Climbing up the world rankings

At the World Team Championship Chess tourney at Bursa, Turkey we are seeing some very interesting developments.

Nakamura is shooting up the Live Ratings ladder. There are bunch of others making waves, namely Mamedyarov, Onishchuk, Grischuk, Vitiugov, and Sutovsky among others with 2800+ performances.

Now we come to another interesting observation. The top three players after Anand, namely Harikrishna, Ganguly, and Sasikiran are not only making a valiant effort at reaching the top of the standings in the event, but are battling among themselves indirectly against each other to finish second highest after Anand. They have already swapped places a few times just in this event alone. The standout performer is by far Sasikiran, who has wins against Gashimov and hold your breath, Aronian (in a Rook and pawns endgame!!! excuse the exclamations- really!)