Big changes on the LIVE rating list

Magnus Carlsen and Veselin Topalov were distracted during the Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk. A logical explanation for the not so stellar performance at the Chess Olympiad by the top 2 players in the world is they were involved with additional activities in Khanty-Mansiysk. Magnus is an Ambassador for the successful Tromsø 2014 Chess Olympiad bid while Veselin was busy with the Danailov for ECU Presidential election. Therefore, their ratings suffered.

The biggest changes at the top are -15.3 for Carlsen, -17.5 for Topalov, +17.9 for Ivanchuk, and +16 each for Karjakin and Wang Yue. There are also many other big changes, including Caruana, Nepomniachtchi, Wojtaszek, and Kamsky, etc. Vallejo and Alekseev are both back in the 2700 club.

Efimenko broke the 2700 mark after his excellent performance at the Olympiad to help Ukraine win the Gold medal. It is also worth noting that Almasi (participant of the 2010 SPICE Cup A group) has taken over the #1 spot from Leko in Hungary on the LIVE rating list.

Here is the latest LIVE rating list with the first 10 rounds of the Olympiad:

01	Carlsen	2810,7	-15,3
02	Anand	2800,0	0
03	Aronian	2789,7	+6,7
04	Topalov	2785,5	-17,5
05	Kramnik	2775,0	-5
06	Ivanchuk	2771,9	+17,9
07	Grischuk	2763,2	+3,2
08	Karjakin	2763,0	+16
09	Mamedyarov	2760,4	+4,4
10	Shirov	2755,4	+6,4
11	Wang Yue	2748,0	+16
12	Ponomariov	2745,5	-3,5
13	Gelfand	2745,3	-5,7
14	Radjabov	2745,1	-2,9
15	Eljanov	2741,4	-19,6
16	Nakamura	2740,7	+7,7
17	Gashimov	2733,4	+14,4
18	Wang Hao	2732,6	+8,6
19	Svidler	2730,5	-0,5
20	Movsesian	2730,3	+7,3
21	Jakovenko	2728,2	+2,2
22	Nepomniachtchi	2727,5	+21,5
23	Wojtaszek	2725,3	+14,3
24	Adams	2724,0	-4
25	Almasi	2717,0	+10
26	Kamsky	2716,7	+11,7
26	Leko	2716,7	-7,3
28	Vachier-Lagrave	2715,4	-5,6
29	Dominguez	2715,3	-0,7
30	Jobava	2715,0	+5
31	Bacrot	2714,7	-1,3
31	Caruana	2714,7	+14,7
33	Malakhov	2714,3	-10,7
34	Fressinet	2713,1	-4,9
35	Vitiugov	2711,0	+2
36	Efimenko	2707,2	+24,2
37	Alekseev	2705,2	+14,2
38	Navara	2703,6	-18,4
39	Vallejo	2700,7	+3,7
40	Morozevich	2700,0	0

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