come out every two months, so there are now six every year. The latest one came out yesterday on the 1st of March.

There is a lag of a couple of weeks, so the list reflects results of events up to mid-February.

Topalov gained points in his success in Linares and Grischuk also gained, but they will have to wait until the following list on the 1st of May, before they will appear officially in the ratings.

As you'll see below, Carlsen is officially number one (and is actually higher-rated than Kasparov's last active rating) but there is a long way to go to get above Kasparov's world record 2851.

In the top 21 there are six players (generally the younger ones) who have their career highest ratings at the present time.

At the bottom of the list, for comparative purposes, you can notice the addition of the two leading women players and the world's leading inactive player!

Ranking	Name	Country	Official Rating	Linares change	Career Highest	Age
1	Magnus Carlsen	NOR	2813		2813	19
2	Veselin Topalov	BUL	2805	+7	2813	34
3	Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2790		2811	34
4	Viswanathan Anand	IND	2787		2803	40
5	Levon Aronian	ARM	2782	+1	2786	27
6	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2760		2760	24
7	Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2756	+14	2756	26
8	Peter Svidler	RUS	2750		2765	33
9	Boris Gelfand	ISR	2750	-11	2761	41
10	Wang Yue	CHN	2749		2749	22
11	Vassily Ivanchuk	UKR	2748		2787	40
12	Vugar Gashimov	AZE	2740	-10	2759	23
13	Teimour Radjabov	AZE	2740		2761	22
14	Alexei Shirov	ESP	2737		2755	37
15	Ruslan Ponomariov	UKR	2737		2743	26
16	Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2736		2736	26
17	Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2735		2735	22
18	Peter Leko	HUN	2735		2763	30
19	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	FRA	2727		2730	19
20	Dmitry Jakovenko	RUS	2725		2760	26
21	Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2725		2732	20
51	Judith Polgar	HUN	2682		2735	33
141	Humpy Koneru	IND	2622		2623	22
Former no.1	Garry Kasparov	RUS	inactive 2812		2851	46

If one were to take into account the Linares results then Topalov would still be behind Carlsen.

Grischuk would go up one place and raise his career highest rating.

Gelfand would lose 3 places and drop out of the top ten, whereas Gashimov would lose as many as 6 places.

There is still a couple of months for many ratings to change before the 1st of May!