List of chess players by peak FIDE rating

This is the list of top ranked chess grandmasters, ordered by their peak Elo rating. The cut-off value is 2700.

Notably only six players achieved their over 2700 peak before 2000 and twenty-one players achieved their respective peak between 2000 and 2009 (including).

List

FIDE players ordered by peak Elo rating^[1]

	Country	Player	Peak rating	Achieved	Birth year	Death year	Notes
1		Magnus Carlsen	2882	2014-05	1990		Highest ranked Norwegian player, Highest ranked player, World Champion (2013–present)
2		Garry Kasparov	2851	1999-07	1963		Highest ranked Russian player, former World Champion (1985-2000), first player to achieve 2800+ ranking
3		Fabiano Caruana	2844	2014-10	1992		Formerly highest ranked Italian player (till 2015) - 2844, 2014-10, Highest ranked American player
4		Levon Aronian	2830	2014-03	1982		Highest ranked Armenian player.
5		Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2819	2016-08	1990		Highest ranked French player.
6		Viswanathan Anand	2817	2011-09	1969		Highest ranked Indian player, former World Champion (2000-2002, 2007-2013)
6=		Vladimir Kramnik	2817	2016-10	1975		Former World Champion (2000, 2006-2007)
8=		Veselin Topalov	2816	2015-07	1975		Highest ranked Bulgarian player, former FIDE World Champion (2005-2006)
8=		Hikaru Nakamura	2816	2015-10	1987
10		Alexander Grischuk	2810	2014-12	1983
11		Anish Giri	2798	2015-10	1994		Highest ranked Dutch player
12		Wesley So	2794	2016-10	1993		Formerly highest ranked Filipino player (till 2014) - 2755, 2014-08
13		Teimour Radjabov	2793	2012-10	1987		Highest ranked Azerbaijani player
14=		Alexander Morozevich	2788	2008-07	1977
14=		Sergey Karjakin	2788	2011-07	1990
16		Vassily Ivanchuk	2787	2007-10	1969		Highest ranked Ukrainian player
17		Bobby Fischer	2785	1972-07	1943	2008	Former World Champion (1972-1975), first player to achieve 2700+ ranking
18		Ding Liren	2783	2016-06	1992		Highest ranked Chinese player
19		Anatoly Karpov	2780	1994-07	1951		Former World Champion (1975-1985, 1993-1999)
20		Boris Gelfand	2777	2013-11	1968		Highest ranked Israeli player, formerly highest ranked Belarusian player (till 1998) - 2675 (Now Sergei Zhigalko - 2696, 2011-09)
21		Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2775	2013-08	1985
22		Peter Svidler	2769	2013-05	1976
23=		Leinier Dominguez Perez	2768	2014-05	1983		Highest ranked Cuban player
23=		Pentala Harikrishna	2768	2016-10	1986
24		Ian Nepomniachtchi	2767	2016-11	1990
26		Pavel Eljanov	2765	2016-03	1983
27		Ruslan Ponomariov	2764	2011-07	1983		Former FIDE World Champion (2002-2004)
28=		Peter Leko	2763	2005-04	1979		Highest ranked Hungarian player
28=		Gata Kamsky	2763	2013-07	1974
30=		Vugar Gashimov	2761	2012-01	1986	2014
30=		Michael Adams	2761	2013-09	1971		Highest ranked English player
32		Dmitry Jakovenko	2760	2009-01	1983
33		Evgeny Tomashevsky	2758	2015-09	1987
34		Li Chao	2757	2016-03	1989
35		Wang Yue	2756	2010-09	1987
36		Alexei Shirov	2755	2008-01	1972		Highest ranked Latvian player, formerly highest ranked Spanish player (till 2011) - 2755, 2008-01
37=		Wang Hao	2752	2013-01	1989
37=		Richard Rapport	2752	2016-07	1996
39=		Sergei Movsesian	2751	2009-01	1978		Formerly highest ranked Slovak player (till 2010) - 2751, 2009-01
39=		David Navara	2751	2015-05	1985		Highest ranked Czech player
41=		Etienne Bacrot	2749	2013-11	1983
41=		Radoslaw Wojtaszek	2749	2015-06	1987		Highest ranked Polish player
43=		Nikita Vitiugov	2747	2014-03	1987
43=		Yu Yangyi	2747	2016-01	1994
45		Dmitry Andreikin	2743	2016-06	1990
46		Evgeny Bareev	2739	2003-10	1966		Highest ranked Canadian player
47=		Arkadij Naiditsch	2737	2013-12	1985		Formerly highest ranked German player (till 2015)
47=		Wei Yi	2737	2015-11	1999		Youngest player to reach a rating over 2700.
49		Judit Polgar	2735	2005-07	1976		Highest ranked female player
50=		Viktor Bologan	2734	2012-08	1971		Highest ranked Moldovan player
50=		Baadur Jobava	2734	2012-09	1983		Highest ranked Georgian player
52=		Vladimir Malakhov	2732	2010-07	1980
52=		Ernesto Inarkiev	2732	2016-09	1985
54		Bu Xiangzhi	2729	2016-06	1985
55=		Zoltan Almasi	2726	2011-07	1976
55=		Alexander Moiseenko	2726	2011-09	1980
57=		Evgeny Alekseev	2725	2009-09	1985
57=		Andrei Volokitin	2725	2013-03	1986
59=		Ni Hua	2724	2009-04	1983
59=		Francisco Vallejo Pons	2724	2011-07	1982		Highest ranked Spanish player
61=		Anton Korobov	2723	2014-01	1985
61=		Le Quang Liem	2723	2016-07	1991		Highest ranked Vietnamese player
63=		Krishnan Sasikiran	2720	2012-05	1981
63=		Alexander Riazantsev	2720	2012-07	1985
63=		Alexander Areshchenko	2720	2012-12	1986
63=		Laurent Fressinet	2720	2015-06	1981
67=		Lazaro Bruzon Batista	2717	2012-10	1982
67=		Yuriy Kryvoruchko	2717	2015-11	1986
69=		Valery Salov	2715	1995-01	1964
69=		Rustam Kasimdzhanov	2715	2015-05	1979		Highest ranked Uzbek player, former FIDE World Champion (2004-2005)
71=		Loek Van Wely	2714	2001-10	1972
71=		Denis Khismatullin	2714	2014-03	1984
73=		Vladimir Akopian	2713	2006-07	1971
73=		Ivan Cheparinov	2713	2008-01	1986
73=		Luke McShane	2713	2012-07	1984
76=		Nigel Short	2712	2004-04	1965
76=		David Howell	2712	2015-08	1990
78		Alexey Dreev	2711	2011-07	1969
79=		Alexander Beliavsky	2710	1997-07	1953		Highest ranked Slovenian player
79=		Alexander Motylev	2710	2009-07	1979
79=		Maxim Rodshtein	2710	2016-03	1989
82		Zahar Efimenko	2708	2011-03	1985
83		Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	2707	2005-10	1976		Highest ranked German player, formerly highest ranked Romanian player (till 2014) - 2707, 2005–10
84=		Ivan Sokolov	2706	2004-01	1968		Formerly highest ranked Bosnian player (till 1994) - 2650 (Now Predrag Nikolić - 2676, 2004–10)
84=		Ferenc Berkes	2706	2011-09	1985
84=		Sergei Rublevsky	2706	2013-11	1974
87=		Mikhail Tal	2705	1980-01	1936	1992	Former world champion (1960-1961)
87=		Vadim Milov	2705	2008-07	1972		Highest ranked Swiss player
87=		Boris Grachev	2705	2012-03	1986
87=		Jon Ludvig Hammer	2705	2016-02	1990
91		Viktor Laznicka	2704	2012-01	1989
92		Emil Sutovsky	2703	2012-01	1977
93=		Michal Krasenkow	2702	2000-07	1963
93=		Ilia Smirin	2702	2001-07	1968
93=		Alexander Khalifman	2702	2001-10	1966		Former FIDE World Champion (1999-2000)
93=		Zurab Azmaiparashvili	2702	2003-07	1960
93=		Romain Edouard	2702	2014-06	1990
93=		Igor Kovalenko	2702	2015-08	1988
93=		Gabriel Sargissian	2702	2015-12	1983
100		Alexander Onischuk	2701	2010-07	1975
101=		Peter Heine Nielsen	2700	2010-07	1973		Highest ranked Danish player
101=		Maxim Matlakov	2700	2013-11	1991
101=		Igor Lysyj	2700	2015-01	1987
101=		Markus Ragger	2700	2016-10	1988		Highest ranked Austrian player

See also

• List of FIDE chess world number ones
• Comparison of top chess players throughout history

References

1. ↑ http://chess-db.com/public/top100alltime.jsp

External links

• A list of chess players by peak FIDE rating on 2700chess.com