| Rank | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
| 1 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2803 | 27 | 1969 |
| 2 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2788 | 13 | 1975 |
| 3 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2774 | 11 | 1977 |
| 4 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2767 | 27 | 1975 |
| 5 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2765 | 27 | 1990 |
| 6 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2763 | 27 | 1982 |
| 7 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2752 | 13 | 1985 |
| 8 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2751 | 27 | 1987 |
| 9 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2746 | 11 | 1976 |
| 10 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2741 | 27 | 1979 |
| 11 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2740 | 35 | 1969 |
| 12 | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2740 | 14 | 1972 |
| 13 | Karjakin, Sergey | g | UKR | 2732 | 0 | 1990 |
| 14 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2729 | 13 | 1971 |
| 15 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2726 | 0 | 1974 |
| 16 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2723 | 13 | 1968 |
| 17 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2719 | 0 | 1983 |
| 18 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2716 | 11 | 1983 |
| 19 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2711 | 11 | 1983 |
| 20 | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2711 | 0 | 1985 |
| 21 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2709 | 13 | 1976 |
| 22 | Bu, Xiangzhi | g | CHN | 2708 | 16 | 1985 |
| 23 | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2705 | 13 | 1983 |
| 24 | Ni, Hua | g | CHN | 2703 | 28 | 1983 |
| 25 | Movsesian, Sergei | g | SVK | 2695 | 29 | 1978 |
| 26 | Dominguez Perez, Lenier | g | CUB | 2695 | 15 | 1983 |
| 27 | Cheparinov, Ivan | g | BUL | 2695 | 13 | 1986 |
| 28 | Rublevsky, Sergei | g | RUS | 2695 | 0 | 1974 |
| 29 | Sokolov, Ivan | g | NED | 2690 | 1 | 1968 |
| 30 | Milov, Vadim | g | SUI | 2690 | 0 | 1972 |
| 31 | Wang, Yue | g | CHN | 2689 | 33 | 1987 |
| 32 | Malakhov, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2689 | 5 | 1980 |
| 33 | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2687 | 13 | 1983 |
| 34 | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2686 | 17 | 1987 |
| 35 | Wang, Hao | g | CHN | 2684 | 25 | 1989 |
| 36 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | g | RUS | 2684 | 20 | 1985 |
| 37 | Volokitin, Andrei | g | UKR | 2684 | 16 | 1986 |
| 38 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | g | ESP | 2684 | 7 | 1982 |
| 39 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | g | ROU | 2684 | 0 | 1976 |
| 40 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | g | UZB | 2681 | 0 | 1979 |
| 41 | Harikrishna, P. | g | IND | 2679 | 30 | 1986 |
| 42 | Gashimov, Vugar | g | AZE | 2679 | 18 | 1986 |
| 43 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | g | IND | 2679 | 5 | 1981 |
| 44 | Bareev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2677 | 0 | 1966 |
| 45 | Van Wely, Loek | g | NED | 2676 | 15 | 1972 |
| 46 | Nikolic, Predrag | g | BIH | 2674 | 17 | 1960 |
| 47 | Almasi, Zoltan | g | HUN | 2674 | 9 | 1976 |
| 48 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | g | RUS | 2674 | 9 | 1976 |
| 49 | Akopian, Vladimir | g | ARM | 2673 | 17 | 1971 |
| 50 | Navara, David | g | CZE | 2672 | 9 | 1985 |
| 51 | Fedorchuk, Sergey A. | g | UKR | 2671 | 24 | 1981 |
| 52 | Motylev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2666 | 18 | 1979 |
| 53 | Bologan, Viktor | g | MDA | 2665 | 19 | 1971 |
| 54 | Georgiev, Kiril | g | BUL | 2665 | 10 | 1965 |
| 55 | Timofeev, Artyom | g | RUS | 2664 | 29 | 1985 |
| 56 | Onischuk, Alexander | g | USA | 2664 | 0 | 1975 |
| 57 | Efimenko, Zahar | g | UKR | 2660 | 19 | 1985 |
| 58 | Short, Nigel D | g | ENG | 2660 | 13 | 1965 |
| 59 | Roiz, Michael | g | ISR | 2659 | 9 | 1983 |
| 60 | Jobava, Baadur | g | GEO | 2658 | 25 | 1983 |
| 61 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2658 | 11 | 1987 |
| 62 | Dreev, Alexey | g | RUS | 2657 | 20 | 1969 |
| 63 | Lautier, Joel | g | FRA | 2657 | 0 | 1973 |
| 64 | Tkachiev, Vladislav | g | FRA | 2657 | 0 | 1973 |
| 65 | Fressinet, Laurent | g | FRA | 2656 | 0 | 1981 |
| 66 | Karpov, Anatoly | g | RUS | 2655 | 0 | 1951 |
| 67 | Korneev, Oleg | g | RUS | 2651 | 44 | 1969 |
| 68 | Predojevic, Borki | g | BIH | 2651 | 27 | 1987 |
| 69 | Moiseenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2650 | 27 | 1980 |
| 70 | Areshchenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2650 | 19 | 1986 |
| 71 | Postny, Evgeny | g | ISR | 2649 | 16 | 1981 |
| 72 | Sakaev, Konstantin | g | RUS | 2649 | 11 | 1974 |
| 73 | Ivanisevic, Ivan | g | SRB | 2649 | 0 | 1977 |
| 74 | Baklan, Vladimir | g | UKR | 2647 | 0 | 1978 |
| 75 | Afromeev, Vladimir | f | RUS | 2646 | 0 | 1954 |
| 76 | Socko, Bartosz | g | POL | 2644 | 26 | 1978 |
| 77 | Sargissian, Gabriel | g | ARM | 2643 | 20 | 1983 |
| 78 | Miroshnichenko, Evgenij | g | UKR | 2642 | 18 | 1978 |
| 79 | Beliavsky, Alexander G | g | SLO | 2641 | 26 | 1953 |
| 80 | Fridman, Daniel | g | GER | 2640 | 10 | 1976 |
| 81 | Zhang, Pengxiang | g | CHN | 2640 | 0 | 1980 |
| 82 | Delchev, Aleksander | g | BUL | 2639 | 9 | 1971 |
| 83 | Riazantsev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2638 | 18 | 1985 |
| 84 | Mchedlishvili, Mikheil | g | GEO | 2635 | 0 | 1979 |
| 85 | Tiviakov, Sergei | g | NED | 2634 | 26 | 1973 |
| 86 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2634 | 22 | 1990 |
| 87 | Shabalov, Alexander | g | USA | 2633 | 22 | 1967 |
| 88 | Landa, Konstantin | g | RUS | 2633 | 19 | 1972 |
| 89 | Volkov, Sergey | g | RUS | 2633 | 18 | 1974 |
| 90 | Avrukh, Boris | g | ISR | 2632 | 9 | 1978 |
| 91 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2632 | 9 | 1990 |
| 92 | Asrian, Karen | g | ARM | 2630 | 29 | 1980 |
| 93 | Sutovsky, Emil | g | ISR | 2630 | 16 | 1977 |
| 94 | Smirin, Ilia | g | ISR | 2630 | 14 | 1968 |
| 95 | Solak, Dragan | g | SRB | 2630 | 9 | 1980 |
| 96 | Seirawan, Yasser | g | USA | 2630 | 1 | 1960 |
| 97 | Tregubov, Pavel V. | g | RUS | 2629 | 16 | 1971 |
| 98 | Nielsen, Peter Heine | g | DEN | 2629 | 5 | 1973 |
| 99 | Sadvakasov, Darmen | g | KAZ | 2629 | 3 | 1979 |
| 100 | Khalifman, Alexander | g | RUS | 2628 | 9 | 1966 |
| 101 | Istratescu, Andrei | g | ROU | 2628 | 7 | 1975 |