Anand is no 1, officially

The Indian was to become the world number one on FIDE charts for the first time in his career after he won the Morelia-Linares tournament in Spain last month. But the FIDE list showed Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria still on the top, 13 points ahead of Anand. The game8217;s world governing body said that the Morelia-Linares tournament was not taken into consideration while updating the rankings since it concluded on March 10, outside the cut-off date of February 28.

But following the AICF8217;s strong protests and widespread criticism, FIDE agreed to correct the list. AICF secretary DV Sundar objected to the FIDE8217;s deviation from the long-standing practice of including the tournament in calculations for preparing the April ranking list.

8220;The AICF asked FIDE to rate this event as done in the past 15 or more years. The Linares tournament has been traditionally been included in all rating lists published by FIDE in April and excluding it this time will be injustice to Indian chess and Viswanathan Anand,8221; the AICF said on its official website.

AICF treasurer Bharat Singh Chauhan said the Asian Cities Chess Championship in Tehran, which was held from March 1 to 9, was also included in the tournaments used to calculate the April 2007 list. 8220;This shows their FIDE8217;s double standards,8221; Chauhan said.