November 2012 ratings (top 15)
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2848 | 10 | 1990 |
| 2 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2815 | 10 | 1982 |
| 3 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2795 | 0 | 1975 |
| 4 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2793 | 6 | 1987 |
| 5 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2786 | 15 | 1992 |
| 6 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2775 | 10 | 1969 |
| 7 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2775 | 10 | 1990 |
| 8 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2769 | 17 | 1975 |
| 9 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2764 | 17 | 1983 |
| 10 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2764 | 16 | 1985 |
| 11 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2763 | 18 | 1969 |
| 12 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2762 | 7 | 1974 |
| 13 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2755 | 18 | 1987 |
| 14 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2751 | 16 | 1968 |
| 15 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2748 | 6 | 1977 |
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Magnus is a rock star!
Carlsen is currently the world’s strongest chess player. We don’t need another “rock star”.
I am a big fan of Carlsen…he is simply great!
gabions
Paul Keres was also at one time the world’s strongest chess player,and all due respect to him. Strangely he never became World champion. I hope Carlsen sticks it out and becomes world champion one day. Not sure if his chances are anything more than 50 – 50 vs Anand in a 12 game match up.