The top 100 chess players in the world as of January 2023 are as follows:
Magnus Carlsen of Norway is in first place with a FIDE rating of 2859, and he is the strongest player in the field. Carlsen, who held the top spot in the world rankings for more than ten years, is regarded as one of the all-time greats in the game of chess. He is the current World Chess Champion and has won many competitions.
Rank | Name | Country | Rating |
1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2859 |
2 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 2811 |
3 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2793 |
4 | Firouzja, Alireza | FRA | 2785 |
5 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2768 |
6 | Caruana, Fabiano | USA | 2766 |
7 | Giri, Anish | NED | 2764 |
8 | So, Wesley | USA | 2760 |
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 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2740 |
15 | Rapport, Richard | ROU | 2740 |
16 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2737 |
17 | Aronian, Levon | USA | 2735 |
18 | Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi | IND | 2730 |
19 | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2729 |
20 | Andreikin, Dmitry | FID | 2729 |
21 | Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2729 |
22 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2728 |
23 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2728 |
24 | Gukesh D | IND | 2725 |
25 | Vitiugov, Nikita | FID | 2723 |
26 | Erigaisi Arjun | IND | 2722 |
27 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 2722 |
28 | Wei, Yi | CHN | 2722 |
29 | Maghsoodloo, Parham | IRI | 2719 |
30 | Abdusattorov, Nodirbek | UZB | 2713 |
31 | Sjugirov, Sanan | RUS | 2712 |
32 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 2710 |
33 | Shankland, Sam | USA | 2710 |
34 | Dubov, Daniil | RUS | 2708 |
35 | Niemann, Hans Moke | USA | 2706 |
36 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2706 |
37 | Harikrishna, Pentala | IND | 2705 |
38 | Robson, Ray | USA | 2702 |
39 | Artemiev, Vladislav | RUS | 2701 |
40 | Deac, Bogdan-Daniel | ROU | 2700 |
41 | Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2699 |
42 | Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2698 |
43 | Keymer, Vincent | GER | 2696 |
44 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2694 |
45 | Xiong, Jeffery | USA | 2692 |
46 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2688 |
47 | Sevian, Samuel | USA | 2687 |
48 | Alekseenko, Kirill | FID | 2686 |
49 | Tabatabaei, M. Amin | IRI | 2686 |
50 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2686 |
51 | Amin, Bassem | EGY | 2684 |
52 | Praggnanandhaa R | IND | 2684 |
53 | Predke, Alexandr | FID | 2684 |
54 | Svidler, Peter | FID | 2683 |
55 | Navara, David | CZE | 2682 |
56 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2682 |
57 | Martirosyan, Haik M. | ARM | 2682 |
58 | Moussard, Jules | FRA | 2681 |
59 | Van Foreest, Jorden | NED | 2681 |
60 | Anton Guijarro, David | ESP | 2679 |
61 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2678 |
62 | Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | 2677 |
63 | Salem, A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2677 |
64 | Esipenko, Andrey | FID | 2675 |
65 | Fedoseev, Vladimir | FID | 2674 |
66 | Kovalenko, Igor | UKR | 2674 |
67 | Li, Chao b | CHN | 2672 |
68 | Oparin, Grigoriy | USA | 2670 |
69 | Nihal Sarin | IND | 2670 |
70 | Narayanan.S.L | IND | 2669 |
71 | Sarana, Alexey | FID | 2668 |
72 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2667 |
73 | Ni, Hua | CHN | 2667 |
74 | Shirov, Alexei | ESP | 2666 |
75 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2666 |
76 | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2666 |
77 | Ivanchuk, Vasyl | UKR | 2664 |
78 | Howell, David W L | ENG | 2663 |
79 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | AZE | 2663 |
80 | Shevchenko, Kirill | UKR | 2662 |
81 | Matlakov, Maxim | RUS | 2662 |
82 | Najer, Evgeniy | RUS | 2662 |
83 | Bluebaum, Matthias | GER | 2661 |
84 | Guseinov, Gadir | AZE | 2661 |
85 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | FID | 2661 |
86 | Grandelius, Nils | SWE | 2660 |
87 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2659 |
88 | Ma, Qun | CHN | 2659 |
89 | Saric, Ivan | CRO | 2657 |
90 | Santos Latasa, Jaime | ESP | 2657 |
91 | Nguyen, Thai Dai Van | CZE | 2656 |
92 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2655 |
93 | Nyzhnyk, Illya | UKR | 2654 |
94 | Sindarov, Javokhir | UZB | 2654 |
95 | Tari, Aryan | NOR | 2653 |
96 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2653 |
97 | Cori, Jorge | PER | 2652 |
98 | Korobov, Anton | UKR | 2651 |
99 | Malakhov, Vladimir | FID | 2650 |
100 | Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | UKR | 2649 |