List of chess players by peak FIDE rating
List
FIDE players ordered by peak Elo ratingCountry Player Peak rating Achieved Birth year Death year Notes

List of chess players by peak FIDE rating

Section Title: List
Table Section Text: FIDE players ordered by peak Elo ratingCountry Player Peak rating Achieved Birth year Death year Notes

Country	Player	Peak rating	Achieved	Birth year	Death year	Notes

2825–2899[edit]

1	Norway	Magnus Carlsen	2882	2014-05	1990	Highest ranked player, Highest ranked Norwegian player, World Champion (2013–present)

2	Soviet UnionRussia	Garry Kasparov	2851	1999-07	1963	Highest ranked Russian player, former World Champion (1985–2000), first player to achieve 2800+ rating

3	ItalyUnited States	Fabiano Caruana	2844	2014-10	1992	Formerly highest ranked Italian player (till 2015) - 2844, 2014–10, Highest ranked American player

4	Armenia	Levon Aronian	2830	2014-03	1982	Highest ranked Armenian player.

2800–2824[edit]

5	PhilippinesUnited States	Wesley So	2822	2017-02	1993	Formerly highest ranked Filipino player (till 2014) - 2755, 2014-08

6	Azerbaijan	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2820	2018-09	1985	Highest ranked Azerbaijani player

7	France	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2819	2016-08	1990	Highest ranked French player.

8	India	Viswanathan Anand	2817	2011-09	1969	Highest ranked Indian player, former World Champion (FIDE 2000–2002, 2007–2013)

8	Soviet UnionRussia	Vladimir Kramnik	2817	2016-10	1975	Former World Champion (2000–2007)

10	Bulgaria	Veselin Topalov	2816	2015-07	1975	Highest ranked Bulgarian player, former FIDE World Champion (2005–2006)

10	United States	Hikaru Nakamura	2816	2015-10	1987

10	China	Ding Liren	2816	2018-11	1992	Highest ranked Chinese player

13	Russia	Alexander Grischuk	2810	2014-12	1983

2790–2799[edit]

14	RussiaNetherlands	Anish Giri	2798	2015-10	1994	Highest ranked Dutch player

15	Azerbaijan	Teimour Radjabov	2793	2012-10	1987

2780–2789[edit]

16	Russia	Alexander Morozevich	2788	2008-07	1977

16	UkraineRussia	Sergey Karjakin	2788	2011-07	1990

18	Soviet UnionUkraine	Vassily Ivanchuk	2787	2007-10	1969	Highest ranked Ukrainian player

19	United States	Bobby Fischer	2785	1972-07	1943	2008	Former World Champion (1972–1975), first player to achieve 2700+ ranking

20	Soviet UnionRussia	Anatoly Karpov	2780	1994-07	1951	Former World Champion (1975–1985, FIDE 1993–1999)

2770–2779[edit]

21	Soviet UnionBelarusIsrael	Boris Gelfand	2777	2013-11	1968	Highest ranked Israeli player, formerly highest ranked Belarusian player (till 1998) - 2675 (Now Vladislav Kovalev)

22	Russia	Ian Nepomniachtchi	2773	2019-04	1990

23	India	Pentala Harikrishna	2770	2016-12	1986

2760–2769[edit]

24	Russia	Peter Svidler	2769	2013-05	1976

25	CubaUnited States	Leinier Dominguez Perez	2768	2014-05	1983	Formerly highest ranked Cuban player (till 2018) - 2768, 2014-05

26	Ukraine	Pavel Eljanov	2765	2016-03	1983

26	China	Yu Yangyi	2762	2018-07	1994

28	Ukraine	Ruslan Ponomariov	2764	2011-07	1983	Former FIDE World Champion (2002–2004)

29	Hungary	Peter Leko	2763	2005-04	1979	Highest ranked Hungarian player

29	Soviet UnionUnited States	Gata Kamsky	2763	2013-07	1974

31	Azerbaijan	Vugar Gashimov	2761	2012-01	1986	2014

31	England	Michael Adams	2761	2013-09	1971	Highest ranked English player

33	Russia	Dmitry Jakovenko	2760	2009-01	1983

2750–2759[edit]

34	Russia	Evgeny Tomashevsky	2758	2015-09	1987

34	China	Li Chao	2758	2016-03	1989

36	China	Wang Yue	2756	2010-09	1987

37	Soviet UnionLatviaSpainLatviaSpain	Alexei Shirov	2755	2008-01	1972	highest ranked Spanish player, formerly highest ranked Latvian player (till 2018) - 2755, 2008-01

38	Russia	Vladislav Artemiev	2754	2019-04	1998

39	China	Wei Yi	2753	2017-08	1999	Youngest player to reach a rating over 2700.

40	China	Wang Hao	2752	2013-01	1989

40	Hungary	Richárd Rapport	2752	2016-07	1996

42	Soviet UnionGeorgia (country)Czech RepublicSlovakiaArmenia	Sergei Movsesian	2751	2009-01	1978	Formerly highest ranked Slovak player (till 2010) - 2751, 2009-01

42	Czech Republic	David Navara	2751	2015-05	1985	Highest ranked Czech player

44	Poland	Radosław Wojtaszek	2750	2017-01	1987	Highest ranked Polish player

2740–2749[edit]

45	France	Etienne Bacrot	2749	2013-11	1983

46	Russia	Nikita Vitiugov	2747	2014-03	1987

47	Russia	Dmitry Andreikin	2743	2016-06	1990

48	Poland	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2740	2018-08	1998

2730–2739[edit]

49	Soviet UnionRussiaCanada	Evgeny Bareev	2739	2003-10	1966	Highest ranked Canadian player

49	Vietnam	Le Quang Liem	2739	2017-08	1991	Highest ranked Vietnamese player

51	Russia	Maxim Matlakov	2738	2017-11	1991

52	LatviaGermanyAzerbaijan	Arkadij Naiditsch	2737	2013-12	1985	Formerly highest ranked German player (till 2015)

53	Hungary	Judit Polgar	2735	2005-07	1976	Highest ranked female player

54	Soviet UnionMoldova	Viktor Bologan	2734	2012-08	1971	Highest ranked Moldovan player

54	Georgia (country)	Baadur Jobava	2734	2012-09	1983	Highest ranked Georgian player

56	Russia	Vladimir Fedoseev	2733	2017-10	1995

57	Russia	Vladimir Malakhov	2732	2010-07	1980

57	Russia	Ernesto Inarkiev	2732	2016-09	1985

59	China	Bu Xiangzhi	2731	2019-02	1985

59	United States	Samuel Shankland	2731	2019-02	1991

2720–2729[edit]

61	Hungary	Zoltan Almasi	2726	2011-07	1976

61	Ukraine	Alexander Moiseenko	2726	2011-09	1980

63	Russia	Evgeny Alekseev	2725	2009-09	1985

63	Ukraine	Andrei Volokitin	2725	2013-03	1986

65	China	Ni Hua	2724	2009-04	1983

65	Spain	Francisco Vallejo Pons	2724	2011-07	1982	Highest ranked Spanish player

67	Ukraine	Anton Korobov	2723	2014-01	1985

67	India	Santosh Gujrathi Vidit	2723	2018-02	1994

69	India	Krishnan Sasikiran	2720	2012-05	1981

69	Russia	Alexander Riazantsev	2720	2012-07	1985

69	Ukraine	Alexander Areshchenko	2720	2012-12	1986

69	France	Laurent Fressinet	2720	2015-06	1981

2710–2719[edit]

73	BulgariaGeorgia (country)	Ivan Cheparinov	2718	2018-08	1986

74	Cuba	Lazaro Bruzon Batista	2717	2012-10	1982	Highest ranked Cuban player

74	Ukraine	Yuriy Kryvoruchko	2717	2015-11	1986

76	Soviet UnionRussia	Valery Salov	2715	1995-01	1964

76	Uzbekistan	Rustam Kasimdzhanov	2715	2015-05	1979	Highest ranked Uzbek player, former FIDE World Champion (2004–2005)

78	Netherlands	Loek Van Wely	2714	2001-10	1972

78	Russia	Denis Khismatullin	2714	2014-03	1984

80	Soviet UnionArmenia	Vladimir Akopian	2713	2006-07	1971

80	England	Luke McShane	2713	2012-07	1984

82	England	Nigel Short	2712	2004-04	1965

82	England	David Howell	2712	2015-08	1990

82	Egypt	Bassem Amin	2712	2019-01	1988

85	Soviet UnionRussia	Alexey Dreev	2711	2011-07	1969

86	Soviet UnionUkraineSlovenia	Alexander Beliavsky	2710	1997-07	1953	Highest ranked Slovenian player

86	Russia	Alexander Motylev	2710	2009-07	1979

86	Israel	Maxim Rodshtein	2710	2016-03	1989

2700–2709[edit]

89	Azerbaijan	Rauf Mamedov	2709	2017-12	1988

89	Russia	Daniil Dubov	2709	2018-09	1996

91	Ukraine	Zahar Efimenko	2708	2011-03	1985

92	RomaniaGermany	Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	2707	2005-10	1976	Highest ranked German player, formerly highest ranked Romanian player (till 2014) - 2707, 2005–10

92	Russia	Evgeny Najer	2707	2017-08	1977

94	Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaBosnia and HerzegovinaNetherlands	Ivan Sokolov	2706	2004-01	1968	Formerly highest ranked Bosnian player (till 1994) - 2650 (Now Predrag Nikolić - 2676, 2004–10)

94	Hungary	Ferenc Berkes	2706	2011-09	1985

94	Soviet UnionRussia	Sergei Rublevsky	2706	2013-11	1974

97	Soviet UnionLatvia	Mikhail Tal	2705	1980-01	1936	1992	Former world champion (1960–1961)

97	Soviet UnionRussiaIsraelSwitzerland	Vadim Milov	2705	2008-07	1972	Highest ranked Swiss player

97	Russia	Boris Grachev	2705	2012-03	1986

97	Norway	Jon Ludvig Hammer	2705	2016-02	1990

101	Czech Republic	Viktor Laznicka	2704	2012-01	1989

102	Soviet UnionIsrael	Emil Sutovsky	2703	2012-01	1977

102	Austria	Markus Ragger	2703	2017-02	1988	Highest ranked Austrian player

102	Belarus	Vladislav Kovalev	2703	2019-02	1994	Highest ranked Belarusian player

102	Croatia	Ivan Šarić	2703	2019-03	1990	Highest ranked Croatian player

106	Soviet UnionPoland	Michal Krasenkow	2702	2000-07	1963

106	Soviet UnionIsrael	Ilia Smirin	2702	2001-07	1968

106	Russia	Alexander Khalifman	2702	2001-10	1966	Former FIDE World Champion (1999–2000)

106	Soviet Union Georgia (country) Bosnia and HerzegovinaGeorgia (country)	Zurab Azmaiparashvili	2702	2003-07	1960

106	France	Romain Edouard	2702	2014-06	1990

106	UkraineLatvia	Igor Kovalenko	2702	2015-08	1988

106	Armenia	Gabriel Sargissian	2702	2015-12	1983

113	UkraineUnited States	Alexander Onischuk	2701	2010-07	1975

113	India	Baskaran Adhiban	2701	2019-04	1992

115	Denmark	Peter Heine Nielsen	2700	2010-07	1973	Highest ranked Danish player

115	Russia	Igor Lysyj	2700	2015-01	1987

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