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The Live Chess Ratings list shows some exciting changes. We now have three highly entertaining/enterprising/risk-taking fighters in the top 10 - Ivanchuk, Morozevich, and Nakamura. Of course, the other top players are no less entertaining, but they are pretty much stable in the top list. World Championship contenders V Anand and B Gelfand are at No. 2 and 14 respectively. If you glance a little lower, you see that Tomashevsky has gained huge points and now is well placed to enter the top 10. The big losers recently are Kamsky and Ponomariov. For India, we have a 2700+ player back in the group after a long time. K Sasikiran is playing the Corsica Masters and one hopes that he maintains the form that has brought him this invitation. Editor

An old photo of Carlsen vs Ivanchuk Magnus showed his class by grinding down current tourney leader, Ivanchuk in a French defence game. What was amazing was that Carlsen came up with a win in a double bishops ending! In other games, Nakamura beat Vallejo Pons. Anand drew his game against Aronian. Watch the game here:

World Champ V Anand. Photo courtesy thechessdrum.net Anand beat Vallejo Pons in the fourth round of the Sao Paulo masters Chess tournament. Ivanchuk continued his outstanding form beating 2800+ rated and World No. 3 Aronian. In the live chess ratings Ivanchuk only trails the very cream of world Chess, Carlsen, Anand, Aronian, and Kramnik. Ivanchuk is by far the most active top Chess player in the world. Usually he slips back in the rankings and then climbs steeply. It remains to be seen if this occurs again! We hope not! Watch Anand beat Vallejo Pons