Top American Players (over 2500)
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Bold = Inactive
| Name | Title | Fed | Rating | G | B-Year | |
| 1 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2759 | 17 | 1987 |
| 2 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2732 | 0 | 1974 |
| 3 | Onischuk, Alexander | g | USA | 2670 | 13 | 1975 |
| 4 | Seirawan, Yasser | g | USA | 2647 | 3 | 1960 |
| 5 | Hess, Robert L | g | USA | 2625 | 0 | 1991 |
| 6 | Akobian, Varuzhan | g | USA | 2617 | 4 | 1983 |
| 7 | Shulman, Yuri | g | USA | 2598 | 3 | 1975 |
| 8 | Robson, Ray | g | USA | 2596 | 5 | 1994 |
| 9 | Ramirez, Alejandro | g | USA | 2594 | 19 | 1988 |
| 9 | Ehlvest, Jaan | g | USA | 2594 | 0 | 1962 |
| 11 | Kaidanov, Gregory S | g | USA | 2588 | 16 | 1959 |
| 12 | Gurevich, Ilya | g | USA | 2586 | 0 | 1972 |
| 13 | Lenderman, Aleksandr | g | USA | 2583 | 18 | 1989 |
| 14 | Polgar, Zsuzsa | g | USA | 2577 | 0 | 1969 |
| 15 | Christiansen, Larry M | g | USA | 2575 | 0 | 1956 |
| 16 | Shankland, Samuel L | g | USA | 2565 | 9 | 1991 |
| 17 | Wolff, Patrick G | g | USA | 2564 | 0 | 1968 |
| 18 | Stripunsky, Alexander | g | USA | 2563 | 0 | 1970 |
| 19 | Novikov, Igor A | g | USA | 2560 | 0 | 1962 |
| 20 | Benjamin, Joel | g | USA | 2553 | 0 | 1964 |
| 21 | Goldin, Alexander | g | USA | 2551 | 5 | 1964 |
| 21 | Becerra Rivero, Julio | g | USA | 2551 | 2 | 1973 |
| 23 | Alburt, Lev O | g | USA | 2550 | 0 | 1945 |
| 23 | Dzindzichashvili, Roman | g | USA | 2550 | 0 | 1944 |
| 25 | Wilder, Michael | g | USA | 2540 | 0 | 1962 |
| 26 | Ibragimov, Ildar | g | USA | 2539 | 0 | 1967 |
| 27 | Kudrin, Sergey | g | USA | 2533 | 17 | 1959 |
| 27 | Schwartzman, Gabriel | g | USA | 2533 | 0 | 1976 |
| 29 | Gulko, Boris F | g | USA | 2532 | 8 | 1947 |
| 30 | Shabalov, Alexander | g | USA | 2531 | 10 | 1967 |
| 31 | Kavalek, Lubomir | g | USA | 2527 | 0 | 1943 |
| 32 | Perelshteyn, Eugene | g | USA | 2526 | 3 | 1980 |
| 33 | Tarjan, James E | g | USA | 2525 | 0 | 1952 |
| 34 | Friedel, Joshua E | g | USA | 2523 | 4 | 1986 |
| 35 | Serper, Grigory | g | USA | 2522 | 0 | 1969 |
| 36 | Ivanov, Alexander | g | USA | 2518 | 8 | 1956 |
| 36 | Dlugy, Maxim | g | USA | 2518 | 0 | 1966 |
| 38 | Yermolinsky, Alex | g | USA | 2515 | 0 | 1958 |
| 39 | Kraai, Jesse | g | USA | 2514 | 0 | 1972 |
| 40 | De Firmian, Nick E | g | USA | 2512 | 0 | 1957 |
| 41 | Bhat, Vinay S. | g | USA | 2511 | 0 | 1984 |
| 42 | Sokolin, Leonid M | m | USA | 2508 | 0 | 1966 |
| 43 | Hungaski, Robert Andrew | m | USA | 2507 | 0 | 1987 |
| 44 | Zatonskih, Anna | m | USA | 2506 | 0 | 1978 |
| 45 | Finegold, Benjamin | g | USA | 2505 | 3 | 1969 |
| 45 | Rogoff, Kenneth S | g | USA | 2505 | 0 | 1953 |
| 47 | Sherzer, Alex | g | USA | 2504 | 0 | 1971 |
| 48 | Guerrero, Gilbert | USA | 2500 | 0 |
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Any possibility of “Polgar, Zsuzsa” ever returning to “active” status?
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