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 2000 and twenty-one players achieved their respective peak between 2000 and 2009 (including).
List
Country | Player | Peak rating | Achieved | Birth year | Death year | Notes | |
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Magnus Carlsen | 2882 | 2014-05 | 1990 | Highest ranked Norwegian player, Highest ranked player, World Champion (2013–present) | |
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Garry Kasparov | 2851 | 1999-07 | 1963 | Highest ranked Russian player, former World Champion (1985-2000), first player to achieve 2800+ ranking | |
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Fabiano Caruana | 2844 | 2014-10 | 1992 | Formerly highest ranked Italian player (till 2015) - 2844, 2014-10, Highest ranked American player | |
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Levon Aronian | 2830 | 2014-03 | 1982 | Highest ranked Armenian player. | |
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2819 | 2016-08 | 1990 | Highest ranked French player. | |
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Viswanathan Anand | 2817 | 2011-09 | 1969 | Highest ranked Indian player, former World Champion (2000-2002, 2007-2013) | |
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Vladimir Kramnik | 2817 | 2016-10 | 1975 | Former World Champion (2000, 2006-2007) | |
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Veselin Topalov | 2816 | 2015-07 | 1975 | Highest ranked Bulgarian player, former FIDE World Champion (2005-2006) | |
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Hikaru Nakamura | 2816 | 2015-10 | 1987 | ||
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Alexander Grischuk | 2810 | 2014-12 | 1983 | ||
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Anish Giri | 2798 | 2015-10 | 1994 | Highest ranked Dutch player | |
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Wesley So | 2794 | 2016-10 | 1993 | Formerly highest ranked Filipino player (till 2014) - 2755, 2014-08 | |
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Teimour Radjabov | 2793 | 2012-10 | 1987 | Highest ranked Azerbaijani player | |
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Alexander Morozevich | 2788 | 2008-07 | 1977 | ||
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Sergey Karjakin | 2788 | 2011-07 | 1990 | ||
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Vassily Ivanchuk | 2787 | 2007-10 | 1969 | Highest ranked Ukrainian player | |
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Bobby Fischer | 2785 | 1972-07 | 1943 | 2008 | Former World Champion (1972-1975), first player to achieve 2700+ ranking |
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Ding Liren | 2783 | 2016-06 | 1992 | Highest ranked Chinese player | |
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Anatoly Karpov | 2780 | 1994-07 | 1951 | Former World Champion (1975-1985, 1993-1999) | |
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Boris Gelfand | 2777 | 2013-11 | 1968 | Highest ranked Israeli player, formerly highest ranked Belarusian player (till 1998) - 2675 (Now Sergei Zhigalko - 2696, 2011-09) | |
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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 2775 | 2013-08 | 1985 | ||
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Peter Svidler | 2769 | 2013-05 | 1976 | ||
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Leinier Dominguez Perez | 2768 | 2014-05 | 1983 | Highest ranked Cuban player | |
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Pentala Harikrishna | 2768 | 2016-10 | 1986 | ||
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Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2767 | 2016-11 | 1990 | ||
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Pavel Eljanov | 2765 | 2016-03 | 1983 | ||
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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 | ||
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Vugar Gashimov | 2761 | 2012-01 | 1986 | 2014 | |
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Michael Adams | 2761 | 2013-09 | 1971 | Highest ranked English player | |
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Dmitry Jakovenko | 2760 | 2009-01 | 1983 | ||
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Evgeny Tomashevsky | 2758 | 2015-09 | 1987 | ||
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Li Chao | 2757 | 2016-03 | 1989 | ||
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Wang Yue | 2756 | 2010-09 | 1987 | ||
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Alexei Shirov | 2755 | 2008-01 | 1972 | Highest ranked Latvian player, formerly highest ranked Spanish player (till 2011) - 2755, 2008-01 | |
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Wang Hao | 2752 | 2013-01 | 1989 | ||
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Richard Rapport | 2752 | 2016-07 | 1996 | ||
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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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Etienne Bacrot | 2749 | 2013-11 | 1983 | ||
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Radoslaw Wojtaszek | 2749 | 2015-06 | 1987 | Highest ranked Polish player | |
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Nikita Vitiugov | 2747 | 2014-03 | 1987 | ||
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Yu Yangyi | 2747 | 2016-01 | 1994 | ||
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Dmitry Andreikin | 2743 | 2016-06 | 1990 | ||
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Evgeny Bareev | 2739 | 2003-10 | 1966 | Highest ranked Canadian player | |
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Arkadij Naiditsch | 2737 | 2013-12 | 1985 | Formerly highest ranked German player (till 2015) | |
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Wei Yi | 2737 | 2015-11 | 1999 | Youngest player to reach a rating over 2700. | |
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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 | |
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Vladimir Malakhov | 2732 | 2010-07 | 1980 | ||
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Ernesto Inarkiev | 2732 | 2016-09 | 1985 | ||
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Bu Xiangzhi | 2729 | 2016-06 | 1985 | ||
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Zoltan Almasi | 2726 | 2011-07 | 1976 | ||
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Alexander Moiseenko | 2726 | 2011-09 | 1980 | ||
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Evgeny Alekseev | 2725 | 2009-09 | 1985 | ||
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Andrei Volokitin | 2725 | 2013-03 | 1986 | ||
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Ni Hua | 2724 | 2009-04 | 1983 | ||
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Francisco Vallejo Pons | 2724 | 2011-07 | 1982 | Highest ranked Spanish player | |
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Anton Korobov | 2723 | 2014-01 | 1985 | ||
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Le Quang Liem | 2723 | 2016-07 | 1991 | Highest ranked Vietnamese player | |
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Krishnan Sasikiran | 2720 | 2012-05 | 1981 | ||
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Alexander Riazantsev | 2720 | 2012-07 | 1985 | ||
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Alexander Areshchenko | 2720 | 2012-12 | 1986 | ||
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Laurent Fressinet | 2720 | 2015-06 | 1981 | ||
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Lazaro Bruzon Batista | 2717 | 2012-10 | 1982 | ||
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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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Loek Van Wely | 2714 | 2001-10 | 1972 | ||
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Denis Khismatullin | 2714 | 2014-03 | 1984 | ||
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Vladimir Akopian | 2713 | 2006-07 | 1971 | ||
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Ivan Cheparinov | 2713 | 2008-01 | 1986 | ||
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Luke McShane | 2713 | 2012-07 | 1984 | ||
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Nigel Short | 2712 | 2004-04 | 1965 | ||
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David Howell | 2712 | 2015-08 | 1990 | ||
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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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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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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 | ||
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Viktor Laznicka | 2704 | 2012-01 | 1989 | ||
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Emil Sutovsky | 2703 | 2012-01 | 1977 | ||
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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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Peter Heine Nielsen | 2700 | 2010-07 | 1973 | Highest ranked Danish player | |
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Maxim Matlakov | 2700 | 2013-11 | 1991 | ||
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Igor Lysyj | 2700 | 2015-01 | 1987 | ||
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Markus Ragger | 2700 | 2016-10 | 1988 | Highest ranked Austrian player | |
See also
References
External links
- A list of chess players by peak FIDE rating on 2700chess.com
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