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caknight 04-Sep-11, 18:46

Magnus Carlsen 2823 Rating #1 in FIDE Magnus Carlsen is topping the polls these days. The young Norwegian chess star recently won the the Chess Oscar for 2010, a title voted on by chess journalist for the Player of the Year award, as he edged out World Champion Vishy Anand by just 20-points in one of the closest races ever in the contest since its inception in 1967. "I am happy to have won the Chess Oscar, especially in a year where there was a World Championship," commented Carlsen. And the new September FIDE Rating list published last week also saw Carlsen retain his No.1 spot with a 2-points increase over Anand. After winning Biel, Carlsen is now 2823 with Anand (who didn't play any games during the rating period) at 2817; Levon Aronian stay's close to the top two by gaining 2-points at the World Team Championships to be 2807; and Vladimir Kramnik retains the Russian No.1 spot by moving back to 4th place at 2791 above Sergey Karjakin after Dortmund and the Russian Championships. The new Fide top 100 can be viewed athttp://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men But despite topping those polls, it was Anand who had the last laugh by dominating the Botvinnik Memorial rapid play in Moscow, as Carlsen, uncharacteristically, suffered a final day meltdown by losing all of his games to finish in the cellar in last place! Anand top-scored on 4.5/6 with Kramnik and Aronian tied for second on 3/6 with Carlsen on 1.5/6. And later this month in Sao Paulo, Brazil gets set to co-host the first half of this year's Grand Slam Masters Final, with Carlsen, Anand, Aronian, Vassily Ivanchuk, Hikaru Nakamura and Francisco Vallejo Pons. The Sao Paulo leg will run 25 September to 1 October with the circus then moving to Bilbao for the final leg, running 5-11 October. This will be one of the September/October highlights on Chess.FM on ICC with full live coverage, daily Game of the Days and trivia contests where ICC members can win a 1-year subscription to New in Chess magazine each round of the tournament.

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