Strongest of All Time – Chess Champs

Rank

Player

Rating

1

Magnus Carlsen

2859

2

Emanuel Lasker

2847

3

Garry Kasparov

2843

4

Mikhail Botvinnik

2843

5

Bobby Fischer

2841

6

Anatoly Karpov

2829

7

Alexander Alekhine

2827

8

Viswanathan Anand

2818

9

José Raúl Capablanca

2813

10

Vladimir Kramnik

2812

11

Levon Aronian

2807

12

Fabiano Caruana

2799

13

Vesselin Topalov

2796

14

Vassily Ivanchuk

2790

15

Viktor Korchnoi

2789

16

Wilhelm Steinitz

2789

17

Vasily Smyslov

2788

18

Hikaru Nakamura

2785

19

Tigran Petrosian

2782

20

Alexander Grischuk

2775

21

Mikhail Tal

2773

22

Harry Pillsbury

2773

23

Géza Maróczy

2772

24

Sergey Karjakin

2771

25

Samuel Reshevsky

2769

26

Paul Keres

2766

27

Siegbert Tarrasch

2766

28

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

2765

29

Anish Giri

2765

30

Miguel Najdorf

2765

31

Wesley So

2762

32

Boris Spassky

2761

33

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

2760

34

Teimour Radjabov

2760

35

David Bronstein

2758

36

Paul Morphy

2753

37

Gata Kamsky

2752

38

Peter Leko

2751

39

Boris Gelfand

2750

40

Valery Salov

2749

41

Ding Liren

2747

42

Alexei Shirov

2747

43

Alexander Beliavsky

2747

44

Efim Geller

2747

45

Jan Timman

2746

46

Michael Adams

2745

47

Reuben Fine

2745

48

Lev Polugaevsky

2745

49

Carl Schlechter

2743

50

Lajos Portisch

2742

51

Leonid Stein

2741

52

Leinier Dominguez Perez

2739

53

Alexander Morozevich

2738

54

Bent Larsen

2738

55

Salo Flohr

2738

56

Ruslan Ponomariov

2738

57

Evgeny Bareev

2737

58

Mikhail Chigorin

2737

59

Peter Svidler

2736

60

Isaak Boleslavsky

2736

61

Rafael Vaganian

2736

62

Johannes Zukertort

2736

63

David Janowski

2736

64

Alexander Kotov

2734

65

Dmitry Jakovenko

2733

66

Akiba Rubinstein

2733

67

Aaron Nimzowitsch

2733

68

Pentala Harikrishna

2732

69

Pavel Eljanov

2731

70

Max Euwe

2731

71

Artur Yusupov

2730

72

Nigel Short

2730

73

Gideon Ståhlberg

2729

74

Radoslaw Wojtaszek

2728

75

Nikita Vitiugov

2728

76

Mark Taimanov

2728

77

Efim Bogoljubov

2728

78

Svetozar Gligoric

2727

79

David Navara

2724

80

Ian Nepomniachtchi

2724

81

Dmitry Andreikin

2724

82

Ulf Andersson

2724

83

Li Chao b

2722

84

Evgeny Tomashevsky

2722

85

Ljubomir Ljubojevic

2721

86

Etienne Bacrot

2717

87

Robert Hübner

2716

88

Jaan Ehlvest

2715

89

Joseph Blackburne

2714

90

Mikhail Gurevich

2713

91

Jon Speelman

2712

92

Vlastimil Hort

2712

93

Yu Yangyi

2711

94

Zoltán Ribli

2711

95

Richard Teichmann

2711

96

Le Quang Liem

2710

97

Vladimir Malakhov

2710

98

Alexander Khalifman

2710

99

Andrei Sokolov

2709

100

Judit Polgar

2709

101

László Szabó

2709

102

Baadur Jobava

2708

103

Henrique Mecking

2708

104

Vladimir Makogonov

2708

105

Alexey Dreev

2707

106

Rudolf Spielmann

2707

107

Laurent Fressinet

2706

108

Oleg Romanishin

2706

109

Frank Marshall

2706

110

John Nunn

2705

111

Predrag Nikolic

2704

112

Yuri Averbakh

2704

113

Ratmir Kholmov

2703

114

Yuri Balashov

2703

115

Francisco Vallejo Pons

2702

116

Alexander Moiseenko

2702

117

Vladimir Tukmakov

2701

118

Vladimir Akopian

2701

119

Rustam Kasimdzhanov

2700

120

Leonid Yudasin

2700