FIDE chess rankings: Arjun Erigaisi, D Gukesh stay fourth and fifth in open part; Koneru Humpy high amongst Indian ladies

India’s Arjun Erigaisi and D Gukesh remained in fourth and fifth locations respectively within the newest FIDE rankings revealed on Wednesday. Erigaisi’s score stays at 2801. The Warangal-born participant had just lately develop into solely the second Indian after the legendary Viswanathan Anand
to breach the 2800 ELO score mark. Gukesh, then again, has an ELO score of 2783.

{The teenager} had in December 2024
defeated China’s Ding Liren to clinch the World Chess Championship title. Magnus Carlsen, who just lately shared the World Blitz Championship title with Ia Nepomniachtchi, continues to steer the FIDE rankings with an ELO score of 2831. American Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana (2803) and Hikaru Nakamura (2802) are behind Carlsen.

Viswanathan Anand is at the moment in tenth place with an ELO score of 2750. Other than Arjun and Gukesh, six different Indian gamers characteristic within the high 50. They’re R Praggnanandhaa (thirteenth place), Aravindh Chithambaram (twenty third), Vidit Gujrathi (twenty fourth), P Harikrishna (thirty sixth), Nihal Sarin (forty first) and Raunak Sadhwani (forty eighth).

Newly-crowned World Fast champion Koneru Humpy leads the Indian contingent in FIDE rankings amongst ladies. Humpy is in sixth place with a score of 2523. Divya Deshmukh has a score of 2490 and is in 14th place, with D Harika in sixteenth place with a score of 2489.

R Vaishali, who gained bronze on the World Blitz Championship, is in nineteenth place with a score of 2476. D Gukesh and R Praggnanandhaa occupy the highest two spots within the junior males’s rankings.