Russia still remains as the top chess nation in the world, followed by Ukraine. However, China has moved into 3rd place with 3 players over 2700 and one more right at 2700. The U.S. has dropped to #6.
#
Name – Russia
Title
Fed
Rating
G
B-Year
1
Morozevich, Alexander
g
RUS
2771
20
1977
2
Jakovenko, Dmitry
g
RUS
2760
40
1983
3
Kramnik, Vladimir
g
RUS
2759
20
1975
4
Grischuk, Alexander
g
RUS
2733
28
1983
5
Svidler, Peter
g
RUS
2723
27
1976
6
Alekseev, Evgeny
g
RUS
2718
33
1985
7
Rublevsky, Sergei
g
RUS
2702
0
1974
8
Malakhov, Vladimir
g
RUS
2692
18
1980
9
Dreev, Alexey
g
RUS
2688
24
1969
10
Vitiugov, Nikita
g
RUS
2687
28
1987
#
Name – Ukraine
Title
Fed
Rating
G
B-Year
1
Ivanchuk, Vassily
g
UKR
2779
19
1969
2
Ponomariov, Ruslan
g
UKR
2726
9
1983
3
Karjakin, Sergey
g
UKR
2706
17
1990
4
Eljanov, Pavel
g
UKR
2693
29
1983
5
Efimenko, Zahar
g
UKR
2688
15
1985
6
Moiseenko, Alexander
g
UKR
2676
9
1980
7
Areshchenko, Alexander
g
UKR
2673
5
1986
8
Volokitin, Andrei
g
UKR
2671
21
1986
9
Miroshnichenko, Evgenij
g
UKR
2667
23
1978
10
Fedorchuk, Sergey A.
g
UKR
2633
22
1981
#
Name – China
Title
Fed
Rating
G
B-Year
1
Wang, Yue
g
CHN
2739
28
1987
2
Ni, Hua
g
CHN
2709
15
1983
3
Bu, Xiangzhi
g
CHN
2702
9
1985
4
Wang, Hao
g
CHN
2691
7
1989
5
Zhang, Pengxiang
g
CHN
2644
7
1980
6
Li, Chao b
g
CHN
2628
8
1989
7
Zhou, Jianchao
g
CHN
2612
0
1988
8
Peng, Xiaomin
g
CHN
2590
0
1973
9
Hou, Yifan
wg
CHN
2571
15
1994
10
Li, Shilong
g
CHN
2559
19
1977
#
Name – Israel
Title
Fed
Rating
G
B-Year
1
Gelfand, Boris
g
ISR
2733
17
1968
2
Sutovsky, Emil
g
ISR
2660
7
1977
3
Postny, Evgeny
g
ISR
2652
28
1981
4
Rodshtein, Maxim
g
ISR
2650
25
1989
5
Roiz, Michael
g
ISR
2647
24
1983
5
Smirin, Ilia
g
ISR
2647
14
1968
7
Avrukh, Boris
g
ISR
2645
23
1978
8
Mikhalevski, Victor
g
ISR
2608
18
1972
9
Huzman, Alexander
g
ISR
2602
16
1962
10
Erenburg, Sergey
g
ISR
2587
5
1983
#
Name – Azerbaijan
Title
Fed
Rating
G
B-Year
1
Radjabov, Teimour
g
AZE
2761
27
1987
2
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
g
AZE
2724
29
1985
3
Gashimov, Vugar
g
AZE
2723
28
1986
4
Guseinov, Gadir
g
AZE
2661
17
1986
5
Mamedov, Rauf
g
AZE
2638
16
1988
6
Mamedov, Nidjat
g
AZE
2607
11
1985
7
Ibrahimov, Rasul
g
AZE
2568
0
1981
8
Abbasov, Farid
g
AZE
2565
8
1979
9
Mirzoev, Azer
g
AZE
2564
36
1978
9
Safarli, Eltaj
g
AZE
2564
9
1992
#
Name – USA
Title
Fed
Rating
G
B-Year
1
Kamsky, Gata
g
USA
2725
16
1974
2
Nakamura, Hikaru
g
USA
2699
19
1987
3
Onischuk, Alexander
g
USA
2659
25
1975
4
Shulman, Yuri
g
USA
2639
20
1975
5
Akobian, Varuzhan
g
USA
2619
24
1983
6
Becerra Rivero, Julio
g
USA
2614
31
1973
7
Ehlvest, Jaan
g
USA
2595
24
1962
7
Kaidanov, Gregory S
g
USA
2595
9
1959
9
Christiansen, Larry M
g
USA
2588
0
1956
10
Ibragimov, Ildar
g
USA
2586
0
1967
#
Name – Hungary
Title
Fed
Rating
G
B-Year
1
Leko, Peter
g
HUN
2751
23
1979
2
Polgar, Judit
g
HUN
2693
8
1976
3
Almasi, Zoltan
g
HUN
2680
27
1976
4
Berkes, Ferenc
g
HUN
2651
9
1985
5
Balogh, Csaba
g
HUN
2605
22
1987
6
Chernin, Alexander
g
HUN
2593
0
1960
7
Gyimesi, Zoltan
g
HUN
2582
20
1977
7
Erdos, Viktor
g
HUN
2582
18
1987
9
Ribli, Zoltan
g
HUN
2577
18
1951
10
Ruck, Robert
g
HUN
2558
36
1977
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Nu surprise with Russia topping the list in every respect, however, was surprised to see Germany with the second highest number of GMs, IMs and titled players as well.
Surprised??? Germany has always been the country with second most GM’s and IM’s in the world.
Yes, other nations are actually catching up on Germany. Not the other way around.