by Here is a list of top 101 international chess players as per FIDE for the month of November 2020. Only Indian to find a place in top 15 is Viswanathan Anand followed by P. Harikrishna at 22nd position.
| Rank | Name | Country | Rating |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2862 |
| 2 | Caruana, Fabiano | USA | 2823 |
| 3 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 2791 |
| 4 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2784 |
| 5 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2784 |
| 6 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2781 |
| 7 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2777 |
| 8 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2770 |
| 9 | So, Wesley | USA | 2770 |
| 10 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2765 |
| 11 | Giri, Anish | NED | 2764 |
| 12 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 2763 |
| 13 | Rapport, Richard | HUN | 2759 |
| 14 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | USA | 2758 |
| 15 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2753 |
| 16 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2753 |
| 17 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2752 |
| 18 | Firouzja, Alireza | FID | 2749 |
| 19 | Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2743 |
| 20 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2736 |
| 21 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2735 |
| 22 | Harikrishna, Pentala | IND | 2732 |
| 23 | Wei, Yi | CHN | 2732 |
| 24 | Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | 2726 |
| 25 | Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi | IND | 2726 |
| 26 | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2723 |
| 27 | Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 2722 |
| 28 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2716 |
| 29 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 2710 |
| 30 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2709 |
| 31 | Xiong, Jeffery | USA | 2709 |
| 32 | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2709 |
| 33 | Artemiev, Vladislav | RUS | 2708 |
| 34 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2706 |
| 35 | Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2705 |
| 36 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2705 |
| 37 | Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | UKR | 2699 |
| 38 | Dubov, Daniil | RUS | 2699 |
| 39 | Navara, David | CZE | 2697 |
| 40 | Predke, Alexandr | RUS | 2696 |
| 41 | Alekseenko, Kirill | RUS | 2696 |
| 42 | Sadler, Matthew D | ENG | 2694 |
| 43 | Shankland, Sam | USA | 2691 |
| 44 | Amin, Bassem | EGY | 2690 |
| 45 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2688 |
| 46 | Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | 2687 |
| 47 | Areshchenko, Alexander | UKR | 2687 |
| 48 | Matlakov, Maxim | RUS | 2685 |
| 49 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2684 |
| 50 | Esipenko, Andrey | RUS | 2683 |
| 51 | Korobov, Anton | UKR | 2683 |
| 52 | Li, Chao b | CHN | 2683 |
| 53 | Salem, A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2682 |
| 54 | Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2682 |
| 55 | Ragger, Markus | AUT | 2680 |
| 56 | Nyzhnyk, Illya | UKR | 2679 |
| 57 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2678 |
| 58 | Ivanchuk, Vasyl | UKR | 2678 |
| 59 | Fedoseev, Vladimir | RUS | 2676 |
| 60 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 2676 |
| 61 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2676 |
| 62 | Maghsoodloo, Parham | IRI | 2676 |
| 63 | Anton Guijarro, David | ESP | 2675 |
| 64 | McShane, Luke J | ENG | 2674 |
| 65 | Berkes, Ferenc | HUN | 2673 |
| 66 | Robson, Ray | USA | 2673 |
| 67 | Bluebaum, Matthias | GER | 2672 |
| 68 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2672 |
| 69 | Van Foreest, Jorden | NED | 2671 |
| 70 | Jones, Gawain C B | ENG | 2670 |
| 71 | Wang, Yue | CHN | 2669 |
| 72 | Abasov, Nijat | AZE | 2668 |
| 73 | Ni, Hua | CHN | 2667 |
| 74 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2665 |
| 75 | Guseinov, Gadir | AZE | 2665 |
| 76 | Sjugirov, Sanan | RUS | 2663 |
| 77 | Grandelius, Nils | SWE | 2663 |
| 78 | Leko, Peter | HUN | 2663 |
| 79 | Melkumyan, Hrant | ARM | 2663 |
| 80 | Shirov, Alexei | ESP | 2662 |
| 81 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2662 |
| 82 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | 2661 |
| 83 | Sevian, Samuel | USA | 2660 |
| 84 | Grigoryan, Karen H. | ARM | 2659 |
| 85 | Adhiban, B. | IND | 2659 |
| 86 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2659 |
| 87 | Howell, David W L | ENG | 2658 |
| 88 | Hou, Yifan | CHN | 2658 |
| 89 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | GER | 2657 |
| 90 | Lupulescu, Constantin | ROU | 2656 |
| 91 | Dreev, Aleksey | RUS | 2655 |
| 92 | Donchenko, Alexander | GER | 2654 |
| 93 | Paravyan, David | RUS | 2654 |
| 94 | Jumabayev, Rinat | KAZ | 2654 |
| 95 | Mamedov, Rauf | AZE | 2654 |
| 96 | Rublevsky, Sergei | RUS | 2653 |
| 97 | Cori, Jorge | PER | 2652 |
| 98 | Oparin, Grigoriy | RUS | 2652 |
| 99 | Saric, Ivan | CRO | 2652 |
| 100 | Rakhmanov, Aleksandr | RUS | 2651 |
| 101 | Lagarde, Maxime | FRA | 2651 |
