World's Top 20 Players

As of Jan 1, 2011, the world's top 20 players according to FIDE rating are:


 1 Carlsen, Magnus  
 2 Anand, Viswanathan
 3 Aronian, Levon
 4 Kramnik, Vladimir
 5 Karjakin, Sergey
 6 Topalov, Veselin
 7 Grischuk, Alexander
 8 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
 9 Ivanchuk, Vassily
 10 Nakamura, Hikaru
 11 Ponomariov, Ruslan
 12 Radjabov, Teimour
 13 Gashimov, Vugar
 14 Wang, Yue
 15 Nepomniachtchi, Ian
 16 Gelfand, Boris
 17 Wang, Hao
 18 Svidler, Peter
 19 Kamsky, Gata
 20 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw

Carlsen remains at the top.  Other notable players: Anand went from 3rd to 2nd, Kramnik went from 5th to 4th, Topalov dropped 2nd to 6th since my last post of World Rankings.