January 2011 top players (2700 and above)
| Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2814 | 17 | 1990 |
| 2 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2810 | 17 | 1969 |
| 3 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2805 | 9 | 1982 |
| 4 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2784 | 16 | 1975 |
| 5 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2776 | 20 | 1990 |
| 6 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2775 | 10 | 1975 |
| 7 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2773 | 20 | 1983 |
| 8 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2772 | 9 | 1985 |
| 9 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2764 | 0 | 1969 |
| 10 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2751 | 16 | 1987 |
| 11 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2744 | 0 | 1983 |
| 12 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2744 | 0 | 1987 |
| 13 | Gashimov, Vugar | g | AZE | 2736 | 10 | 1986 |
| 14 | Wang, Yue | g | CHN | 2734 | 21 | 1987 |
| 15 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2733 | 11 | 1990 |
| 16 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2733 | 9 | 1968 |
| 17 | Wang, Hao | g | CHN | 2731 | 33 | 1989 |
| 18 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2730 | 11 | 1976 |
| 19 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2730 | 6 | 1974 |
| 20 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | g | POL | 2726 | 0 | 1987 |
| 21 | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2724 | 9 | 1983 |
| 22 | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2723 | 10 | 1983 |
| 23 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2723 | 7 | 1971 |
| 24 | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2722 | 15 | 1972 |
| 25 | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2721 | 18 | 1992 |
| 26 | Movsesian, Sergei | g | ARM | 2721 | 0 | 1978 |
| 27 | Almasi, Zoltan | g | HUN | 2719 | 10 | 1976 |
| 28 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2718 | 11 | 1983 |
| 29 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2717 | 0 | 1979 |
| 30 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | g | CUB | 2716 | 0 | 1983 |
| 31 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2715 | 6 | 1990 |
| 32 | Malakhov, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2714 | 14 | 1980 |
| 33 | Vitiugov, Nikita | g | RUS | 2709 | 11 | 1987 |
| 34 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2708 | 0 | 1985 |
| 35 | Fressinet, Laurent | g | FRA | 2707 | 15 | 1981 |
| 36 | Jobava, Baadur | g | GEO | 2707 | 0 | 1983 |
| 37 | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2701 | 0 | 1985 |
| 38 | Efimenko, Zahar | g | UKR | 2701 | 0 | 1985 |
| 39 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2700 | 0 | 1977 |
Full top list here: http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men
Top women (2500 and above)
| Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
| 1 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2686 | 0 | 1976 |
| 2 | Koneru, Humpy | g | IND | 2607 | 18 | 1987 |
| 3 | Hou, Yifan | g | CHN | 2602 | 23 | 1994 |
| 4 | Kosintseva, Tatiana | g | RUS | 2570 | 15 | 1986 |
| 5 | Kosintseva, Nadezhda | m | RUS | 2552 | 11 | 1985 |
| 6 | Dzagnidze, Nana | g | GEO | 2550 | 4 | 1987 |
| 7 | Stefanova, Antoaneta | g | BUL | 2546 | 4 | 1979 |
| 8 | Muzychuk, Anna | m | SLO | 2529 | 6 | 1990 |
| 9 | Cmilyte, Viktorija | g | LTU | 2526 | 14 | 1983 |
| 10 | Harika, Dronavalli | m | IND | 2520 | 16 | 1991 |
| 11 | Lahno, Kateryna | g | UKR | 2518 | 8 | 1989 |
| 12 | Cramling, Pia | g | SWE | 2516 | 4 | 1963 |
| 13 | Ju, Wenjun | wg | CHN | 2514 | 17 | 1991 |
| 14 | Chiburdanidze, Maia | g | GEO | 2502 | 4 | 1961 |
