Magnus Carlsen is the only active player to have achieved such a high rating. Gary Kasparov being alone in having 2826.
Ranking | Name | Country | Rating (July 1st) | Rating (May 1st) | rating (1st March) | Career Highest |
1 | Magnus Carlsen | NOR | 2826 | 2813 | 2813 | 2826 |
2 | Veselin Topalov | BUL | 2803 | 2812 | 2805 | 2813 |
3 | Viswanathan Anand | IND | 2800 | 2789 | 2787 | 2803 |
4 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2790 | 2790 | 2790 | 2811 |
5 | Levon Aronian | ARM | 2783 | 2783 | 2782 | 2786 |
6 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | AZE | 2761 | 2763 | 2760 | 2763 |
7 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2760 | 2760 | 2756 | 2760 |
8 | Pavel Eljanov | UKR | 2755 | 2751 | 2736 | 2755 |
9 | Alexei Shirov | ESP | 2749 | 2742 | 2737 | 2755 |
10 | Teimour Radjabov | AZE | 2748 | 2740 | 2740 | 2761 |
11 | Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2747 | 2739 | 2725 | 2747 |
12 | Vassily Ivanchuk | UKR | 2739 | 2741 | 2748 | 2787 |
13 | Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2739 | 2741 | 2750 | 2761 |
14 | Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR | 2734 | 2733 | 2737 | 2743 |
15 | Peter Svidler | RUS | 2734 | 2735 | 2750 | 2765 |
16 | Peter Leko | HUN | 2734 | 2735 | 2735 | 2763 |
17 | Vladimir Malakhov | RUS | 2732 | 2722 | 2721 | 2732 |
18 | David Navara | CZE | 2731 | 2718 | 2708 | 2731 |
19 | Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 2729 | 2733 | 2735 | 2735 |
20 | Dmitry Jakovenko | RUS | 2726 | 2725 | 2725 | 2760 |
21 | Wang Hao | CHN | 2724 | 2722 | 2715 | 2724 |
22 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | FRA | 2723 | 2710 | 2727 | 2730 |
23 | Sergei Movsesian | SVK | 2723 | 2717 | 2709 | 2751 |
24 | Nikita Vitiugov | RUS | 2722 | 2707 | 2710 | 2722 |
25 | Etienne Bacrot | FRA | 2720 | 2710 | 2714 | 2731 |
26 | Vugar Gashimov | AZE | 2719 | 2734 | 2740 | 2759 |
27 | Zoltan Almasi | HUN | 2717 | 2725 | 2720 | 2725 |
28 | Wang Yue | CHN | 2716 | 2752 | 2749 | 2752 |
29 | Leinier Dominguez Perez | CUB | 2716 | 2713 | 2713 | 2721 |
30 | Alexander Morozevich | RUS | 2715 | 2715 | 2715 | 2788 |
31 | Gata Kamsky | USA | 2713 | 2702 | 2702 | 2745 |
32 | Baadur Jobava | GEO | 2710 | 2715 | 2695 | 2715 |
33 | Evgeny Tomashevsky | RUS | 2708 | 2708 | 2701 | 2708 |
34 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | RUS | 2706 | 2695 | 2656 | 2706 |
35 | Michael Adams | ENG | 2706 | 2697 | 2704 | 2755 |
36 | Alexander Onischuk | USA | 2701 | 2699 | 2687 | 2701 |
37 | Peter Heine Nielsen | DEN | 2700 | 2698 | 2697 | 2700 |
Of these 37, three are new to the 2700 club. Note in particular the rapid progress of Ian Nepomniachtchi who is one of these.
Twelve of this group have their career highest rating at present.
Not surprisingly Russia has the most players in the list with ten.