FIDE world rankings

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes the lists "Top 100 Players", "Top 100 Women", "Top 100 Juniors" and "Top 100 Girls", as well as rankings of countries according to the average rating of their top 10 players and top 10 female players. The Elo rating system is used.

Top players

The top 20 players on 1 October 2018 were ranked as follows:[1]

Rank Change* Player Rating
1 Steady Norway Magnus Carlsen 2839
2 Steady United States Fabiano Caruana 2827
3 Steady Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2820
4 Steady China Ding Liren 2804
5 Increase 1 Armenia Levon Aronian 2780
6 Increase 1 Netherlands Anish Giri 2780
7 Decrease 2 France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2780
8 Steady Russia Vladimir Kramnik 2779
9 Steady United States Wesley So 2776
10 Steady India Viswanathan Anand 2771
11 Steady Russia Alexander Grischuk 2769
12 Increase 1 China Yu Yangyi 2765
13 Increase 1 United States Hikaru Nakamura 2763
14 Increase 1 Russia Sergey Karjakin 2760
15 Decrease 3 Russia Ian Nepomniachtchi 2759
16 Steady Russia Peter Svidler 2756
17 Increase 1 Russia Dmitry Jakovenko 2752
18 Decrease 1 Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov 2751
19 Increase 1 China Wei Yi 2742
20 Increase 1 Czech Republic David Navara 2740
*Change from the previous month

Top women

The top 20 females were ranked on 1 October 2018 as follows:[2]

Rank Change* Player Rating
1 Steady China Hou Yifan 2658
2 Steady China Ju Wenjun 2561
3 Increase 1 Russia Kateryna Lagno 2556
4 Increase 1 Ukraine Anna Muzychuk 2555
5 Decrease 2 Russia Alexandra Kosteniuk 2551
6 Steady Russia Aleksandra Goryachkina 2536
7 Steady Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk 2533
8 Increase 1 China Tan Zhongyi 2527
9 Decrease 1 Russia Valentina Gunina 2525
10 Steady Germany Elisabeth Pähtz 2513
11 Steady Georgia (country) Nana Dzagnidze 2509
12 Steady India Harika Dronavalli 2500
13 Steady Bulgaria Antoaneta Stefanova 2490
14 Increase 7 Russia Natalia Pogonina 2485
15 Decrease 1 Kazakhstan Zhansaya Abdumalik 2482
16 Decrease 1 Georgia (country) Nino Batsiashvili 2482
17 Decrease 1 France Marie Sebag 2480
18 Increase 8 Russia Olga Girya 2479
19 Decrease 2 China Zhao Xue 2478
20 Decrease 2 Georgia (country) Lela Javakhishvili 2475
*Change from the previous month

Top juniors

Juniors are considered to be players who remain under the age of 21 years for the duration of the current calendar year.

The top 20 positions were ranked on 1 October 2018 as follows:[3]

Rank Change* Player Rating Age
1 Steady China Wei Yi 2742 19
2 Steady Poland Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2739 20
3 Steady Russia Vladislav Artemiev 2706 20
4 Increase 1 Iran Parham Maghsoodloo 2685 18
5 Decrease 1 United States Jeffery Xiong 2656 17
6 Increase 1 Russia Alexey Sarana 2641 18
7 Decrease 1 United States Samuel Sevian 2634 17
8 Steady Russia David Paravyan 2629 20
9 Increase 1 Hungary Benjámin Gledura 2621 19
10 Increase 1 Norway Aryan Tari 2618 19
11 Decrease 2 Netherlands Jorden van Foreest 2617 19
12 Steady Germany Alexander Donchenko 2610 20
13 Increase 3 Russia Andrey Esipenko 2609 16
14 Decrease 1 India Murali Karthikeyan 2604 19
15 Increase 3 Iran Alireza Firouzja 2600 15
16 Decrease 1 Romania Bogdan-Daniel Deac 2594 17
17 Decrease 3 Armenia Haik M. Martirosyan 2593 18
18 Increase 4 Iran Amin Tabatabaei 2586 17
19 Increase 1 India Chithambaram Aravindh 2579 18
20 Decrease 3 China Xu Xiangyu 2577 19
*Change from the previous month

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 positions were ranked on 1 October 2018 as follows:[4]

Rank Change* Player Rating Age
1 Steady Russia Aleksandra Goryachkina 2536 20
2 Steady Kazakhstan Zhansaya Abdumalik 2482 18
3 Steady Azerbaijan Gunay Mammadzada 2438 18
4 Steady Russia Polina Shuvalova 2421 17
5 Steady Ukraine Iulija Osmak 2405 20
6 Steady Belarus Olga Badelka 2394 16
7 Steady Greece Stavroula Tsolakidou 2393 18
8 Increase 2 Uzbekistan Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova 2385 19
9 Increase 4 Bulgaria Nurgyul Salimova 2377 15
10 Decrease 1 Russia Bibisara Assaubayeva 2372 14
11 Steady China Zhu Jiner 2360 16
12 Decrease 4 Mongolia Nomin-Erdene Davaademberel 2357 18
13 Increase 10 Russia Dinara Dordzhieva 2332 19
14 Increase 13 Georgia (country) Nino Khomeriki 2356 20
15 Steady Armenia Anna M. Sargsyan 2331 17
16 Increase 1 Spain Marta Garcia Martin 2329 18
17 Increase 1 Azerbaijan Khanim Balajayeva 2326 17
18 Increase 1 Hungary Annamaria Marjanovic 2326 16
19 Increase 1 Italy Desiree Di Benedetto 2321 18
20 Increase 1 Estonia Mai Narva 2320 18
*Change from the previous month

Top countries

FIDE publishes two lists ranking countries. The first ranks them according to the average rating of their top 10 players, while the second ranks them according to the average rating of their top 10 female players. The top 20 positions in the former list were ranked on 1 October 2018 as follows:[5]

Rank Change* Country Average top 10 rating
1 Steady  Russia 2743
2 Steady  China 2710
3 Steady  United States 2701
4 Increase 1  Ukraine 2674
5 Decrease 1  Azerbaijan 2674
6 Steady  India 2664
7 Steady  Hungary 2647
8 Steady  Armenia 2643
9 Steady  France 2642
10 Steady  Poland 2639
11 Steady  Netherlands 2636
12 Steady  England 2634
13 Steady  Israel 2625
14 Steady  Germany 2620
15 Steady  Spain 2611
16 Steady  Georgia 2597
17 Steady  Czech Republic 2592
18 Steady  Croatia 2578
19 Steady  Norway 2577
20 Increase 1  Serbia 2568
*Change from the previous month

Women's list

The top 20 countries by average rating of the top 10 female players were ranked on 1 October 2018 as follows:[6]

Rank Change* Country Average top 10 rating
1 Steady  Russia 2486
2 Steady  China 2483
3 Steady  Ukraine 2421
4 Steady  Georgia 2410
5 Increase 2  India 2362
6 Decrease 1  Germany 2359
7 Decrease 1  Poland 2355
8 Steady  United States 2339
9 Steady  Hungary 2338
10 Steady  Azerbaijan 2321
11 Steady  France 2318
12 Increase 1  Romania 2295
13 Decrease 1  Serbia 2292
14 Steady  Spain 2287
15 Increase 2  Netherlands 2287
16 Increase 2  Kazakhstan 2278
17 Decrease 2  Armenia 2270
18 Decrease 2  Mongolia 2256
19 Steady  Cuba 2247
20 Increase 1  Vietnam 2240
*Change from the previous month

References

  1. ↑ Administrator (1 October 2018). "Standard Top 100 Players October 2018". FIDE.
  2. ↑ Administrator (1 October 2018). "Standard Top 100 Women October 2018". FIDE.
  3. ↑ Administrator (1 October 2018). "Standard Top 100 Juniors October 2018". FIDE.
  4. ↑ Administrator (1 October 2018). "Standard Top 100 Girls October 2018". FIDE.
  5. ↑ Administrator (1 October 2018). "Federations Ranking". FIDE.
  6. ↑ Administrator (1 October 2018). "Federations Ranking: Women". FIDE.
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