World’s top players (0ver 2700)
| Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2826 | 10 | 1990 |
| 2 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2811 | 10 | 1969 |
| 3 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2802 | 10 | 1982 |
| 4 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2800 | 6 | 1975 |
| 5 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2781 | 15 | 1987 |
| 6 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2775 | 26 | 1969 |
| 7 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2768 | 0 | 1975 |
| 8 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2763 | 15 | 1990 |
| 9 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2762 | 17 | 1977 |
| 10 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2758 | 10 | 1987 |
| 11 | Gashimov, Vugar | g | AZE | 2757 | 10 | 1986 |
| 12 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2755 | 21 | 1976 |
| 13 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2752 | 21 | 1983 |
| 14 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2744 | 4 | 1968 |
| 15 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2740 | 22 | 1987 |
| 16 | Wang, Hao | g | CHN | 2736 | 6 | 1989 |
| 17 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2734 | 10 | 1971 |
| 18 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2733 | 11 | 1985 |
| 19 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2732 | 16 | 1974 |
| 20 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2730 | 11 | 1990 |
| 21 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2729 | 23 | 1983 |
| 22 | Vitiugov, Nikita | g | RUS | 2729 | 22 | 1987 |
| 23 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2727 | 27 | 1992 |
| 24 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2724 | 19 | 1985 |
| 25 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2723 | 33 | 1983 |
| 26 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2720 | 12 | 1979 |
| 27 | Moiseenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2715 | 23 | 1980 |
| 28 | Le, Quang Liem | g | VIE | 2714 | 25 | 1991 |
| 29 | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2714 | 21 | 1983 |
| 30 | Giri, Anish | g | NED | 2714 | 14 | 1994 |
| 31 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2712 | 26 | 1985 |
| 32 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | g | CUB | 2712 | 18 | 1983 |
| 33 | Dreev, Aleksey | g | RUS | 2710 | 23 | 1969 |
| 34 | Movsesian, Sergei | g | ARM | 2710 | 20 | 1978 |
| 35 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2710 | 16 | 1976 |
| 36 | Riazantsev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2710 | 11 | 1985 |
| 37 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2710 | 10 | 1990 |
| 38 | Almasi, Zoltan | g | HUN | 2707 | 4 | 1976 |
| 39 | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2705 | 22 | 1972 |
| 40 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | g | ESP | 2705 | 14 | 1982 |
| 41 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | g | POL | 2705 | 14 | 1987 |
| 42 | Berkes, Ferenc | g | HUN | 2705 | 10 | 1985 |
| 43 | Malakhov, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2705 | 8 | 1980 |
| 44 | Laznicka, Viktor | g | CZE | 2703 | 22 | 1988 |
| 45 | Efimenko, Zahar | g | UKR | 2702 | 21 | 1985 |
| 46 | Li, Chao b | g | CHN | 2700 | 19 | 1989 |
| 47 | Fressinet, Laurent | g | FRA | 2700 | 5 | 1981 |
Full list here: http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Nakamura is clearly the best in the world.
Nakanura has won exactly one elite chess tournament in his career. That does not make him anything close to the best in the world. Maybe he can get there. To proclaim he is there now is idiot fanboyism.