List of chess players by peak FIDE rating

This list of chess players is ordered by their peak FIDE rating, an implementation of the Elo rating introduced by FIDE in 1971. The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above this value are colloquially known as super grandmasters) and 2500 for women.

Only six players achieved their over-2700 peak before the year 2000 and twenty-one players achieved their respective peak between 2000 and 2009 (inclusive).

	Country	Player	Peak rating	Achieved	Birth year	Death year	Notes
2800+
1	Norway	Magnus Carlsen	2882	2014-05	1990		World no. 1 (2010, 2011, 2011–), former world champion (2013–2023)
2	Soviet Union Russia	Garry Kasparov	2851	1999-07	1963		Former world champion (1985–2000), former world no. 1 (1984–1993, 1995–2006), first player to achieve 2800+ rating (1990)
3	Italy United States	Fabiano Caruana	2844	2014-10	1992
4	Armenia Germany United States	Levon Aronian	2830	2014-03	1982
5	Philippines United States	Wesley So	2822	2017-02	1993
6	Azerbaijan	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2820	2018-09	1985
7	France	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2819	2016-08	1990
8	India	Viswanathan Anand	2817	2011-03	1969		Former world champion (2000–2002, 2007–2013), former world no. 1 (2007, 2008, 2010, 2011)
8	Soviet Union Russia	Vladimir Kramnik	2817	2016-10	1975		Former world champion (2000–2006), former world no. 1 (1996, 2008)
10	Bulgaria	Veselin Topalov	2816	2015-07	1975		Former world champion (2005–2006), former world no. 1 (2006–2007, 2008–2009)
	United States	Hikaru Nakamura	2816	2015-10	1987
	China	Ding Liren	2816	2018-11	1992		Former world champion (2023–2024)
13	Russia	Alexander Grischuk	2810	2014-12	1983
14	Iran France	Alireza Firouzja	2804	2021-12	2003		Youngest player to achieve 2800+ rating
15	India	Arjun Erigaisi	2801	2024-12	2003
2775–2799
16	Russia Netherlands	Anish Giri	2798	2015-10	1994
17	Russia	Ian Nepomniachtchi	2795	2023-03	1990
18	India	Gukesh Dommaraju	2794	2024-10	2006		World Chess Champion (2024–)
19	Azerbaijan	Teimour Radjabov	2793	2012-11	1987
20	Russia	Alexander Morozevich	2788	2008-07	1977
20	Ukraine Russia	Sergey Karjakin	2788	2011-07	1990
22	Soviet Union Ukraine	Vasyl Ivanchuk	2787	2007-10	1969
23	United States	Bobby Fischer	2785	1972-07	1943	2008	Former world champion (1972–1975), former world no. 1 (1971–1975), first player to achieve 2700+ rating
23	India	Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa	2785	2025-09	2005
25	Uzbekistan	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	2783	2024-10	2004
26	Soviet Union Russia	Anatoly Karpov	2780	1994-07	1951		Former world champion (1975–1985, 1993–1999), former world no. 1 (1976–1983, 1985, 1994)
27	Soviet Union Belarus Israel	Boris Gelfand	2777	2013-11	1968
28	Hungary Romania	Richárd Rapport	2776	2022-04	1996
	Germany	Vincent Keymer	2776	2025-12	2004
	Uzbekistan	Javokhir Sindarov	2776	2026-05	2005
2750–2774
31	India	Pentala Harikrishna	2770	2016-12	1986
32	Soviet Union Russia	Peter Svidler	2769	2013-05	1976
33	Cuba United States	Leinier Domínguez	2768	2014-05	1983
34	Ukraine	Pavel Eljanov	2765	2016-03	1983
34	China	Yu Yangyi	2765	2018-09	1994
36	Ukraine	Ruslan Ponomariov	2764	2011-07	1983		Former world champion (2002–2004)
37	Hungary	Peter Leko	2763	2005-04	1979
	Soviet Union United States France	Gata Kamsky	2763	2013-07	1974
	China	Wang Hao	2763	2020-04	1989
	China	Wei Yi	2763	2024-10	1999
41	Azerbaijan	Vugar Gashimov	2761	2012-01	1986	2014
	England	Michael Adams	2761	2013-09	1971
	Russia	Vladislav Artemiev	2761	2019-06	1998
44	Russia	Dmitry Jakovenko	2760	2009-01	1983
44	Poland	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2760	2021-12	1998
46	Russia	Evgeny Tomashevsky	2758	2015-09	1987
46	China	Li Chao	2758	2016-06	1989
48	China	Wang Yue	2756	2010-11	1987
49	Soviet Union Latvia Spain	Alexei Shirov	2755	2008-01	1972
50	Georgia Czech Republic Slovakia Armenia	Sergei Movsesian	2751	2009-01	1978
	Czech Republic	David Navara	2751	2015-05	1985
	Russia England	Nikita Vitiugov	2751	2019-11	1987
53	Poland	Radosław Wojtaszek	2750	2017-01	1987
2725–2749
54	France	Étienne Bacrot	2749	2013-11	1983
54	India	Aravindh Chithambaram	2749	2025-04	1999
56	India	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	2747	2024-02	1994
57	Russia	Dmitry Andreikin	2743	2016-06	1990
58	Iran	Parham Maghsoodloo	2742	2023-12	2000
58	United States	Hans Niemann	2742	2026-05	2003
60	Vietnam	Lê Quang Liêm	2741	2024-08	1991
61	Soviet Union Russia Canada	Evgeny Bareev	2739	2003-10	1966
61	Russia Slovenia	Vladimir Fedoseev	2739	2025-03	1995
63	Russia	Maxim Matlakov	2738	2017-11	1991
64	Latvia Germany Azerbaijan Bulgaria	Arkadij Naiditsch	2737	2013-12	1985
65	Netherlands	Jorden van Foreest	2736	2026-04	1999
66	Hungary	Judit Polgár	2735	2005-07	1976		Highest-ranked female player; first and only female player to achieve 2700+ rating, only female player to be ranked in the world's top 10
67	Soviet Union Moldova	Viktor Bologan	2734	2012-08	1971
67	Georgia	Baadur Jobava	2734	2012-09	1983
69	Russia	Vladimir Malakhov	2732	2010-07	1980
69	Kyrgyzstan Russia	Ernesto Inarkiev	2732	2016-09	1985
71	China	Bu Xiangzhi	2731	2019-02	1985
71	United States	Samuel Shankland	2731	2019-02	1991
73	Hungary	Zoltán Almási	2726	2011-07	1976
73	Ukraine	Alexander Moiseenko	2726	2011-09	1980
75	Russia Israel	Evgeny Alekseev	2725	2009-09	1985
75	Ukraine	Andrei Volokitin	2725	2013-03	1986
2700–2724
77	China	Ni Hua	2724	2009-04	1983
77	Spain	Francisco Vallejo Pons	2724	2011-07	1982
79	Ukraine	Anton Korobov	2723	2014-01	1985
	Russia	Andrey Esipenko	2723	2022-03	2002
	India	Nihal Sarin	2723	2026-04	2004
82	India	Krishnan Sasikiran	2720	2012-05	1981
	Russia	Alexander Riazantsev	2720	2012-07	1985
	Ukraine	Alexander Areshchenko	2720	2012-12	1986
	France	Laurent Fressinet	2720	2015-06	1981
	Russia	Daniil Dubov	2720	2021-12	1996
87	United States	Awonder Liang	2719	2026-02	2003
88	Bulgaria Georgia	Ivan Cheparinov	2718	2018-08	1986
88	Iran	Amin Tabatabaei	2718	2024-07	2001
90	Cuba United States	Lázaro Bruzón	2717	2012-10	1982
	Ukraine	Yuriy Kryvoruchko	2717	2015-11	1986
	Russia Serbia	Alexey Sarana	2717	2024-07	2000
93	Soviet Union Russia	Valery Salov	2715	1995-01	1964
	Uzbekistan	Rustam Kasimdzhanov	2715	2015-05	1979		Former world champion (2004–2005)
	Russia Austria	Kirill Alekseenko	2715	2019-11	1997
96	Netherlands	Loek van Wely	2714	2001-10	1972
96	Russia	Denis Khismatullin	2714	2014-03	1984
98	Soviet Union Armenia United States	Vladimir Akopian	2713	2006-07	1971
98	England	Luke McShane	2713	2012-07	1984
100	England	Nigel Short	2712	2004-04	1965
	England	David Howell	2712	2015-08	1990
	Egypt	Bassem Amin	2712	2019-01	1988		Only African player to achieve 2700+ rating
	United States	Jeffery Xiong	2712	2019-11	2000
	Russia Hungary	Sanan Sjugirov	2712	2022-11	1993
105	Soviet Union Russia	Alexey Dreev	2711	2011-07	1969
105	Armenia	Gabriel Sargissian	2711	2022-09	1983
107	Soviet Union Ukraine Slovenia	Alexander Beliavsky	2710	1997-07	1953
	Russia Romania	Alexander Motylev	2710	2009-07	1979
	Israel	Maxim Rodshtein	2710	2016-03	1989
	Romania	Bogdan-Daniel Deac	2710	2022-09	2001
111	Azerbaijan	Rauf Mamedov	2709	2017-12	1988
111	England	Gawain Jones	2709	2019-06	1987
113	Ukraine	Zahar Efimenko	2708	2011-03	1985
	Armenia	Haik M. Martirosyan	2708	2023-11	2000
	Turkey	Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş	2708	2026-05	2011		Youngest player to achieve 2700+ rating
116	Romania Germany	Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	2707	2005-10	1976
116	Russia	Evgeny Najer	2707	2017-08	1977
118	Yugoslavia Bosnia and Herzegovina Netherlands	Ivan Sokolov	2706	2004-01	1968
	Hungary	Ferenc Berkes	2706	2011-09	1985
	Soviet Union Russia	Sergei Rublevsky	2706	2013-11	1974
121	Soviet Union Latvia	Mikhail Tal	2705	1980-01	1936	1992	Former world champion (1960–1961)
	Soviet Union Russia Israel Switzerland	Vadim Milov	2705	2008-07	1972
	Russia	Boris Grachev	2705	2012-03	1986
	Norway	Jon Ludvig Hammer	2705	2016-02	1990
125	Czech Republic	Viktor Láznička	2704	2012-01	1989
125	United States	Ray Robson	2704	2023-04	1994
127	Soviet Union Israel	Emil Sutovsky	2703	2012-01	1977
	Austria	Markus Ragger	2703	2017-02	1988
	Belarus	Vladislav Kovalev	2703	2019-02	1994
	Croatia	Ivan Šarić	2703	2019-03	1990
	Spain	David Antón Guijarro	2703	2020-03	1995
	United States	Samuel Sevian	2703	2022-05	2000
133	Soviet Union Russia Poland	Michał Krasenkow	2702	2000-07	1963
	Soviet Union Israel	Ilya Smirin	2702	2001-07	1968
	Soviet Union Germany Russia	Alexander Khalifman	2702	2001-10	1966		Former world champion (1999–2000)
	Soviet Union Bosnia and Herzegovina Georgia	Zurab Azmaiparashvili	2702	2003-07	1960
	France	Romain Edouard	2702	2014-06	1990
	Ukraine Latvia	Igor Kovalenko	2702	2015-08	1988
139	Soviet Union Ukraine United States	Alexander Onischuk	2701	2010-07	1975
139	India	Adhiban Baskaran	2701	2019-04	1992
141	Denmark	Peter Heine Nielsen	2700	2010-07	1973
141	Russia	Igor Lysyj	2700	2015-01	1987

	Country	Player	Peak rating	Achieved	Birth year	Notes
2700+
1	Hungary	Judit Polgár	2735	2005-07	1976	Highest-ranked female player, formerly female world no. 1 (1989–2015)
2600–2699
2	China	Hou Yifan	2686	2015-03	1994	Former women's world champion (2010–2012, 2013–2015, 2016–2017), youngest female grandmaster (since 2008), female world no. 1 (since 2015)
3	India	Koneru Humpy	2623	2009-07	1987
4	Russia	Aleksandra Goryachkina	2611	2021-08	1998
5	Ukraine Slovenia	Anna Muzychuk	2606	2012-07	1990
6	China	Ju Wenjun	2604	2017-03	1991	Women's World Chess Champion (since 2018)
2500–2599
7	Russia	Tatiana Kosintseva	2581	2010-11	1986
8	China	Zhao Xue	2579	2013-09	1985
8	China	Zhu Jiner	2579	2025-11	2002
10	Hungary United States	Susan Polgar	2577	2005-01	1969	Former women's world champion (1996–1999), former female world no. 1 (1984–1985, 1986)
11	Russia	Nadezhda Kosintseva	2576	2010-11	1985
12	China	Xie Jun	2574	2008-01	1970	Former women's world champion (1991–1996, 1999–2001)
13	Georgia	Nana Dzagnidze	2573	2015-06	1987
14	China	Lei Tingjie	2569	2025-11	1997
15	Ukraine	Mariya Muzychuk	2563	2016-03	1992	Former women's world champion (2015–2016)
15	Ukraine Russia	Kateryna Lagno	2563	2022-10	1989
17	Russia Switzerland	Alexandra Kosteniuk	2561	2018-01	1984	Former women's world champion (2008–2010)
17	China	Tan Zhongyi	2561	2024-12	1991	Former women's world champion (2017–2018)
19	Soviet Union Georgia	Maia Chiburdanidze	2560	1988-01	1961	Former women's world champion (1978–1991), former female world no. 1 (1980–1982, 1983, 1985–1986, 1987–1988)
	Soviet Union Ukraine Russia	Alisa Galliamova	2560	1998-07	1972
	Bulgaria	Antoaneta Stefanova	2560	2003-01	1979	Former women's world champion (2004–2006)
22	Sweden	Pia Cramling	2550	2008-10	1963	Former female world no. 1 (1983, 1984)
23	China Qatar	Zhu Chen	2548	2008-01	1976	Former women's world champion (2001–2004)
23	Russia	Valentina Gunina	2548	2015-06	1989
25	India	Harika Dronavalli	2543	2016-11	1991
26	Lithuania	Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen	2542	2017-06	1983
27	Ukraine United States	Anna Zatonskih	2537	2011-05	1978
27	France	Marie Sebag	2537	2013-03	1986
29	Georgia	Bella Khotenashvili	2531	2013-06	1988
30	Georgia	Nino Batsiashvili	2528	2018-03	1987
31	Kazakhstan Russia	Bibisara Assaubayeva	2527	2026-05	2004
32	Armenia	Elina Danielian	2521	2011-07	1978
33	Soviet Union Georgia	Nana Ioseliani	2520	1997-07	1962
34	Kazakhstan	Dinara Saduakassova	2519	2020-01	1996
35	China	Xu Yuhua	2517	2006-04	1976	Former women's world champion (2006–2008)
36	Russia	Polina Shuvalova	2516	2021-12	2001
37	Germany	Elisabeth Pähtz	2513	2018-09	1985
38	China	Wang Lei	2512	2001-10	1975
39	Vietnam Hungary	Hoang Thanh Trang	2511	2013-11	1980
40	India	Divya Deshmukh	2510	2026-04	2005
41	Russia	Natalia Pogonina	2508	2014-07	1985
42	Russia	Ekaterina Kovalevskaya	2507	2001-07	1974
42	Kazakhstan	Zhansaya Abdumalik	2507	2021-10	2000
44	Soviet Union Georgia Scotland	Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant	2506	2009-07	1968
	China	Wang Pin	2506	2000-10	1974
	India	Vaishali Rameshbabu	2506	2024-08	2001
47	Hungary	Sofia Polgar	2505	1998-07	1974
	Poland	Monika Soćko	2505	2008-04	1978
	Russia	Olga Girya	2505	2017-09	1991
	Russia Poland	Alina Kashlinskaya	2505	2022-06	1993
51	Armenia	Lilit Mkrtchian	2503	2010-01	1982
51	China	Ruan Lufei	2503	2014-01	1987
53	Soviet Union Kyrgyzstan Russia	Svetlana Matveeva	2502	2004-01	1969
	Ukraine	Anna Ushenina	2502	2007-07	1985	Former women's world champion (2012–2013)
	United States	Irina Krush	2502	2013-10	1983
56	China	Qin Kanying	2501	2000-07	1974
56	Moldova France	Almira Skripchenko	2501	2003-01	1976
58	Georgia	Lela Javakhishvili	2500	2010-03	1984

	Country	Player	Peak rating in 1970s	Achieved
1	United States	Bobby Fischer	2785	1972-07
2	Soviet Union	Anatoly Karpov	2725	1978-01
3	Soviet Union Switzerland	Viktor Korchnoi	2695	1979-01
4	Soviet Union	Boris Spassky	2690	1971-07
5	Denmark	Bent Larsen	2660	1971-07
5	Soviet Union	Mikhail Tal	2660	1973-07
7	Hungary	Lajos Portisch	2650	1973-07
8	Soviet Union	Tigran Petrosian	2645	1972-07
8	Soviet Union	Lev Polugaevsky	2645	1972-07
10	Brazil	Henrique Mecking	2635	1977-01
11	Soviet Union	Mikhail Botvinnik	2630	1971-07
12	Czechoslovakia United States	Lubomir Kavalek	2625	1974-05
12	Netherlands	Jan Timman	2625	1979-01
14	Soviet Union	Vassily Smyslov	2620	1971-07
	Soviet Union	Leonid Stein	2620	1972-07
	Yugoslavia	Ljubomir Ljubojević	2620	1976-01
	Soviet Union	Efim Geller	2620	1976-01
	Czechoslovakia	Vlastimil Hort	2620	1977-01
19	Soviet Union	Paul Keres	2615	1971-07
	West Germany	Robert Hübner	2615	1974-05
	Czechoslovakia	Jan Smejkal	2615	1976-01

	Country	Player	Peak rating in 1980s	Achieved
1	Soviet Union	Garry Kasparov	2775	1989-01
2	Soviet Union	Anatoly Karpov	2755	1989-07
3	Soviet Union	Mikhail Tal	2705	1980-01
4	Switzerland	Viktor Korchnoi	2695	1980-01
5	Netherlands	Jan Timman	2675	1988-01
6	England	Nigel Short	2665	1988-07
7	Soviet Union	Artur Yusupov	2660	1986-07
7	Soviet Union	Vasyl Ivanchuk	2660	1989-07
9	Hungary	Lajos Portisch	2655	1980-01
9	Soviet Union	Alexander Beliavsky	2655	1988-07
11	Yugoslavia	Ljubomir Ljubojević	2645	1983-01
	Soviet Union	Rafael Vaganian	2645	1986-01
	Soviet Union	Andrei Sokolov	2645	1987-01
	England	Jonathan Speelman	2645	1988-07
	Soviet Union	Valery Salov	2645	1989-07
16	West Germany	Robert Hübner	2640	1981-07
	Sweden	Ulf Andersson	2640	1983-07
	Soviet Union	Mikhail Gurevich	2640	1989-07
19	Soviet Union	Lev Polugaevsky	2635	1980-01
19	Soviet Union France	Boris Spassky	2635	1981-01

	Country	Player	Peak rating in 1990s	Achieved
1	Soviet Union Russia	Garry Kasparov	2851	1999-07
2	India	Viswanathan Anand	2795	1998-07
3	Soviet Union Russia	Vladimir Kramnik	2790	1998-01
4	Soviet Union Russia	Anatoly Karpov	2780	1994-07
5	Russia	Alexander Morozevich	2758	1999-07
6	Bulgaria	Veselin Topalov	2750	1996-07
7	United States	Gata Kamsky	2745	1996-07
8	Soviet Union Latvia Spain	Alexei Shirov	2740	1994-07
8	Soviet Union Ukraine	Vasyl Ivanchuk	2740	1995-07
10	England	Michael Adams	2716	1999-01
11	Soviet Union Russia	Valery Salov	2715	1995-01
12	Soviet Union Russia	Peter Svidler	2713	1999-01
12	Soviet Union Belarus Israel	Boris Gelfand	2713	1999-07
14	Soviet Union Ukraine Slovenia	Alexander Beliavsky	2710	1997-07
15	Hungary	Peter Leko	2701	1999-07
16	Soviet Union Russia	Evgeny Bareev	2698	1999-07
17	England	Nigel Short	2697	1999-01
18	Soviet Union Russia	Sergei Rublevsky	2685	1998-07
19	Soviet Union Bosnia and Herzegovina Georgia	Zurab Azmaiparashvili	2681	1999-01
20	Netherlands	Jan Timman	2680	1990-01
20	Soviet Union Russia Germany	Artur Yusupov	2680	1995-07

List of chess players by peak FIDE rating

Classical

2800+

2775–2799

2750–2774

2725–2749

2700–2724

Highest-rated female players

2700+

2600–2699

2500–2599

Highest ratings by decade

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

List of rating peaks throughout history

See also

Notes

References

External links

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