Top 10 Chess Players in the World
Viswanathan Anand (India) (2798)
Alexander Morozevich (Russia) (2788)
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) (2788)
Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) (2781)
Veselin
Topalov (Bulgaria) (2777)
Magnus
Carlsen (Norway) (2775)
Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan) (2744)
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) (2742)
Alexei
Shirov (Spain) (2741)
Peter Leko
(Hungary) (2741)
This top 10 list is not current - it is based on the most
recent published FIDE rating list. For a top 10 list updated daily check
here.
Top 64 Chess Players Ever
By Raymond Keene and Nathan Divinsky, 1989
1.
Garry Kasparov
2.
Anatoly Karpov
3.
Bobby Fischer
4.
Mikhail Botvinnik
5.
Jose Raul Capablanca
6.
Emanuel Lasker
7.
Viktor Korchnoi
8.
Boris Spassky
9.
Vassily Smyslov
10.
Tigran Petrosian
11.
Paul Morphy
12.
Lev Polugaevsky
13.
Efim Geller
14.
Mikhail Tal
15.
Leonid Stein
16.
Paul Keres
17.
David Bronstein
18.
Alexander Alekhine
19.
Ivan Sokolov
20.
Isaac Boleslavsky
21.
Lajos Portisch
22.
Samuel Reshevsky
23.
Artur Yusupov
24.
Ratmir Kholmov
25.
Yuri Averbakh
26.
Semyon Furman
27.
Alexander Beliavsky
28.
Jan Timman
29.
Bent Larsen
30.
Mark Taimanov
31.
Rafael Vaganian
32.
Alexander Kotov
33.
Salo Flohr
34.
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
35.
Miguel Najdorf
36.
Laszlo Szabo
37.
Svetozar Gligoric
38.
Reuben Fine
39.
Robert Hubner
40.
Ulf Andersson
41.
Yasser Seirawan
42. Max
Euwe
43.
Vlastimil Hort
44.
Akiba Rubinstein
45.
Henrique Mecking
46.
Geza Maroczy
47. Wilhelm
Steinitz
48.
Milan Vidmar
49.
Ossip Bernstein
50.
Aron Nimzowitsch
51.
Efim Bogoljubov
52.
Nigel Short
53.
Siegbert Tarrasch
54. Harry Nelson Pillsbury
55.
Carl Schlechter
56.
Frank Marshall
57.
Adolf Anderssen
58.
Rudolf Charousek
59.
Mikhail Chigorin
60.
Richard Teichmann
61.
Dawid Janowski
62.
Oldrich Duras
63. Joseph
Henry Blackburne
64.
Johannes Zukertort