| Men | Rating | Country | Women | Rating | Country |
1 | Ernesto Inarkiev | 2723.0 | Russia | Anna Muzychuk | 2568.8 | Ukraine |
2 | Alexander Morozevich | 2675.0 | Russia | Tania Sachdev | 2429.0 | India |
3 | Baadur Jobava | 2703.5 | Georgia | Sopiko Guramishvili | 2369.0 | Georgia |
4 | Alexander Grischuk | 2739.4 | Russia | Kateryna Lagno | 2537.8 | Russia |
5 | Dmitry Andreikin | 2733.9 | Russia | Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska | 2414.0 | Poland |
6 | Magnus Carlsen | 2838.3 | Norway | Yuliya Shvayger | 2413.0 | Israel |
7 | Pendyala Harikrishna | 2758.2 | India | Mariya Muzychuk | 2545.7 | Ukraine |
8 | Nikita Vitiugov | 2718.9 | Russia | Alexandra Kosteniuk | 2550.9 | Russia |
9 | Leinier Domínguez | 2739.0 | Cuba | Elisabeth Pähtz | 2464.1 | Germany |
10 | Alexander Ipatov | 2660.0 | Turkey | Nazi Paikidze | 2369.0 | USA |
Tentative updated looks list, with an arbitrary threshold for eligibility of my choosing.
A lot of shake-up in the men's section. Jobava is kind of weird-looking but also classically attractive, so he has to make it. #8-10 are whatever. Ipatov looks to be somewhat small, which doesn't score highly as far as men's looks go (Maxim Rodshtein would probably be on the list if he were a foot taller -- just a few inches probably wouldn't help), but too many top-100 players are kind of ugly in some way, and he has a mostly clean look to him.
The top three in the woman's list are way above the rest. I was going to say Kateryna Lagno too, but she has gone from stunning and t h i c c to looking like
this lately (and that can't entirely be the fault of being next to Anna M
zych
k). I'm assuming she suffered a bout of food poisoning or something, and I don't want to drop her out of the top ten entirely for that, so her spot will be
preserved due to denial in a holding pattern until more pictures emerge and confirm that she either does or doesn't look that way normally these days. #5 through #10 are quite even to me, a mix of very steadily consistent with few great or bad pics (Karina, Yuliya) and more erratic with both good and bad pics (the rest).
Last edited by Rei Ayanami; 02-01-2017 at 12:19 PM.