World's Top 20 Juniors

Some notes:

- GM Magnus Carlsen of Norway has become the world's No.1 junior player for 14 times
- GM Fabiano Caruana has finally breached the 2700-mark, the first Italian to do so
- There are 2 Vietnamese (GMs Le Quang Liem and Ngoc Truong Son Nguyen) and only 1 Filipino player in the list
- GM Wesley So slid to No.9 (September 2010) from No.7 spot (July 2010)

Here is the list of the world's Top 20 Juniors (September 2010):

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2826 0 1990 2 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2747 0 1990 3 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2721 10 1990 4 Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2706 0 1990 5 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2700 19 1992 6 Le, Quang Liem g VIE 2694 10 1991 7 Giri, Anish g NED 2677 19 1994 8 Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2669 22 1990 9 So, Wesley g PHI 2668 19 1993 10 Feller, Sebastien g FRA 2649 21 1991 11 Edouard, Romain g FRA 2636 20 1990 12 Hammer, Jon Ludvig g NOR 2633 29 1990 13 Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son g VIE 2633 9 1990 14 Kuzubov, Yuriy g UKR 2628 0 1990 15 Sjugirov, Sanan g RUS 2627 19 1993 16 Khairullin, Ildar g RUS 2620 0 1990 17 Howell, David W L g ENG 2616 19 1990 18 Matlakov, Maxim g RUS 2613 22 1991 19 Safarli, Eltaj g AZE 2607 32 1992 20 Popov, Ivan g RUS 2606 0 1990