World chess rankings: top 100 players

The world's No. 1 chess player is GM Magnus Carlsen (2823 FIDE), followed by Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. This list ranks the best chess players in the world by FIDE standard rating, from the October 2026 rating list. The top 100 includes 100 grandmasters.

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Rank	Player	Federation	Standard	Rapid	Blitz	Platform
#01	Magnus Carlsen GM	NOR	2,823	2,801	2,860	Chess.comLichess
#02	Hikaru Nakamura GM	USA	2,792	2,738	2,800	Chess.com
#03	Fabiano Caruana GM	USA	2,784	2,682	2,738	Chess.comLichess
#04	Javokhir Sindarov GM	UZB	2,782	2,747	2,725	Chess.com
#05	Nodirbek Abdusattorov GM	UZB	2,780	2,704	2,819	Chess.com
#06	Wesley So GM	USA	2,770	2,699	2,745	Chess.com
#07	Praggnanandhaa R GM	IND	2,763	2,730	2,712	Chess.comLichess
#08	Vincent Keymer GM	GER	2,761	2,635	2,628	Chess.comLichess
#09	Yi Wei GM	CHN	2,758	2,704	2,709	Chess.com
#10	Alireza Firouzja GM	FRA	2,757	2,737	2,797	Chess.comLichess
#11	Anish Giri GM	NED	2,752	2,656	2,636	Chess.comLichess
#12	Erigaisi Arjun GM	IND	2,746	2,740	2,766	Chess.comLichess
#13	Jan-Krzysztof Duda GM	POL	2,741	2,685	2,704	Chess.com
#14	Viswanathan Anand GM	IND	2,739	2,694	2,706	Chess.com
#15	Quang Liem Le GM	VIE	2,732	2,626	2,675	Chess.com
#16	Leinier Dominguez Perez GM	USA	2,732	2,641	2,604	Chess.com
#17	Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus GM	TUR	2,731	2,536	2,579	Chess.com
#18	M. Amin Tabatabaei GM	IRI	2,728	2,575	2,611	Chess.com
#19	Levon Aronian GM	USA	2,725	2,738	2,714	Chess.com
#20	Liren Ding GM	CHN	2,723	2,693	2,736	Chess.com
#21	Ian Nepomniachtchi GM	RUS	2,719	2,748	2,765	Chess.com
#22	Hans Moke Niemann GM	USA	2,717	2,675	2,711	Chess.com
#23	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave GM	FRA	2,717	2,712	2,734	Chess.com
#24	Jorden Van Foreest GM	NED	2,716	2,601	2,659	Chess.com
#25	Dmitry Andreikin GM	FID	2,714	2,676	2,686	Chess.comLichess
#26	Nodirbek Yakubboev GM	UZB	2,712	2,615	2,585	Chess.com
#27	Richard Rapport GM	HUN	2,711	2,680	2,616	Chess.com
#28	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov GM	AZE	2,710	2,663	2,612	Chess.comLichess
#29	Gukesh D GM	IND	2,710	2,686	2,659	Chess.com
#30	Nihal Sarin GM	IND	2,709	2,712	2,721	Chess.comLichess
#31	Samuel Sevian GM	USA	2,708	2,664	2,658	Chess.com
#32	Parham Maghsoodloo GM	IRI	2,705	2,689	2,638	Chess.com
#33	Yangyi Yu GM	CHN	2,704	2,667	2,722	Chess.com
#34	Veselin Topalov GM	BUL	2,695	2,607	2,627	Chess.com
#35	Hao Wang GM	CHN	2,694	2,649	2,649	Chess.com
#36	Santosh Gujrathi Vidit GM	IND	2,693	2,625	2,677	Chess.comLichess
#37	Vladimir Fedoseev GM	SLO	2,691	2,701	2,726	Chess.comLichess
#38	Teimour Radjabov GM	AZE	2,689	2,640	2,659	Chess.comLichess
#39	Awonder Liang GM	USA	2,685	2,553	2,595	Chess.com
#40	Andrey Esipenko GM	RUS	2,680	2,658	2,645	Chess.comLichess
#41	Aydin Suleymanli GM	AZE	2,679	2,581	2,566	Chess.com
#42	V Pranav GM	IND	2,677	2,592	2,582	Chess.com
#43	Chithambaram VR. Aravindh GM	IND	2,677	2,612	2,562	Chess.com
#44	Pranesh M GM	IND	2,674	2,552	2,589	Chess.com
#45	Alexey Sarana GM	SRB	2,671	2,650	2,667	Chess.comLichess
#46	Matthias Bluebaum GM	GER	2,666	2,583	2,608	Chess.com
#47	Rustam Kasimdzhanov GM	UZB	2,665	2,630	2,549	Chess.com
#48	David W L Howell GM	ENG	2,665	2,613	2,574	Chess.com
#49	Pavel Eljanov GM	UKR	2,664	2,605	2,622	Chess.com
#50	Peter Leko GM	HUN	2,663	2,700	2,738	Chess.com
#51	Nikita Vitiugov GM	ENG	2,663	2,616	2,586	Chess.com
#52	Mahammad Muradli GM	AZE	2,662	2,553	2,559	Chess.com
#53	Frederik Svane GM	GER	2,662	2,497	2,554	Chess.com
#54	Haik M. Martirosyan GM	ARM	2,661	2,625	2,686	Chess.com
#55	Ray Robson GM	USA	2,659	2,639	2,622	Chess.com
#56	Radoslaw Wojtaszek GM	POL	2,658	2,611	2,584	Chess.com
#57	Jeffery Xiong GM	USA	2,656	2,694	2,703	Chess.com
#58	Volodar Murzin GM	FID	2,656	2,631	2,670	Chess.com
#59	Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara GM	MEX	2,654	2,614	2,580	Chess.com
#60	Bogdan-Daniel Deac GM	ROU	2,654	2,609	2,650	Chess.com
#61	Alexander Morozevich GM	RUS	2,654	2,629	2,583	Chess.com
#62	Daniil Dubov GM	RUS	2,654	2,665	2,783	Chess.comLichess
#63	Vladislav Artemiev GM	RUS	2,653	2,707	2,712	Chess.comLichess
#64	Igor Kovalenko GM	UKR	2,651	2,589	2,610	Chess.com
#65	Xiangzhi Bu GM	CHN	2,651	2,593	2,717	Chess.com
#66	David Anton Guijarro GM	ESP	2,650	2,620	2,560	Chess.com
#67	Shamsiddin Vokhidov GM	UZB	2,649	2,516	2,551	Chess.com
#68	Pentala Harikrishna GM	IND	2,648	2,595	2,620	Chess.com
#69	Shant Sargsyan GM	ARM	2,648	2,622	2,576	Chess.com
#70	Murali Karthikeyan GM	IND	2,647	2,524	2,528	Chess.com
#71	Aryan Tari GM	NOR	2,647	2,557	2,633	Chess.com
#72	Sam Shankland GM	USA	2,646	2,624	2,613	Chess.com
#73	Aryan Chopra GM	IND	2,646	2,598	2,603	Chess.com
#74	Raunak Sadhwani GM	IND	2,645	2,592	2,678	Chess.com
#75	Robert Hovhannisyan GM	ARM	2,642	2,530	2,557	Chess.com
#76	Ediz Gurel GM	TUR	2,642	2,539	2,599	Chess.com
#77	Boris Gelfand GM	ISR	2,641	2,624	2,582	Chess.com
#78	Kirill Alekseenko GM	AUT	2,640	2,595	2,620	Chess.com
#79	Nikolas Theodorou GM	GRE	2,639	2,593	2,556	Chess.com
#80	Aram Hakobyan GM	ARM	2,638	2,558	2,595	Chess.com
#81	Grigoriy Oparin GM	USA	2,638	2,611	2,655	Chess.comLichess
#82	Ernesto Inarkiev GM	RUS	2,637	2,625	2,496	Chess.com
#83	Shanglei Lu GM	CHN	2,637	2,586	2,710	Chess.com
#84	Denis Lazavik GM	BLR	2,636	2,624	2,644	Chess.com
#85	Abhimanyu Mishra GM	USA	2,636	2,585	2,541	Chess.com
#86	Johan-Sebastian Christiansen GM	NOR	2,633	2,492	2,546	Chess.comLichess
#87	Mikhail Al. Antipov GM	USA	2,633	2,605	2,605	Chess.com
#88	Ruslan Ponomariov GM	UKR	2,632	2,657	2,614	Chess.com
#89	Rauf Mamedov GM	AZE	2,632	2,628	2,648	Chess.comLichess
#90	Ivan Cheparinov GM	BUL	2,631	2,612	2,553	Chess.com
#91	Gawain C B Maroroa Jones GM	ENG	2,630	2,609	2,616	Chess.com
#92	Leon Luke Mendonca GM	IND	2,629	2,548	2,520	Chess.com
#93	Alexander Grischuk GM	RUS	2,628	2,671	2,697	Chess.com
#94	Vasyl Ivanchuk GM	UKR	2,628	2,619	2,621	Chess.comLichess
#95	Xiangyu Xu GM	CHN	2,628	2,605	2,552	Chess.com
#96	Brandon Jacobson GM	USA	2,627	2,502	2,527	Chess.comLichess
#97	Jonas Buhl Bjerre GM	DEN	2,627	2,580	2,507	Chess.com
#98	Loek Van Wely GM	NED	2,627	2,556	2,556	Chess.com
#99	Jaime Santos Latasa GM	ESP	2,626	2,620	2,641	Chess.com
#100	MarcAndria Maurizzi GM	FRA	2,624	2,589	2,590	Chess.com

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