Anand & Magnus to swap the "Crown".

Life is not always sweet, Magnus and Anand will switch places in January 2011. Let the race begins! The race between the Asians & the Westerns. Anand will not be the last Asian rival in the western dominant chess world. I believe that there will more to come. Looking at the latest development, Hou Yifan from China has proven that they have been prepared for this - to look & to conquer the chess world.

Magnus Carlsen loses to Anand. | Photo © Fred Lucas. | http://www.fredlucas.eu/

Rank	Name	Country	Rating
1	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2814
2	Anand, Viswanathan	IND	2810
3	Aronian, Levon	ARM	2805
4	Kramnik, Vladimir	RUS	2784
5	Karjakin, Sergey	RUS	2776
6	Topalov, Veselin	BUL	2775
7	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	2773
8	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	2772
9	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2764
10	Nakamura, Hikaru	USA	2751

Source: FIDE Ratings January 2011

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