Race to FIDE candidates 2016


1		Candidates 2016	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2016
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3	Runner-up 2014	Viswanathan Anand	The runner-up of the 2014 World Championship match.
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5	World Cup 2015 #1	Sergey Karjakin	Two qualifiers from the Chess World Cup 2015. The top two winners will qualify, unless one of them is Anand, in which case the third place winner will qualify.
6	World Cup 2015 #2	Peter Svidler	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_World_Cup_2015
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8	Grand Prix 2014-15 #1	Fabiano Caruana	Two qualifiers from the FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15. The top two qualifiers not already qualified according to the criteria above will qualify.
9	Grand Prix 2014-15 #2	Hikaru Nakamura	See Sheet 2.
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11	Rating #1	Veselin Topalov	Two qualifiers by rating. The top two players by rating not already qualified according to the criteria above will qualify as long as they play in either the World Cup or the FIDE Grand Prix.
12	Rating #2	Anish Giri	See Sheet 3.
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14	Organizer's Nominee	Levon Aronian	An Organizer's Nominee. The player must be rated at least 2725 on 1 July 2015.
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17	Final update 30 November 2015.
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21	Information compiled by Martin Bennedik. See the links for sources.
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1	Player	Baku	Tashkent	Tbilisi	Khanty-Mansiysk	Total	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_Grand_Prix_2014%E2%80%9315
2	Fabiano Caruana	155	75		140	370
3	Hikaru Nakamura	82	125		140	347
4	Dmitry Jakovenko		30	140	140	310
5	Evgeny Tomashevsky	82		170	30	282
6	Boris Gelfand	155	15		85	255
7	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	35	125	75		235
8	Sergey Karjakin	82	75		55	212
9	Teimour Radjabov	50	50	110		210
10	Dmitry Andreikin	20	170	10		200
11	Alexander Grischuk	82		40	55	177
12	Anish Giri		40	75	55	170
13	Leinier Dominguez	10		75	85	170
14	Peter Svidler	82		20	55	157
15	Baadur Jobava		75	40	20	135
16	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave		75	40	10	125
17	Rustam Kasimdzhanov	35	15	75		125


1	Player	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	Average
2	Carlsen, Magnus	2862	2865	2863	2863	2876	2876	2853	2853	2853	2850	2850	2834	2858
3	Topalov, Veselin	2800	2800	2798	2798	2798	2798	2816	2816	2816	2813	2803	2803	2804
4	Anand, Viswanathan	2797	2797	2791	2791	2804	2804	2816	2816	2816	2803	2803	2796	2802
5	Caruana, Fabiano	2820	2811	2802	2802	2803	2805	2797	2808	2808	2796	2787	2787	2802
6	Nakamura, Hikaru	2776	2776	2798	2798	2799	2802	2814	2814	2814	2816	2793	2793	2799
7	Giri, Anish	2784	2797	2790	2790	2776	2773	2791	2793	2793	2798	2778	2784	2787
8	Kramnik, Vladimir	2783	2783	2783	2783	2777	2783	2783	2777	2777	2777	2796	2796	2783
9	Grischuk, Alexander	2810	2810	2794	2794	2780	2781	2771	2771	2771	2774	2750	2747	2779
10	So, Wesley	2762	2788	2788	2788	2778	2778	2780	2779	2773	2760	2767	2775	2776
11	Aronian, Levon	2797	2777	2770	2770	2776	2780	2765	2765	2765	2784	2781	2788	2776
12	Ding Liren	2732	2755	2755	2751	2757	2749	2749	2770	2782	2782	2781	2776	2761
13	Karjakin, Sergey	2760	2760	2757	2757	2753	2753	2753	2753	2762	2762	2766	2766	2758
14	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	2757	2775	2765	2762	2754	2723	2731	2731	2744	2758	2765	2773	2753
15	Jakovenko, Dmitry	2733	2733	2742	2744	2738	2759	2757	2759	2748	2748	2735	2737	2744
16	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	2759	2759	2756	2754	2735	2735	2735	2735	2736	2736	2743	2748	2744
17	Gelfand, Boris	2747	2747	2747	2747	2744	2751	2751	2741	2741	2741	2731	2731	2743
18	Li Chao	2728	2728	2721	2730	2748	2748	2748	2748	2756	2750	2750	2750	2742
19	Adams, Michael	2738	2738	2745	2746	2740	2740	2740	2740	2742	2742	2744	2737	2741
20	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	2744	2734	2737	2738	2746	2749	2733	2733	2741	2734	2748	2723	2738
21	Svidler, Peter	2739	2739	2729	2734	2734	2740	2740	2739	2727	2727	2745	2751	2737
22	Radjabov, Teimour	2734	2731	2738	2738	2738	2738	2738	2738	2738	2738	2739	2726	2736
23	Navara, David	2729	2735	2736	2743	2751	2751	2724	2724	2728	2734	2730	2730	2734
24	Dominguez, Leinier	2726	2726	2729	2729	2734	2746	2736	2736	2732	2732	2732	2732	2732
25	Vitiugov, Nikita	2735	2735	2739	2736	2736	2734	2734	2719	2725	2725	2724	2724	2730
26	Andreikin, Dmitry	2737	2737	2723	2723	2723	2718	2723	2720	2720	2720	2732	2732	2725
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28	Thanks to 2700chess.com for providing the live ratings throughout the year.
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30	See http://ratings.fide.com/download.phtml for FIDE ratings archive.
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32	Carlsen as the defending Champion is already qualified for the world championship final match.
33	Anand as the runner-up is already qualified for the candidates.
34	Caruana and Nakamura are already qualified via the Grand Prix, Svidler and Karjakin via the World Cup.


1	Player	Country	July rating
2	Kramnik, Vladimir	RUS	2783
3	So, Wesley	USA	2780
4	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	2771
5	Aronian, Levon	ARM	2765
6	Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS	2757
7	Gelfand, Boris	ISR	2751
8	Ding, Liren	CHN	2749
9	Li, Chao b	CHN	2748
10	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	RUS	2745
11	Adams, Michael	ENG	2740
12	Radjabov, Teimour	AZE	2738
13	Yu, Yangyi	CHN	2736
14	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	CUB	2736
15	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	2735
16	Vitiugov, Nikita	RUS	2734
17	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	POL	2733
18	Harikrishna, P.	IND	2733
19	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	2731
20	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2728
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22	These players were rated 2725 on the July rating list, and are not yet qualified for the candidates.
23	They are the possible players for the organizer's nominee.
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25	See http://www.chessdom.com/candidates-chess-2016-is-in-moscow/