FIDE top 100 rapid players

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

FIDE top 100 rapid players, October 2026
#	Move	Player	Fed	Rating	Born
1	–	Magnus Carlsen	NOR	2801	1990
2	–	Ian Nepomniachtchi	RUS	2748	1990
3	–	Javokhir Sindarov	UZB	2747	2005
4	–	Erigaisi Arjun	IND	2740	2003
5	–	Levon Aronian	USA	2738	1982
6	–	Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2738	1987
7	–	Alireza Firouzja	FRA	2737	2003
8	–	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	2730	2005
9	–	Nihal Sarin	IND	2712	2004
10	–	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	FRA	2712	1990
11	–	Vladislav Artemiev	RUS	2707	1998
12	–	Yi Wei	CHN	2704	1999
13	–	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	UZB	2704	2004
14	–	Vladimir Fedoseev	SLO	2701	1995
15	–	Peter Leko	HUN	2700	1979
16	–	Wesley So	USA	2699	1993
17	–	Viswanathan Anand	IND	2694	1969
18	–	Liren Ding	CHN	2693	1992
19	–	Parham Maghsoodloo	IRI	2689	2000
20	–	Gukesh D	IND	2686	2006
21	–	Peter Svidler	FID	2686	1976
22	–	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	POL	2685	1998
23	–	Fabiano Caruana	USA	2682	1992
24	–	Richard Rapport	HUN	2680	1996
25	–	Dmitry Andreikin	FID	2676	1990
26	–	Hans Moke Niemann	USA	2675	2003
27	–	Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2671	1983
28	–	Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2668	1990
29	–	Yangyi Yu	CHN	2667	1994
30	–	Daniil Dubov	RUS	2665	1996
31	–	Samuel Sevian	USA	2664	2000
32	–	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	AZE	2663	1985
33	–	Andrey Esipenko	RUS	2658	2002
34	–	Ruslan Ponomariov	UKR	2657	1983
35	–	Anish Giri	NED	2656	1994
36	–	Alexey Sarana	SRB	2650	2000
37	–	Hao Wang	CHN	2649	1989
38	–	Luke J McShane	ENG	2647	1984
39	–	Dariusz Swiercz	USA	2646	1994
40	–	Etienne Bacrot	FRA	2645	1983
41	–	Volodymyr Onyshchuk	UKR	2643	1991
42	–	Erwin L'Ami	NED	2642	1985
43	–	Leinier Dominguez Perez	USA	2641	1983
44	–	Teimour Radjabov	AZE	2640	1987
45	–	Gata Kamsky	FRA	2639	1974
46	–	Ray Robson	USA	2639	1994
47	–	Evgeny Tomashevsky	RUS	2638	1987
48	–	Martyn Kravtsiv	UKR	2636	1990
49	–	Vincent Keymer	GER	2635	2004
50	–	Illya Nyzhnyk	UKR	2633	1996
51	–	Volodar Murzin	FID	2631	2006
52	–	Baadur Jobava	GEO	2631	1983
53	–	Rustam Kasimdzhanov	UZB	2630	1979
54	–	Alexander Morozevich	RUS	2629	1977
55	–	Rauf Mamedov	AZE	2628	1988
56	–	Luka Lenic	SLO	2627	1988
57	–	Quang Liem Le	VIE	2626	1991
58	–	Santosh Gujrathi Vidit	IND	2625	1994
59	–	Ernesto Inarkiev	RUS	2625	1985
60	–	Haik M. Martirosyan	ARM	2625	2000
61	–	Vladimir Baklan	UKR	2624	1978
62	–	Boris Gelfand	ISR	2624	1968
63	–	Denis Lazavik	BLR	2624	2006
64	–	Sam Shankland	USA	2624	1991
65	–	Alexei Shirov	ESP	2622	1972
66	–	Anton Korobov	UKR	2622	1985
67	–	Yaroslav Zherebukh	USA	2622	1993
68	–	Karen H. Grigoryan	ARM	2622	1995
69	–	Gabriel Sargissian	ARM	2622	1983
70	–	Shant Sargsyan	ARM	2622	2002
71	–	David Anton Guijarro	ESP	2620	1995
72	–	Jules Moussard	FRA	2620	1995
73	–	Jaime Santos Latasa	ESP	2620	1996
74	–	Vasyl Ivanchuk	UKR	2619	1969
75	–	Robert Hess	USA	2617	1991
76	–	Alexander Onischuk	USA	2617	1975
77	–	Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera	CUB	2616	2000
78	–	Vadim Milov	SUI	2616	1972
79	–	Nikita Vitiugov	ENG	2616	1987
80	–	Nodirbek Yakubboev	UZB	2615	2002
81	–	Axel Bachmann	PAR	2615	1989
82	–	Rafael Leitao	BRA	2615	1979
83	–	Yue Wang	CHN	2615	1987
84	–	Michael Adams	ENG	2614	1971
85	–	Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara	MEX	2614	1999
86	–	Nikola Sedlak	SRB	2614	1983
87	–	Chithambaram VR. Aravindh	IND	2612	1999
88	–	Vladimir Belous	RUS	2612	1993
89	–	Ivan Cheparinov	BUL	2612	1986
90	–	Jorge Cori	PER	2612	1995
91	–	Daniel Dardha	BEL	2612	2005
92	–	Nils Grandelius	SWE	2611	1993
93	–	Grigoriy Oparin	USA	2611	1997
94	–	Paulius Pultinevicius	LTU	2611	2001
95	–	Radoslaw Wojtaszek	POL	2611	1987
96	–	Bogdan-Daniel Deac	ROU	2609	2001
97	–	Gawain C B Maroroa Jones	ENG	2609	1987
98	–	Eltaj Safarli	AZE	2609	1992
99	–	Olexandr Bortnyk	UKR	2607	1996
100	–	Emilio Cordova	PER	2607	1991

Ratings are the official FIDE rapid 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.