List of chess players by peak FIDE rating

List

2800+

2775–2799

2750–2774

2725–2749

2700–2724

Highest ratings by decade

1970s

	Country	Player	Peak rating in 1970s	Achieved
1		Bobby Fischer	2785	1972-07
2		Anatoly Karpov	2725	1978-01
3		Viktor Korchnoi	2695	1979-01
4		Boris Spassky	2690	1971-07
5=		Bent Larsen	2660	1971-07
5=		Mikhail Tal	2660	1973-07
7		Lajos Portisch	2650	1973-07
8=		Tigran Petrosian	2645	1972-07
8=		Lev Polugaevsky	2645	1972-07
10		Henrique Mecking	2635	1977-01
11		Mikhail Botvinnik	2630	1971-07
12=		Lubomir Kavalek	2625	1974-05
12=		Jan Timman	2625	1979-01
14=		Vassily Smyslov	2620	1971-01
14=		Leonid Stein	2620	1972-01
14=		Ljubomir Ljubojević	2620	1976-01
14=		Efim Geller	2620	1976-01
14=		Vlastimil Hort	2620	1977-01
19=		Paul Keres	2615	1971-07
19=		Robert Hübner	2615	1974-05
19=		Jan Smejkal	2615	1976-01

1980s

	Country	Player	Peak rating in 1980s	Achieved
1		Garry Kasparov	2775	1989-01
2		Anatoly Karpov	2755	1989-07
3		Mikhail Tal	2705	1980-01
4		Viktor Korchnoi	2695	1980-01
5		Jan Timman	2675	1988-01
6		Nigel Short	2665	1988-07
7=		Artur Yusupov	2660	1986-07
7=		Vassily Ivanchuk	2660	1989-07
9=		Lajos Portisch	2655	1980-01
9=		Alexander Beliavsky	2655	1988-07
11=		Ljubomir Ljubojević	2645	1983-01
11=		Rafael Vaganian	2645	1986-01
11=		Andrei Sokolov	2645	1987-01
11=		Jonathan Speelman	2645	1988-07
11=		Valery Salov	2645	1989-07
16=		Robert Hübner	2640	1981-07
16=		Ulf Andersson	2640	1983-01
16=		Mikhail Gurevich	2640	1989-07
19=		Lev Polugaevsky	2635	1980-01
19=		Boris Spassky	2635	1981-01

1990s

	Country	Player	Peak rating in 1990s	Achieved
1		Garry Kasparov	2851	1999-07
2		Viswanathan Anand	2795	1998-07
3		Vladimir Kramnik	2790	1998-01
4		Anatoly Karpov	2780	1994-07
5		Alexander Morozevich	2758	1999-07
6		Veselin Topalov	2750	1996-07
7		Gata Kamsky	2745	1996-07
8		Alexei Shirov	2740	1994-07
9		Vassily Ivanchuk	2740	1995-07
10		Michael Adams	2716	1999-01
11		Valery Salov	2715	1995-01
12		Peter Svidler	2713	1999-01
13		Boris Gelfand	2712	1999-07
14		Alexander Beliavsky	2710	1997-07
15		Peter Leko	2701	1999-07
16		Evgeny Bareev	2698	1999-07
17		Nigel Short	2697	1999-01
18		Sergei Rublevsky	2685	1998-07
19		Zurab Azmaiparashvili	2681	1999-01
20=		Jan Timman	2680	1990-01
20=		Artur Yusupov	2680	1995-07

2000s

	Country	Player	Peak rating in 2000s	Achieved
1		Garry Kasparov	2851	2000-01
2		Veselin Topalov	2813	2006-07
3		Vladimir Kramnik	2809	2002-01
4		Viswanathan Anand	2803	2006-04
5		Magnus Carlsen	2801	2009-11
6		Alexander Morozevich	2788	2008-07
7		Vassily Ivanchuk	2787	2007-10
8		Levon Aronian	2786	2009-11
9		Peter Svidler	2765	2006-01
10		Peter Leko	2763	2005-04
11		Teimour Radjabov	2761	2009-01
12=		Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2760	2008-01
12=		Dmitry Jakovenko	2760	2009-01
14		Vugar Gashimov	2758	2009-11
15		Boris Gelfand	2758	2009-11
16=		Alexei Shirov	2755	2008-01
16=		Michael Adams	2755	2000-07
18		Sergei Movsesian	2751	2009-01
19		Alexander Grischuk	2748	2009-04
20		Ruslan Ponomariov	2741	2009-09

2010s

	Country	Player	Peak rating in 2010s	Achieved
1		Magnus Carlsen	2882	2014-05
2		Fabiano Caruana	2844	2014-10
3		Levon Aronian	2830	2014-03
4		Wesley So	2822	2017-02
5		Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2820	2018-09
6		Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2819	2016-08
7=		Viswanathan Anand	2817	2011-09
7=		Vladimir Kramnik	2817	2016-10
9=		Veselin Topalov	2816	2015-07
9=		Hikaru Nakamura	2816	2015-10
9=		Ding Liren	2816	2018-11
12		Alexander Grischuk	2810	2014-12
13		Anish Giri	2798	2015-10
14		Teimour Radjabov	2793	2012-10
15		Sergey Karjakin	2788	2011-07
16		Vassily Ivanchuk	2779	2011-03
17		Boris Gelfand	2777	2013-11
18		Ian Nepomniachtchi	2776	2019-09
19=		Alexander Morozevich	2770	2012-07
19=		Pentala Harikrishna	2770	2016-12

2020s

	Country	Player	Peak rating in 2020s	Achieved
1		Magnus Carlsen	2872	2020-01
2		Fabiano Caruana	2842	2020-02
3		Ding Liren	2805	2020-01
4		Ian Nepomniachtchi	2784	2020-04
5		Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2778	2020-04
6		Alexander Grischuk	2777	2020-01
7		Levon Aronian	2773	2020-01
8=		Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2770	2020-01
8=		Wesley So	2770	2020-02
10		Anish Giri	2768	2020-01
11		Teimour Radjabov	2765	2020-01
12		Wang Hao	2763	2020-04
13		Richard Rapport	2760	2020-03
14=		Viswanathan Anand	2758	2020-01
14=		Leinier Dominguez Perez	2758	2020-01
14=		Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2758	2020-01
17		Vladimir Kramnik	2753	2020-01
18		Sergey Karjakin	2752	2020-01
19		Nikita Vitiugov	2747	2020-01
20		Veselin Topalov	2738	2020-01

List of rating peaks throughout history