Leinier & Bruzón
move up in world ranking
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Norway’s Magnus Carlsen reaches
a new record of 2872 points, while Russia maintains
the lead among countries
Eduardo González
Martínez
CUBAN Grand Masters Leinier
Domínguez and Lázaro Bruzón have advanced to the
24th and 38th positions, respectively, according to
the most recent world ranking announced January 31
by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). Most
noteworthy was the new record of 2872 Elo points
established by Norwegian Magnus Carlsen.
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Leinier Domínguez, Cuba
and Latin America’s best chess
player maintained his Elo point
score and moved up one spot
in the ranking.
Lázaro Bruzón has bounced
back and once again joined
the over 2700 club.
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Leinier maintained his Elo score of
2723 points but moved up one position in the
ranking. He has held an enviable over-2700 point
total since June of 2008.
Bruzón appears to have bounced back
from the downturn he has suffered since December
2012, and jumped from the 48th to the 38th spot in
the ranking, with 2707 points, the eighth time he
has surpassed the important milestone since May
2012.
In addition to Carlsen, with his
astronomical 2872 points, the top ten list includes
two other players with Elo scores of more than 2800:
Russian Vladimir Kramnik (2810) and Armenia’s Levon
Aronian (2809).
Completing the elite list are
Azerbaijani Teimour Radjabov (2793), Russia’s Sergey
Karjakin (2786), Viswanathan Anand (2780) from
India, Bulgarian Veselin Topalov (2771), Hikaru
Nakamura (2767), a naturalized U.S. citizen,
Azerbaijan’s Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2766) and
Alexander Grischuk (2764) from Russia.
Among countries, Russia once again
holds the lead with its players maintaining an
average of 2746, while Cuba is ranked number 18,
with an average of 2589. (From Trabajadores)
