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Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 2020s Country Player Peak rating in 2020s Achieved 1 Magnus Carlsen: 2872 2020-01 2 Fabiano Caruana: 2842 2020-02 3 Ding Liren: 2811 2022-10 4 Alireza Firouzja: 2804 2021-12 5 Hikaru Nakamura: 2802 2024-07 6 Arjun Erigaisi: 2801 2024-12 7 Ian Nepomniachtchi: 2795 2023-03 8 Gukesh Dommaraju: 2794 2024 ...
Although Carlsen's performance raised his rating from 2814 to 2815, Anand's 8½/13 score elevated his rating to 2817, making him the world No. 1 for the March 2011 FIDE rating list. [118] The first tournament victory of the year came in the Bazna Kings tournament, a double round robin played in Mediaș, Romania on 11–21 June. Carlsen finished ...
This was the highest FIDE rating in history until January 2013, when it was surpassed by Magnus Carlsen. On Kasparov's retirement, the world number one ranking passed to Veselin Topalov , since Kasparov was removed from the rating list in April 2006 due to inactivity.
In a 2022 interview after the 5th round of the first leg in FIDE Grand Prix 2022, when asked if he thought that in the future Garry Kasparov or Magnus Carlsen would be considered the 'GOAT' (Greatest Of All Time), Levon Aronian stated that "I kind of feel that Magnus will be the greatest for a long long time, because for me he is probably ...
January 2025 FIDE Rankings Rank Prev Player Rating Change 1 1 Magnus Carlsen: 2831 0 2 2 Fabiano Caruana: 2803 -2 3 3 Hikaru Nakamura: 2802 0 4 4 Arjun Erigaisi: 2801 0 5 5 Gukesh Dommaraju: 2777 -6 6 6 Nodirbek Abdusattorov: 2768 -9 7 7 Alireza Firouzja: 2763 0 8 8 Ian Nepomniachtchi: 2754 -1 9 9 Wei Yi: 2751 -2 10 10 Viswanathan Anand: 2750 0
FIDE also awards titles for arbiters, organizers and trainers. Titles for correspondence chess, chess problem composition and chess problem solving are no longer administered by FIDE. A chess title, usually in an abbreviated form, may be used as an honorific. For example, Magnus Carlsen may be styled as "GM Magnus Carlsen".
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes the lists "Top 100 Players", "Top 100 Women", "Top 100 Juniors" and "Top 100 Girls" and rankings of countries according to the average rating of their top 10 players and top 10 female players in the classical time control.
Ian Nepomniachtchi (left) and Magnus Carlsen (right) beginning game 11 of the 2021 Championship. Following a period of negotiation, in 2006 the Classical Champion Vladimir Kramnik played a match against the FIDE Champion Veselin Topalov to reunify the World Championship. [68] Since then, the championship has remained under the auspices of FIDE.