Top 100 Chess Players in the World (May 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 | 2792 |
| 3 | Fabiano Caruana | USA | 2788 |
| 4 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov |  UZB | 2780 |
| 5 | Javokhir Sindarov | UZB | 2776 |
| 6 | Anish Giri |  NED | 2767 |
| 7 | Vincent Keymer |  GER | 2759 |
| 8 | Alireza Firouzja |  FRA | 2759 |
| 9 | Wesley So | USA | 2754 |
| 10 | Yi Wei |  CHN | 2753 |
| 11 | Erigaisi Arjun |  IND | 2751 |
| 12 | Viswanathan Anand | IND | 2739 |
| 13 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda |  POL | 2739 |
| 14 | Liren Ding | CHN | 2738 |
| 15 | Jorden Van Foreest | NED | 2735 |
| 16 | Praggnanandhaa R | IND | 2733 |
| 17 | Gukesh D | IND | 2732 |
| 18 | Leinier Dominguez Perez | USA | 2732 |
| 19 | Quang Liem Le |  VIE | 2731 |
| 20 | Richard Rapport |  HUN | 2729 |
| 21 | Ian Nepomniachtchi |  RUS | 2729 |
| 22 | Hans Moke Niemann | USA | 2728 |
| 23 | Levon Aronian | USA | 2724 |
| 24 | Nihal Sarin | IND | 2723 |
| 25 | Awonder Liang | USA | 2718 |
| 26 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | FRA | 2717 |
| 27 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov |  AZE | 2717 |
| 28 | Yangyi Yu | CHN | 2714 |
| 29 | M. Amin Tabatabaei |  IRI | 2714 |
| 30 | Dmitry Andreikin |  FID | 2710 |
| 31 | Parham Maghsoodloo | IRI | 2710 |
| 32 | Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus |  TUR | 2708 |
| 33 | Santosh Gujrathi Vidit | IND | 2708 |
| 34 | Vladimir Fedoseev |  SLO | 2700 |
| 35 | Samuel Sevian | USA | 2696 |
| 36 | Veselin Topalov |  BUL | 2695 |
| 37 | Matthias Bluebaum | GER | 2694 |
| 38 | Chithambaram VR. Aravindh | IND | 2692 |
| 39 | Teimour Radjabov | AZE | 2689 |
| 40 | Nodirbek Yakubboev | UZB | 2689 |
| 41 | Andrey Esipenko | RUS | 2684 |
| 42 | Hao Wang | CHN | 2684 |
| 43 | Peter Svidler | FID | 2682 |
| 44 | Pentala Harikrishna | IND | 2676 |
| 45 | Peter Leko | HUN | 2676 |
| 46 | Pavel Eljanov |  UKR | 2674 |
| 47 | Igor Kovalenko | UKR | 2672 |
| 48 | Nikita Vitiugov |  ENG | 2666 |
| 49 | David W L Howell | ENG | 2665 |
| 50 | Rustam Kasimdzhanov | UZB | 2665 |
| 51 | Aydin Suleymanli | AZE | 2665 |
| 52 | Alexey Sarana |  SRB | 2664 |
| 53 | Nils Grandelius |  SWE | 2662 |
| 54 | Xiangzhi Bu | CHN | 2661 |
| 55 | Johan-Sebastian Christiansen | NOR | 2657 |
| 56 | David Anton Guijarro |  ESP | 2657 |
| 57 | Ivan Saric |  CRO | 2657 |
| 58 | V Pranav | IND | 2657 |
| 59 | Kirill Alekseenko |  AUT | 2656 |
| 60 | Jeffery Xiong | USA | 2656 |
| 61 | Daniil Dubov | RUS | 2654 |
| 62 | Ernesto Inarkiev | RUS | 2653 |
| 63 | Ray Robson | USA | 2653 |
| 64 | Alexander Morozevich | RUS | 2653 |
| 65 | Bogdan-Daniel Deac |  ROU | 2650 |
| 66 | Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara |  MEX | 2650 |
| 67 | Radoslaw Wojtaszek | POL | 2650 |
| 68 | Volodar Murzin | FID | 2650 |
| 69 | Eltaj Safarli | AZE | 2648 |
| 70 | Murali Karthikeyan | IND | 2648 |
| 71 | Sam Shankland | USA | 2647 |
| 72 | Frederik Svane | GER | 2645 |
| 73 | Alexander Donchenko | GER | 2645 |
| 74 | Maksim Chigaev | ESP | 2644 |
| 75 | Francisco Vallejo Pons | ESP | 2644 |
| 76 | Shant Sargsyan |  ARM | 2644 |
| 77 | Grigoriy Oparin | USA | 2643 |
| 78 | Vladislav Artemiev | RUS | 2641 |
| 79 | Ediz Gurel | TUR | 2641 |
| 80 | Aryan Tari | NOR | 2641 |
| 81 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2641 |
| 82 | A.R. Saleh Salem |  UAE | 2640 |
| 83 | Gawain C B Maroroa Jones | ENG | 2639 |
| 84 | Raunak Sadhwani | IND | 2638 |
| 85 | Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR | 2638 |
| 86 | Abhimanyu Mishra | USA | 2638 |
| 87 | Shamsiddin Vokhidov | UZB | 2637 |
| 88 | Aryan Chopra | IND | 2637 |
| 89 | Rauf Mamedov | AZE | 2636 |
| 90 | Haik M. Martirosyan | ARM | 2636 |
| 91 | Aram Hakobyan | ARM | 2635 |
| 92 | Boris Gelfand |  ISR | 2635 |
| 93 | Nikolas Theodorou |  GRE | 2635 |
| 94 | Dmitrij Kollars | GER | 2635 |
| 95 | Shanglei Lu | CHN | 2635 |
| 96 | Andy Woodward | USA | 2635 |
| 97 | Vasyl Ivanchuk | UKR | 2634 |
| 98 | Thai Dai Van Nguyen |  CZE | 2633 |
| 99 | Pranesh M | IND | 2632 |
| 100 | Benjamin Gledura | HUN | 2630 |
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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.