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 were ranked on 1 January 2020 as follows:[1]

Rank Rank change* Player Rating Rating change*
1 Magnus Carlsen 2872
2 Fabiano Caruana 2822
3 Ding Liren 2805 4
4 1 Alexander Grischuk 2777
5 4 Ian Nepomniachtchi 2774 7
6 Levon Aronian 2773 2
7 3 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2770 10
8 1 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2770 2
9 1 Anish Giri 2768 1
10 1 Wesley So 2765 5
11 1 Teimour Radjabov 2765
12 4 Wang Hao 2758 2
13 2 Viswanathan Anand 2758 1
14 Richárd Rapport 2758
15 2 Leinier Domínguez 2758
16 4 Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2758
17 1 Vladimir Kramnik 2753
18 1 Sergey Karjakin 2752 2
19 Nikita Vitiugov 2747
20 1 Veselin Topalov 2738 1
*Change from the previous month[2]

Top women

The top 20 female players were ranked on 1 January 2020 as follows:[3]

Rank Rank change* Player Rating Rating change*
1 Hou Yifan 2664
2 Ju Wenjun 2584 4
3 Humpy Koneru 2580 6
4 Aleksandra Goryachkina 2578 6
5 1 Kateryna Lagno 2552 5
6 1 Mariya Muzychuk 2552 7
7 1 Anna Muzychuk 2539 2
8 1 Viktorija Čmilytė 2538
9 2 Dinara Saduakassova 2519 14
10 Harika Dronavalli 2518
11 2 Nana Dzagnidze 2515 5
12 6 Alexandra Kosteniuk 2504 21
13 2 Sarasadat Khademalsharieh 2494 7
14 3 Lei Tingjie 2493 10
15 3 Tan Zhongyi 2493 9
16 Zhao Xue 2486
17 1 Alina Kashlinskaya 2484
18 1 Natalia Pogonina 2479
19 5 Olga Girya 2477 11
20 2 Zhansaya Abdumalik 2471 6
*Change from the previous month[4]

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 positions were ranked on 1 January 2020 as follows:[5]

Rank Rank change* Player Rating Rating change*
1 1 Alireza Firouzja 2723
2 1 Jeffery Xiong 2712
3 1 Parham Maghsoodloo 2674 16
4 2 Samuel Sevian 2660
5 Alexey Sarana 2656 7
6 2 Andrey Esipenko 2654 12
7 3 Amin Tabatabaei 2638 3
8 1 Nodirbek Abdusattorov 2635
9 3 Bogdan-Daniel Deac 2626
10 5 Nihal Sarin 2618 6
11 3 Haik M. Martirosyan 2613
12 14 Anton Smirnov 2604 19
13 11 Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa 2602 16
14 4 Shant Sargsyan 2601
15 14 Abhimanyu Puranik 2598 18
16 6 Nodirbek Yakubboev 2597 5
17 4 Awonder Liang 2592 1
18 12 Aram Hakobyan 2582 6
19 24 Arjun Erigaisi 2575 31
20 14 Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera 2566 11
*Change from the previous month[6]

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 January 2020 as follows:[7]

Rank Rank change* Player Rating Rating change*
1 Zhansaya Abdumalik 2471 6
2 Zhu Jiner 2459 2
3 Gunay Mammadzada 2455
4 Polina Shuvalova 2445 1
5 2 Carissa Yip 2418
6 1 Nomin-Erdene Davaademberel 2417 8
7 1 Stavroula Tsolakidou 2403
8 1 Olga Badelka 2392 7
9 3 Vaishali Rameshbabu 2386 10
10 Annie Wang 2383
11 Anna M. Sargsyan 2382
12 4 Ning Kaiyu 2379 26
13 Bibisara Assaubayeva 2375
14 Nurgyul Salimova 2372
15 Khanim Balajayeva 2358
16 13 Leya Garifullina 2357 49
17 Annamaria Marjanovic 2346
18 54 Viktoria Radeva 2338 97
19 Nazerke Nurgali 2336
20 2 Mobina Alinasab 2333 9
*Change from the previous month[8]

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 January 2020 as follows:[9]

Rank Country Average top 10 rating
1  Russia 2739
2  United States 2715
3  China 2705
4  India 2668
5  Ukraine 2663
6  Armenia 2652
7  Azerbaijan 2652
8  Hungary 2644
9  France 2638
10  Poland 2637
11  Germany 2630
12  Netherlands 2622
13  England 2620
14  Spain 2617
15  Israel 2615
16  Czech Republic 2605
17  Georgia 2584
18  Norway 2584
19  Croatia 2577
20  Serbia 2567

Women's list

The top 20 countries by average rating of the top 10 female players were ranked on 1 January 2020 as follows:[10]

Rank Country Average top 10 rating
1  China 2488
2  Russia 2483
3  India 2404
4  Georgia 2401
5  Ukraine 2386
6  United States 2352
7  Poland 2341
8  Germany 2338
9  Kazakhstan 2329
10  Hungary 2327
11  Azerbaijan 2323
12  France 2313
13  Serbia 2294
14  Bulgaria 2291
15  Romania 2288
16  Netherlands 2285
17  Armenia 2261
18  Spain 2260
19  Vietnam 2258
20  Iran 2252

References
  1. "Top 100 Players January 2020 - Archive". FIDE. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  2. Administrator. "Lists compared: Top 100 Players January 2020 - Top 100 Players December 2019". FIDE. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  3. "Top 100 Women January 2020 - Archive". FIDE. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  4. Administrator. "Lists compared: Top 100 Women January 2020 - Top 100 Women December 2019". FIDE. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  5. "Top 100 Juniors January 2020 - Archive". FIDE. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  6. Administrator (2 January 2020). "Lists compared: Top 100 Juniors January 2020 - Top 100 Juniors December 2019". FIDE.
  7. "Top 100 Girls January 2020 - Archive". FIDE. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  8. Administrator. "Lists compared: Top 100 Girls January 2020 - Top 100 Girls December 2019". FIDE. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  9. Administrator. "Federations Ranking". FIDE. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  10. Administrator. "Federations Ranking: Women". FIDE. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
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