GOLDEN LEAGUE
2018
Wijk Aan Zee, Gibraltar, Aeroflot, Candidates, Grenke, Dubaï, Sharjah Open, Shamkir, Norway, Dortmund, Biel, Abu Dhabi, Sinquefield, Isle of Man, Shenzen , World Championship !
1 Carlsen, Magnus 50 ( 2840 )
2 Caruana Fabiano 44 ( 2871 )
3 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 24 ( 2824 )
4 Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 23 ( 2777 )
5 Giri, Anish 21 ( 2804 )
6 Aronian Levon 21 ( 2795 )
7 Kovalev Vladislav 17 ( 2785 )
8 Nakamura Hikaru 16 ( 2803 )
9 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw 15 ( 2705 )
10 Wang Hao 14 ( 2773 )
11 Anand, Viswanathan 12 ( 2819 )
12 Sethuraman S.P. 12 ( 2723 )
13 Vitiugov Nikita 11 ( 2760 )
14 Naiditsch Arkadij 10 ( 2892 )
15 Nepomniachtchi, Ian 10 ( 2872 )
16 Dubov, Daniil 10 ( 2867 )
17 Maghsoodloo Parham 10 ( 2847 )
18 Rapport Richard 10 ( 2754 )
19 Flores Diego 10 ( 2714 )
20 Ding Liren 9 ( 2818 )
21 Grischuk Alexander 9 ( 2775 )
22 Karjakin, Sergey 8 ( 2817 )
23 Kramnik, Vladimir 8 ( 2757 )
24 Korobov, Anton 7 ( 2857 )
25 Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo 7 ( 2761 )
26 Adhiban B. 6 ( 2732 )
27 Salem, A.R. Saleh 5 ( 2826 )
28 So, Wesley 5 ( 2785 )
29 Svidler, Peter 5 ( 2773 )
30 Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 5 ( 2767 )
31 Gordievsky Dmitry 5 ( 2725 )
32 Artemiev Vladislav 5 ( 2718 )
33 Safarli Eltaj 5 ( 2697 )
34 Xiong Jeffery 4 ( 2811 )
35 Xu Xiangyu 4 ( 2780 )
36 Sargissian, Gabriel 4 ( 2775 )
37 Yu, Yangyi 4 ( 2766 )
38 Adly Ahmed 4 ( 2686 )
39 Radjabov, Teimour 3 ( 2770 )
40 Petrosian Tigran L. 3 ( 2757 )
41 Meier, Georg 3 ( 2732 )
42 Adams Michael 3 ( 2731 )
43 Kryvoruchko Yuriy 3 ( 2715 )
44 Navara, David 3 ( 2668 )
45 Bluebaum, Matthias 2 ( 2745 )
46 Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2 ( 2709 )
47 Inarkiev Ernesto 2 ( 2702 )
48 Georgiadis, Nico 2 ( 2487 )
49 Cheparinov, Ivan 1 ( 2725 )
50 Lysyj Igor 1 ( 2719 )
51 Le Quang Liem 1 ( 2713 )
52 Jones Gawain C B 1 ( 2670 )
53 Hou, Yifan 1 ( 2660 )
RULES
The ranking of the Golden League is based on the most prestigious tournaments of the year, closed and open.
Only the number of points, then the Sonneborn-Berger used the classification of the Golden League after the last round of the tournament.
10 points are awarded to the winner, 7 in the second, 5 in the third, 4 in the fourth, 3 in the fifth...
In case of equality between several players in a tournament, the points of the highest ranking is given to those players.