Chess: How does White win?

MAGNUS CARLSEN may have disappointed his legion of fans by missing out at a crack at the world championship, but on the bright side the Norwegian ace is back again at the top of the official July Fide rating list.

Carlsen again leapfrogged World Champion Vishy Anand – who didn't play during the last rating period – by winning last month's Kings Tournament. That was not the only big change in the world Top 10. Sergey Karjakin (who also did well at the Kings Tournament) moves up to world No 4, and new Russian No 1, with a double whammy over Vladimir Kramnik.

Carlsen and Karjakin are set to dominate into the next decade and possibly beyond. Yesterday, we saw Italy's Fabiano Caruana, 18, another young pretender for the future looking to make his mark as a Top 10 player with his big win at the AAI International in India.

Another set to join him with a big rating hike is 17-year-old Anish Giri, who, like Caruana, dominated the recent Dutch Championship in Boxtel to win his second national title with a round to spare.

FIDE Top 10: 1. M Carlsen, 2821 (+6); 2. V Anand, 2817 (=); 3. L Aronian, 2805 (-3); 4. S Karjakin, 2788 (+12); 5. V Kramnik, 2781 (-4); 6. V Ivanchuk, 2768 (-8); 7. R Ponomariov, 2768 (+14); 8. V Topalov, 2768 (-8); 9 H Nakamura, 2766 (-8); 10. S Mamedyarov, 2765 (-7)

A Giri - E L'Ami

Dutch Ch., (2)

English Opening

1 Nf3 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 g3 d5 4 Bg2 dxc4 5 Qa4+ Bd7 6 Qxc4 Bc6 7 0–0 Be7 8 Qc2 0–0 9 Nc3 b6 10 d4 Nbd7 11 e4 Bb7 12 Rd1 a6 13 a3 Qb8 14 Bf4 Nh5 15 Be3 Nhf6 16 Bf4 Nh5 17 Be3 Nhf6 18 Rac1 Rc8 19 Qb1 b5 20 b4 Nb6 21 Bf1 Rd8 22 h3 Qa7 23 Nd2 Rac8 24 Nb3 Qa8 25 f3 Nfd7 26 Na5 e5 27 Ne2 Bf8 28 Bg2 exd4 29 Nxd4 Ne5 30 Bg5 Re8 31 Nxb7 Qxb7 32 f4 Nec4 33 e5 c6 34 Qe4 f6 35 Bh4 g5 36 fxg5 Rxe5 37 Qf4 fxg5 38 Bxg5 Nd5 39 Qg4 h5 40 Qxh5 Nde3 41 Nf3 c5 42 Qg6+ Bg7 43 Rxc4! bxc4 44 Bxe3 Rxe3 45 Ne5 1–0