Carlsen holds number one for a fifteenth year, while Gukesh slips to 2703.
What moved
FIDE’s August list was shaped by the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters, the Biel festival and the Oskemen Open.
Alireza Firouzja is back among the top ten after winning in Chennai. Magnus Carlsen stays world number one, a run now in its fifteenth unbroken year, and the top five is unchanged. World champion Gukesh Dommaraju lost 14 points to 2703 after three defeats in Chennai, and now sits behind 15-year-old Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus on the junior list. Polina Shuvalova gained 24 points and entered the top ten alongside a second GM norm.