Eyleen Ríos López

With no change in his 2,757 Elo score, Cuban Leinier Domínguez improved his ranking, moving up one position to be recognized as the world’s 12th best chess player.

Leinier did not report any competition this past month, but that did not prevent him from assuming the highest international ranking ever obtained by a Cuban player.

The world’s three best also confirmed their positions without any changes in his point totals: Norway’s Magnus Carlsen (2,862), Armenian Levon Aronian (2,813) and Fabiano Caruana (2,796) from Italy.

The ranking list, updated on the International Chess Federation’s website, reflected a change among the top ten at the number four spot, with Russian Alexander Grischuk (2,785), adding five points and moving up one position.

His compatriot Vladimir Kramnik (2,784) maintained his Elo, but fell one place to number five, followed by Azerbajani Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2,775), who made the most spectacular jump, adding 14 points to his Elo score and moving up six positions.

World champion Viswanathan Anand (2,775) from India is now ranked number seven, Russian Sergey Karjakin (2,772) eighth, Hikaru Nakamura (2,772) from the United States ninth and, closing out the top ten, is Bulgaria’s Vesellin Topalov (2,769).