November 2026

Chess players by country

Official FIDE ratings, updated monthly.

The FIDE list of November 2026 has rated players from 208 countries. Here is each country’s highest rated player and how many titled players it has.

Chess players by country, November 2026
Country	No. 1	Rating	Titled	Active
Afghanistan	CM Khaiber Farazi	2149	11	39
Albania	IM Franc Ashiku	2391	34	374
Algeria	GM Bilel Bellahcene	2502	88	2,063
Andorra	GM Oscar De La Riva Aguado	2419	22	55
Angola	IM David Silva	2285	36	219
Antigua and Barbuda	FM Guillermo Queipo Caballero	2176	3	9
Argentina	GM Diego Flores	2558	343	4,512
Armenia	GM Haik M. Martirosyan	2669	184	985
Aruba	IM Jasel Lopez	2385	18	47
Australia	GM Bobby Cheng	2573	295	3,619
Austria	GM Kirill Alekseenko	2637	321	4,438
Azerbaijan	GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2709	203	1,787
Bahamas	Nicholas Johnson	1966	14	23
Bahrain	FM Husain Ayyad	2107	15	187
Bangladesh	IM Rahman Mohammad Fahad	2440	71	4,136
Barbados	FM Justin Blackman	2272	22	74
Belarus	GM Denis Lazavik	2636	101	1,131
Belgium	GM Daniel Dardha	2623	154	3,875
Belize	Alfred Awe	1860	0	7
Bermuda	FM Richard Black	2144	14	54
Bhutan	CM Suk Raj Monger	1853	4	11
Bolivia	IM Licael Roderick Ticona Rocabado	2419	59	1,107
Bosnia and Herzegovina	GM Predrag Nikolic	2551	112	2,446
Botswana	IM Providence Oatlhotse	2271	46	279
Brazil	GM Luis Paulo Supi	2583	276	12,090
British Virgin Islands	Maurice Lettsome	1781	2	7
Brunei	Abd Hamid Ilham Hj	2099	10	150
Bulgaria	GM Veselin Topalov	2695	157	1,819
Burkina Faso	Aurelien Tegawende Lefebvre	1771	0	9
Burundi	IM Ezra Paul Chambers	2397	1	16
Cambodia	CM Seyha Men	1853	8	15
Cameroon	Donkeng Hussel	2029	7	38
Canada	GM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux	2520	320	2,214
Cape Verde	IM Mariano Ortega Amarelle	2379	9	77
Cayman Islands	CM Ryan Blackwood	1950	11	59
Central African Republic	Nathan Christian Zoumagui Magba	1814	1	7
Chad	CM Jamal Adam	2011	4	8
Chile	GM Cristobal Henriquez Villagra	2570	132	1,884
China	GM Yi Wei	2761	262	2,268
Chinese Taipei	GM Raymond Song	2497	20	178
Colombia	GM Jose Gabriel Cardoso Cardoso	2504	336	5,471
Comoros	Alfene Ambdullah	1838	0	10
Costa Rica	GM Bernal Gonzalez Acosta	2453	78	1,017
Côte d’Ivoire	CM Nicolas Cogan	2068	12	121
Croatia	GM Ivan Saric	2630	309	3,766
Cuba	GM Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera	2604	351	759
CUR	Tjark Vos	2218	20	66
Cyprus	GM Andreas Kelires	2531	19	265
Czechia	GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen	2623	424	8,332
Denmark	GM Jonas Buhl Bjerre	2621	176	2,717
Djibouti	Zakaria Ali Absieh	1853	1	11
Dominica	Andrey Kovalenko	1854	1	12
Dominican Republic	IM Jose Lisandro Munoz Santana	2340	78	751
DR Congo	Yves De Billoez	1974	2	10
Ecuador	IM Kevin Noboa Silva	2381	89	1,115
Egypt	GM Bassem Amin	2606	104	7,205
El Salvador	IM Jorge Ernesto Giron	2307	56	282
England	GM David W L Howell	2665	382	6,465
Equatorial Guinea	FM Xavier Mompel Ferruz	2372	4	15
Eritrea	CM Kibrom Weldegebriel Beraki	1943	2	5
Estonia	GM Aleksandr Volodin	2477	64	1,244
Eswatini	CM Mabuza Mbongeni	1833	6	61
Ethiopia	FM Leykun Mesfin	2161	11	181
Faroe Islands	GM Helgi Dam Ziska	2542	12	246
FIDE	GM Dmitry Andreikin	2714	260	1,340
Fiji	Yash Krishen Maharaj	1844	16	79
Finland	GM Tomi Nyback	2570	128	892
France	GM Alireza Firouzja	2757	667	33,376
Gabon	Mounguen Jose Evrard Koumba	1996	2	15
Gambia	FM Ebrima Bah	2057	6	18
Georgia	GM Baadur Jobava	2580	168	1,131
Germany	GM Vincent Keymer	2761	1,797	18,096
Ghana	CM Bernard Anhwere	2005	22	78
Greece	GM Nikolas Theodorou	2639	211	5,451
Grenada	Renniel Gilbert	1844	0	10
GRL	CM Egon Mattaaq	1868	1	3
Guam	CM James Marcus Justo	2035	12	168
Guatemala	FM Winston Darwin Cu Hor	2315	39	270
Guernsey	Christopher Holland	2067	11	16
GUI	Mamadou Diandia Barry	1773	0	8
Guyana	CM Sachin Dhilan Pitamber	2049	13	71
Haiti	FM Angelo Etienne	2131	12	30
Honduras	FM Nahun Gavarrete	2304	36	339
Hong Kong	FM Niilo Man Nissinen	2351	37	665
Hungary	GM Richard Rapport	2718	536	3,766
Iceland	GM Vignir Vatnar Stefansson	2510	80	1,146
India	GM Praggnanandhaa R	2763	878	36,718
Indonesia	GM Susanto Megaranto	2500	156	735
Iran	GM M. Amin Tabatabaei	2720	216	21,427
Iraq	IM Araz Basim Mohammed S Al-Saffar	2392	83	1,408
Ireland	IM Sam E. Collins	2462	67	1,714
Isle of Man	FM Li Wu	2244	3	27
Israel	GM Boris Gelfand	2640	275	3,135
Italy	GM Lorenzo Lodici	2565	332	12,425
Jamaica	FM Joshua Christie	2263	51	199
Japan	IM Thanh Tu Tran	2393	38	300
Jersey	FM Jem Gurner	2104	16	34
Jordan	IM Rafat Issa	2300	39	613
Kazakhstan	GM Denis Makhnev	2581	276	7,272
Kenya	CM Oluka Robert Mcligeyo	2153	41	1,455
KIR	Martin Ataake	1868	0	3
Kosovo	IM Nderim Saraci	2454	21	534
Kuwait	FM Bader Al-Hajiri	2024	13	223
Kyrgyzstan	IM Vladimir Magai	2465	43	1,041
Laos	Roberto Jr. Suelo	2137	6	35
Latvia	GM Arturs Neiksans	2557	87	2,105
Lebanon	FM Zayne-Eddine El Zein	2348	37	1,013
Lesotho	CM George Mahommed	2001	11	128
Liberia	Obediah Saah	2014	6	134
Libya	CM Ali Elier	2271	21	379
Liechtenstein	Fabian Ferster	2250	9	28
Lithuania	GM Titas Stremavicius	2558	84	2,817
Luxembourg	IM Michael Wiedenkeller	2371	22	330
Macao	CM Hui Li	2072	12	10
Madagascar	IM Fy Antenaina Rakotomaharo	2450	18	357
Malawi	FM Joseph Mwale	2280	17	249
Malaysia	IM Yu Tian Poh	2500	80	3,790
Maldives	FM Shuaau Muhammed	2235	10	107
Mali	FM Bakary Traore	2144	3	17
Malta	CM Matthew Portelli	2276	33	197
Mauritania	FM Taleb Mohamed Mohamed Abderrahim	2084	11	117
Mauritius	FM Roy Phillips	2164	14	66
Mexico	GM Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara	2654	296	4,267
Moldova	GM Victor Bologan	2591	80	515
Monaco	IM Igor Berezovsky	2398	29	76
Mongolia	IM Amilal Munkhdalai	2503	158	763
Montenegro	GM Nikita Petrov	2574	81	687
Morocco	GM Hicham Hamdouchi	2492	55	1,224
Mozambique	FM Donaldo Paiva	2218	15	140
Myanmar	IM Zaw Htun Wynn	2324	49	464
Namibia	IM Dante M Beukes	2322	16	150
Nauru	CM David Dabuae	1869	5	35
NCL	Sylvain Giraud	1966	1	36
Nepal	FM Bibek Thing	2248	31	1,552
Netherlands	GM Anish Giri	2747	445	5,368
New Zealand	IM Felix Xie	2435	103	939
Nicaragua	Marcos Ortiz	2234	37	391
Niger	CM Mouhammed Oumarou	1766	2	15
Nigeria	FM Abdulrahman Akintoye ABDULRAHEEM	2304	56	1,291
NON	GM Timur Gareyev	2546	2	1
North Macedonia	GM Evgeny Romanov	2547	57	937
Norway	GM Magnus Carlsen	2823	211	4,045
Oman	FM Salim Al Amri Salim Mohammed	1994	11	488
Pakistan	FM Tunveer M.D. Gillani	2244	20	1,340
Palau	FM John Ranel Morazo	2208	11	72
Palestine	FM Mohammed Seder	2235	20	555
Panama	IM Roberto Carlos Sanchez Alvarez	2347	56	722
Papua New Guinea	Ishmael Amnol	2046	6	10
Paraguay	GM Axel Bachmann	2587	50	541
Peru	GM Julio E Granda Zuniga	2606	159	3,728
Philippines	GM Julio Catalino Sadorra	2546	134	5,782
Poland	GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2741	716	19,539
Portugal	GM Jorge Viterbo Ferreira	2519	73	3,090
Puerto Rico	FM Santiago Velasco	2284	48	313
Qatar	IM Husain Aziz	2256	18	29
Romania	GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac	2661	344	4,115
Russia	GM Ian Nepomniachtchi	2719	2,614	34,705
Rwanda	Ian Murara Urwintwari	1842	5	2
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Carl Victor Adams	1731	1	5
Saint Lucia	CM Reginald Martyr	2175	7	39
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	FM Enemchukwu Chinedu Benjamin	1922	3	7
San Marino	FM Danilo Volpinari	1948	10	26
São Tomé and Príncipe	Sergio Pereira	2001	5	14
Saudi Arabia	FM Ahmed Abdullah S Alrehaili	2130	10	745
Scotland	GM Matthew J Turner	2460	53	640
Senegal	GM Felix Izeta Txabarri	2437	4	56
Serbia	GM Alexey Sarana	2679	646	6,332
Seychelles	FM Andre Stratonowitsch	2161	6	14
Sierra Leone	Winston Gerald Mansfield Thomas	1891	1	14
Singapore	GM Jingyao Tin	2598	92	1,783
Slovakia	GM Viktor Gazik	2549	180	3,639
Slovenia	GM Vladimir Fedoseev	2691	164	2,597
Solomon Islands	Fred Resture	1843	0	10
Somalia	CM Abdulkadir Mohamed Warsame	2018	3	30
South Africa	IM Jan Karsten	2387	163	2,075
South Korea	IM Junhyeok Lee	2415	38	919
South Sudan	CM Gong Thon Gong	2250	9	153
Spain	GM David Anton Guijarro	2661	1,022	23,154
Sri Lanka	IM Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage	2475	91	4,504
Sudan	IM Omar Eltigani	2251	20	286
Suriname	FM Jason Yeung	2123	27	84
Sweden	GM Nils Grandelius	2596	239	4,249
Switzerland	GM Vadim Milov	2587	193	3,955
Syria	IM Satea Husari	2403	28	395
Tajikistan	FM Mekhriddin Sharifov	2431	18	226
Tanzania	Albert Njau	1971	6	43
Thailand	IM Prin Laohawirapap	2381	25	756
Timor-Leste	CM Helder de Araujo	1928	5	14
Togo	CM Yakini Tchouka	2024	12	97
Tonga	Tevita Fau	1716	1	5
Trinidad and Tobago	IM Alan-Safar Ramoutar	2330	42	254
Tunisia	IM Kamel Njili	2406	58	1,703
Türkiye	GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus	2719	367	4,813
Turkmenistan	GM Saparmyrat Atabayev	2505	62	696
Uganda	IM Arthur Ssegwanyi	2320	30	1,135
Ukraine	GM Pavel Eljanov	2665	598	9,769
United Arab Emirates	GM A.R. Saleh Salem	2616	71	431
United States	GM Hikaru Nakamura	2792	1,072	6,762
Uruguay	GM Georg Meier	2625	50	1,156
US Virgin Islands	Mighty Funtanilla	2079	3	22
Uzbekistan	GM Javokhir Sindarov	2782	140	1,388
Vanuatu	CM Jeremy Ellison	1829	2	50
Venezuela	GM Jose Rafael Gascon Del Nogal	2454	186	3,111
Vietnam	GM Quang Liem Le	2732	210	2,697
Wales	IM Jose Camacho Collados	2352	41	346
Yemen	IM Basheer Al Qudaimi	2374	17	79
Zambia	IM Andrew Kayonde	2317	47	540
Zimbabwe	Kukudzarema Shepherd	2348	17	375

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