With the top players mainly playing online and freestyle, there has been little change at the top of the rankings. Magnus Carlsen, the current World Champion in Rapid and Blitz, is still the world number one, as he has been since July 2011. Fabiano Caruana follows in second place and is the only other player besides Carlsen with a rating of 2800+.
Ilya Smirin was commentating with Fiona Steil-Antoni in the ninth round of the Women s Grand Prix in Astana, Kazakhstan, when he confessed to the comments.
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