The International Chess Federation (FIDE) governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes rating lists including "Top 100 Players", "Top 100 Women", "Top 100 Juniors", "Top 100 Girls", and national rankings based on the average rating of each country's top 10 players and top 10 female players in classical chess. Ratings are calculated using the Elo rating system.
Top players
The top 20 players were ranked on 1 October 2026 as follows:
RankPlayerRating1 Magnus Carlsen28232 Hikaru Nakamura27923 Fabiano Caruana27844 Javokhir Sindarov27825 Nodirbek Abdusattorov27806 Wesley So27707 R Praggnanandhaa27638 Vincent Keymer27619 Wei Yi275810 Alireza Firouzja275711 Anish Giri275212 Arjun Erigaisi274613 Jan-Krzysztof Duda274114 Viswanathan Anand273915 Leinier Domínguez273216 Lê Quang Liêm273217 Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş273118 Amin Tabatabaei272819 Levon Aronian272520 Ding Liren2723
Top women
The top 20 female players were ranked on 1 October 2026 as follows:
RankPlayerRating1 Hou Yifan25962 Zhu Jiner25593 Ju Wenjun25534 Lei Tingjie25525 Aleksandra Goryachkina25366 Tan Zhongyi25367 Bibisara Assaubayeva25328 Anna Muzychuk25249 Koneru Humpy251810 Polina Shuvalova250911 Kateryna Lagno250612 Divya Deshmukh248813 Carissa Yip248414 Alexandra Kosteniuk248115 Alina Kashlinskaya247416 Nana Dzagnidze246717 Alice Lee246918 Song Yuxin246619 Mariya Muzychuk246320 Anastasiia Hnatyshyn2462
Top juniors
Juniors are considered to be players who will remain under the age of 21 years for the duration of the current calendar year.
The top 20 juniors were ranked on 1 October 2026 as follows:
RankPlayerRating1 Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş27312 Gukesh Dommaraju27103 Pranav V26774 Pranesh M26745 Volodar Murzin26566 Ediz Gürel26427 Denis Lazavik26368 Abhimanyu Mishra26369 Leon Luke Mendonca262910 Marc'Andria Maurizzi262411 Aditya Mittal262112 Andy Woodward261913 Aleksey Grebnev261414 Mukhiddin Madaminov261215 Ihor Samunenkov260716 Pranav Anand260617 Bharath Subramaniyam260318 Xiao Tong259819 Jan Malek259620 Christopher Yoo2588
Top girls
Girls are considered to be female players who will remain under the age of 21 years for the duration of the current calendar year.
The top 20 girls were ranked on 1 October 2026 as follows:
RankPlayerRating1 Alice Lee24672 Anastasiia Hnatyshyn24623 Alua Nurman24604 Afruza Khamdamova24475 Modipalli Deekshitha24366 Anna Shukhman24347 Savitha Shri Baskar24058 Eline Roebers24019 Kalyani Sirin240110 Lu Miaoyi240011 Pratitee Bordoloi239312 Elnaz Kaliakhmet238313 Bodhana Sivanandan238214 Rachael Li238015 Melika Mohammadi237816 Amina Kairbekova235517 Zsóka Gaál234118 Velpula Sarayu233819 Aamuktha Guntaka233820 Emilie Negre2337
Top federations Every month, FIDE publishes a list ranking federations according to the average rating of their top 10 players. The top 20 federations in Open were ranked on 1 October 2026 as follows:
Rank Federation Average top 10 rating 1 2723 2 2704 3 2663 4 2641 5 2637 6 2630 7 2630 8 2630 9 2626 10 2605 11 2598 12 2598 13 2593 14 2590 15 2585 16 2582 17 2571 18 2563 19 2559 20 2552
References
External links
Official FIDE rating lists Elo query with world ranking list and historical development since 1990