Men
China’s Ding Liren remains the top Asian ranked at No. 4 in the world on 2797 while India’s former World Champion Viswanathan Anand keeps second place ranked No. 11 on 2768.
In third place is China’s Yu Yangyi, ranked No. 13th on 2766 and in fourth place is India’s Harikrishan P. who ranked 22nd on 2734.
Vietnam’s Lee Quang Liem is in fifth place ranked 25th on 2728 and with that ends the Chinese-Indian domination of the top five!
China’s Wei Yi is now in sixth place, ranked 27th on 2724 and in seventh place is India’s Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi ranked 29th on 2718.
Three more Chinese round up the top ten, Li Chao in eighth place is ranked 31st on 2711, Wang Hao in ninth place is ranked 35th on 2709, and Bu Xiangzhi in tenth place is ranked 39th on 2706.
Again, six Chinese, three Indians and one Vietnamese!
But in the final analysis, no surprise as in the overall country rankings, China is No. 3 in the world and India No. 4. The rest are quite some distance away but very respectable is the positions of Iran at No. 28th, Uzbekistan 34th, Kazakhstan 36th, then Vietnam 38th.
Then is a drop to Australia which is 44th, former Asian No. 1 Philippines 47th, Mongolia 58th and Indonesia 59th.
Women
China’s domination here is very great with Hou Yifan is ranked No. 1 in the world on 2658 and World Champion Ju Wenjun ranked No. 2 in the world on 2568.
Number three is China’s Tan Zhongyi ranked 7th on 2524.
India’s Harika, Dronavalli is in fourth place ranked eleventh on 2494 and in fifth and sixth places are Kazakhstan’s Dinara Saduakassova ranked 15th on 2489 and Abdulmalik Zhansaya ranked 16th on 2488.
China then takes the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth places places. Zhou Yue is ranked 18th on 2478, Shen Yang si ranked 22nd on 2468, Lie Tingjie is ranked 27th on 2454 and Huang Qian is ranked 31st on 2441.
Seven Chinese, two Kazakhstan, and one Indian!
Here the country rankings are also very indicative. China is No. 1 in the world.
India is 7th and Kazakhstan 17th, Mongolia 19th, Vietnam 20th, Indonesia 25th, Iran 26th, but then a big drop to Uzbekistan 40th, Australia 44th and Philippines 45th.