India’s reigning world champion D Gukesh climbed to a career-high quantity three rating, whereas compatriot R Praggnanandhaa broke again into the highest 10 within the newest FIDE classical scores launched on Saturday.
The 18-year-old Gukesh, who has been in elegant type ever since he beat China’s Ding Liren to clinch the world title in Singapore in December, has gained 10 factors and now has a 2787 ranking.
Gukesh, who misplaced the Tata Metal Masters in Wijk aan Zee to Praggnanandhaa on tiebreak, is behind second-placed Hikaru Nakamura (2802) whereas and Norway’s Magnus Carlsen (2833) continues to be the top-ranked chess participant on the earth.
The Indian Grandmaster has overtaken compatriot Arjun Erigiasi and USA’s Fabiano Caruana.
Erigiasi, who was the highest-ranked Indian for a very long time, has moved right down to fifth with a ranking of 2777.
Praggnanandhaa, who’s at the moment competing within the Prague Masters, is again within the high 10 for the primary time since July final 12 months because of his win on the Tata Metal Masters.
He has moved as much as the eighth spot after gaining 17 pointing. He has a 2758 ranking.
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Koneru Humpy stays the only real Indian within the high 10 within the girls’s record at quantity six with a ranking of 2528, whereas R Vaishali (2484) and Harika Dronavalli (2483) are 14th and sixteenth respectively.
The FIDE ranking are completely different from the dwell Elo scores.