TOP CHESS PLAYERS SEPTEMBER 2018 & WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONS
List of the chess grandmasters and countries which have the highest chess ratings (Elo)
CHESS PLAYERS MEN TOP TEN
chess grandmasters |
| | NAME | COUNTRY | RATING |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2839 |
| 2 | Caruana, Fabiano | USA | 2827 |
| 3 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2820 |
| 4 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 2804 |
| 5 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2780 |
| 6 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2780 |
| 7 | Giri, Anish | NED | 2780 |
| 8 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2779 |
| 9 | So, Wesley | USA | 2776 |
| 10 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2771 |
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CHESS PLAYERS WOMEN TOP TEN
chess grandmasters & masters |
| | NAME | COUNTRY | RATING |
| 1 | Hou, Yifan | CHN | 2658 |
| 2 | Ju, Wenjun | CHN | 2561 |
| 3 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS | 2559 |
| 4 | Lagno, Kateryna | RUS | 2556 |
| 5 | Muzychuk, Anna | UKR | 2555 |
| 6 | Goryachkina, Aleksandra | RUS | 2535 |
| 7 | Muzychuk, Mariya | UKR | 2533 |
| 8 | Gunina, Valentina | RUS | 2528 |
| 9 | Tan, Zhongyi | CHN | 2527 |
| 10 | Paehtz, Elisabeth | GER | 2513 |
| COUNTRIES TOP TEN |
| | COUNTRY | AVERAGE | GMs | IMs | TOTAL TITLED |
| 1 | Russia | 2744 | 249 | 537 | 2577 |
| 2 | China | 2710 | 45 | 36 | 169 |
| 3 | USA | 2701 | 97 | 155 | 793 |
| 4 | Azerbaijan | 2674 | 24 | 30 | 151 |
| 5 | Ukraine | 2672 | 91 | 201 | 566 |
| 6 | India | 2664 | 51 | 105 | 357 |
| 7 | Hungary | 2649 | 56 | 121 | 485 |
| 8 | Armenia | 2644 | 42 | 29 | 126 |
| 9 | France | 2642 | 50 | 110 | 439 |
| 10 | Poland | 2639 | 43 | 108 | 420 |
| GM : Grand Master ; IM : International Master |
WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONS MENChess grand masters
|
| NAME | YEAR | COUNTRY |
| Wilhelm Steinitz | 1886–1894 | Austria/USA |
| Emanuel Lasker | 1894–1921 | Germany |
| José Raúl Capablanca | 1921–1927 | Cuba |
| Alexander Alekhine | 1927–1935 | Russia/France |
| Max Euwe | 1935-1937 | Netherlands |
| Alexander Alekhine | 1937–1946 | France |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | 1948–1957 | Soviet Union (Russia) |
| Vasily Smyslov | 1957–1958 | Soviet Union (Russia) |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | 1958–1960 | Soviet Union (Russia) |
| Mikhail Tal | 1960–1961 | Soviet Union (Latvia) |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | 1961–1963 | Soviet Union (Russia) |
| Tigran Petrosian | 1963–1969 | Soviet Union (Armenia) |
| Boris Spassky | 1969–1972 | Soviet Union (Russia) |
| Robert J Fischer | 1972–1975 | United States |
|
Anatoly Karpov | 1975–1985 | Soviet Union (Russia) |
| Garry Kasparov | 1985–1993 | Soviet Union (Russia) |
| FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONS MEN AFTER 1993 |
| Anatoly Karpov | 1993–1999 | Russia |
| Alexander Khalifman | 1999–2000 | Russia |
| Viswanathan Anand | 2000–2002 | India |
| Ruslan Ponomariov | 2002–2004 | Ukraine |
| Rustam Kasimdzhanov | 2004–2005 | Uzbekistan |
| Veselin Topalov | 2005–2006 | Bulgaria |
| UNIFIED CHESS CHAMPIONS MEN (FIDE & PCA) |
| Vladimir Kramnik | 2006–2007 | Russia |
| Viswanathan Anand | 2007–2013 | India |
| Magnus Carlsen | 2013–present | Norway |
| PROFESSIONAL CHESS ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONS 1993 |
| Garry Kasparov | 1993–2000 | Russia |
| Vladimir Kramnik | 2000–2006 | Russia |
WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONS WOMEN |
| NAME | YEAR | COUNTRY |
| Vera Menchik | 1927–1944 | United Kingdom |
| Ludmilla Rudenko | 1950–1953 | Soviet Union |
| Elisabeth Bikova | 1953–1956 | Soviet Union |
| Olga Rubzowa | 1956–1958 | Soviet Union |
| Elisabeth Bikova | 1958–1962 | Soviet Union |
| Nona Gaprindashvili | 1962–1978 | Georgia |
| Maya Chiburdanidze | 1978–1991 | Georgia |
| Xie Jun | 1991–1996 | China |
| Susan Polgar | 1996–1999 | Hungary |
| Xie Jun | 1999–2001 | China |
| Zhu Chen | 2001–2004 | China |
| Antoaneta Stefanova | 2004–2006 | Bulgaria |
| Xu Yuhua | 2006-2008 | China |
| Alexandra Kosteniuk | 2008-2010 | Russia |
| Yifan Hou | 2010-2012 | China |
| Anna Ushenina | 2012-2013 | Ukraine |
| Yifan Hou | 2013-2015 | China |
| Muzychuk Maria | 2015-2016 | Ukraine |
| Yifan Hou | 2016 - 2017 | China |
| Zhongyi Tan | 2017-2018 | China |
| Wenjun Ju | 2018- | China |
