{"id":43979,"date":"2026-03-02T06:49:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/?p=43979"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:42:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:42:56","slug":"fide-march-2026-rating-list-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/fide-march-2026-rating-list-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"FIDE March 2026 Rating List \u2013 Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"43979\" class=\"elementor elementor-43979\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d97317 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3d97317\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40e7375 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"40e7375\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ratings.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-38907\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ratings.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ratings-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ratings-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db4824a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"db4824a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>According to Article 0.2.1 of the FIDE Rating Regulations, a tournament and its playing schedule must be registered:<\/p><p>0.2.1\u00a0Not later than 30 days before the tournament starts, if one of the players in the tournament is rated in excess of 2700, or a female player rated in excess of 2500.<\/p><p>Due to an oversight in the approval process, the Russian Chess Crown match was included in the March 2026 FIDE Rating List in breach of these regulations. Once the error was identified, the Qualification Commission (QC) removed the event from the FIDE Rating System in accordance with the applicable rules.<\/p><p>As a result, Sergey Karjakin\u2019s status has been changed to inactive, and he has been removed from the list of active players in the FIDE rating list.<\/p><p>The FIDE Qualification apologises\u00a0for any issues this may have caused with\u00a0the release of the new rating list, and will work at improving the approval process in the future.<\/p><p>The current standard rating list is available here: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ratings.fide.com\/top_lists.phtml?list=open\">https:\/\/ratings.fide.com\/top_lists.phtml?list=open<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Article 0.2.1 of the FIDE Rating Regulations, a tournament and its playing schedule must be registered: 0.2.1\u00a0Not later than 30 days before the tournament starts, if one of the players in the tournament is rated in excess of 2700, or a female player rated in excess of 2500. Due to an oversight in the approval process, the Russian Chess Crown match was included in the March 2026 FIDE Rating List in breach of these regulations. Once the error was identified, the Qualification Commission (QC) removed the event from the FIDE Rating System in accordance with the applicable rules. As a result, Sergey Karjakin\u2019s status has been changed to inactive, and he has been removed from the list of active players in the FIDE rating list. The FIDE Qualification apologises\u00a0for any issues this may have caused with\u00a0the release of the new rating list, and will work at improving the approval process in the future. The current standard rating list is available here: https:\/\/ratings.fide.com\/top_lists.phtml?list=open<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[166],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-43979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fide-news","tag-fide-rating"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43979"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44004,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43979\/revisions\/44004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43979"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=43979"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=43979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}