August 2012 top 50
Rk | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
1 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2837 | 0 | 1990 |
2 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2816 | 0 | 1982 |
3 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2797 | 9 | 1975 |
4 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2788 | 0 | 1987 |
5 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2785 | 9 | 1990 |
6 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2780 | 0 | 1969 |
7 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2778 | 0 | 1987 |
8 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2773 | 15 | 1992 |
9 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2770 | 0 | 1977 |
10 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2769 | 0 | 1969 |
11 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2763 | 0 | 1983 |
12 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2752 | 0 | 1975 |
13 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2749 | 0 | 1976 |
14 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2746 | 9 | 1974 |
15 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2738 | 0 | 1968 |
16 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2737 | 9 | 1979 |
17 | Gashimov, Vugar | g | AZE | 2737 | 0 | 1986 |
18 | Bologan, Viktor | g | MDA | 2734 | 10 | 1971 |
19 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2734 | 9 | 1983 |
20 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2730 | 5 | 1987 |
21 | Jobava, Baadur | g | GEO | 2730 | 0 | 1983 |
22 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2729 | 8 | 1985 |
23 | Wang, Hao | g | CHN | 2726 | 11 | 1989 |
24 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | g | CUB | 2725 | 0 | 1983 |
25 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2722 | 16 | 1983 |
26 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2722 | 10 | 1971 |
27 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | g | POL | 2717 | 0 | 1987 |
28 | Andreikin, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2715 | 14 | 1990 |
29 | Fressinet, Laurent | g | FRA | 2714 | 0 | 1981 |
30 | Almasi, Zoltan | g | HUN | 2713 | 0 | 1976 |
31 | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2713 | 0 | 1983 |
32 | McShane, Luke J | g | ENG | 2713 | 0 | 1984 |
33 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2712 | 9 | 1985 |
34 | Riazantsev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2712 | 6 | 1985 |
35 | Giri, Anish | g | NED | 2711 | 7 | 1994 |
36 | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | g | CUB | 2711 | 0 | 1982 |
37 | Volokitin, Andrei | g | UKR | 2709 | 2 | 1986 |
38 | Malakhov, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2708 | 16 | 1980 |
39 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | g | IND | 2707 | 0 | 1981 |
40 | Moiseenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2706 | 0 | 1980 |
41 | Shirov, Alexei | g | LAT | 2706 | 0 | 1972 |
42 | Vitiugov, Nikita | g | RUS | 2705 | 16 | 1987 |
43 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2704 | 16 | 1990 |
44 | Wang, Yue | g | CHN | 2703 | 5 | 1987 |
45 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2698 | 12 | 1976 |
46 | Short, Nigel D | g | ENG | 2698 | 9 | 1965 |
47 | Movsesian, Sergei | g | ARM | 2698 | 0 | 1978 |
48 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | g | ESP | 2697 | 0 | 1982 |
49 | Sokolov, Ivan | g | NED | 2696 | 13 | 1968 |
50 | Ding, Liren | g | CHN | 2695 | 19 | 1992 |
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Nakamura is #1.
is this rating based on active play like tennis atp ratings?that could explain rating the reigning world champion anand outside top five as he has been inactive for a few months.