The new rating list has been released

http://www.fide.com/ratings/top.phtml?list=men



1. Anand, Viswanathan 2803
2. Kramnik, Vladimir 2788
3. Morozevich, Alexander 2774
4. Topalov, Veselin 2767
5. Carlsen, Magnus 2765
6. Aronian, Levon 2763
7. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2752
8. Radjabov, Teimour 2751
9. Svidler, Peter 2746
10. Leko, Peter 2741
11. Ivanchuk, Vassily 2740
12. Shirov, Alexei 2740
13. Karjakin, Sergey 2732
14. Adams, Michael 2729
15. Kamsky, Gata 2726
16. Gelfand, Boris 2723
17. Ponomariov, Ruslan 2719
18. Grischuk, Alexander 2716
19. Jakovenko, Dmitry 2711
20. Alekseev, Evgeny 2711
21. Polgar, Judit 2709 (missing on the official list)
22. Bu, Xiangzhi 2708
23. Bacrot, Etienne 2705
24. Ni, Hua 2703


Anand is the sole leader now. After excellent displays in Wijk aan Zee and Morelia-Linares Carlsen climbed to 5th place. I don't think there has ever been so many players rated 2750 and more. There are 24 players above the "magical" 2700 barrier (I must admit that I don't remember to hear the name Ni, Hua before). I don't know why Judit Polgar with a rating 2709 (which makes her 21st in the world) is missing on the list She was playing in Wijk aan Zee so she certanly can't be removed due to inactivity.

The Chessbase is puzzled over Judit's omission from the rating list as I am

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4546



She's certanly not inactive since she played 13 games in this period, 10 in the previous, 9 games before that, and so on.
http://www.fide.com/ratings/id.phtml?event=700070


Besides, if she would be inactive she wouldn't appear on women list either.



How can FIDE publish and not notice this error? I could understand if they missed some 2100 player, but Judit?

I don't know... FIDE seems to make a lot of strange decisions, so it's not hard to see why they would blunder like this.

Judit is on the list now.