Top 25 as of September 1, 2017
| Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2827 | 9 | 1990 |
| 2 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2804 | 9 | 1990 |
| 3 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2803 | 0 | 1975 |
| 4 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2802 | 9 | 1982 |
| 5 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | USA | 2799 | 9 | 1992 |
| 6 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2797 | 0 | 1985 |
| 7 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2794 | 9 | 1969 |
| 8 | So, Wesley | g | USA | 2792 | 9 | 1993 |
| 9 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2788 | 4 | 1983 |
| 10 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2781 | 9 | 1987 |
| 11 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2780 | 9 | 1990 |
| 12 | Giri, Anish | g | NED | 2777 | 4 | 1994 |
| 13 | Ding, Liren | g | CHN | 2771 | 8 | 1992 |
| 14 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2756 | 9 | 1976 |
| 15 | Yu, Yangyi | g | CHN | 2750 | 3 | 1994 |
| 16 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2749 | 0 | 1975 |
| 17 | Wei, Yi | g | CHN | 2748 | 4 | 1999 |
| 18 | Li, Chao b | g | CHN | 2745 | 4 | 1989 |
| 19 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2742 | 0 | 1987 |
| 20 | Harikrishna, P. | g | IND | 2741 | 9 | 1986 |
| 21 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2741 | 9 | 1990 |
| 22 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | g | POL | 2739 | 6 | 1987 |
| 23 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | g | CUB | 2739 | 0 | 1983 |
| 24 | Le, Quang Liem | g | VIE | 2739 | 0 | 1991 |
| 25 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2738 | 0 | 1971 |