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Leaderboard

Official FIDE ratings, updated monthly.

  1. 1 GM Magnus Carlsen NorwayNorway 2823 New
  2. 2 GM Hikaru Nakamura United StatesUnited States 2792 New
  3. 3 GM Fabiano Caruana United StatesUnited States 2783 New
Leaderboard, Standard, Open
RankPlayerRatingChangeGamesBorn
1 GM Magnus Carlsen NorwayNorway2823NewNew·1990
2 GM Hikaru Nakamura United StatesUnited States2792NewNew·1987
3 GM Fabiano Caruana United StatesUnited States2783NewNew111992
4 GM Javokhir Sindarov UzbekistanUzbekistan2782NewNew·2005
5 GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov UzbekistanUzbekistan2772NewNew52004
6 GM Wesley So United StatesUnited States2771NewNew111993
7 GM Praggnanandhaa R IndiaIndia2763NewNew·2005
8 GM Yi Wei ChinaChina2761NewNew71999
9 GM Vincent Keymer GermanyGermany2761NewNew·2004
10 GM Alireza Firouzja FranceFrance2757NewNew·2003
11 GM Anish Giri NetherlandsNetherlands2747NewNew71994
12 GM Erigaisi Arjun IndiaIndia2746NewNew72003
13 GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda PolandPoland2741NewNew·1998
14 GM Viswanathan Anand IndiaIndia2739NewNew·1969
15 GM Leinier Dominguez Perez United StatesUnited States2732NewNew·1983
16 GM Quang Liem Le VietnamVietnam2732NewNew·1991
17 GM Liren Ding ChinaChina2723NewNew·1992
18 GM M. Amin Tabatabaei IranIran2720NewNew72001
19 GM Nihal Sarin IndiaIndia2720NewNew62004
20 GM Ian Nepomniachtchi RussiaRussia2719NewNew·1990
21 GM Levon Aronian United StatesUnited States2719NewNew111982
22 GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus TürkiyeTürkiye2719NewNew52011
23 GM Richard Rapport HungaryHungary2718NewNew101996
24 GM Jorden Van Foreest NetherlandsNetherlands2715NewNew61999
25 GM Dmitry Andreikin FIDEFIDEFIDE2714NewNew·1990
26 GM Gukesh D IndiaIndia2710NewNew·2006
27 GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AzerbaijanAzerbaijan2709NewNew71985
28 GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FranceFrance2707NewNew31990
29 GM Yangyi Yu ChinaChina2705NewNew41994
30 GM Parham Maghsoodloo IranIran2705NewNew·2000
31 GM Nodirbek Yakubboev UzbekistanUzbekistan2701NewNew62002
32 GM Hans Moke Niemann United StatesUnited States2697NewNew112003
33 GM Veselin Topalov BulgariaBulgaria2695NewNew·1975
34 GM Hao Wang ChinaChina2694NewNew·1989
35 GM Santosh Gujrathi Vidit IndiaIndia2693NewNew·1994
36 GM Aydin Suleymanli AzerbaijanAzerbaijan2692NewNew92005
37 GM Vladimir Fedoseev SloveniaSlovenia2691NewNew·1995
38 GM Teimour Radjabov AzerbaijanAzerbaijan2689NewNew·1987
39 GM Awonder Liang United StatesUnited States2685NewNew112003
40 GM Samuel Sevian United StatesUnited States2684NewNew112000
41 GM Andrey Esipenko RussiaRussia2683NewNew112002
42 GM Alexey Sarana SerbiaSerbia2679NewNew102000
43 GM V Pranav IndiaIndia2679NewNew102006
44 GM Chithambaram VR. Aravindh IndiaIndia2673NewNew81999
45 GM Pranesh M IndiaIndia2673NewNew142006
46 GM Jeffery Xiong United StatesUnited States2671NewNew112000
47 GM Matthias Bluebaum GermanyGermany2671NewNew91997
48 GM Haik M. Martirosyan ArmeniaArmenia2669NewNew132000
49 GM David W L Howell EnglandEngland2665NewNew·1990
50 GM Pavel Eljanov UkraineUkraine2665NewNew91983
51 GM Peter Leko HungaryHungary2663NewNew·1979
52 GM Nikita Vitiugov EnglandEngland2663NewNew·1987
53 GM Volodar Murzin FIDEFIDEFIDE2663NewNew42006
54 GM Mahammad Muradli AzerbaijanAzerbaijan2662NewNew·2003
55 GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac RomaniaRomania2661NewNew132001
56 GM David Anton Guijarro SpainSpain2661NewNew101995
57 GM Pentala Harikrishna IndiaIndia2659NewNew61986
58 GM Murali Karthikeyan IndiaIndia2658NewNew171999
59 GM Frederik Svane GermanyGermany2657NewNew32004
60 GM Grigoriy Oparin United StatesUnited States2656NewNew111997
61 GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov UzbekistanUzbekistan2655NewNew31979
62 GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek PolandPoland2654NewNew31987
63 GM Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara MexicoMexico2654NewNew·1999
64 GM Alexander Morozevich RussiaRussia2654NewNew·1977
65 GM Daniil Dubov RussiaRussia2654NewNew·1996
66 GM Vladislav Artemiev RussiaRussia2653NewNew·1998
67 GM Xiangzhi Bu ChinaChina2651NewNew·1985
68 GM Igor Kovalenko UkraineUkraine2651NewNew·1988
69 GM Ray Robson United StatesUnited States2649NewNew111994
70 GM Ediz Gurel TürkiyeTürkiye2649NewNew52008
71 GM Sam Shankland United StatesUnited States2648NewNew111991
72 GM Shant Sargsyan ArmeniaArmenia2648NewNew·2002
73 GM Aryan Tari NorwayNorway2647NewNew·1999
74 GM Aryan Chopra IndiaIndia2646NewNew·2001
75 GM Raunak Sadhwani IndiaIndia2645NewNew72005
76 GM Aram Hakobyan ArmeniaArmenia2644NewNew52001
77 GM Abhimanyu Mishra United StatesUnited States2644NewNew112009
78 GM MarcAndria Maurizzi FranceFrance2641NewNew72007
79 GM Boris Gelfand IsraelIsrael2640NewNew51968
80 GM Nikolas Theodorou GreeceGreece2639NewNew·2000
81 GM Alexander Onischuk United StatesUnited States2639NewNew·1975
82 GM Kirill Alekseenko AustriaAustria2637NewNew31997
83 GM Shanglei Lu ChinaChina2637NewNew·1995
84 GM Robert Hovhannisyan ArmeniaArmenia2637NewNew31991
85 GM Denis Lazavik BelarusBelarus2636NewNew·2006
86 GM Vasyl Ivanchuk UkraineUkraine2635NewNew91969
87 GM Andy Woodward United StatesUnited States2635NewNew112010
88 GM Johan-Sebastian Christiansen NorwayNorway2633NewNew·1998
89 GM Mikhail Al. Antipov United StatesUnited States2633NewNew·1997
90 GM Rauf Mamedov AzerbaijanAzerbaijan2632NewNew41988
91 GM Gawain C B Maroroa Jones EnglandEngland2630NewNew21987
92 GM Ivan Saric CroatiaCroatia2630NewNew91990
93 GM Alexander Grischuk RussiaRussia2628NewNew·1983
94 GM Xiangyu Xu ChinaChina2628NewNew·1999
95 GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov UzbekistanUzbekistan2627NewNew92002
96 GM Brandon Jacobson United StatesUnited States2627NewNew·2003
97 GM Loek Van Wely NetherlandsNetherlands2626NewNew101972
98 GM Jaime Santos Latasa SpainSpain2626NewNew·1996
99 GM Georg Meier UruguayUruguay2625NewNew31987
100 GM Ruslan Ponomariov UkraineUkraine2625NewNew21983

Countries

Every federation in the list, with its best player.

All countries

Questions

GM Magnus Carlsen leads the FIDE list of November 2026 with 2823, ahead of GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Fabiano Caruana.

Who is the highest rated chess player?

GM Magnus Carlsen, with a standard rating of 2823 in the FIDE list of November 2026.

How often are FIDE ratings updated?

FIDE publishes a new rating list on the first day of every month. This page shows the list of November 2026. These are not live ratings.

Who counts as a junior or a senior?

Juniors are 20 or younger in the year of the list, seniors are 50 or older. The women’s ranking lists every female player.

Why is a player missing from the ranking?

FIDE marks players who have not played a rated game for a year as inactive, and rankings leave them out. The search still finds them.

Source: FIDE rating list of November 2026, 800,240 rated players. Last updated November 15, 2026.