FIDE world rankings

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) 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 were ranked on 1 January 2021 as follows:[1]

Rank Rank change* Player Rating Rating change*
1 Magnus Carlsen 2862
2 Fabiano Caruana 2823
3 Ding Liren 2791
4 Ian Nepomniachtchi 2789 5
5 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2784
6 Levon Aronian 2781
7 Alexander Grischuk 2777
8 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2770
9 Wesley So 2770
10 Teimour Radjabov 2765
11 Anish Giri 2764
12 Wang Hao 2763
13 Richard Rapport 2760
14 Leinier Domínguez 2758
15 2 Sergey Karjakin 2757 5
16 1 Viswanathan Anand 2753
17 1 Vladimir Kramnik 2753
18 Alireza Firouzja 2749
19 Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2743
20 Hikaru Nakamura 2736
*Change from the previous month[2]

Top women

The top 20 female players were ranked on 1 January 2021 as follows:[3]

Rank Player Rating
1 Yifan Hou 2658
2 Aleksandra Goryachkina 2593
3 Humpy Koneru 2586
4 Wenjun Ju 2560
5 Kateryna Lagno 2546
6 Mariya Muzychuk 2544
7 Viktorija Cmilyte 2538
8 Anna Muzychuk 2535
9 Nana Dzagnidze 2524
10 Dronavalli Harika 2515
11 Zhongyi Tan 2510
12 Tingjie Lei 2505
13 Dinara Saduakassova 2500
14 Alina Kashlinskaya 2494
15 Sarasadat Khademalsharieh 2494
16 Xue Zhao 2486
17 Nino Batsiashvili 2480
18 Polina Shuvalova 2476
19 Alexandra Kosteniuk 2474
20 Lela Javakhishvili 2473

Top juniors

Juniors are considered to be 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 January 2021 as follows:[4]

Rank Rank change* Player Rating Rating change*
1 Alireza Firouzja 2749
2 1 Andrey Esipenko 2677 9
3 4 Amin Tabatabaei 2629
4 4 Nodirbek Abdusattorov 2627
5 4 Bogdan-Daniel Deac 2625
6 5 Nihal Sarin 2620
7 5 Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa 2608
8 5 Nodirbek Yakubboev 2605
9 5 Kirill Shevchenko 2599
10 5 Aram Hakobyan 2598
11 5 Anton Smirnov 2597
12 5 Shant Sargsyan 2596
13 5 Awonder Liang 2592
14 5 Vincent Keymer 2591
15 5 Aryan Chopra 2585
16 6 Velimir Ivic 2581
17 7 Vugar Asadli 2572
18 7 Thai Dai Van Nguyen 2571
19 7 D Gukesh 2563
20 8 Arjun Erigaisi 2559
*Change from the previous month[5]

Top girls

Girls are considered to be 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 January 2021 as follows:[6]

Rank Rank change* Player Rating Rating change*
1 2 Polina Shuvalova 2476 20
2 Zhu Jiner 2459
3 2 Olga Badelka 2440
4 2 Carissa Yip 2421
5 2 Anna M. Sargsyan 2402
6 2 Nurgyul Salimova 2397
7 8 Leya Garifullina 2394 46
8 1 Vaishali Rameshbabu 2393
9 1 Annie Wang 2384
10 3 Bibisara Assaubayeva 2378
11 3 Khanim Balajayeva 2376
12 4 Ineymig Hernandez Gil 2348
13 6 Annamaria Marjanovic 2338
14 6 Alicja Sliwicka 2333
15 6 Jennifer Yu 2328
16 11 Aleksandra Maltsevskaya 2327 16
17 5 Ning Kaiyu 2327
18 5 Nadya Toncheva 2321
19 7 Beloslava Krasteva 2315
20 9 Viktoria Radeva 2313 5
*Change from the previous month[7]

Top countries

FIDE publishes two lists ranking countries. The first ranks them according to the average rating of their top 10 players, while the second ranks them according to the average rating of their top 10 female players. The top 20 positions in the former list were ranked on 1 January 2021 as follows:[8]

Rank Country Average top 10 rating
1  Russia 2736
2  United States 2713
3  China 2703
4  India 2670
5  Ukraine 2666
6  Armenia 2661
7  Azerbaijan 2656
8  Hungary 2645
9  France 2640
10  Poland 2632
11  Germany 2630
12  Netherlands 2628
13  Spain 2626
14  England 2617
15  Israel 2610
16  Czech Republic 2605
17  Norway 2583
18  Croatia 2576
19  Georgia 2575
20  Argentina 2568

Women's list

The top 20 countries by average rating of the top 10 female players were ranked on 1 January 2020 as follows:[9]

Rank Country Average top 10 rating
1  China 2488
2  Russia 2483
3  India 2404
4  Georgia 2401
5  Ukraine 2386
6  United States 2352
7  Poland 2341
8  Germany 2338
9  Kazakhstan 2329
10  Hungary 2327
11  Azerbaijan 2323
12  France 2313
13  Serbia 2294
14  Bulgaria 2291
15  Romania 2288
16  Netherlands 2285
17  Armenia 2261
18  Spain 2260
19  Vietnam 2258
20  Iran 2252

References
  1. "Top 100 Players January 2021 - Archive". FIDE. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  2. Administrator. "Lists compared: Top 100 Players January 2021 - Top 100 Players December 2020". FIDE. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  3. "Top 100 Women January 2021". FIDE. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  4. "FIDE Online. FIDE Top players - Standard Top 100 Juniors January 2021". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  5. "FIDE Top players Statistics". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  6. "Top 100 Girls January 2021 - Archive". FIDE. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  7. Administrator. "Lists compared: Top 100 Girls January 2021- Top 100 Girls December 2020". FIDE. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  8. "Top Chess Federations". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  9. Administrator. "Federations Ranking: Women". FIDE. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
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