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 for men (players with a rating at or above this value are colloquially known as super grandmasters) and 2500 for women.

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

List[edit]

FIDE players ordered by peak Elo rating^[1]^[2]
	Country	Player	Peak rating	Achieved	Birth year	Death year	Notes
2800+[edit]
1	Norway	Magnus Carlsen	2882	2014-05	1990		Highest-ranked player (2013–), world no. 1 (2010, 2011, 2011–), former World Chess Champion (2013–2023), highest-ranked Norwegian player (2006–)
2	Soviet Union Russia	Garry Kasparov	2851	1999-07	1963		Highest-ranked Russian player, formerly world no. 1 (1984–1993, 1995–2006), former world champion (1985–2000), first player to achieve 2800+ rating, formerly highest-ranked player (1990–2012), highest-ranked Soviet-born player (since 1986)
3	Italy United States	Fabiano Caruana	2844	2014-10	1992		Highest-ranked American player (since 2015), formerly highest-ranked Italian player (2007–2015)
4	Armenia Germany United States	Levon Aronian	2830	2014-03	1982		Formerly highest-ranked Armenian player (2005–2021)
5	Philippines United States	Wesley So	2822	2017-02	1993		Highest-ranked Filipino-born player, formerly highest-ranked Filipino player (2009–2014), inaugural, former and longest reigning FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Champion (2019–2022)
6	Azerbaijan	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2820	2018-09	1985		Highest-ranked Azerbaijani player (2006, 2007–2008, 2010–2011, 2017–)
7	France	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2819	2016-08	1990		Highest-ranked French player (2013, since 2014)
8	India	Viswanathan Anand	2817	2011-03	1969		Highest-ranked Indian player (since 1987), former world champion (2007–2013, FIDE 2000–2002), formerly world no. 1 (2007, 2008, 2010, 2011)
8	Soviet Union Russia	Vladimir Kramnik	2817	2016-10	1975		Former world champion (2000–2007), formerly world no. 1 (1996, 2008), formerly youngest player to achieve 2800+ rating
10	Bulgaria	Veselin Topalov	2816	2015-07	1975		Highest-ranked Bulgarian player (since 1993), former world champion (FIDE 2005–2006), formerly world no. 1 (2006–2007, 2008–2009)
	United States	Hikaru Nakamura	2816	2015-10	1987		Highest-ranked Japanese-born player, formerly highest-ranked American player (2011–2015), current FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Champion (since 2022)
	China	Ding Liren	2816	2018-11	1992		Highest-ranked Chinese player (since 2015), current World Chess Champion (since 2023)
13	Russia	Alexander Grischuk	2810	2014-12	1983
14	Iran France	Alireza Firouzja	2804	2021-12	2003		Highest-ranked Iranian-born player, formerly highest-ranked Iranian player (2019), highest-ranked junior, youngest player to achieve 2800+ rating
2775–2799[edit]
15	Russia Netherlands	Anish Giri	2798	2015-10	1994		Highest-ranked Dutch player (since 2011)
16	Russia	Ian Nepomniachtchi	2795	2023-03	1990
17	Azerbaijan	Teimour Radjabov	2793	2012-11	1987		Formerly highest-ranked Azerbaijani player (2002–2005, 2006, 2009–2010, 2011–2017)
18	Russia	Alexander Morozevich	2788	2008-07	1977
18	Ukraine Russia	Sergey Karjakin	2788	2011-07	1990		Highest-ranked Ukrainian-born player, formerly youngest grandmaster (2002–2021)
20	Soviet Union Ukraine	Vasyl Ivanchuk	2787	2007-10	1969		Highest-ranked Ukrainian player (1992–2002, since 2005)
21	United States	Bobby Fischer	2785	1972-07	1943	2008	Former world champion (1972–1975), formerly highest-ranked player (1971–1989), formerly highest-ranked American player (1971–2008), formerly world no. 1 (1971–1975), formerly youngest grandmaster (1958–1991), first player to achieve 2700+ rating
22	Soviet Union Russia	Anatoly Karpov	2780	1994-07	1951		Former world champion (1975–1985, FIDE 1993–1999), formerly world no. 1 (1976–1983, 1985, 1994), formerly highest-ranked Soviet player (1974–1986)
23	Soviet Union Belarus Israel	Boris Gelfand	2777	2013-11	1968		Highest-ranked Israeli player (since 1999), formerly highest-ranked Belarusian player (1993–1998)
24	Hungary Romania	Richard Rapport	2776	2022-04	1996		Highest-ranked Romanian player (since 2022), formerly highest-ranked Hungarian player (2021–2022)
2750–2774[edit]
25	India	Pentala Harikrishna	2770	2016-12	1986
26	Soviet Union Russia	Peter Svidler	2769	2013-05	1976
27	Cuba United States	Leinier Domínguez	2768	2014-05	1983		Highest-ranked Cuban-born player, formerly highest-ranked Cuban player (1998–2001, 2001–2003, 2004–2005, 2007–2018)
28	Ukraine	Pavel Eljanov	2765	2016-03	1983
	China	Yu Yangyi	2765	2018-09	1994
	Uzbekistan	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	2765	2024-04	2004		Highest-ranked Uzbekistani player (since 2023)
31	Ukraine	Ruslan Ponomariov	2764	2011-07	1983		Former world chess champion (FIDE 2002–2004), formerly youngest grandmaster (1997–1999), formerly highest-ranked Ukrainian player (2002–2005)
32	Hungary	Peter Leko	2763	2005-04	1979		Formerly youngest grandmaster (1994–1997), highest-ranked Hungarian player (1999–2021, since 2022)
	Soviet Union United States	Gata Kamsky	2763	2013-07	1974		Formerly highest-ranked American player (2008–2010)
	China	Wang Hao	2763	2020-04	1989
35	Azerbaijan	Vugar Gashimov	2761	2012-01	1986	2014
	England	Michael Adams	2761	2013-09	1971		Highest-ranked English player (since 1998)
	Russia	Vladislav Artemiev	2761	2019-06	1998
38	Russia	Dmitry Jakovenko	2760	2009-01	1983
38	Poland	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2760	2021-12	1998		Highest-ranked Polish player (since 2019)
40	Russia	Evgeny Tomashevsky	2758	2015-09	1987
	China	Li Chao	2758	2016-06	1989
	India	Dommaraju Gukesh	2758	2023-09	2006		Youngest player to achieve 2750+ rating
43	China	Wang Yue	2756	2010-11	1987		Formerly highest-ranked Chinese player (2007–2008, 2008–2015)
43	India	Arjun Erigaisi	2756	2024-04	2003
45	Soviet Union Latvia Spain	Alexei Shirov	2755	2008-01	1972		Highest-ranked Spanish player (1995–2011, since 2018), formerly highest-ranked Latvian player (1992–1994, 2011–2018)
45	China	Wei Yi	2755	2024-02	1999		Youngest player to achieve 2700+ rating
47	Georgia Czech Republic Slovakia Armenia	Sergei Movsesian	2751	2009-01	1978		Formerely highest-ranked Czech player (1999–2002), formerly highest-ranked Slovak player (2002–2010), highest-ranked Armenian player (since 2021)
	Czech Republic	David Navara	2751	2015-05	1985		Highest-ranked Czech player (since 2005)
	Russia England	Nikita Vitiugov	2751	2019-11	1987
50	Poland	Radosław Wojtaszek	2750	2017-01	1987		Formerly highest-ranked Polish player (2010–2019)
2725–2749[edit]
51	France	Étienne Bacrot	2749	2013-11	1983		Formerly highest-ranked French player (2004–2013, 2013–2014), formerly youngest grandmaster (1997)
52	India	Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa	2747	2024-02	2005
52	India	Vidit Gujrathi	2747	2024-02	1994
54	Russia	Dmitry Andreikin	2743	2016-06	1990
54	Germany	Vincent Keymer	2743	2024-01	2004		Highest-ranked German player (since 2023)
56	Iran	Parham Maghsoodloo	2742	2023-12	2000		Highest-ranked Iranian player (2018–2019, since 2019)
57	Vietnam	Lê Quang Liêm	2740	2023-08	1991		Highest-ranked Vietnamese player (since 2009)
58	Soviet Union Russia Canada	Evgeny Bareev	2739	2003-10	1966		Highest-ranked Canadian player (since 2015)
59	Russia	Maxim Matlakov	2738	2017-11	1991
60	Latvia Germany Azerbaijan	Arkadij Naiditsch	2737	2013-12	1985		Formerly highest-ranked German player (2006–2008, 2009–2015)
61	Hungary	Judit Polgár	2735	2005-07	1976		Highest-ranked female player; first and only female player to achieve 2700+ rating, formerly youngest grandmaster (1991–1994), formerly highest-ranked Hungarian player (1996–1998)
62	Soviet Union Moldova	Viktor Bologan	2734	2012-08	1971		Highest-ranked Moldovan player
62	Georgia	Baadur Jobava	2734	2012-09	1983		Highest-ranked Georgian player (since 2010)
64	Russia Slovenia	Vladimir Fedoseev	2733	2017-10	1995		Highest-ranked Slovenian player (since 2023)
65	Russia	Vladimir Malakhov	2732	2010-07	1980
65	Kyrgyzstan Russia	Ernesto Inarkiev	2732	2016-09	1985
67	China	Bu Xiangzhi	2731	2019-02	1985		Formerly youngest grandmaster (1999–2002), formerly highest-ranked Chinese player (2008)
67	United States	Samuel Shankland	2731	2019-02	1991
69	Hungary	Zoltán Almási	2726	2011-07	1976
69	Ukraine	Alexander Moiseenko	2726	2011-09	1980
71	Russia Israel	Evgeny Alekseev	2725	2009-09	1985
71	Ukraine	Andrei Volokitin	2725	2013-03	1986
2700–2724[edit]
73	China	Ni Hua	2724	2009-04	1983
73	Spain	Francisco Vallejo Pons	2724	2011-07	1982		Formerly highest-ranked Spanish player (2012–2018)
75	Ukraine	Anton Korobov	2723	2014-01	1985
75	Russia	Andrey Esipenko	2723	2022-03	2002
77	India	Krishnan Sasikiran	2720	2012-05	1981
	Russia	Alexander Riazantsev	2720	2012-07	1985
	Ukraine	Alexander Areshchenko	2720	2012-12	1986
	France	Laurent Fressinet	2720	2015-06	1981
	Russia	Daniil Dubov	2720	2021-12	1996
82	Bulgaria Georgia	Ivan Cheparinov	2718	2018-08	1986
83	Cuba United States	Lázaro Bruzón	2717	2012-10	1982		Formerly highest-ranked Cuban player (2001, 2003–2004, 2005–2007, 2018–2020)
83	Ukraine	Yuriy Kryvoruchko	2717	2015-11	1986
85	Soviet Union Russia	Valery Salov	2715	1995-01	1964
	Uzbekistan	Rustam Kasimdzhanov	2715	2015-05	1979		Former world chess champion (FIDE 2004–2005), formerly highest-ranked Uzbekistani player (2000–2023)
	Russia Austria	Kirill Alekseenko	2715	2019-11	1997		Highest-ranked Austrian player (since 2023)
	Netherlands	Jorden van Foreest	2715	2022-05	1999
89	Netherlands	Loek van Wely	2714	2001-10	1972		Formerly highest-ranked Dutch player (2001–2011)
89	Russia	Denis Khismatullin	2714	2014-03	1984
91	Soviet Union Armenia United States	Vladimir Akopian	2713	2006-07	1971		Formerly highest-ranked Armenian player (1995–2005)
91	England	Luke McShane	2713	2012-07	1984
93	England	Nigel Short	2712	2004-04	1965		Formerly highest-ranked English player (1987–1998)
	England	David Howell	2712	2015-08	1990
	Egypt	Bassem Amin	2712	2019-01	1988		Highest-ranked Egyptian player (since 2012), highest-ranked African player (since 2012)
	United States	Jeffery Xiong	2712	2019-11	2000
	Russia Hungary	Sanan Sjugirov	2712	2022-11	1993
98	Soviet Union Russia	Alexey Dreev	2711	2011-07	1969
98	Armenia	Gabriel Sargissian	2711	2022-09	1983
100	Soviet Union Ukraine Slovenia	Alexander Beliavsky	2710	1997-07	1953		Formerly highest-ranked Slovenian player (1996–2023)
	Russia Romania	Alexander Motylev	2710	2009-07	1979
	Israel	Maxim Rodshtein	2710	2016-03	1989
	Romania	Bogdan-Daniel Deac	2710	2022-09	2001		Formerly highest-ranked Romanian player (2021–2022)
104	Azerbaijan	Rauf Mamedov	2709	2017-12	1988
104	England	Gawain Jones	2709	2019-06	1987
106	Ukraine	Zahar Efimenko	2708	2011-03	1985
	United States	Hans Niemann	2708	2023-05	2003
	Armenia	Haik M. Martirosyan	2708	2023-11	2000
109	Romania Germany	Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	2707	2005-10	1976		Formerly highest-ranked Romanian player (1998–2000, 2003–2014), formerly highest-ranked German player (2015–2023)
	Russia	Evgeny Najer	2707	2017-08	1977
	Iran	Amin Tabatabaei	2707	2024-04	2001
112	Yugoslavia Bosnia and Herzegovina Netherlands	Ivan Sokolov	2706	2004-01	1968		Formerly highest-ranked Bosnian-Herzegovinian player (1993–1994, 1996–2002, 2009–2010)
	Hungary	Ferenc Berkes	2706	2011-09	1985
	Soviet Union Russia	Sergei Rublevsky	2706	2013-11	1974
115	Soviet Union Latvia	Mikhail Tal	2705	1980-01	1936	1992	Former world champion (1960–1961), formerly highest-ranked Latvian player (1992)
	Soviet Union Russia Israel Switzerland	Vadim Milov	2705	2008-07	1972		Highest-ranked Swiss player (since 2008)
	Russia	Boris Grachev	2705	2012-03	1986
	Norway	Jon Ludvig Hammer	2705	2016-02	1990
119	Czech Republic	Viktor Láznička	2704	2012-01	1989
119	United States	Ray Robson	2704	2023-04	1994
121	Soviet Union Israel	Emil Sutovsky	2703	2012-01	1977
	Austria	Markus Ragger	2703	2017-02	1988		Formerly highest-ranked Austrian player (2010–2023)
	Belarus	Vladislav Kovalev	2703	2019-02	1994		Highest-ranked Belarusian player (since 2019)
	Croatia	Ivan Šarić	2703	2019-03	1990		Highest-ranked Croatian player (since 2011)
	Spain	David Antón Guijarro	2703	2020-03	1995
	United States	Samuel Sevian	2703	2022-05	2000
	Russia Serbia	Alexey Sarana	2703	2024-04	2000		Highest-ranked Serbian player (since 2023)
128	Soviet Union Russia Poland	Michał Krasenkow	2702	2000-07	1963		Formerly highest-ranked Polish player (1996–2010)
	Soviet Union Israel	Ilya Smirin	2702	2001-07	1968
	Soviet Union Germany Russia	Alexander Khalifman	2702	2001-10	1966		Former world chess champion (FIDE 1999–2000), formerly highest-ranked German player (1991–1992)
	Soviet Union Bosnia and Herzegovina Georgia	Zurab Azmaiparashvili	2702	2003-07	1960		Formerly highest-ranked Georgian player (1992–1994, 1996–2009)
	France	Romain Edouard	2702	2014-06	1990
	Ukraine Latvia	Igor Kovalenko	2702	2015-08	1988		Formerly highest-ranked Latvian player (2018–2021)
134	Soviet Union Ukraine United States	Alexander Onischuk	2701	2010-07	1975
	India	Adhiban Baskaran	2701	2019-04	1992
	Uzbekistan	Javokhir Sindarov	2701	2023-12	2005
137	Denmark	Peter Heine Nielsen	2700	2010-07	1973		Highest-ranked Danish player (since 2004)
137	Russia	Igor Lysyj	2700	2015-01	1987

Highest-rated female players[edit]

FIDE women players ordered by peak Elo rating
	Country	Player	Peak rating	Achieved	Birth year	Notes
2700+[edit]
1	Hungary	Judit Polgár	2735	2005-07	1976	Highest-ranked female player (since 1992), highest-ranked Hungarian female player (since 1989), formerly youngest grandmaster (1991–1994), formerly youngest female grandmaster (1991–2002), formerly female world no. 1 (1989–2015)
2600-2699[edit]
2	China	Hou Yifan	2686	2015-03	1994	Youngest female grandmaster (since 2008), female world no. 1 (since 2015), highest-ranked Chinese female player (since 2008)
3	India	Koneru Humpy	2623	2009-07	1987	Highest-ranked Indian female player (since 2001), formerly youngest female grandmaster (2002–2008)
4	Russia	Aleksandra Goryachkina	2611	2021-08	1998	Formerly highest-ranked Russian female player (2020–2023)
5	Ukraine Slovenia	Anna Muzychuk	2606	2012-07	1990	Highest-ranked Ukrainian female player (since 2014), formerly highest-ranked Slovenian female player (2004–2014)
6	China	Ju Wenjun	2604	2017-03	1991
2500-2599[edit]
7	Russia	Tatiana Kosintseva	2581	2010-11	1986	Highest-ranked Russian female player (2010–2020, since 2023)
8	China	Zhao Xue	2579	2013-09	1985
9	Hungary United States	Susan Polgar	2577	2005-01	1969	Formerly youngest female grandmaster (1991), formerly female world no. 1 (1984–1985, 1986), formerly highest-ranked Hungarian female player (1984–1988), formerly highest-ranked American female player (2003–2019)
10	Russia	Nadezhda Kosintseva	2576	2010-11	1985
11	China	Xie Jun	2574	2008-01	1970	Formerly highest-ranked Chinese female player (1990–2008)
12	Georgia	Nana Dzagnidze	2573	2015-06	1987	Highest-ranked Georgian female player (since 2011)
13	Ukraine	Mariya Muzychuk	2563	2016-03	1992
13	Ukraine Russia	Kateryna Lagno	2563	2022-10	1989	Formerly highest-ranked Ukrainian female player (2003–2014)
15	Russia Switzerland	Alexandra Kosteniuk	2561	2018-01	1984	Highest-ranked Swiss female player (since 2023)
16	Soviet Union Georgia	Maia Chiburdanidze	2560	1988-01	1961	Formerly highest-ranked female player (1985–1992), formerly youngest female grandmaster (1984–1991), formerly female world no. 1 (1980–1982, 1983, 1985–1986, 1987–1988), formerly highest-ranked Soviet female player (1985–1992), formerly highest-ranked Georgian female player (1992–2011)
	Soviet Union Ukraine Russia	Alisa Galliamova	2560	1998-07	1972	Formerly highest-ranked Ukrainian female player (1992–1996), formerly highest-ranked Russian female player (1996–2010)
	Bulgaria	Antoaneta Stefanova	2560	2003-01	1979	Highest-ranked Bulgarian female player (1994, since 1995)
19	China	Lei Tingjie	2554	2023-05	1997
20	Sweden	Pia Cramling	2550	2008-10	1963	Formerly female world no. 1 (1983, 1984), highest-ranked Swedish female player (since 1981)
21	China Qatar	Zhu Chen	2548	2008-01	1976	Highest-ranked Qatari female player (since 2006)
21	Russia	Valentina Gunina	2548	2015-06	1989
23	India	Harika Dronavalli	2543	2016-11	1991
24	Lithuania	Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen	2542	2017-06	1983	Highest-ranked Lithuanian female player (since 1999)
25	Ukraine United States	Anna Zatonskih	2537	2011-05	1978	Highest-ranked American female player (since 2019)
25	France	Marie Sebag	2537	2013-03	1986	Highest-ranked French female player (since 2007)
27	Georgia	Bella Khotenashvili	2531	2013-06	1988
28	China	Tan Zhongyi	2530	2018-08	1991
29	Georgia	Nino Batsiashvili	2528	2018-03	1987
30	Armenia	Elina Danielian	2521	2011-07	1978	Highest-ranked Armenian female player (1994–2002, 2004–2005, since 2008)
31	Soviet Union Georgia	Nana Ioseliani	2520	1997-07	1962
32	Kazakhstan	Dinara Saduakassova	2519	2020-01	1996	Highest-ranked Kazakhstani female player (2014–2016, 2017–2018, since 2018)
33	China	Xu Yuhua	2517	2006-04	1976
34	Russia	Polina Shuvalova	2516	2021-12	2001
35	Germany	Elisabeth Pähtz	2513	2018-09	1985	Highest-ranked German female player (since 2008)
36	China	Wang Lei	2512	2001-10	1975
37	Vietnam Hungary	Hoang Thanh Trang	2511	2013-11	1980	Formerly highest-ranked Vietnamese female player (1992–2006)
38	Russia	Natalia Pogonina	2508	2014-07	1985
39	Russia	Ekaterina Kovalevskaya	2507	2001-07	1974
	Kazakhstan	Zhansaya Abdumalik	2507	2021-10	2000	Formerly highest-ranked Kazakhstani female player (2017, 2018)
	China	Zhu Jiner	2507	2019-10	2002
42	Soviet Union Georgia Scotland	Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant	2506	2009-07	1968	Highest-ranked Scottish female player (since 2008)
42	China	Wang Pin	2506	2000-10	1974
44	Hungary	Sofia Polgar	2505	1998-07	1974
	Poland	Monika Soćko	2505	2008-04	1978	Highest-ranked Polish female player (1999–2001, since 2005, shared since 2022)
	Russia	Olga Girya	2505	2017-09	1991
	Russia Poland	Alina Kashlinskaya	2505	2022-06	1993	Highest-ranked Polish female player (shared since 2022)
48	Armenia	Lilit Mkrtchian	2503	2010-01	1982	Formerly highest-ranked Armenian female player (2002–2003, 2005–2007)
48	China	Ruan Lufei	2503	2014-01	1987
50	Soviet Union Kyrgyzstan Russia	Svetlana Matveeva	2502	2004-01	1969	Formerly highest-ranked Russian female player (1992, 1994–1996), formerly highest-ranked Kyrgyzstani female player (1993)
	Ukraine	Anna Ushenina	2502	2007-07	1985
	United States	Irina Krush	2502	2013-10	1983	Formerly highest-ranked American female player (2002)
53	China	Qin Kanying	2501	2000-07	1974
53	Moldova France	Almira Skripchenko	2501	2003-01	1976	Formerly highest-ranked Moldovan female player (1995–2001), highest-ranked French female player (2002–2007)
55	Georgia	Lela Javakhishvili	2500	2010-03	1984

Highest ratings by decade[edit]

This section lists the top 20 active^[a] players by peak FIDE rating achieved in every decade since 1971, when FIDE started officially publishing rating lists.

1970s[edit]

Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 1970s
	Player	Peak rating in 1970s	Achieved
1	Bobby Fischer	2785	1972-07
2	Anatoly Karpov	2725	1978-01
3	Viktor Korchnoi	2695	1979-01
4	Boris Spassky	2690	1971-07
5	Bent Larsen	2660	1971-07
5	Mikhail Tal	2660	1973-07
7	Lajos Portisch	2650	1973-07
8	Tigran Petrosian	2645	1972-07
8	Lev Polugaevsky	2645	1972-07
10	Henrique Mecking	2635	1977-01
11	Mikhail Botvinnik	2630	1971-07
12	Lubomir Kavalek	2625	1974-05
12	Jan Timman	2625	1979-01
14	Vassily Smyslov	2620	1971-07
	Leonid Stein	2620	1972-07
	Ljubomir Ljubojević	2620	1976-01
	Efim Geller	2620	1976-01
	Vlastimil Hort	2620	1977-01
19	Paul Keres	2615	1971-07
	Robert Hübner	2615	1974-05
	Jan Smejkal	2615	1976-01

1980s[edit]

Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 1980s
	Player	Peak rating in 1980s	Achieved
1	Garry Kasparov	2775	1989-01
2	Anatoly Karpov	2755	1989-07
3	Mikhail Tal	2705	1980-01
4	Viktor Korchnoi	2695	1980-01
5	Jan Timman	2675	1988-01
6	Nigel Short	2665	1988-07
7	Artur Yusupov	2660	1986-07
7	Vasyl Ivanchuk	2660	1989-07
9	Lajos Portisch	2655	1980-01
9	Alexander Beliavsky	2655	1988-07
11	Ljubomir Ljubojević	2645	1983-01
	Rafael Vaganian	2645	1986-01
	Andrei Sokolov	2645	1987-01
	Jonathan Speelman	2645	1988-07
	Valery Salov	2645	1989-07
16	Robert Hübner	2640	1981-07
	Ulf Andersson	2640	1983-07
	Mikhail Gurevich	2640	1989-07
19	Lev Polugaevsky	2635	1980-01
19	Boris Spassky	2635	1981-01

1990s[edit]

Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 1990s
	Player	Peak rating in 1990s	Achieved
1	Garry Kasparov	2851	1999-07
2	Viswanathan Anand	2795	1998-07
3	Vladimir Kramnik	2790	1998-01
4	Anatoly Karpov	2780	1994-07
5	Alexander Morozevich	2758	1999-07
6	Veselin Topalov	2750	1996-07
7	Gata Kamsky	2745	1996-07
8	Alexei Shirov	2740	1994-07
8	Vasyl Ivanchuk	2740	1995-07
10	Michael Adams	2716	1999-01
11	Valery Salov	2715	1995-01
12	Peter Svidler	2713	1999-01
12	Boris Gelfand	2713	1999-07
14	Alexander Beliavsky	2710	1997-07
15	Peter Leko	2701	1999-07
16	Evgeny Bareev	2698	1999-07
17	Nigel Short	2697	1999-01
18	Sergei Rublevsky	2685	1998-07
19	Zurab Azmaiparashvili	2681	1999-01
20	Jan Timman	2680	1990-01
20	Artur Yusupov	2680	1995-07

2000s[edit]

Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 2000s
	Player	Peak rating in 2000s	Achieved
1	Garry Kasparov	2851	2000-01
2	Veselin Topalov	2813	2006-07
3	Vladimir Kramnik	2811^[b]	2002-01
4	Viswanathan Anand	2803	2006-04
5	Magnus Carlsen	2801	2009-11
6	Alexander Morozevich	2788	2008-07
7	Vasyl Ivanchuk	2787	2007-10
8	Levon Aronian	2786	2009-11
9	Peter Svidler	2765	2006-01
10	Peter Leko	2763	2005-04
11	Teimour Radjabov	2761	2009-01
12	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2760	2008-01
12	Dmitry Jakovenko	2760	2009-01
14	Vugar Gashimov	2758	2009-11
14	Boris Gelfand	2758	2009-11
16	Alexei Shirov	2755	2008-01
16	Michael Adams	2755	2000-07
18	Sergei Movsesian	2751	2009-01
19	Alexander Grischuk	2748	2009-04
20	Ruslan Ponomariov	2743	2002-04

2010s[edit]

Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 2010s
	Player	Peak rating in 2010s	Achieved
1	Magnus Carlsen	2882	2014-05
2	Fabiano Caruana	2844	2014-10
3	Levon Aronian	2830	2014-03
4	Wesley So	2822	2017-02
5	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2820	2018-09
6	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2819	2016-08
7	Viswanathan Anand	2817	2011-03
7	Vladimir Kramnik	2817	2016-10
9	Veselin Topalov	2816	2015-07
	Hikaru Nakamura	2816	2015-10
	Ding Liren	2816	2018-11
12	Alexander Grischuk	2810	2014-12
13	Anish Giri	2798	2015-10
14	Teimour Radjabov	2793	2012-11
15	Sergey Karjakin	2788	2011-07
16	Vasyl Ivanchuk	2779	2011-03
17	Boris Gelfand	2777	2013-11
18	Ian Nepomniachtchi	2776	2019-09
19	Alexander Morozevich	2770	2012-07
19	Pentala Harikrishna	2770	2016-12

2020s[edit]

Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 2020s
	Player	Peak rating in 2020s	Achieved
1	Magnus Carlsen	2872	2020-01
2	Fabiano Caruana	2842	2020-02
3	Ding Liren	2811	2022-10
4	Alireza Firouzja	2804	2021-12
5	Ian Nepomniachtchi	2795	2023-03
6	Hikaru Nakamura	2789	2024-03
7	Levon Aronian	2785	2022-03
8	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2784	2020-10
9	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2782	2021-07
10	Anish Giri	2780	2021-05
11	Alexander Grischuk	2778	2021-07
11	Wesley So	2778	2021-09
13	Richard Rapport	2776	2022-04
14	Teimour Radjabov	2765	2020-01
14	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	2765	2024-04
16	Wang Hao	2763	2020-04
17	Leinier Domínguez	2760	2021-09
17	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2760	2021-12
19	Viswanathan Anand	2758	2020-01
	Sergey Karjakin	2758	2021-09
	Dommaraju Gukesh	2758	2023-09

List of rating peaks throughout history[edit]


Player	Rating	Achieved
Bobby Fischer	2760	1971-07
Bobby Fischer	2785	1972-07
Garry Kasparov	2800	1990-01
	2805	1993-01
	2815	1993-07
	2820	1997-07
	2825	1998-01
	2851	1999-07
Magnus Carlsen	2861	2013-01
	2872	2013-02
	2881	2014-03
	2882	2014-05 2019-08

Notes[edit]

^ FIDE considers a player active if they played a rated game within the past 12 months.^[3]
^ The chart on Kramnik's FIDE profile gives his January 2002 rating as 2811.^[4] The top 100 list for January 2002 gives 2809.^[5] The discrepancy appears to be due to a delay in including the rating change of +2 from Kramnik's four draws with Garry Kasparov in the Botvinnik Memorial Match in December 2001 in the top 100 lists, where it only appears in October 2002.

References[edit]

^ "All time Top 100 by Highest ELO Rating". Chess-db.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-09. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
^ "Records". 2700chess.com. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
^ "FIDE Rating Regulations". FIDE. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
^ "Profile Info – Kramnik, Vladimir". FIDE. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
^ "Top 100 Players January 2002 - Archive". FIDE. Retrieved August 5, 2021.

External links[edit]

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

[4] FIDE considers a player active if they played a rated game within the past 12 months.^[3]

[7] The chart on Kramnik's FIDE profile gives his January 2002 rating as 2811.^[4] The top 100 list for January 2002 gives 2809.^[5] The discrepancy appears to be due to a delay in including the rating change of +2 from Kramnik's four draws with Garry Kasparov in the Botvinnik Memorial Match in December 2001 in the top 100 lists, where it only appears in October 2002.

[1] "All time Top 100 by Highest ELO Rating". Chess-db.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-09. Retrieved 2021-01-25.

[2] "Records". 2700chess.com. Retrieved 2021-01-25.

[3] "FIDE Rating Regulations". FIDE. Retrieved August 5, 2021.

[5] "Profile Info – Kramnik, Vladimir". FIDE. Retrieved August 5, 2021.

[6] "Top 100 Players January 2002 - Archive". FIDE. Retrieved August 5, 2021.

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2775–2799[edit]

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2725–2749[edit]

2700–2724[edit]