The coronavirus halted the Candidate Tournament and all over-the-board rated play so ratings are the same as last month.
Unlikely FIDE will sanction over-the-board play before July or August.
Hopefully, the Candidates Tournament will resume and a challenger arise to play for the title in November!
Who Will Challenge
Magnus Carlsen
in
November 2020?
Only one of eight top rated chess players in the world will challenge Magnus Carlsen for the World Chess Championship tentatively scheduled for November in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The 2020 Candidates Tournament
Coronavirus ZUGZWANG! FIDE halted 2020 World Chess Candidates Tournament at midway point.
At the midpoint the Candidates Tournament was suspended with Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi and France’s Maxime Vachier-Lagrave tied for 1st place with 4.5/7 points.
Candidates by March 2020 World Chess Ratings
1. #2 Ranked – Fabiano Caruana, USA, rated 2842.
2. #3 Ranked – Ding Liren, China, rated 2805.
3. #4 Ranked – Alexander Grischuk, Russia, rated 2777.
4. #5 Ranked – Ian Nepomniachtchi, Russia, rated 2774.
5. #9 Ranked – Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani, rated 2765. ***
5. #8 Ranked, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, France, rated 2767.
6. #11 Ranked – Anish Giri, Netherlands, rated 2763.
7. #12 Ranked – Wang Ho, China, rated 2762.
8. #39 Ranked – Kirill Alekseenko, Russia, rated 2698.
*** Two weeks before the Candidates Tournament, Azerbaijani’s Teimour Radjabov withdrew from the Candidates Tournament, citing personal reasons.
The # 8 ranked chess player in the world, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave from France replaced him in Yekaterinburg.
See Top Ten Rated Chess Players in the World below.
USA’s Fabiano Caruana
#2 Rated Chess Player in the World
USA’s Fabiano Caruana the #2 rated chess player in world is just 28 points behind Magnus Carlsen in the April 2020 World Chess Ratings!
Fabiano must win the Candidates Tournament to challenge Magnus in the World Chess Championship match in November 2020.
Fabiano challenged Magnus in the 2018 World Chess Championship in a 12-game match in London, and played to 12 draws in Classical Chess, only to lose the match in a Rapid Chess tiebreak playoff.
Norway’s Magnus Carlsen
Rated 2863!
Born: November 30, 1990 (age 29 years) in Tønsberg, Norway
After winning the World Blitz Chess Championship in December 2019, Magnus now holds all three titles–the Classical Chess, Rapid Chess and Blitz Chess Champion!
Will Magnus reach 2900 in 2020?
37-points to go!
Top 10 Players in World – May 2020
Top 10 Women in World – April 2020
#1 – China’s Yifan Hou
Rated 2658
Yifan Hou
Born: February 27, 1994 (age 26 years) in Xinghua, China
Overall, at 2658 Hou Yifan is now the #84 strongest rated chess player in the world!
Top 10 Women in World – May 2020
Hou Yifan Relinquishes Title!
Hou Yifan relinquished her Women’s World Chess Champion title in 2018 to pursue her studies at Oxford, and played only a few Classical Chess games in 2019.
2020 Women’s World Chess Championship
The 2020 Women’s World Chess Championship between champion China’s Ju Wenjun and her challenger, Russia’s Aleksandra Goryachkina, took place in January 2020.
Ju Wenjun and Aleksandra each won 3 games and drew 6 games in the exciting match of 12 Classical Chess games, which ended in a tie.
However, Ju defeated Aleksandra in a Rapid Chess tiebreak playoff to retain her title!
BUT! IN APRIL ALEKSANDRA’S #3 RATING SURPASSED JU WENJUN AT #4!
Ju Wenjun
Women’s World Chess Champion
China’s Ju Wenjun
#4 Rated: 2560
Aleksandra Goryachikina
Challenger
Russia’s Aleksandra Goryachikina
#3 Rated: 2582
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