by The top 100 male chess players as of February 2023 are listed here. With 2852 ratings, magnus Carlsen is the highest rated player from Norway. Ian Nepomniachtchi from Russia, and Liren Ding from China finish the top 3 rankings. Viswanathan Anand from India is ranked 9th in FIDE chess rankings for Feb 23.
| Rank | Name | Country | Rating |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2852 |
| 2 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2793 |
| 3 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 2788 |
| 4 | Firouzja, Alireza | FRA | 2785 |
| 5 | Giri, Anish | NED | 2780 |
| 6 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2768 |
| 7 | Caruana, Fabiano | USA | 2766 |
| 8 | So, Wesley | USA | 2766 |
| 9 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2754 |
| 10 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2747 |
| 11 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2747 |
| 12 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2745 |
| 13 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | USA | 2743 |
| 14 | Rapport, Richard | ROU | 2740 |
| 15 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2740 |
| 16 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2737 |
| 17 | Aronian, Levon | USA | 2736 |
| 18 | Abdusattorov, Nodirbek | UZB | 2734 |
| 19 | Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi | IND | 2730 |
| 20 | Andreikin, Dmitry | FID | 2729 |
| 21 | Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2729 |
| 22 | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2729 |
| 23 | Maghsoodloo, Parham | IRI | 2728 |
| 24 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2728 |
| 25 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2728 |
| 26 | Vitiugov, Nikita | FID | 2723 |
| 27 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 2722 |
| 28 | Wei, Yi | CHN | 2722 |
| 29 | Gukesh D | IND | 2718 |
| 30 | Sjugirov, Sanan | RUS | 2712 |
| 31 | Shankland, Sam | USA | 2710 |
| 32 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 2710 |
| 33 | Dubov, Daniil | RUS | 2708 |
| 34 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2706 |
| 35 | Niemann, Hans Moke | USA | 2706 |
| 36 | Harikrishna, Pentala | IND | 2705 |
| 37 | Robson, Ray | USA | 2702 |
| 38 | Erigaisi Arjun | IND | 2701 |
| 39 | Artemiev, Vladislav | RUS | 2701 |
| 40 | Deac, Bogdan-Daniel | ROU | 2700 |
| 41 | Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2699 |
| 42 | Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2698 |
| 43 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2694 |
| 44 | Xiong, Jeffery | USA | 2692 |
| 45 | Keymer, Vincent | GER | 2690 |
| 46 | Praggnanandhaa R | IND | 2690 |
| 47 | Amin, Bassem | EGY | 2688 |
| 48 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2688 |
| 49 | Van Foreest, Jorden | NED | 2687 |
| 50 | Sevian, Samuel | USA | 2687 |
| 51 | Martirosyan, Haik M. | ARM | 2686 |
| 52 | Alekseenko, Kirill | FID | 2686 |
| 53 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2686 |
| 54 | Navara, David | CZE | 2685 |
| 55 | Moussard, Jules | FRA | 2684 |
| 56 | Predke, Alexandr | FID | 2684 |
| 57 | Anton Guijarro, David | ESP | 2679 |
| 58 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2678 |
| 59 | Tabatabaei, M. Amin | IRI | 2677 |
| 60 | Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | 2677 |
| 61 | Salem, A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2677 |
| 62 | Esipenko, Andrey | FID | 2675 |
| 63 | Fedoseev, Vladimir | FID | 2674 |
| 64 | Kovalenko, Igor | UKR | 2674 |
| 65 | Li, Chao b | CHN | 2672 |
| 66 | Howell, David W L | ENG | 2670 |
| 67 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2670 |
| 68 | Nihal Sarin | IND | 2670 |
| 69 | Narayanan.S.L | IND | 2669 |
| 70 | Sarana, Alexey | FID | 2668 |
| 71 | Oparin, Grigoriy | USA | 2667 |
| 72 | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2667 |
| 73 | Ni, Hua | CHN | 2667 |
| 74 | Najer, Evgeniy | FID | 2666 |
| 75 | Shirov, Alexei | ESP | 2666 |
| 76 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | AZE | 2665 |
| 77 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2664 |
| 78 | Ivanchuk, Vasyl | UKR | 2664 |
| 79 | Bluebaum, Matthias | GER | 2663 |
| 80 | Matlakov, Maxim | RUS | 2662 |
| 81 | Shevchenko, Kirill | ROU | 2662 |
| 82 | Sindarov, Javokhir | UZB | 2661 |
| 83 | Saric, Ivan | CRO | 2661 |
| 84 | Guseinov, Gadir | AZE | 2661 |
| 85 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | FID | 2661 |
| 86 | Grandelius, Nils | SWE | 2660 |
| 87 | Nguyen, Thai Dai Van | CZE | 2659 |
| 88 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2659 |
| 89 | Ma, Qun | CHN | 2659 |
| 90 | Santos Latasa, Jaime | ESP | 2657 |
| 91 | Tari, Aryan | NOR | 2656 |
| 92 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2655 |
| 93 | Donchenko, Alexander | GER | 2654 |
| 94 | Nyzhnyk, Illya | UKR | 2654 |
| 95 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2653 |
| 96 | Cori, Jorge | PER | 2650 |
| 97 | Malakhov, Vladimir | FID | 2650 |
| 98 | Korobov, Anton | UKR | 2649 |
| 99 | Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | UKR | 2649 |
| 100 | Van Wely, Loek | NED | 2648 |
