For the first time in his career, GM Hikaru Nakamura has crossed the 2800 mark. On the FIDE June 1 rating list the #1 U.S. grandmaster is fourth in the world with 2802, behind GMs Magnus Carlsen (2876), Fabiano Caruana (2805) and Viswanathan Anand (2804).

With the final Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk just behind us, quite a few top players have played rated games last month. On the new list there are four 2800-players, one more than last month. GM Hikaru Nakamura added three points to break the magic mark officially, for the first time in his career.

GM Vladimir Kramnik climbed from #8 back to #6 after gaining six Elo points at the Russian Team Championship in Sochi. He is now ahead of GM Wesley So and GM Alexander Grischuk; the former didn't play while the latter lost only one rating points over 15 games.

After his great play at the Russian league and especially the Grand Prix, GM Dmitry Jakovenko is now “the best of the rest,” just out of the top 10. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave made a dive: he went from #12 to #28 due to disappointing results in the Italian league and the Grand Prix.

June 2015 FIDE Rating List | Top 50

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2876 0 1990 2 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2805 11 1992 3 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2804 0 1969 4 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2802 14 1987 5 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2798 0 1975 6 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2783 5 1975 7 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2781 15 1983 8 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2780 5 1982 9 So, Wesley g USA 2778 0 1993 10 Giri, Anish g NED 2773 11 1994 11 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2759 17 1983 12 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2753 11 1990 13 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2751 11 1968 14 Navara, David g CZE 2751 9 1985 15 Ding, Liren g CHN 2749 11 1992 16 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2749 6 1987 17 Li, Chao b g CHN 2748 0 1989 18 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2746 16 1983 19 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2745 11 1987 20 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2740 17 1976 21 Adams, Michael g ENG 2740 0 1971 22 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2738 0 1987 23 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2735 0 1985 24 Vitiugov, Nikita g RUS 2734 5 1987 25 Harikrishna, P. g IND 2733 0 1986 26 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2733 0 1969 27 Wang, Yue g CHN 2726 7 1987 28 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2723 13 1990 29 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2722 2 1985 30 Wei, Yi g CHN 2721 11 1999 31 Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2720 7 1990 32 Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2720 5 1981 33 Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2718 7 1990 34 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2718 1 1983 35 Yu, Yangyi g CHN 2715 11 1994 36 Leko, Peter g HUN 2714 0 1979 37 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2711 0 1977 38 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2711 0 1983 39 Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2707 0 1980 40 Wang, Hao g CHN 2704 11 1989 41 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2704 9 1979 42 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2702 6 1974 43 Ni, Hua g CHN 2701 0 1983 44 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2700 0 1976 45 Shirov, Alexei g LAT 2699 7 1972 46 Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2699 5 1980 47 Korobov, Anton g UKR 2698 7 1985 48 Howell, David W L g ENG 2698 3 1990 49 Matlakov, Maxim g RUS 2696 6 1991 50 Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2696 0 1985

GM Hou Yifan remains the number one female player in the world, but only by one rating point! As reported earlier the 21-year-old Chinese player was in bad shape at the Nakhchivan Open earlier this month, but could limit the damage.

GM Valentina Gunina won 13 points at the Russian league in Sochi and passed GM Ju Wenjun on the list. Georgia now has three players in the top 20 as GM Nino Batsiashvili won 26 points in this period.

June 2015 FIDE Rating List (Women) | Top 50

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2676 9 1994 2 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2675 0 1976 3 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2589 0 1987 4 Dzagnidze, Nana g GEO 2573 3 1987 5 Muzychuk, Anna g UKR 2549 0 1990 6 Gunina, Valentina g RUS 2548 5 1989 7 Ju, Wenjun g CHN 2545 0 1991 8 Cmilyte, Viktorija g LTU 2534 0 1983 9 Lagno, Kateryna g RUS 2530 0 1989 10 Muzychuk, Mariya m UKR 2528 0 1992 11 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2520 6 1984 12 Zhao, Xue g CHN 2519 0 1985 13 Khotenashvili, Bela g GEO 2518 11 1988 14 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2512 5 1963 15 Harika, Dronavalli g IND 2508 0 1991 16 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2499 12 1979 17 Batsiashvili, Nino m GEO 2499 11 1987 18 Ruan, Lufei wg CHN 2491 0 1987 19 Kosintseva, Nadezhda g RUS 2489 0 1985 20 Tan, Zhongyi wg CHN 2487 11 1991 21 Goryachkina, Aleksandra wg RUS 2486 18 1998 22 Girya, Olga wg RUS 2486 17 1991 23 Sebag, Marie g FRA 2483 0 1986 24 Zhukova, Natalia g UKR 2482 11 1979 25 Krush, Irina g USA 2477 0 1983 26 Zatonskih, Anna m USA 2476 0 1978 27 Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2475 11 1972 28 Kosintseva, Tatiana g RUS 2475 0 1986 29 Socko, Monika g POL 2472 16 1978 30 Danielian, Elina g ARM 2470 11 1978 31 Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2465 6 1985 32 Hoang, Thanh Trang g HUN 2464 11 1980 33 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina m RUS 2461 17 1974 34 Shen, Yang m CHN 2460 11 1989 35 Huang, Qian wg CHN 2460 0 1986 36 Javakhishvili, Lela m GEO 2459 13 1984 37 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2458 16 1985 38 Melia, Salome m GEO 2456 11 1987 39 Lei, Tingjie wg CHN 2455 11 1997 40 Mkrtchian, Lilit m ARM 2451 17 1982 41 Munguntuul, Batkhuyag m MGL 2448 0 1987 42 Moser, Eva m AUT 2442 0 1982 43 Ushenina, Anna g UKR 2441 17 1985 44 Ding, Yixin wg CHN 2441 11 1991 45 Padmini, Rout m IND 2441 0 1994 46 Hunt, Harriet V m ENG 2439 2 1978 47 Peptan, Corina-Isabela m ROU 2434 0 1978 48 Kashlinskaya, Alina m RUS 2432 16 1993 49 Guo, Qi m CHN 2429 11 1995 50 Bodnaruk, Anastasia m RUS 2428 18 1992

All data courtesy of FIDE.

Chess.com Blitz and Bullet

Like on the FIDE rating list, GM Hikaru (Hikaru Nakamura) won three rating points on the Chess.com Blitz list. His lead there is 70 points as GM LexySexy (Baadur Jobava) didn't play rated games in this period and remained on 2758.

Also online GM LyonBeast (Maxime Vachier-Lagrave) lost points: he went from 2747 to 2714, and dropped to fifth place behind GM GeorgMeier and GM 2vladimirovich90 (Dmitry Andreikin). Two IMs managed to enter the top 10: IM QuestToGM and IM megarompa.

Chess.com Live Chess | Blitz, 1 June 2015 (Top 20)

The top GMs did not play bullet games in the past month, and so Nakamura kept his nicely rounded 3100 rating and also his 265-point lead over #2 GM 2Vladimirovich90.

FM wonderfultime (Minh Le), last month still 12th, managed to sneak in and take over the #3 spot from Vachier-Lagrave! Quite a bullet specialist.

Arguably more impressive is the non-titled BulletMercenary (Kevin Chung), a 23-year-old player from Canada with a 2070 FIDE rating, to reach #6!

Chess.com Live Chess | Bullet, 1 June 2015 (Top 20)