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M Jagadish Grischuk is now firmly in the top ten of the World's elite Chess players. Well, at least on the live chess rankings list. Having started his comeback at the FIDE Grand Prix at Elista a couple of years back and following it up with the famous win at Linares, Grischuk is now set to scale unknown (to him) heights of 2750+ (2758 to be exact at the present moment) Showing promise even as a teenager, Grischuk rose to the top very early in his career. At the age of just 20, he was rated as high as 2732. And then began the slide. And then his foray into Poker. Ernesto Grischuk is a famous Spanish Poker player! How weird is that! Now don't tell me the Poker Grischuk plays Chess. Well, let's not get into that. Let's analyze Grischuk's rating graph from a stock market analyst's perspective. (Yes! since the rating chart also has a psychological element to it, it mirrors movement and can be analyzed like a stock in the stock markets!) Grischuk experienc...

Veselin Topalov is hot on Norway's Magnus Carlsen's heels for the top spot in the World Chess Rankings. On the live list, Topalov is just 2 points behind Carlsen. Top Ten List 1 Carlsen 2813 2 Topalov 2811 3 Kramnik 2790 4 Anand 2789 5 Aronian 2781 6 Mamedyarov 2760 7 Grischuk 2758 8 Wang Yue 2751 9 Ivanchuk 2750 10 Svidler 2745

Guess who else is in the leading pack among other leaders including World Class players such as Gata Kamsky, Movsesian, Adams, Bacrot (second pack) Vallejo Pons, Gustafsson, Fressinet, Cheparinov, Fridman? Well, its none other than Zhukova and Koneru Humpy! Also half a point behind is Javakhishvili and trailing by another half are Stefanova, Cramling, Dzagnidze, Harika, Zatonskih, Krush, and Sedina. Quite amazing! All this action is happening at the Gibtelecom tournament. Gibraltor

Regional Tourney update Colombo International Tourney Top seed Weerawardane leads after 8 rounds. Jayasoma,Athukorala also on 7/8. Chennai GM Chess Tourney Maxim Turov leads with 8.5/9 with a 2803 performance! Junior Lalith Babu and GM Ziaur Rahman Joint 2nd with two others. Another highlight is the welcome return of IM, WGM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman. She was in the top 20 in the world (women) Other stand out performers - Anwe...sh Upadhyaya(beat IMs and GM), Siddharth (Untitled,beat GMs), and Niranjan Navalgund (beat higher rated players)