Mayabeque, Cuba_ Grandmaster Leinier DomÃnguez has climbed to the 18th place in the world ranking, in force until the first of next month, according to the International Chess Federation (FIDE).
The idol of Güines was not present at the Memorial Capablanca for a holiday granted by FIDE.
Despite remaining out of the high competition Leinier maintains the 18th position, while his pair Lázaro Bruzón, managed to climb several steps and flirt with the top-100 to occupy position 101, according to the most recent update of the International Chess Federation.
The güinero keeps his 2739 Elo points, valid to stand on the same position of 30 days ago and with that accumulative leads the Latin American chess players. For Latin America, there are now four masters among the best on the planet, Radio Coco reports.
After Leinier, places the Venezuelan Eduardo Iturrizaga and the Paraguayan Axel Bachmann in the 83rd and 85th seats of the world, after that appears the Argentine Sandro Mareco, place 90, and the Peruvian Julio Granda who descended from the 87th to the 96th place.
The universal cusp remains in the hands of the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, owner of 2822 points. They are followed by Russian Vladimir Kramnik and US-born Filipino Wesley So, second and third. Levon Aronian, with an increase of 16 streaks was positioned in the fourth place.
The American Fabiano Caruana anchors sixth, ahead of the Azeri Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. The group of the 10 best is completed by American Hikaru Nakamura, Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Indian Viswanathan Anand and Liren Ding of China.
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