YEREVAN, January 14 (Noyan Tapan). The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has published a list of the strongest chess-players of the world as of January 1, 2005. The men's list is still topped by the 13th world champion Garri Kasparov (Russia), whose rating is 2804. Wishwanathan Anand (India, 2786), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 2757), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2754), Peter Leko (Hungary, 2749), Alexander Morozevich (Russia, 2741), Michael Adams (England, 2741), Peter Swidler (Russia, 2735), Hudit Polgar (Hungary, 2728), Etienne Bakrot (France, 2715). Four Armenian chess-players place in the top hundred strongest chess-players. It is Vladimir Hakobian (18th, rating is 2693), Levon Aronian (22nd, 2684), Rafael Vahanian (33rd, 2670), Smbat Lputian (58th, 2640). Armenian representative Elina Danielian places 42nd in the list of 50 strongest female chess-players of the world. FIDE also published lists of 20 strongest boys and girls. Armenia isn't represented in this list.

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