TOP 100 CHESS PLAYERS MARCH 2010
Top 100 chess grandmasters with the highest chess ratings (Elo)
| No. | Last Name, First Name | Fed | Rating |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2813 |
| 2 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2805 |
| 3 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2790 |
| 4 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2787 |
| 5 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2782 |
| 6 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2760 |
| 7 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2756 |
| 8 | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2750 |
| 9 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2750 |
| 10 | Wang, Yue | CHN | 2749 |
| 11 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2748 |
| 12 | Gashimov, Vugar | AZE | 2740 |
| 13 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2740 |
| 14 | Shirov, Alexei | ESP | 2737 |
| 15 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2737 |
| 16 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2736 |
| 17 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2735 |
| 18 | Leko, Peter | HUN | 2735 |
| 19 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2727 |
| 20 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2725 |
| 21 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2725 |
| 22 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 2721 |
| 23 | Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | 2720 |
| 24 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2715 |
| 25 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 2715 |
| 26 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2714 |
| 27 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | 2713 |
| 28 | Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 2710 |
| 29 | Movsesian, Sergei | SVK | 2709 |
| 30 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 2708 |
| 31 | Navara, David | CZE | 2708 |
| 32 | Motylev, Alexander | RUS | 2705 |
| 33 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2704 |
| 34 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2702 |
| 35 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2702 |
| 36 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2701 |
| 37 | Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 2700 |
| 38 | Rublevsky, Sergei | RUS | 2697 |
| 39 | Nielsen, Peter Heine | DEN | 2697 |
| 40 | Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 2695 |
| 41 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | 2691 |
| 42 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2689 |
| 43 | Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | 2688 |
| 44 | Onischuk, Alexander | USA | 2687 |
| 45 | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2687 |
| 46 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | 2686 |
| 47 | Short, Nigel D | ENG | 2686 |
| 48 | Miroshnichenko, Evgenij | UKR | 2686 |
| 49 | Bologan, Viktor | MDA | 2684 |
| 50 | Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2682 |
| 51 | Polgar, Judit | HUN | 2682 |
| 52 | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2680 |
| 53 | Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2675 |
| 54 | Kurnosov, Igor | RUS | 2674 |
| 55 | Ganguly, Surya Shekhar | IND | 2672 |
| 56 | Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 2670 |
| 57 | Areshchenko, Alexander | UKR | 2670 |
| 58 | Georgiev, Kiril | BUL | 2669 |
| 59 | Moiseenko, Alexander | UKR | 2668 |
| 60 | Grachev, Boris | RUS | 2667 |
| 61 | Bareev, Evgeny | RUS | 2667 |
| 62 | Ni, Hua | CHN | 2667 |
| 63 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | 2667 |
| 64 | So, Wesley | PHI | 2665 |
| 65 | Najer, Evgeniy | RUS | 2665 |
| 66 | Korobov, Anton | UKR | 2663 |
| 67 | Meier, Georg | GER | 2663 |
| 68 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2661 |
| 69 | Harikrishna, P. | IND | 2660 |
| 70 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2660 |
| 71 | Riazantsev, Alexander | RUS | 2660 |
| 72 | Laznicka, Viktor | CZE | 2659 |
| 73 | Berkes, Ferenc | HUN | 2659 |
| 74 | Lautier, Joel | FRA | 2658 |
| 75 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2657 |
| 76 | Khismatullin, Denis | RUS | 2657 |
| 77 | Beliavsky, Alexander G | SLO | 2657 |
| 78 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2656 |
| 79 | Avrukh, Boris | ISR | 2656 |
| 80 | Timofeev, Artyom | RUS | 2655 |
| 81 | Tiviakov, Sergei | NED | 2653 |
| 82 | Dreev, Alexey | RUS | 2653 |
| 83 | Savchenko, Boris | RUS | 2652 |
| 84 | Pashikian, Arman | ARM | 2652 |
| 85 | Krasenkow, Michal | POL | 2652 |
| 86 | Roiz, Michael | ISR | 2652 |
| 87 | Smeets, Jan | NED | 2651 |
| 88 | Seirawan, Yasser | USA | 2651 |
| 89 | Sutovsky, Emil | ISR | 2650 |
| 90 | Fridman, Daniel | GER | 2650 |
| 91 | Zhou, Jianchao | CHN | 2650 |
| 92 | Fedorchuk, Sergey A. | UKR | 2649 |
| 93 | Zhigalko, Sergei | BLR | 2648 |
| 94 | Smirin, Ilia | ISR | 2647 |
| 95 | Gustafsson, Jan | GER | 2646 |
| 96 | Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | 2645 |
| 97 | Baklan, Vladimir | UKR | 2644 |
| 98 | Milov, Vadim | SUI | 2644 |
| 99 | Granda Zuniga, Julio E | PER | 2643 |
| 100 | Lastin, Alexander | RUS | 2643 |
| 101 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | RUS | 2643 |
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