| Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
| 1 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2810 | 10 | 1975 |
| 2 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2801 | 10 | 1990 |
| 3 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2788 | 0 | 1969 |
| 4 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2784 | 6 | 1982 |
| 5 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2772 | 0 | 1975 |
| 6 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2753 | 5 | 1968 |
| 7 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2752 | 10 | 1979 |
| 8 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2750 | 0 | 1977 |
| 9 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2748 | 10 | 1987 |
| 10 | Gashimov, Vugar | g | AZE | 2748 | 5 | 1986 |
| 11 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2746 | 6 | 1969 |
| 12 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2739 | 5 | 1983 |
| 13 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2738 | 10 | 1976 |
| 14 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2736 | 10 | 1983 |
| 15 | Wang, Yue | g | CHN | 2734 | 27 | 1987 |
| 16 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2734 | 6 | 1983 |
| 17 | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2726 | 11 | 1972 |
| 18 | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2725 | 0 | 1985 |
| 19 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | UKR | 2724 | 6 | 1990 |
| 20 | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2719 | 9 | 1983 |
| 21 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | g | CUB | 2719 | 0 | 1983 |
| 22 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2718 | 0 | 1990 |
| 23 | Movsesian, Sergei | g | SVK | 2717 | 9 | 1978 |
| 24 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2716 | 19 | 1985 |
| 25 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2713 | 10 | 1987 |
| 26 | Malakhov, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2709 | 19 | 1980 |
| 27 | Wang, Hao | g | CHN | 2708 | 13 | 1989 |
| 28 | Short, Nigel D | g | ENG | 2707 | 16 | 1965 |
| 29 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2707 | 9 | 1985 |
| 30 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2706 | 16 | 1987 |
| 31 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | g | UZB | 2705 | 5 | 1979 |
| 32 | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2704 | 20 | 1983 |
| 33 | Almasi, Zoltan | g | HUN | 2704 | 15 | 1976 |
| 34 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | g | ESP | 2704 | 14 | 1982 |
Full list here: http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Topalov is obviously the best player in the world.
….one could think so if it wouldn’t be Carlsen who demolished Topalov recently.
The rating is only a record of HISTORY, not the present
In Topalov we trust. Bulgarians are always best.
in being Bulgarians, that is.
Of the two highest rated players, Magnus has the best individual score. Their most recent encounter in Nanjing ended with 1,5-0,5 to Magnus.