FIDE top 100 players

The 100 highest-rated players in the FIDE Open list (standard time control). October 2026 list.

FIDE top 100 players, October 2026
#	Move	Player	Fed	Rating	Born
1	–	Magnus Carlsen	NOR	2823	1990
2	–	Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2792	1987
3	–	Fabiano Caruana	USA	2784	1992
4	–	Javokhir Sindarov	UZB	2782	2005
5	–	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	UZB	2780	2004
6	–	Wesley So	USA	2770	1993
7	–	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	2763	2005
8	–	Vincent Keymer	GER	2761	2004
9	–	Yi Wei	CHN	2758	1999
10	–	Alireza Firouzja	FRA	2757	2003
11	–	Anish Giri	NED	2752	1994
12	–	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	2746	2003
13	–	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	POL	2741	1998
14	–	Viswanathan Anand	IND	2739	1969
15	–	Leinier Dominguez Perez	USA	2732	1983
16	–	Quang Liem Le	VIE	2732	1991
17	–	Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus	TUR	2731	2011
18	–	M. Amin Tabatabaei	IRI	2728	2001
19	–	Levon Aronian	USA	2725	1982
20	–	Liren Ding	CHN	2723	1992
21	–	Ian Nepomniachtchi	RUS	2719	1990
22	–	Hans Moke Niemann	USA	2717	2003
23	–	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	FRA	2717	1990
24	–	Jorden Van Foreest	NED	2716	1999
25	–	Dmitry Andreikin	FID	2714	1990
26	–	Nodirbek Yakubboev	UZB	2712	2002
27	–	Richard Rapport	HUN	2711	1996
28	–	Gukesh D	IND	2710	2006
29	–	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2710	1985
30	–	Nihal Sarin	IND	2709	2004
31	–	Samuel Sevian	USA	2708	2000
32	–	Parham Maghsoodloo	IRI	2705	2000
33	–	Yangyi Yu	CHN	2704	1994
34	–	Veselin Topalov	BUL	2695	1975
35	–	Hao Wang	CHN	2694	1989
36	–	Santosh Gujrathi Vidit	IND	2693	1994
37	–	Vladimir Fedoseev	SLO	2691	1995
38	–	Teimour Radjabov	AZE	2689	1987
39	–	Awonder Liang	USA	2685	2003
40	–	Andrey Esipenko	RUS	2680	2002
41	–	Aydin Suleymanli	AZE	2679	2005
42	–	Chithambaram VR. Aravindh	IND	2677	1999
43	–	V Pranav	IND	2677	2006
44	–	Pranesh M	IND	2674	2006
45	–	Alexey Sarana	SRB	2671	2000
46	–	Matthias Bluebaum	GER	2666	1997
47	–	David W L Howell	ENG	2665	1990
48	–	Rustam Kasimdzhanov	UZB	2665	1979
49	–	Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2664	1983
50	–	Nikita Vitiugov	ENG	2663	1987
51	–	Peter Leko	HUN	2663	1979
52	–	Frederik Svane	GER	2662	2004
53	–	Mahammad Muradli	AZE	2662	2003
54	–	Haik M. Martirosyan	ARM	2661	2000
55	–	Ray Robson	USA	2659	1994
56	–	Radoslaw Wojtaszek	POL	2658	1987
57	–	Volodar Murzin	FID	2656	2006
58	–	Jeffery Xiong	USA	2656	2000
59	–	Bogdan-Daniel Deac	ROU	2654	2001
60	–	Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara	MEX	2654	1999
61	–	Daniil Dubov	RUS	2654	1996
62	–	Alexander Morozevich	RUS	2654	1977
63	–	Vladislav Artemiev	RUS	2653	1998
64	–	Igor Kovalenko	UKR	2651	1988
65	–	Xiangzhi Bu	CHN	2651	1985
66	–	David Anton Guijarro	ESP	2650	1995
67	–	Shamsiddin Vokhidov	UZB	2649	2002
68	–	Shant Sargsyan	ARM	2648	2002
69	–	Pentala Harikrishna	IND	2648	1986
70	–	Aryan Tari	NOR	2647	1999
71	–	Murali Karthikeyan	IND	2647	1999
72	–	Aryan Chopra	IND	2646	2001
73	–	Sam Shankland	USA	2646	1991
74	–	Raunak Sadhwani	IND	2645	2005
75	–	Ediz Gurel	TUR	2642	2008
76	–	Robert Hovhannisyan	ARM	2642	1991
77	–	Boris Gelfand	ISR	2641	1968
78	–	Kirill Alekseenko	AUT	2640	1997
79	–	Nikolas Theodorou	GRE	2639	2000
80	–	Alexander Onischuk	USA	2639	1975
81	–	Aram Hakobyan	ARM	2638	2001
82	–	Grigoriy Oparin	USA	2638	1997
83	–	Ernesto Inarkiev	RUS	2637	1985
84	–	Shanglei Lu	CHN	2637	1995
85	–	Denis Lazavik	BLR	2636	2006
86	–	Abhimanyu Mishra	USA	2636	2009
87	–	Johan-Sebastian Christiansen	NOR	2633	1998
88	–	Mikhail Al. Antipov	USA	2633	1997
89	–	Rauf Mamedov	AZE	2632	1988
90	–	Ruslan Ponomariov	UKR	2632	1983
91	–	Ivan Cheparinov	BUL	2631	1986
92	–	Gawain C B Maroroa Jones	ENG	2630	1987
93	–	Leon Luke Mendonca	IND	2629	2006
94	–	Vasyl Ivanchuk	UKR	2628	1969
95	–	Xiangyu Xu	CHN	2628	1999
96	–	Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2628	1983
97	–	Jonas Buhl Bjerre	DEN	2627	2004
98	–	Loek Van Wely	NED	2627	1972
99	–	Brandon Jacobson	USA	2627	2003
100	–	Jaime Santos Latasa	ESP	2626	1996

Ratings are the official FIDE standard ratings for the October 2026 list. Movement and change compare with the previous monthly list we have stored (none yet, so they will appear after the next list). Source: FIDE.