RankNameTitleCountryRatingGamesB-Year 1Hou, YifangCHN263301994 2Ju, WenjungCHN256171991 3Tan, ZhongyigCHN256101991 4Lei, TingjiegCHN255281997 5Goryachkina, AleksandragFID254601998 6Koneru, HumpygIND252301987 7Dzagnidze, NanagGEO251801987
With 48 players above 2700, you practically need this rating to be in the top 50 in the world. The scale is not steep enough and we find the 100th position at 2648, just 50 points away. Interesting is the comparion with a list from 2008 where there were no 2800+ players, 2700 ...
April 2020 rating list Step by step all chess tournaments have been cancelled in the last weeks and the top players have played relatively few rated games. Magnus Carlsen still leads the list by a large margin, but he played only one rated game in March. Fabiano Caruana and Ding Liren ...
10/4/2022 – At the beginning of October the FIDE published its new ranking list. With a rating of 2856 Magnus Carlsen continues to lead the list though he lost 5 points in the Sinquefield Cup. Currently, Carlsen is 44 ratings points away from 2900 but also 45 rating points ahead of ...
1/3/2022 – At the beginning of the new year FIDE published its new World Ranking List. Magnus Carlsen gained nine rating points in the World Championship match against Ian Nepomniachtchi, and with a rating of 2865 he is now 35 points away from 2900 but 61 points ahead of Alireza Firou...
1/1/2019 – FIDE's January ratings are out and saw a few big moves in the top 100 rapid and blitz lists thanks to the recently completed World Rapid and Blitz Championships. Carlsen's blitz dominance was on display and he solidified the top rating spot, now at 2954. Daniil Dubov ...
After Carlsen's success in Wijk aan Zee he again leads the rating list with an impressive margin of 34 points. This is also roughly the gap between the world's number two, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, and the world's number ten, Anish Giri. Five players in the top ten were not active in...
FIDE didn't make the mistake of not including the world championship in their latest rating list, and must be commended for publishing it just hours after the tournament had ended. The result was that Anand gained nine points and crossed the magic 2800 m
Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2847 0 1990 2 Caruana, Fabiano g USA 2806 0 1992 3 Ding, Liren g CHN 2799 0 1992 4 Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2792 0 1990 5 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2782 0 1982 6 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2782 0 1985 7 ...
6/2/2021 – There are hardly any changes at the top of the new FIDE World Ranking List as the first 22 players on the list have not played any FIDE-rated games in May and with a rating of 2847 Magnus Carlsen is still clear number one, followed by Fabiano Caruana with 2820. However...