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 the year 2000 and twenty-one players achieved their respective peak between the years 2000 and 2009 (inclusive).
List
Country | Player | Peak rating | Achieved | Birth year | Death year | Notes | |
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2800+ | |||||||
1 | ![]() |
Magnus Carlsen | 2882 | 2014-05 | 1990 | Highest ranked player, Highest ranked Norwegian player, current 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+ rating | |
3 | ![]() ![]() |
Fabiano Caruana | 2844 | 2014-10 | 1992 | Formerly highest ranked Italian player (till 2015) at 2844, 2014-10, Highest ranked American player | |
4 | ![]() |
Levon Aronian | 2830 | 2014-03 | 1982 | Highest ranked Armenian player | |
5 | ![]() ![]() |
Wesley So | 2822 | 2017-02 | 1993 | Formerly highest ranked Filipino player (till 2014) at 2755, 2014-08 | |
6 | ![]() |
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 2820 | 2018-09 | 1985 | Highest ranked Azerbaijani player | |
7 | ![]() |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2819 | 2016-08 | 1990 | Highest ranked French player | |
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Viswanathan Anand | 2817 | 2011-03 | 1969 | Highest ranked Indian player, former World Champion (2007–2013, FIDE 2000–2002) | |
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Vladimir Kramnik | 2817 | 2016-10 | 1975 | Former World Champion (2000–2007) | |
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Veselin Topalov | 2816 | 2015-07 | 1975 | Highest ranked Bulgarian player, former FIDE World Champion (2005–2006) | |
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Ding Liren | 2816 | 2018-11 | 1992 | Highest ranked Chinese player | |
10= | ![]() |
Hikaru Nakamura | 2816 | 2015-10 | 1987 | ||
13 | ![]() |
Alexander Grischuk | 2810 | 2014-12 | 1983 | ||
2775–2799 | |||||||
14 | ![]() |
Anish Giri | 2798 | 2015-10 | 1994 | Highest ranked Dutch player | |
15 | ![]() |
Teimour Radjabov | 2793 | 2012-10 | 1987 | ||
16 | ![]() |
Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2789 | 2021-01 | 1990 | ||
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Alexander Morozevich | 2788 | 2008-07 | 1977 | ||
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Sergey Karjakin | 2788 | 2011-07 | 1990 | ||
19 | ![]() ![]() |
Vassily Ivanchuk | 2787 | 2007-10 | 1969 | Highest ranked Ukrainian player | |
20 | ![]() |
Bobby Fischer | 2785 | 1972-07 | 1943 | 2008 | Former World Champion (1972–1975), first player to achieve 2700+ ranking |
21 | ![]() ![]() |
Anatoly Karpov | 2780 | 1994-07 | 1951 | Former World Champion (1975–1985, FIDE 1993–1999) | |
22 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Boris Gelfand | 2777 | 2013-11 | 1968 | Highest ranked Israeli player, formerly highest ranked Belarusian player (till 1998) at 2675 (Now Vladislav Kovalev) | |
2750–2774 | |||||||
23 | ![]() |
Pentala Harikrishna | 2770 | 2016-12 | 1986 | ||
24 | ![]() |
Peter Svidler | 2769 | 2013-05 | 1976 | ||
25 | ![]() ![]() |
Leinier Dominguez Perez | 2768 | 2014-05 | 1983 | Formerly highest ranked Cuban player (till 2018) - 2768, 2014-05 | |
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Pavel Eljanov | 2765 | 2016-03 | 1983 | ||
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Yu Yangyi | 2765 | 2018-09 | 1994 | ||
28 | ![]() |
Ruslan Ponomariov | 2764 | 2011-07 | 1983 | Former FIDE World Champion (2002–2004) | |
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Peter Leko | 2763 | 2005-04 | 1979 | Highest ranked Hungarian player | |
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Gata Kamsky | 2763 | 2013-07 | 1974 | ||
31= | ![]() |
Vugar Gashimov | 2761 | 2012-01 | 1986 | 2014 | |
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Michael Adams | 2761 | 2013-09 | 1971 | Highest ranked English player | |
31= | ![]() |
Vladislav Artemiev | 2761 | 2019-06 | 1998 | ||
34 | ![]() |
Dmitry Jakovenko | 2760 | 2009-01 | 1983 | ||
35= | ![]() |
Evgeny Tomashevsky | 2758 | 2015-09 | 1987 | ||
35= | ![]() |
Li Chao | 2758 | 2016-03 | 1989 | ||
35= | ![]() |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2758 | 2019-12 | 1998 | Highest ranked Polish player | |
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Richárd Rapport | 2758 | 2019-12 | 1996 | ||
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Wang Hao | 2758 | 2020-01 | 1989 | ||
40 | ![]() |
Wang Yue | 2756 | 2010-09 | 1987 | ||
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Alexei Shirov | 2755 | 2008-01 | 1972 | highest ranked Spanish player, formerly highest ranked Latvian player (till 2018) - 2755, 2008-01 | |
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Wei Yi | 2753 | 2017-08 | 1999 | Youngest player to reach a rating over 2700. | |
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Sergei Movsesian | 2751 | 2009-01 | 1978 | Formerly highest ranked Slovak player (till 2010) - 2751, 2009-01 | |
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David Navara | 2751 | 2015-05 | 1985 | Highest ranked Czech player | |
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Nikita Vitiugov | 2751 | 2019-11 | 1987 | ||
46 | ![]() |
Radosław Wojtaszek | 2750 | 2017-01 | 1987 | ||
2725–2749 | |||||||
47= | ![]() |
Etienne Bacrot | 2749 | 2013-11 | 1983 | ||
47= | ![]() |
Alireza Firouzja | 2749 | 2020-11 | 2003 | Formerly highest ranked Iranian player (2720, November 2019) (prior to his decision to no longer play for Iran) | |
49 | ![]() |
Dmitry Andreikin | 2743 | 2016-06 | 1990 | ||
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Evgeny Bareev | 2739 | 2003-10 | 1966 | Highest ranked Canadian player | |
50= | ![]() |
Le Quang Liem | 2739 | 2017-08 | 1991 | Highest ranked Vietnamese player | |
52 | ![]() |
Maxim Matlakov | 2738 | 2017-11 | 1991 | ||
53 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Arkadij Naiditsch | 2737 | 2013-12 | 1985 | Formerly highest ranked German player (till 2015) | |
54 | ![]() |
Judit Polgar | 2735 | 2005-07 | 1976 | Highest ranked female player | |
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Viktor Bologan | 2734 | 2012-08 | 1971 | Highest ranked Moldovan player | |
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Baadur Jobava | 2734 | 2012-09 | 1983 | Highest ranked Georgian player | |
57 | ![]() |
Vladimir Fedoseev | 2733 | 2017-10 | 1995 | ||
58= | ![]() |
Vladimir Malakhov | 2732 | 2010-07 | 1980 | ||
58= | ![]() |
Ernesto Inarkiev | 2732 | 2016-09 | 1985 | ||
60= | ![]() |
Bu Xiangzhi | 2731 | 2019-02 | 1985 | ||
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Samuel Shankland | 2731 | 2019-02 | 1991 | ||
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Zoltan Almasi | 2726 | 2011-07 | 1976 | ||
62= | ![]() |
Alexander Moiseenko | 2726 | 2011-09 | 1980 | ||
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Evgeny Alekseev | 2725 | 2009-09 | 1985 | ||
64= | ![]() |
Andrei Volokitin | 2725 | 2013-03 | 1986 | ||
2700–2724 | |||||||
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Ni Hua | 2724 | 2009-04 | 1983 | ||
66= | ![]() |
Francisco Vallejo Pons | 2724 | 2011-07 | 1982 | Highest ranked Spanish player | |
67= | ![]() |
Anton Korobov | 2723 | 2014-01 | 1985 | ||
67= | ![]() |
Vidit Gujrathi | 2726 | 2020-09 | 1994 | ||
70= | ![]() |
Krishnan Sasikiran | 2720 | 2012-05 | 1981 | ||
70= | ![]() |
Alexander Riazantsev | 2720 | 2012-07 | 1985 | ||
70= | ![]() |
Alexander Areshchenko | 2720 | 2012-12 | 1986 | ||
70= | ![]() |
Laurent Fressinet | 2720 | 2015-06 | 1981 | ||
74 | ![]() ![]() |
Ivan Cheparinov | 2718 | 2018-08 | 1986 | ||
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Lazaro Bruzon Batista | 2717 | 2012-10 | 1982 | Highest ranked Cuban player | |
75= | ![]() |
Yuriy Kryvoruchko | 2717 | 2015-11 | 1986 | ||
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Valery Salov | 2715 | 1995-01 | 1964 | ||
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Rustam Kasimdzhanov | 2715 | 2015-05 | 1979 | Highest ranked Uzbek player, former FIDE World Champion (2004–2005) | |
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Kirill Alekseenko | 2715 | 2019-11 | 1997 | ||
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Loek Van Wely | 2714 | 2001-10 | 1972 | ||
80= | ![]() |
Denis Khismatullin | 2714 | 2014-03 | 1984 | ||
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Vladimir Akopian | 2713 | 2006-07 | 1971 | ||
82= | ![]() |
Luke McShane | 2713 | 2012-07 | 1984 | ||
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Nigel Short | 2712 | 2004-04 | 1965 | ||
84= | ![]() |
David Howell | 2712 | 2015-08 | 1990 | ||
84= | ![]() |
Bassem Amin | 2712 | 2019-01 | 1988 | Highest ranked Egyptian player | |
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Jeffery Xiong | 2712 | 2019-11 | 2000 | ||
88 | ![]() ![]() |
Alexey Dreev | 2711 | 2011-07 | 1969 | ||
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Alexander Beliavsky | 2710 | 1997-07 | 1953 | Highest ranked Slovenian player | |
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Alexander Motylev | 2710 | 2009-07 | 1979 | ||
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Maxim Rodshtein | 2710 | 2016-03 | 1989 | ||
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Daniil Dubov | 2710 | 2021-01 | 1996 | ||
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Rauf Mamedov | 2709 | 2017-12 | 1988 | ||
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Gawain Jones | 2709 | 2019-06 | 1987 | ||
95 | ![]() |
Zahar Efimenko | 2708 | 2011-03 | 1985 | ||
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Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu | 2707 | 2005-10 | 1976 | Highest ranked German player, formerly highest ranked Romanian player (till 2014) - 2707, 2005–10 | |
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Evgeny Najer | 2707 | 2017-08 | 1977 | ||
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Ivan Sokolov | 2706 | 2004-01 | 1968 | Formerly highest ranked Bosnian player (till 1994) - 2650 (Now Predrag Nikolić - 2676, 2004–10) | |
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Ferenc Berkes | 2706 | 2011-09 | 1985 | ||
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Sergei Rublevsky | 2706 | 2013-11 | 1974 | ||
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Mikhail Tal | 2705 | 1980-01 | 1936 | 1992 | Former world champion (1960–1961) |
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Vadim Milov | 2705 | 2008-07 | 1972 | Highest ranked Swiss player | |
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Boris Grachev | 2705 | 2012-03 | 1986 | ||
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Jon Ludvig Hammer | 2705 | 2016-02 | 1990 | ||
105 | ![]() |
Viktor Laznicka | 2704 | 2012-01 | 1989 | ||
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Emil Sutovsky | 2703 | 2012-01 | 1977 | ||
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Markus Ragger | 2703 | 2017-02 | 1988 | Highest ranked Austrian player | |
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Vladislav Kovalev | 2703 | 2019-02 | 1994 | Highest ranked Belarusian player | |
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Ivan Šarić | 2703 | 2019-03 | 1990 | Highest ranked Croatian player | |
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David Antón Guijarro | 2703 | 2020-03 | 1995 | Latest player to attain 2700+ rating | |
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Michal Krasenkow | 2702 | 2000-07 | 1963 | ||
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Ilia Smirin | 2702 | 2001-07 | 1968 | ||
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Alexander Khalifman | 2702 | 2001-10 | 1966 | Former FIDE World Champion (1999–2000) | |
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Zurab Azmaiparashvili | 2702 | 2003-07 | 1960 | ||
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Romain Edouard | 2702 | 2014-06 | 1990 | ||
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Igor Kovalenko | 2702 | 2015-08 | 1988 | ||
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Gabriel Sargissian | 2702 | 2015-12 | 1983 | ||
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Alexander Onischuk | 2701 | 2010-07 | 1975 | ||
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Baskaran Adhiban | 2701 | 2019-04 | 1992 | ||
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Peter Heine Nielsen | 2700 | 2010-07 | 1973 | Highest ranked Danish player | |
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Igor Lysyj | 2700 | 2015-01 | 1987 |
Highest ratings by decade
This section lists the top 20 players by peak FIDE rating achieved in every decade since 1971, when FIDE started officially publishing rating lists.
1970s
Country | Player | Peak rating in 1970s | Achieved | |
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1 | ![]() |
Bobby Fischer | 2785 | 1972-07 |
2 | ![]() |
Anatoly Karpov | 2725 | 1978-01 |
3 | ![]() ![]() |
Viktor Korchnoi | 2695 | 1979-01 |
4 | ![]() |
Boris Spassky | 2690 | 1971-07 |
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Bent Larsen | 2660 | 1971-07 |
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Mikhail Tal | 2660 | 1973-07 |
7 | ![]() |
Lajos Portisch | 2650 | 1973-07 |
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Tigran Petrosian | 2645 | 1972-07 |
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Lev Polugaevsky | 2645 | 1972-07 |
10 | ![]() |
Henrique Mecking | 2635 | 1977-01 |
11 | ![]() |
Mikhail Botvinnik | 2630 | 1971-07 |
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Lubomir Kavalek | 2625 | 1974-05 |
12= | ![]() |
Jan Timman | 2625 | 1979-01 |
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Vassily Smyslov | 2620 | 1971-01 |
14= | ![]() |
Leonid Stein | 2620 | 1972-01 |
14= | ![]() |
Ljubomir Ljubojević | 2620 | 1976-01 |
14= | ![]() |
Efim Geller | 2620 | 1976-01 |
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Vlastimil Hort | 2620 | 1977-01 |
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Paul Keres | 2615 | 1971-07 |
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Robert Hübner | 2615 | 1974-05 |
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Jan Smejkal | 2615 | 1976-01 |
1980s
Country | Player | Peak rating in 1980s | Achieved | |
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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 |
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Artur Yusupov | 2660 | 1986-07 |
7= | ![]() |
Vassily Ivanchuk | 2660 | 1989-07 |
9= | ![]() |
Lajos Portisch | 2655 | 1980-01 |
9= | ![]() |
Alexander Beliavsky | 2655 | 1988-07 |
11= | ![]() |
Ljubomir Ljubojević | 2645 | 1983-01 |
11= | ![]() |
Rafael Vaganian | 2645 | 1986-01 |
11= | ![]() |
Andrei Sokolov | 2645 | 1987-01 |
11= | ![]() |
Jonathan Speelman | 2645 | 1988-07 |
11= | ![]() |
Valery Salov | 2645 | 1989-07 |
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Robert Hübner | 2640 | 1981-07 |
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Ulf Andersson | 2640 | 1983-01 |
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Mikhail Gurevich | 2640 | 1989-07 |
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Lev Polugaevsky | 2635 | 1980-01 |
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Boris Spassky | 2635 | 1981-01 |
1990s
Country | Player | Peak rating in 1990s | Achieved | |
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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 |
9 | ![]() ![]() |
Vassily Ivanchuk | 2740 | 1995-07 |
10 | ![]() |
Michael Adams | 2716 | 1999-01 |
11 | ![]() ![]() |
Valery Salov | 2715 | 1995-01 |
12 | ![]() ![]() |
Peter Svidler | 2713 | 1999-01 |
13 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Boris Gelfand | 2712 | 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 |
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Jan Timman | 2680 | 1990-01 |
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Artur Yusupov | 2680 | 1995-07 |
2000s
Country | Player | Peak rating in 2000s | Achieved | |
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1 | ![]() |
Garry Kasparov | 2851 | 2000-01 |
2 | ![]() |
Veselin Topalov | 2813 | 2006-07 |
3 | ![]() |
Vladimir Kramnik | 2809[3] | 2002-01 |
4 | ![]() |
Viswanathan Anand | 2803 | 2006-04 |
5 | ![]() |
Magnus Carlsen | 2801 | 2009-11 |
6 | ![]() |
Alexander Morozevich | 2788 | 2008-07 |
7 | ![]() |
Vassily 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 |
15 | ![]() |
Boris Gelfand | 2758 | 2009-11 |
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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 | 2741 | 2009-09 |
2010s
Country | Player | Peak rating in 2010s | Achieved | |
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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 | 2011-09 |
7= | ![]() |
Vladimir Kramnik | 2817 | 2016-10 |
9= | ![]() |
Veselin Topalov | 2816 | 2015-07 |
9= | ![]() |
Hikaru Nakamura | 2816 | 2015-10 |
9= | ![]() |
Ding Liren | 2816 | 2018-11 |
12 | ![]() |
Alexander Grischuk | 2810 | 2014-12 |
13 | ![]() |
Anish Giri | 2798 | 2015-10 |
14 | ![]() |
Teimour Radjabov | 2793 | 2012-10 |
15 | ![]() |
Sergey Karjakin | 2788 | 2011-07 |
16 | ![]() |
Vassily Ivanchuk | 2779 | 2011-03 |
17 | ![]() |
Boris Gelfand | 2777 | 2013-11 |
18 | ![]() |
Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2776 | 2019-09 |
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Alexander Morozevich | 2770 | 2012-07 |
19= | ![]() |
Pentala Harikrishna | 2770 | 2016-12 |
2020s
Country | Player | Peak rating in 2020s | Achieved | |
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1 | ![]() |
Magnus Carlsen | 2872 | 2020-01 |
2 | ![]() ![]() |
Fabiano Caruana | 2842 | 2020-02 |
3 | ![]() |
Ding Liren | 2805 | 2020-01 |
4 | ![]() |
Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2789 | 2021-01 |
5 | ![]() |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2784 | 2020-10 |
6 | ![]() |
Levon Aronian | 2781 | 2020-11 |
7 | ![]() |
Alexander Grischuk | 2777 | 2020-01 |
8= | ![]() |
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 2770 | 2020-01 |
8= | ![]() |
Wesley So | 2770 | 2020-02 |
10 | ![]() |
Anish Giri | 2768 | 2020-01 |
11 | ![]() |
Teimour Radjabov | 2765 | 2020-01 |
12 | ![]() |
Wang Hao | 2763 | 2020-04 |
13 | ![]() |
Richard Rapport | 2760 | 2020-03 |
14= | ![]() |
Viswanathan Anand | 2758 | 2020-01 |
14= | ![]() |
Leinier Dominguez Perez | 2758 | 2020-01 |
14= | ![]() |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2758 | 2020-01 |
17 | ![]() |
Sergey Karjakin | 2757 | 2021-01 |
18 | ![]() |
Vladimir Kramnik | 2753 | 2020-01 |
19 | Alireza Firouzja | 2749 | 2020-11 | |
20 | ![]() |
Nikita Vitiugov | 2747 | 2020-01 |
List of rating peaks throughout history
Player | Rating | Achieved |
---|---|---|
Bobby Fischer | 2760 | 1971-07 |
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 |
See also
References
- "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.
- (The graph on the FIDE site gives Kramnik's January 2002 rating as 2811, but this appears to be incorrect: it is contradicted by FIDE's published ratings for January and April 2002; and also by the reports in TWIC for January and April 2002. The discrepancy is based on whether or not FIDE rated his four-game match against Kasparov of December 2001.)
External links
- A list of chess players by peak FIDE rating on 2700chess.com
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