Great Master (GM) Leinier Dominguez held Monday the best punctuation obtained by a Cuban in the world chess classification, accumulating 2,708 units of ELO coefficient (it is a system that measures the player's skills levels) .

In the new listings of the World Chess Federation (FIDE-International Federation of the Discipline), broadcasted this Monday, Dominguez sustained the 25th place and surpassed with 13 points accumulated from March to June, a national record until then (2,695).

This is Dominguez' sixth consecutive improvement and the fifth new mark for Cuba since he completed 2,678 points in April 2007 and ranked in the 30th position.

His excellent performance in the Capablanca Memorial in Havana, and the Sarajevo Magistral in Bosnia, has put him the first place in Latin America.

At continental level, Dominguez is only excelled by Gata Kamsky from the United States (27th place with 2,723 points).

The exclusive mark of 2,700 is only surpassed now by 29 GM, leaded by world champion Viswanathan Anand from India, whose ELO decreased from 2,803 to 2,798.

Anand is followed by Russian Alexander Morozevich (2,788) and Vladimir Kramnik (2,788), Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk (2,781), Bulgarian Vesselin Topalov (2,777) and Norwegian Magnus Carlsen (2,775).

The prestigious group of the best 10 chess players in the world is completed with Teimour Radjob (2,744) and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2,742) both from Azerbaijan, Alexei Shirov (2,741) from Spain and Peter Leko (2,741) from Hungary.

(Xinhua News Agency July 1, 2008)