Dominguez, first Cuban to surpass 2700 ELO coefficient
1/7/2008 17:03
Great Master (GM) Leinier Dominguez held yesterday the best punctuation
obtained by a Cuban in the world chess classification, accumulating 2,708 units
of ELO coefficient (it is a system that measures the player's skills levels)
.
In the new listings of the World Chess Federation (FIDE-International
Federation of the Discipline), broadcasted yesterday, Dominguez sustained the
25th place and surpassed with 13 points accumulated from March to June, a
national record until then (2,695).
This is Dominguez' sixth consecutive
improvement and the fifth new mark for Cuba since he completed 2,678 points in
April 2007 and ranked in the 30th position.
His excellent performance in the
Capablanca Memorial in Havana, and the Sarajevo Magistral in Bosnia, has put him
the first place in Latin America.
At continental level, Dominguez is only
excelled by Gata Kamsky from the United States (27th place with 2,723
points).
The exclusive mark of 2,700 is only surpassed now by 29 GM, leaded
by world champion Viswanathan Anand from India, whose ELO decreased from 2,803
to 2,798.
Anand is followed by Russian Alexander Morozevich (2,788) and
Vladimir Kramnik (2,788), Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk (2,781), Bulgarian Vesselin
Topalov (2,777) and Norwegian Magnus Carlsen (2,775).
The prestigious group
of the best 10 chess players in the world is completed with Teimour Radjob
(2,744) and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2,742) both from Azerbaijan, Alexei Shirov
(2,741) from Spain and Peter Leko (2,741) from Hungary.
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