FIDE World Rankings

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) is the organization that 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 positions on 1 December were ranked as follows:[1]

Rank Change* Player Rating
1 Steady Norway Magnus Carlsen 2840
2 Steady United States Fabiano Caruana 2823
3 Increase 1 Russia Vladimir Kramnik 2809
4 Decrease 1 France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2804
5 Increase 1 United States Wesley So 2794
6 Decrease 1 Armenia Levon Aronian 2785
Increase 3 Russia Sergey Karjakin 2785
8 Decrease 1 India Viswanathan Anand 2779
Decrease 1 United States Hikaru Nakamura 2779
10 Increase 1 Netherlands Anish Giri 2771
11 Decrease 1 India Pentala Harikrishna 2770
12 Increase 1 Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2762
13 Decrease 1 Russia Ian Nepomniachtchi 2767
14 Increase 2 Ukraine Pavel Eljanov 2762
15 Steady Bulgaria Veselin Topalov 2760
16 Decrease 3 China Ding Liren 2757
17 Increase 4 Russia Peter Svidler 2753
18 Increase 2 Poland Radoslaw Wojtaszek 2749
19 Steady England Michael Adams 2748
20 Increase 3 Ukraine Vassily Ivanchuk 2747
*Change from the previous month

Top women

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

Rank Change* Player Rating
1 Steady China Hou Yifan 2651
2 Steady China Ju Wenjun 2579
3 Steady Ukraine Anna Muzychuk 2558
4 Steady India Koneru Humpy 2557
5 Steady Russia Alexandra Kosteniuk 2555
6 Increase 2 Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk 2546
7 Decrease 1 India Dronavalli Harika 2543
8 Decrease 1 Lithuania Viktorija Čmilytė 2538
9 Steady Russia Kateryna Lagno 2530
10 Steady Russia Valentina Gunina 2525
11 Increase 2 Georgia (country) Nana Dzagnidze 2520
12 Decrease 1 Bulgaria Antoaneta Stefanova 2512
13 Decrease 1 China Zhao Xue 2508
14 Steady Russia Natalija Pogonina 2492
Steady China Tan Zhongyi 2492
16 Increase 1 France Marie Sebag 2488
17 Increase 1 Russia Nadezhda Kosintseva 2483
18 Decrease 2 Georgia (country) Nino Batsiashvili 2489
19 Steady China Shen Yang 2479
20 Increase 2 Hungary Hoang Thanh Trang 2474
*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 December as follows:[3]

Rank Change* Player Rating
1 Steady Hungary Richárd Rapport 2717
2 Steady China Wei Yi 2707
3 Steady Poland Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2684
4 Steady United States Jeffery Xiong 2660
5 Increase 1 Russia Daniil Dubov 2660
6 Decrease 1 Russia Vladislav Artemiev 2653
7 Steady Germany Matthias Bluebaum 2640
8 Increase 1 Ukraine Illya Nyzhnyk 2616
Steady Russia Grigoriy Oparin 2616
10 Decrease 1 Netherlands Jorden Van Foreest 2614
11 Increase 2 United States Samuel Sevian 2603
12 Steady Russia Maksim Vavulin 2596
14 Steady Hungary Benjamin Gledura 2584
Increase 5 Norway Aryan Tari 2584
16 Increase1 Ukraine Oleksandr Bortnyk 2581
17 Decrease 2 Russia Kirill Alekseenko 2580
Decrease 2 Russia MIkhail Antipov 2580
19 Increase 5 Romania Bogdan-Daniel Deac 2572
20 Steady India Diptayan Ghosh 2570
*Change from the previous month

Top girls

This list includes 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 December as follows:[4]

Rank Change* Player Rating
1 Steady China Lei Tingjie 2468
2 Steady Russia Aleksandra Goryachkina 2466
3 Steady Iran Sarasadat Khademalsharieh 2438
4 Steady Kazakhstan Dinara Saduakassova 2428
5 Increase 1 Kazakhstan Zhansaya Abdumalik 2405
6 Decrease 1 Mongolia Nomin-Erdene Davaademberel 2389
7 Steady Russia Polina Shuvalova 2383
8 Increase 6 Russia Alina Bivol 2378
9 Increase 1 China Ni Shiqun 2377
Decrease 1 Greece Stavroula Tsolakidou 2377
11 Decrease 2 Indonesia Medina Warda Aulia 2373
12 Steady Iran Dorsa Derakhshani 2370
13 Increase 7 Colombia Paula Andrea Rodriguez Rueda 2348
14 Increase 1 Ukraine Iulija Osmak 2346
15 Decrease 5 Azerbaijan Gunay Mammadzada 2345
16 Increase 11 Germany Filiz Osmanodja 2343
17 Increase 1 Georgia (country) Nino Khomeriki 2337
Decrease 1 China Zhai Mo 2337
19 Decrease 7 Hungary Annamaria Marjanovics 2327
20 Increase 1 Russia Ekaterina Diakonova 2321
*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 other ranks them according to the average rating of their top 10 female players. The top 20 positions were ranked on 1 December in the former list as follows:[5]

Rank Change* Country Average top 10 rating
1 Steady  Russia 2745
2 Steady  United States 2702
3 Steady  China 2695
4 Steady  Ukraine 2690
5 Steady  India 2678
6 Increase 1  Azerbaijan 2652
7 Decrease 1  France 2646
8 Steady  Armenia 2647
9 Steady  Poland 2646
10 Steady  Hungary 2640
11 Steady  Israel 2636
12 Steady  England 2635
13 Steady  Netherlands 2633
14 Steady  Germany 2620
15 Steady  Spain 2596
16 Increase 1  Bulgaria 2589
Steady  Georgia 2589
18 Steady  Croatia 2585
19 Steady  Czech Republic 2583
20 Steady  Cuba 2578
*Change from the previous month

Female list

The top 20 countries by average rating of the top 10 female players were ranked on 1 December 2016 as follows:[6]

Rank Change* Country Average top 10 rating
1 Steady  China 2483
Steady  Russia 2483
3 Steady  Georgia 2416
4 Increase 1  Ukraine 2401
5 Decrease 1  India 2400
6 Steady  Poland 2376
7 Steady  Germany 2357
8 Steady  Hungary 2345
9 Steady  United States 2325
10 Steady  France 2312
11 Steady  Romania 2305
12 Increase 1  Serbia 2302
13 Decrease 1  Azerbaijan 2298
14 Steady  Bulgaria 2277
15 Steady  Netherlands 2276
16 Steady  Mongolia 2267
17 Steady  Armenia 2266
18 Decrease 1  Cuba 2259
19 Steady  Vietnam 2257
20 Steady  Spain 2256
*Change from the previous month

References

  1. ↑ Administrator. "FIDE Online. FIDE Top players - Standard Top 100 Players November 2016". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  2. ↑ Administrator. "FIDE Online. FIDE Top players - Standard Top 100 Women December 2016". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  3. ↑ Administrator. "FIDE Online. FIDE Top players - Standard Top 100 Juniors December 2016". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  4. ↑ Administrator. "FIDE Online. FIDE Top players - Standard Top 100 Girls December 2016". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  5. ↑ Administrator. "FIDE Country Top chess players". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  6. ↑ Administrator. "FIDE Country Top chess players". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2016-12-01.

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