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George Duke wrote on Mon, Oct 5, 2015 11:31 PM UTC:
Now there are two USA players in top ten of f.i.d.e. elo list: Oct_2015. Exactly ten years ago Lavieri listed the same

having three Russians and Hungary also a double: Elo_2005. From 2005 to 2015 India's Anand went from #2 to #4,

and remarkably Topolov unchanged at #3. Over the ten years Nakamura went from #43 to #2.

In the current rankings, the gap between #1 Norway's Carlsen and USA's #2 Nakamura is ostensibly the same raw elo-pointwise

as that between Nakamura and #7 China's Ding. That shows Carlsen's no longer being outrageously beyond several others.

(Anyway as variantists, realize we at least refrained from calling their process Simpleminded Chess, on account of a hundred

behind the scenes Computer Engines actually trouncing the lot, at least this time)