Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 04:53:19 05/23/05
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It looks like Topalov, Anand, Leko and Ivanchuk will all all end up with higher ratings than Kramnik on the next FIDE rating list. This puts the strongest active Russian player on 5th place. When was the last time there was no Russian among the top four players in the world? I just took a quick look at the historical rating lists at http://www.chessmetrics.com, and unless I have overlooked something we have to go back to February 1935, when Alekhine, Euwe, Flohr and Bogolyubov were the four strongest players. If we count the Russian-born Alekhine as a Russian, we have to go all the way back to April 1921, when the top four were Capablanca, Lasker, Rubinstein and Tartakower. Tord
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