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 6 players achieved their over 2700 peak before 2000 and 24 players achieved their respective peak between 2000 and 2009 (including).

List

FIDE Players ordered by Peak elo rating[1]
Player Peak rating Achieved
2800+
1. Norway Magnus Carlsen 2882 2014-05 Highest ranked Norwegian player, Highest ranked male player, World Champion
2. Soviet UnionRussia Garry Kasparov 2851 1999-07 Highest ranked Russian player, former World Champion, first player to achieve 2800+ ranking
3. Italy Fabiano Caruana 2844 2014-10 Highest ranked Italian player
4. Armenia Levon Aronian 2830 2014-03 Highest ranked Armenian player
5. India Viswanathan Anand 2817 2011-09 Highest ranked Indian player, former World Champion
6. Bulgaria Veselin Topalov 2813 2006-10 Highest ranked Bulgarian player
7. Russia Vladimir Kramnik 2811 2013-05 Former world champion
8. Russia Alexander Grischuk 2810 2014-12
2775-2799
9. United States Hikaru Nakamura 2799 2014-01 Highest ranked US player
10. Netherlands Anish Giri 2797 2015-02 Highest ranked Dutch player
11. Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov 2793 2012-10 Highest ranked Azerbaijani player
12. Russia Alexander Morozevich 2788 2008-07
13. Russia Sergey Karjakin 2788 2011-07
14. United States Wesley So 2788 2015-02
15. Soviet UnionUkraine Vassily Ivanchuk 2787 2007-10 Highest ranked Ukrainian player
16. United States Bobby Fischer 2785 1972-07 Former World Champion, first player to achieve 2700+ ranking
17. Soviet UnionRussia Anatoly Karpov 2780 1994-07 Former World Champion
18. Israel Boris Gelfand 2777 2013-11 Highest ranked Israeli player
19. Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2775 2013-08
20. France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2775 2015-02 Highest ranked French player
2750-2774
21. Russia Peter Svidler 2769 2013-05
22. Cuba Leinier Dominguez Perez 2768 2014-05 Highest ranked Cuban player
23. Ukraine Ruslan Ponomariov 2764 2011-07
24. Hungary Peter Leko 2763 2005-04 Highest ranked Hungarian player
25. United States Gata Kamsky 2763 2013-07
26. Ukraine Pavel Eljanov 2761 2010-09
27. Azerbaijan Vugar Gashimov 2761 2012-01
28. United Kingdom Michael Adams 2761 2013-09 Highest ranked British player
29. Russia Dmitry Jakovenko 2760 2009-01
30. China Yue Wang 2756 2010-09 Highest ranked Chinese player
31. Latvia Alexei Shirov 2755 2008-01 Highest ranked Latvian player
32. China Liren Ding 2755 2015-02
33. China Hao Wang 2752 2013-01
34. Armenia Sergei Movsesian 2751 2009-01
2725-2749
35. France Etienne Bacrot 2749 2013-11
36. Russia Nikita Vitiugov 2747 2014-03
37. Poland Radoslaw Wojtaszek 2744 2014-11 Highest ranked Polish player
38. Russia Evgeny Tomashevsky 2740 2011-11
39. Russia Evgeny Bareev 2739 2003-10
40. Germany Arkadij Naiditsch 2737 2013-12 Highest ranked German player
41. Russia Dmitry Andreikin 2737 2014-12
42. Hungary Judit Polgar 2735 2005-07 Highest ranked female player
43. Russia Ian Nepomniachtchi 2735 2012-01
44. Czech Republic David Navara 2735 2015-02 Highest ranked Czech player
45. Moldova Viktor Bologan 2734 2012-08 Highest ranked Moldovian player
46. Georgia (country) Baadur Jobava 2734 2012-09 Highest ranked Georgian player
47. Russia Vladimir Malakhov 2732 2010-07
48. China Li Chao 2730 2014-12
49. India P Harikrishna 2727 2014-10
50. Hungary Zoltan Almasi 2726 2011-07
51. Ukraine Alexander Moiseenko 2726 2011-09
52. Russia Evgeny Alekseev 2725 2009-09
53. Ukraine Andrei Volokitin 2725 2013-03
2710-2724
54. China Hua Ni 2724 2009-04
55. Spain Francisco Vallejo Pons 2724 2011-07 Highest ranked Spanish player
56. China Yangyi Yu 2724 2015-01
57. Ukraine Anton Korobov 2723 2014-01
58. China Xiangzhi Bu 2722 2014-09
59. India Krishnan Sasikiran 2720 2012-05
60. Russia Alexander Riazantsev 2720 2012-07
61. Ukraine Alexander Areshchenko 2720 2012-12
62. Hungary Richard Rapport 2720 2014-10
63. France Laurent Fressinet 2718 2010-09
64. Vietnam Quang Liem Le 2717 2011-09 Highest ranked Vietnamese player
65. Cuba Lazaro Bruzon Batista 2717 2012-10
66. Russia Valery Salov 2715 1995-01
67. Netherlands Loek Van Wely 2714 2001-10
68. Russia Denis Khismatullin 2714 2014-03
69. Armenia Vladimir Akopian 2713 2006-07
70. Bulgaria Ivan Cheparinov 2713 2008-01
71. United Kingdom Luke McShane 2713 2012-07
72. United Kingdom Nigel D Short 2712 2004-04
73. Russia Alexey Dreev 2711 2011-07
74. Slovenia Alexander G Beliavsky 2710 1997-07 Highest ranked Slovenian player
75. Russia Alexander Motylev 2710 2009-07
76. Ukraine Yuriy Kryvoruchko 2710 2014-10

See also

References

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