Top 100 Chess Players in the World (April 2026)
This page presents the Top 100 chess players in the world based on official FIDE classical ratings . This list includes the strongest grandmasters competing at the highest levels of global chess.
ChessTV updates this list automatically when new FIDE rating lists are released.
Rating Methodology
The rankings are sorted by standard (classical) rating. Only official FIDE-rated players with active profiles are included.
| # | Name | Country | Standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnus Carlsen |  NOR | 2840 |
| 2 | Hikaru Nakamura |  USA | 2810 |
| 3 | Fabiano Caruana | USA | 2795 |
| 4 | Vincent Keymer |  GER | 2776 |
| 5 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov |  UZB | 2771 |
| 6 | Alireza Firouzja |  FRA | 2759 |
| 7 | Yi Wei |  CHN | 2754 |
| 8 | Anish Giri |  NED | 2753 |
| 9 | Wesley So | USA | 2753 |
| 10 | Gukesh D |  IND | 2748 |
| 11 | Javokhir Sindarov | UZB | 2745 |
| 12 | Erigaisi Arjun | IND | 2745 |
| 13 | Praggnanandhaa R | IND | 2741 |
| 14 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda |  POL | 2739 |
| 15 | Leinier Dominguez Perez | USA | 2738 |
| 16 | Richard Rapport |  HUN | 2738 |
| 17 | Hans Moke Niemann | USA | 2735 |
| 18 | Quang Liem Le |  VIE | 2731 |
| 19 | Jorden Van Foreest | NED | 2729 |
| 20 | Levon Aronian | USA | 2729 |
| 21 | Ian Nepomniachtchi |  RUS | 2723 |
| 22 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | FRA | 2720 |
| 23 | Yangyi Yu | CHN | 2717 |
| 24 | Nihal Sarin | IND | 2716 |
| 25 | Awonder Liang | USA | 2714 |
| 26 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov |  AZE | 2713 |
| 27 | Dmitry Andreikin |  FID | 2710 |
| 28 | Santosh Gujrathi Vidit | IND | 2708 |
| 29 | Parham Maghsoodloo |  IRI | 2708 |
| 30 | Vladimir Fedoseev |  SLO | 2708 |
| 31 | M. Amin Tabatabaei | IRI | 2700 |
| 32 | Matthias Bluebaum | GER | 2698 |
| 33 | Andrey Esipenko | RUS | 2698 |
| 34 | Chithambaram VR. Aravindh | IND | 2689 |
| 35 | Teimour Radjabov | AZE | 2689 |
| 36 | Samuel Sevian | USA | 2688 |
| 37 | Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus |  TUR | 2687 |
| 38 | Nodirbek Yakubboev | UZB | 2686 |
| 39 | Hao Wang | CHN | 2684 |
| 40 | Alexey Sarana |  SRB | 2683 |
| 41 | Peter Svidler | FID | 2682 |
| 42 | Igor Kovalenko |  UKR | 2682 |
| 43 | Peter Leko | HUN | 2676 |
| 44 | Pentala Harikrishna | IND | 2676 |
| 45 | Daniil Dubov | RUS | 2672 |
| 46 | David W L Howell |  ENG | 2668 |
| 47 | Rustam Kasimdzhanov | UZB | 2668 |
| 48 | Nikita Vitiugov | ENG | 2667 |
| 49 | David Anton Guijarro |  ESP | 2666 |
| 50 | Xiangzhi Bu | CHN | 2666 |
| 51 | Radoslaw Wojtaszek | POL | 2666 |
| 52 | Nils Grandelius |  SWE | 2666 |
| 53 | Ivan Saric |  CRO | 2661 |
| 54 | Pavel Eljanov | UKR | 2659 |
| 55 | Grigoriy Oparin | USA | 2658 |
| 56 | Shant Sargsyan |  ARM | 2656 |
| 57 | Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara |  MEX | 2656 |
| 58 | Jeffery Xiong | USA | 2656 |
| 59 | Johan-Sebastian Christiansen | NOR | 2656 |
| 60 | Bogdan-Daniel Deac |  ROU | 2655 |
| 61 | Aydin Suleymanli | AZE | 2653 |
| 62 | Alexander Morozevich | RUS | 2653 |
| 63 | Benjamin Gledura | HUN | 2653 |
| 64 | Ernesto Inarkiev | RUS | 2653 |
| 65 | Kirill Alekseenko |  AUT | 2652 |
| 66 | Sam Shankland | USA | 2651 |
| 67 | Ray Robson | USA | 2650 |
| 68 | Volodar Murzin | FID | 2650 |
| 69 | Eltaj Safarli | AZE | 2648 |
| 70 | Murali Karthikeyan | IND | 2648 |
| 71 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2645 |
| 72 | Frederik Svane | GER | 2645 |
| 73 | Francisco Vallejo Pons | ESP | 2644 |
| 74 | Alexander Donchenko | GER | 2643 |
| 75 | Shanglei Lu | CHN | 2642 |
| 76 | Aryan Tari | NOR | 2642 |
| 77 | V Pranav | IND | 2641 |
| 78 | Raunak Sadhwani | IND | 2641 |
| 79 | Vladislav Artemiev | RUS | 2641 |
| 80 | A.R. Saleh Salem |  UAE | 2640 |
| 81 | Nikolas Theodorou |  GRE | 2639 |
| 82 | Shamsiddin Vokhidov | UZB | 2639 |
| 83 | Maksim Chigaev | ESP | 2637 |
| 84 | Rauf Mamedov | AZE | 2636 |
| 85 | Boris Gelfand |  ISR | 2635 |
| 86 | Ediz Gurel | TUR | 2635 |
| 87 | Gawain C B Maroroa Jones | ENG | 2635 |
| 88 | Thai Dai Van Nguyen |  CZE | 2634 |
| 89 | Pranesh M | IND | 2633 |
| 90 | Aryan Chopra | IND | 2631 |
| 91 | Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR | 2631 |
| 92 | Andy Woodward | USA | 2631 |
| 93 | Etienne Bacrot | FRA | 2631 |
| 94 | Loek Van Wely | NED | 2629 |
| 95 | Michael Adams | ENG | 2629 |
| 96 | Abhimanyu Mishra | USA | 2629 |
| 97 | Ivan Cheparinov |  BUL | 2627 |
| 98 | Andrei Volokitin | UKR | 2627 |
| 99 | Aram Hakobyan | ARM | 2627 |
| 100 | David Navara | CZE | 2626 |
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FAQ
What rating does this use?
FIDE classical ratings.
How often is it updated?
With each FIDE monthly rating release.
Does it include inactive players?
No — only players marked as active by FIDE.