Top overall (October 2008):
Rank Name Country Rating
1 Topalov, Veselin BUL 2791
2 Morozevich, Alexander RUS 2787
3 Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 2786
4 Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2786
5 Anand, Viswanathan IND 2783
6 Kramnik, Vladimir RUS 2772
7 Aronian, Levon ARM 2757
8 Radjabov, Teimour AZE 2751
9 Leko, Peter HUN 2747
10 Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS 2737
11 Wang, Yue CHN 2736
12 Adams, Michael ENG 2734
13 Movsesian, Sergei SVK 2732
14 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE 2731
15 Karjakin, Sergey UKR 2730
16 Kamsky, Gata USA 2729
17 Svidler, Peter RUS 2727
18 Shirov, Alexei ESP 2726
19 Eljanov, Pavel UKR 2720
20 Gelfand, Boris ISR 2719
21 Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB 2719
22 Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR 2719
23 Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2719
24 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2716
25 Alekseev, Evgeny RUS 2715
26 Bu, Xiangzhi CHN 2714
27 Polgar, Judit HUN 2711
28 Ni, Hua CHN 2710
29 Bacrot, Etienne FRA 2705
30 Nakamura, Hikaru USA 2704
31 Gashimov, Vugar AZE 2703
32 Rublevsky, Sergei RUS 2702
Top women:
1 Polgar, Judit HUN 2711
2 Koneru, Humpy IND 2618
3 Hou, Yifan CHN 2578
4 Xie, Jun CHN 2574
5 Cramling, Pia SWE 2550
6 Stefanova, Antoaneta BUL 2548
7 Sebag, Marie FRA 2533
8 Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS 2525
9 Zhao, Xue CHN 2518
10 Danielian, Elina ARM 2513
11 Kosintseva, Tatiana RUS 2513
12 Cmilyte, Viktorija LTU 2512
13 Muzychuk, Anna SLO 2508
14 Dzagnidze, Nana GEO 2503
0 players over 2800 🙂
What a joke…
Soon the top 100 list will be full of 2700 players.
When will the ratings inflation be fixed. It’s been going on for nearly 25 years now.
Now someone is going to say that all these players are better than Spassky was in 1972 as the second best player in the world rated at 2660.
Actually according to the current list there are now 60 players in the world better than Spassky was in 1972….apparently.