FIDE top 100 blitz players

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

FIDE top 100 blitz players, October 2026
#	Move	Player	Fed	Rating	Born
1	–	Magnus Carlsen	NOR	2860	1990
2	–	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	UZB	2819	2004
3	–	Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2800	1987
4	–	Alireza Firouzja	FRA	2797	2003
5	–	Daniil Dubov	RUS	2783	1996
6	–	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	2766	2003
7	–	Ian Nepomniachtchi	RUS	2765	1990
8	–	Wesley So	USA	2745	1993
9	–	Fabiano Caruana	USA	2738	1992
10	–	Liren Ding	CHN	2736	1992
11	–	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	FRA	2734	1990
12	–	Vladimir Fedoseev	SLO	2726	1995
13	–	Javokhir Sindarov	UZB	2725	2005
14	–	Yangyi Yu	CHN	2722	1994
15	–	Nihal Sarin	IND	2721	2004
16	–	Xiangzhi Bu	CHN	2717	1985
17	–	Levon Aronian	USA	2714	1982
18	–	Vladislav Artemiev	RUS	2712	1998
19	–	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	2712	2005
20	–	Hans Moke Niemann	USA	2711	2003
21	–	Shanglei Lu	CHN	2710	1995
22	–	Yi Wei	CHN	2709	1999
23	–	Viswanathan Anand	IND	2706	1969
24	–	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	POL	2704	1998
25	–	Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2697	1983
26	–	Michael Adams	ENG	2695	1971
27	–	Martyn Kravtsiv	UKR	2691	1990
28	–	Olexandr Bortnyk	UKR	2690	1996
29	–	Dmitry Andreikin	FID	2686	1990
30	–	Haik M. Martirosyan	ARM	2686	2000
31	–	Peter Svidler	FID	2684	1976
32	–	Raunak Sadhwani	IND	2678	2005
33	–	Santosh Gujrathi Vidit	IND	2677	1994
34	–	Quang Liem Le	VIE	2675	1991
35	–	Volodar Murzin	FID	2670	2006
36	–	Alexey Sarana	SRB	2667	2000
37	–	Yuri Drozdovskij	UKR	2663	1984
38	–	Gukesh D	IND	2659	2006
39	–	Teimour Radjabov	AZE	2659	1987
40	–	Jorden Van Foreest	NED	2659	1999
41	–	Samuel Sevian	USA	2658	2000
42	–	Aleksandar Indjic	SRB	2657	1995
43	–	Grigoriy Oparin	USA	2655	1997
44	–	Mykola Bortnyk	UKR	2650	1994
45	–	Bogdan-Daniel Deac	ROU	2650	2001
46	–	Hao Wang	CHN	2649	1989
47	–	Rauf Mamedov	AZE	2648	1988
48	–	Anton Korobov	UKR	2647	1985
49	–	Vladimir Akopian	USA	2645	1971
50	–	Andrey Esipenko	RUS	2645	2002
51	–	Gata Kamsky	FRA	2645	1974
52	–	Denis Lazavik	BLR	2644	2006
53	–	Jaime Santos Latasa	ESP	2641	1996
54	–	Parham Maghsoodloo	IRI	2638	2000
55	–	Jules Moussard	FRA	2637	1995
56	–	Anish Giri	NED	2636	1994
57	–	Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli	ESP	2633	1989
58	–	Aryan Tari	NOR	2633	1999
59	–	Narayanan S L	IND	2630	1998
60	–	Alexander Onischuk	USA	2629	1975
61	–	Vincent Keymer	GER	2628	2004
62	–	David Navara	CZE	2628	1985
63	–	Ray Robson	USA	2622	1994
64	–	Vasyl Ivanchuk	UKR	2621	1969
65	–	Federico Perez Ponsa	ARG	2621	1993
66	–	Kirill Alekseenko	AUT	2620	1997
67	–	Pentala Harikrishna	IND	2620	1986
68	–	Tuan Minh Le	VIE	2620	1996
69	–	Sergei Movsesian	ARM	2620	1978
70	–	Rasmus Svane	GER	2620	1997
71	–	Karen H. Grigoryan	ARM	2619	1995
72	–	Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2618	1990
73	–	Ivan Bocharov	RUS	2617	1990
74	–	Gawain C B Maroroa Jones	ENG	2616	1987
75	–	Richard Rapport	HUN	2616	1996
76	–	David Paravyan	FID	2614	1998
77	–	Maxim Matlakov	RUS	2614	1991
78	–	Ruslan Ponomariov	UKR	2614	1983
79	–	Ahmed Adly	EGY	2613	1987
80	–	Tigran Gharamian	FRA	2613	1984
81	–	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2612	1985
82	–	M. Amin Tabatabaei	IRI	2611	2001
83	–	Szymon Gumularz	POL	2611	2001
84	–	Tobias Koelle	GER	2610	2004
85	–	Baadur Jobava	GEO	2610	1983
86	–	Igor Kovalenko	UKR	2610	1988
87	–	Matthias Bluebaum	GER	2608	1997
88	–	A.R. Saleh Salem	UAE	2608	1993
89	–	Julio E Granda Zuniga	PER	2606	1967
90	–	Toivo Keinanen	FIN	2604	2002
91	–	Axel Bachmann	PAR	2604	1989
92	–	Leinier Dominguez Perez	USA	2604	1983
93	–	Anton Smirnov	AUS	2604	2001
94	–	Eltaj Safarli	AZE	2603	1992
95	–	Aryan Chopra	IND	2603	2001
96	–	Benjamin Bok	NED	2599	1995
97	–	Ediz Gurel	TUR	2599	2008
98	–	Vignir Vatnar Stefansson	ISL	2598	2003
99	–	Christopher Woojin Yoo	USA	2598	2006
100	–	Viktor Erdos	HUN	2598	1987

Ratings are the official FIDE blitz 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.