World Top 20 List

FIDE Rating List May 2013

List includes Grand Prix but not Alekhine Memorial.  

Check out updated Live Ratings.

1. Magnus Carlsen (NOR) 2868 (age 22)
2. Levon Aronian (ARM) 2813 (30)
3. Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) 2811 (37)



Veselin Topalov

4. Veselin Topalov (BUL) 2793 (38)
5. Viswanathan Anand (IND) 2783 (43)
6. Alexander Grischuk (RUS) 2779 (29)
7. Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 2775 (25)
8. Fabiano Caruana (ITA) 2774 (20)
9. Peter Svidler (RUS) 2769 (36)
10. Sergey Karjakin (RUS) 2767 (23)
11. Alexander Morozevich (RUS) 2760 (35)
12. Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) 2755 (44)
13. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) 2753 (28)
14. Teimour Radjabov (AZE) 2745 (26)
15. Boris Gelfand (ISR) 2744 (44)
16. Wang Hao (CHN) 2743 (23)
17. Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR) 2742 (29)
18. Gata Kamsky (USA) 2741 (38)
19. Peter Leko (HUN) 2737 (33)
20. Anish Giri (NED) 2734 (18)

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Cool Statistics and Comparison to May 2012

Anish Giri

Rating of Player 20 = 2734 (+6 in Last Year)
Avg Rating of Top 20 = 2769 (+4.7)
Avg Age of Top 20 = 31 (+0.3)

Youngest in Top 20 = Giri (18), Caruana (20), Carlsen (22)
Oldest in Top 20 = Gelfand (44), Ivanchuk (44), Anand (43)

Countries Most Represented = Russia (5), USA (2), Azerbaijan (2), Ukraine (2)

Biggest Gain in Last Year = Topalov (+41), Giri (+41), Carlsen (+33)
Biggest Loss in Last Year = Radjabov (-39), Karjakin (-12), Aronian (-12)