Very funny:).

Obviously the story with Vladislav Tkachiev still remains in the top of chess news. There are many big newspapers published their version of what happened in India, but today ( with help of Jacob Aagaard ) I found the following article  http://politiken.dk/bagsiden/article782985.ece

Well, of course it’s impossible to undertand the language, but it’s for sure article about Tkachiev case ( we can see his name a few times), but with my picture from recent “Politiken Cup”.  Very strange I should say, though Jacob Aagaard confirmed , that at some place it’s mentioned that another player is on the picture :).

Very sad story .

The following article has been published todayhttp://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/drunk-chess-star-dozes-off-concedes-match-at-kolkata-open/512679/

A very sad story I would say. Vlad Tkachiev is originally from Kazakhstan, the same country I was borned and he is a good friend of mine. I was always sure he has a huge talant ( his positional undertanding is exceptional) and he could easily reach 2700+ and to be the top player , but this story ( and there were many like this) is the reason why he is just a strong GM and not the player of Linares calibre.

Here is the Russian version http://lenta.ru/news/2009/09/04/chess/

My best Elo.

Yersterday FIDE published the official ratings for 1st of September. As I was expected after two very successful tournaments ( Politiken Cup and Zurich Open) I gained 27! points and reached 2668. That’s the highest rating in my chess career, that allowed me to move 40 places up in top 100 players and currently to be number 3 in Israel rating. As always here I give you the list of Top 100 in the World

Rank	Name	Title	Country	Rating	Games	B-Year
1	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2813	0	1975
2	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2788	0	1969
3	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2773	13	1982
4	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2772	10	1990
5	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2772	10	1975
6	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2762	23	1979
7	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2757	10	1987
8	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2756	42	1969
9	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2756	33	1968
10	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2750	18	1977
11	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2742	24	1983
12	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2741	9	1976
13	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2741	9	1983
14	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2740	0	1986
15	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2736	0	1987
16	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2735	17	1987
17	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2733	0	1983
18	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2730	18	1972
19	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2725	23	1985
20	Karjakin, Sergey	g	UKR	2722	13	1990
21	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2721	2	1985
22	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2719	13	1983
23	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2718	31	1990
24	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2717	13	1983
25	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	2715	10	1980
26	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	2711	9	1978
27	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	2710	0	1979
28	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2709	23	1983
29	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2706	10	1965
30	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2703	0	1974
31	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2702	30	1979
32	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2702	0	1985
33	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2699	0	1975
34	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	2698	13	1971
35	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	2696	9	1983
36	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	2696	9	1982
37	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2694	20	1980
38	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2692	32	1974
39	Navara, David	g	CZE	2692	9	1985
40	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2692	8	1983
41	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	2690	28	1978
42	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	2690	0	1989
43	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2688	8	1971
44	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2688	7	1987
45	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	2687	10	1973
46	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2687	0	1976
47	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2685	10	1985
48	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2685	9	1976
49	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	2684	11	1986
50	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2682	25	1971
51	Najer, Evgeniy	g	RUS	2681	17	1977
52	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	2681	2	1986
53	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	2681	0	1987
54	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	2678	10	1983
55	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	2676	9	1977
56	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	2673	8	1986
57	Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	2670	45	1973
58	Tkachiev, Vladislav	g	FRA	2669	11	1973
59	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2669	0	1985
60	Avrukh, Boris	g	ISR	2668	19	1978
61	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	2668	10	1985
62	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	2667	20	1986
63	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2667	9	1986
64	Guseinov, Gadir	g	AZE	2667	2	1986
65	Meier, Georg	g	GER	2664	18	1987
66	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	2664	13	1985
67	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	2664	11	1976
68	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	2663	26	1965
69	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2663	18	1985
70	Pashikian, Arman	g	ARM	2663	18	1987
71	Dreev, Alexey	g	RUS	2662	27	1969
72	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2662	17	1992
73	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	2661	26	1976
74	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	2661	9	1981
75	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2659	9	1990
76	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	2659	0	1972
77	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2658	23	1981
78	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	2658	20	1983
79	Sokolov, Ivan	g	BIH	2657	10	1968
80	Beliavsky, Alexander G	g	SLO	2656	9	1953
81	Landa, Konstantin	g	RUS	2655	0	1972
82	Predojevic, Borki	g	BIH	2654	18	1987
83	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2654	0	1985
84	Postny, Evgeny	g	ISR	2651	33	1981
85	Krasenkow, Michal	g	POL	2651	27	1963
86	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2650	19	1972
87	Tregubov, Pavel V.	g	RUS	2649	9	1971
88	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	2648	17	1968
89	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	2648	9	1978
90	Lastin, Alexander	g	RUS	2648	0	1976
91	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2646	32	1989
92	Baklan, Vladimir	g	UKR	2646	18	1978
93	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	2646	11	1985
94	Seirawan, Yasser	g	USA	2646	0	1960
95	Fier, Alexandr	g	BRA	2644	31	1988
96	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	g	PER	2644	27	1967
97	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2644	9	1993
98	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	2643	37	1981
99	Amonatov, Farrukh	g	TJK	2643	13	1978
100	Kazhgaleyev, Murtas	g	KAZ	2643	9	1973

A very nice article with a lot of statistics has been published on ChessBase site. Here is the link http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5729

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Some days ago I discovered an interesting web page http://www.yourchess.net

This site gives you links of all well-known chess web pages, also you can find there the list of coming events, videos and in general you can search for any useful information regarding chess. For a few days there is a cross link to my blog in the middle of the main page.