FIDE World Rankings: Levon Aronian is Ranked 7th

FIDE has published the rankings of March 2016. Leader of the Armenian National chess team Levon Aronyan has dropped to the 7th place with 2786 points.Previously he was ranked 4th. The ranking tops world champion Magnus Carlsen with 2851 points. Vladimir Kramkin is on the 2nd place with 2801 points, and Fabiano Caruana is the 3rd, with 2794 points. Among the list of top players is Grandmaster Gabriel Sargsyan, who is ranked 42nd with 2702 points.

Vladimir Hakobyan is ranked 95th with 2656 points, Sergey Movsisyan and Hrant Movsisyan share the 100th and 102nd place with Norwegian Loek van Wely with 2653 points. Member of the Armenian National Team Elina Danielyan is ranked 44th with 2445 points among women’s rankings. Lilit Mkrtchyan is ranked 49th with 2434 points. Compared to the previous month the players dropped by 1 position in the rankings.