Levon Aronyan ranks 5th
FIDE published August 2016 FIDE Rating List. World Champion Magnus Carlsen (2857) is leading the list of the world strongest 100 chess players. Our compatriot Levon Aronian (2792) is the 5th, Vladimir Akopian (2675), Gabriel Sargissian (2670) and Sergei Movsesian (2666) are also included in the list, chessfed.am informs.
Women World Champion Hou Yifan (2658) is the 1st in the list of the world strongest 100 women chess players. Among our chess players Elina Danielian (2444) is the 37th, Lilit Mkrtchian (2439) is the 40th.
Armenia is the 7th by team ranking.