2800 ELO – Chessdom

Arjun Erigaisi is at the doors of the 2800 ELO club

Sergio — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 23:56:10 +0000

Two years ago Arjun Erigaisi joined the 2700 ELO club. He competed for the India A team at the 44th Chess Olympiad. With an impressive score of 8.5/11 points on the third board, Erigaisi was the second best individual player of Board 3 at the Olympiad (see the list of best individual players here), and a good performance was crowned with a ticket to the 2700 club. With a victory over Leiner Dominguez in the last round, Erigaisi leaped to the 38th position on the live rating list with 2702.2 live rating. Arjun Erigaisi is the 7th Indian player to join the 2700 club.

Since that moment, the 2700 list is in constant deflation with currently only 31 players being listed above the 2700 mark, seven less than when Erigaisi joined the party.

Today, just like two years ago, and definitely against the trend, Arjun Erigaisi has the chance to enter the 2800 club. Erigaisi will be the second Indian after Vishy Anand to enter the club. Currently Erigaisi is at 5,0/5 at the Olympiad with +10.1 ELO at 2788, just 12 points away from the 2800 ELO.

See: Interview with Arjun Erigaisi before the Olympiad (video)

Fabiano Caruana crosses 2800 ELO, again

Sergio — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:32:16 +0000

The American Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana won his game against Ivan Cheparinov in a round 3 match of the Chess Olympiad 2024. This is the second win of Caruana in the tournament, after his victory against Jyngiao Tin. With that Caruana bags 5,0 ELO points and now has 2803 ELO.

Fabiano Caruana is now also the top American player in the world, having surpassed Nakamura by 1 point.

This is a re-entry of Fabiano Caruana in the 2800 club. His highest rating so far is 2851, achieved back in 2014. However, with the constant rating deflation among top players the current rating of Caruana has to be considered as significant achievement.

USA – Bulgaria, Chess Olympiad 2024 round 3

Ivan Cheparinov – Fabiano Caruana 0-1

Wesley So – Arkadij Naiditsch 1-0

Martin Petrov – Levon Aronian 0-1

Momchil Petkov – Ray Robson 1/2-1/2

Nepomniachtchi is on the verge of entering the 2800 club, reaches his highest ever ELO

Sergio — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:26:15 +0000

Ian Nepomniachtchi is on the verge of entering the 2800 ELO club. After his victory in round 2 of the World Chess Championship Nepo’s rating is 2799,8, just 0,2 points shy of the 2800 mark. So far only 15 players have been able to achieve this – Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Veselin Topalov, Sakhriyar Mamedyarov, Wesley So, Viswanathan Anand, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, Vladimir Kramnik, Ding Liren, Alexander Grischuk, Alireza Firouzja, and Anish Giri. Only a handful of them have been World Champions – Kasparov, Topalov, Kramnik, Anand, and Carlsen.

The previous personal best for Nepomniachtchi was 2995 ELO during the Candidates in Madrid, which he won with a round to go. Now Nepomniachtchi has the chance to become the 16th player to cross the 2800 ELO mark.

Replay: Nepo – Ding game 1 live / Nepo – Ding game 1 video coverage with Vishy Anand / Ding – Nepo 2023, game 2 / Ding – Nepo game 2 video coverage with Vishy Anand
See: All news about Ian Nepomniachtchi here

A novelty cooked by Richard Rapport could not stop today Nepo on the board