FIDE World Rankings

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) is the organization that governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes the lists "Top 100 Players", "Top 100 Women", "Top 100 Juniors" and "Top 100 Girls", as well as rankings of countries according to the average rating of their top 10 players and top 10 female players. The Elo rating system is used.

Top players

The top 20 players on 1 August 2017 were ranked as follows:[1]

Rank Change* Player Rating
1 Steady Norway Magnus Carlsen 2822
2 Increase 1 United States Wesley So 2810
3 Increase 2 United States Fabiano Caruana 2807
4 Decrease 2 Russia Vladimir Kramnik 2803
5 Decrease 1 Armenia Levon Aronian 2799
6 Steady Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2797
7 Steady United States Hikaru Nakamura 2792
8 Steady France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2789
9 Steady India Viswanathan Anand 2783
Increase 4 Russia Alexander Grischuk 2783
11 Decrease 1 China Ding Liren 2777
12 Steady Russia Sergey Karjakin 2773
13 Decrease 2 Netherlands Anish Giri 2772
14 Increase 6 China Wei Yi 2753
15 Increase 2 Russia Ian Nepomniachtchi 2751
Steady Russia Peter Svidler 2751
17 Decrease 2 Bulgaria Veselin Topalov 2749
18 Increase 5 Poland Radosław Wojtaszek 2745
19 Increase 6 China Li Chao 2744
Decrease 5 China Yu Yangyi 2744
*Change from the previous month

Top women

The top 20 females were ranked on 1 August 2017 as follows:[2]

Rank Change* Player Rating
1 Steady China Hou Yifan 2652
2 Steady China Ju Wenjun 2578
Steady Ukraine Anna Muzychuk 2572
4 Steady India Koneru Humpy 2557
5 Steady Russia Alexandra Kosteniuk 2552
6 Steady Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk 2544
7 Steady Lithuania Viktorija Čmilytė 2542
8 Steady Russia Kateryna Lagno 2540
9 Steady India Dronavalli Harika 2526
10 Increase 1 Georgia (country) Nana Dzagnidze 2519
11 Decrease 1 China Lei Tingjie 2514
12 Steady China Tan Zhongyi 2506
13 Increase 1 Russia Valentina Gunina 2505
14 Increase 1 Russia Olga Girya 2501
15 Decrease 2 Bulgaria Antoaneta Stefanova 2499
16 Steady France Marie Sebag 2495
17 Increase 1 China Zhao Xue 2494
18 Increase 1 Poland Monika Socko 2479
19 Increase 1 Russia Aleksandra Goryachkina 2478
20 Increase 7 Ukraine Anna Ushenina 2472
*Change from the previous month

Top juniors

Juniors are considered to be players who remain under the age of 21 years for the duration of the current calendar year.

The top 20 positions were ranked on 1 August 2017 as follows:[3]

Rank Change* Player Rating
1 Steady China Wei Yi 2753
2 Steady Poland Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2707
3 Steady Russia Vladislav Artemiev 2692
4 Steady Germany Matthias Bluebaum 2646
5 Decrease 1 United States Jeffery Xiong 2633
6 Steady United States Samuel Sevian 2620
7 Increase 1 Russia Grigoriy Oparin 2609
8 Increase 1 Hungary Benjamin Gledura 2600
Decrease 1 Netherlands Jorden Van Foreest 2600
10 Increase 4 Germany Rasmus Svane 2592
11 Decrease 1 Norway Aryan Tari 2591
12 Increase 1 Iran Parham Maghsoodloo 2590
13 Increase 2 Russia Mikhail Antipov 2580
14 Decrease 2 India Chithambaram Aravindh 2579
Increase 5 Germany Alexander Donchenko 2579
Increase 2 India Murali Karthikeyan 2579
17 Increase 1 Russia Kirill Alekseenko 2575
Decrease 7 Russia Maksim Vavulin 2575
19 Decrease 3 Romania Bogdan-Daniel Deac 2573
20 Increase 11 Armenia Haik M Martirosyan 2570
*Change from the previous month

Top girls

This list includes female players who will remain under the age of 21 years for the duration of the current calendar year.

The top 20 positions were ranked on 1 August 2017 as follows:[4]

Rank Change* Player Rating
1 Steady China Lei Tingjie 2514
2 Steady Russia Aleksandra Goryachkina 2478
3 Steady Iran Sarasadat Khademalsharieh 2433
4 Increase 1 China Ni Shiqun 2432
5 Increase 1 Kazakhstan Zhansaya Abdumalik 2423
6 Increase 2 Russia Bibisara Assaubayeva 2421
7 Decrease 3 Spain Marta García 2411
8 Increase 1 Russia Polina Shuvalova 2397
9 Decrease 1 Azerbaijan Gunay Mammadzada 2393
10 Steady Indonesia Medina Warda Aulia 2375
11 Steady Mongolia Davaademberel Nomin-Erdene 2371
12 Increase 8 China Zhu Jiner 2367
13 Decrease 1 Greece Stavroula Tsolakidou 2366
14 Increase 4 Hungary Annamaria Marjanovic 2354
15 Decrease 2 Ukraine Iulija Osmak 2353
16 Decrease 2 Slovenia Laura Unuk 2343
17 Increase 9 Georgia (country) Nino Khomeriki 2336
18 Increase 5 Belarus Olga Badelka 2335
19 Decrease 2 Bulgaria Nurgyul Salimova 2329
20 Decrease 5 India Aakanksha Hagawane 2334
*Change from the previous month

Top countries

FIDE publishes two lists ranking countries. The first ranks them according to the average rating of their top 10 players, while the other ranks them according to the average rating of their top 10 female players. The top 20 positions were ranked on 1 August 2017 in the former list as follows:[5]

Rank Change* Country Average top 10 rating
1 Steady  Russia 2746
2 Steady  China 2710
3 Steady  United States 2704
4 Steady  Ukraine 2680
5 Steady  India 2674
6 Steady  Azerbaijan 2658
7 Increase 1  France 2646
8 Increase 2  Poland 2645
9 Decrease 2  Armenia 2643
10 Decrease 1  Hungary 2641
11 Steady  England 2637
12 Increase 1  Israel 2632
13 Decrease 1  Netherlands 2628
14 Steady  Germany 2624
15 Steady  Spain 2595
16 Increase 1  Bulgaria 2591
17 Decrease 1  Czech Republic 2590
18 Decrease 1  Georgia 2585
19 Steady  Cuba 2580
20 Steady  Croatia 2579
*Change from the previous month

Female list

The top 20 countries by average rating of the top 10 female players were ranked on 1 August 2017 as follows:[6]

Rank Change* Country Average top 10 rating
1 Steady  China 2491
2 Steady  Russia 2480
3 Steady  Ukraine 2420
4 Steady  Georgia 2412
5 Steady  India 2389
6 Steady  Germany 2365
7 Steady  Poland 2362
8 Steady  Hungary 2346
9 Steady  United States 2329
10 Steady  France 2313
11 Increase 1  Azerbaijan 2302
12 Increase 2  Bulgaria 2297
13 Increase 2  Romania 2296
14 Decrease 3  Serbia 2295
15 Decrease 3  Spain 2289
16 Steady  Cuba 2271
Increase 1  Netherlands 2271
18 Increase 1  Vietnam 2268
19 Increase 1  Armenia 2266
20 Decrease 1  Mongolia 2264
*Change from the previous month

References

  1. ↑ Administrator. "FIDE Online. FIDE Top players - Standard Top 100 Players August 2018". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  2. ↑ Administrator. "FIDE Online. FIDE Top players - Standard Top 100 Women August 2017". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  3. ↑ Administrator. "FIDE Online. FIDE Top players - Standard Top 100 Juniors August 2017". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  4. ↑ Administrator. "FIDE Online. FIDE Top players - Standard Top 100 Girls August 2017". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  5. ↑ Administrator. "FIDE Country Top chess players". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  6. ↑ Administrator. "FIDE Country Top chess players". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
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