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These ratings are official FIDE ratings.

# Name Rating Date Age  
1 Carlsen, Magnus Norway 2850 2015 Oct 24
2 Nakamura, Hikaru United States of America 2816 2015 Oct 27
3 Topalov, Veselin Bulgaria 2813 2015 Oct 40
4 Anand, Viswanathan India 2803 2015 Oct 45
5 Giri, Anish Netherlands 2798 2015 Oct 21
6 Caruana, Fabiano United States of America 2796 2015 Oct 23
7 Aronian, Levon Armenia 2784 2015 Oct 32
8 Ding, Liren China 2782 2015 Oct 22
9 Kramnik, Vladimir Russia 2777 2015 Oct 40
10 Grischuk, Alexander Russia 2774 2015 Oct 31
11 Karjakin, Sergey Russia 2762 2015 Oct 25
12 So, Wesley United States of America 2760 2015 Oct 21
13 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime France 2758 2015 Oct 24
14 Tomashevsky, Evgeny Russia 2758 2015 Oct 28
15 Li, Chao b China 2750 2015 Oct 26
16 Jakovenko, Dmitry Russia 2748 2015 Oct 32
17 Adams, Michael England 2742 2015 Oct 43
18 Gelfand, Boris Israel 2741 2015 Oct 47
19 Radjabov, Teimour Azerbaijan 2738 2015 Oct 28
20 Harikrishna, Pentala India 2737 2015 Oct 29


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