Top-15 Best Chess Players. FIDE Rating 1967-2021. Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Garry Kasparov

1967 - 2021 chess leaders: men and one woman.
Unofficial ranking until 1971.
Average age and rating of top-15.
World Chess Federation's ranking stats, according to Elo rating system.
Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov, Judith Polgar, Fabiano Caruana, Ding Liren, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, and many others best chess players.

Data source FIDE Rating:

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[bluelanterns]

So the highest official ratings to ever be achieved:
1. Magnus Carlsen, 2882, in 2014 April.
2. Garry Kasparov, 2851, Jan 2000.
3. Fabiano Caruana, 2844, October 2014.
4. Levon Aronian, 2830, March 2014.

[williamrobert]

The average rating of the top 15 chess players in the current era just makes me respect Magnus's dominance even more

[bobing]

Here are some interesting statistics that I noticed:

Youngest this top 15 has ever been: 1:23, JUL 1993, 25.5 years old
Highest number of 2800 rated players at the same time: 5:39, JUL 2017 with 6 players above 2800
Highest average rating of the top 15: same, 5:39, JUL 2017, 2788 average
Youngest player to ever hit top 15: 1:11, JUL 1990, Gata Kamsky was 16 when he hit top 8
Youngest player to become the highest rated player of his time: 3:09, JAN 2010, Magnus Carlsen was 19 when he became the highest rated player
Oldest player to remain in the top 15: 0:51, JUL 1985, Vassily Smyslov was 64 and was still top 14
Highest number of players from one country in the top 15: 0:02, from JUNE 1967 to 0:13, JUL 1971, there were 11 Soviet players in the top 15. Honourable mention to 1:09, JAN 1990 until 1:13, JAN 1991 when 10 out of 15 players were from the USSR and 1:13, JAN 1991 when the 10 best players were from the USSR. Kind of a testimony of power...

[haysan]

Garry Kasparov did not wanna give up that top spot AT ALL lol

Average rating's show everything. What Magnus has done in this era ( world blitz/rapid/classical champion) is so scary

[ClaudioBOsorio]

Impressive how their age never goes down 😆

[fakeexperte]

karpov and kasparov were such opposites, which made their battle so much more exciting

[arunarvind]

Viswanathan Anand's consistency in the top 10 is 😎. One of the greatest players of all time.

[ricardovieira]

great Henrique Mecking, one pround for brasilians chess fans

[YouTubehesabi_]

Anish Giri (2798) 😢 His Peak Offical Rating Not 2800+ But Highest Live Rating 2802.8😢

[Mrpallekuling]

*Top 22 in June 2024*
2882 Carlsen
2851 Kasparov
2844 Caruana
2830 Aronian
2822 So
2820 Mamedyatov
2819 Vachier-Lagrave
2817 Anand
2817 Kramnik
2816 Topalov
2816 Nakamura
2816 Ding Liren
2810 Grischuk
2804 Firouzja
2798 Giri
2795 Nepomniachtchi
2793 Radjabov
2788 Morozevich
2788 Karjakin
2787 Ivanchuk
2785 Fischer
2780 Karpov

[animeshsingh]

THOSE PLAYERS ARE VERY VERY RARE WHO CAN SURVIVE IN TOP 10 UPTILL TE AGE OF 49

[AndresDanican]

Woow Fischer 2780 en el año 1975 ese elo fue superado sólo hasta 1989 por Kasparov.

[danielocasio]

6:12 closes Fabiano came to catching up to Carlson.

[rauladelino]

hmm is cool you make Chess over time 1900 to 2021

[salicus]

Did Shirov first play for Latvia and then for Spain?

[pustelnik]

HEY DUDE AUTHOR OF THIS FILM, CAN U TELL ME WHAT SONG IS AT THE BEGINNING IN YOUR FIRST FILM ABOUT TOP PLAYERS ?? PLEASE

[BillboMC]

4:41 is ding liren’s name normal whilst everyone else’s is written backwards? Or his his first name actually liren

[eavyeavy]

you would think hikaru is super GM. when hikaru is the one bottling it against supers when it matter

[rushakgaming]

The 50 yo indian gg.... May not the best but last long as top... Maybe Carlsen can beat him... Till 90yo