* THE GAMES OF THE BEST CHESS PLAYERS IN THE WORLD *
"Sjakktoppen"
and in Norway (above 2400)

* Notice that 11 of 13 has achieved their record in 2014 or later *
Anand have better "live rating peak" than Kramnik.
Topalov have better "live rating peak" than Nakamura.
Nakamura have better "live rating peak" than Ding.
Anish Giri have "live rating peak" above 2800 (2802.8) 15 February 2015

Complete Highest-rated chess players list of all time; above 2700.

Everybody who has been No.1 at the official FIDE rating list.

It has been an inflation in chess rating, so Bobby Fischers 2785
April 1972 was a great rating. It was 125 more than no.2 Boris Spassky.
Few years ago 2785 was a top 10 achievement. Now it's no.19

The average rating for the 10 best players in each country; National rating for men.
The average rating for the 10 best players in each country; National rating for women.
Click on the name of a country to look at the ranking of the best active players in that country!

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Below you can read about all players with 2700 or more in rating points.
If same rating, most recently activity, will be best placed.
Age is what they are, or will be, before 1 December 2019; next rating list.
+/- shows rating change since the previous rating list; 1 October 2019
Gms shows how many games played since the previous rating list; 1 October 2019
GM is the year when the player became Grandmaster in chess.

1 November 2019 (updating nowadays) 

PROBABLY UPDATED 1 DECEMBER AND EVERY MONTH AFTER THAT

BUT MAYBE I WILL UPDATE IT 15 NOVEMBER

* Players with 2700 or more in rating *

If you will look at the personal best for each player, use the link "Highest-rated chess players" above!
Leinier Domínguez Pérez, Cuba, with 2739 is out of the list, because of no rated games since 2016

Click on the name to look at the games for the player!
Click on "Rp" for rating progress (chart) for the chess player! Scroll down at that website!
After you have clicked on "Rp", then click on "Profile" to look at the picture of the chosen player.
Click on "Wikipedia" for more details, where you also can scroll down to external links.
Below you will find a link to the list of chess prodigies, if you miss details about young grandmasters.

Earlier: Karjakin played for Ukraine, So played for Philippines, Caruana played for Italy
and Naiditsch played for Germany. You can read more about it if you click on Wikipedia!

Li Chao with an extra letter "b", since it's two chess players with exact same name.
This Li Chao is the youngest, so the oldest are discribed without an extra letter.

Magnus Carlsen (the picture) with the official rating record 1 May 2014 with 2882
 Magnus Carlsen with the live rating record as well 21 April 2014 with 2889.2

Statistics who shown the latest rating progress and activity.

Top 100 players November 2018

Top 100 women November 2018

Top 100 juniors November 2018
It's 3 juniors (no.19 Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 2738, no.26 Wei, Yi 2728 and no.37 Vladislav Artemiev 2709) with 2700 or more in rating.

Top 100 girls November 2018

Live rating for all players with 2700 or more in rating.

List of Chess grandmasters alphabetical after the family name.

History behind the title Grandmaster (chess).

List of Chess prodigies who became grandmasters early.

From here you can download almost all Chessgames (PGN files) or just view.

A lot of good Chess links will you find here.

Men and women who are primarily known as Chess players
and have an article at the English Wikipedia.

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Only undisputed world champions in the table above.
1993-2006 is a disputable period in chess.
GM is when the player became Grandmaster in chess.

In the table above the first four players was unofficial world champions.
Click on the name for games and "Wikipedia" for information!

First official World Champion was Wilhelm Steinitz in 1886

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer played for USA, when he became world champion.
In March 2005 he got full Icelandic citizenship.

FIDE World Champions 1993 - 2006:
Karpov, Anatoly 1993 - 1999
Khalifman, Alexander 1999 - 2000
Anand, Viswanathan 2000 - 2002
Ponomariov, Ruslan 2002 - 2004
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 2004 - 2005
Topalov, Veselin 2005 - 2006

World Chess Championship

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10 chess greatnesses that never became world champion in the table above!
GM is when the player became Grandmaster in chess.
Click on the name for games and "Wikipedia" for information!

Victor Korchnoi was a candidate for the World Championship on ten occasions:
1962, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1991
In late December 2012, it was reported that he was recovering
from a stroke and was unlikely to play competitive chess again.
He had 2602 in rating as late as in July 2008; 77 years and 3 months old.
From March to May 2012 - 81 years old - he increased(!) the rating from 2549 to 2558

Paul Keres might have been world champion if not World War II

Victor Korchnoi was born in Russia.
Samuel Herman Reshevsky was born in Poland.
Miguel Najdorf was born in Poland and died in Spain.

Norwegian Champinship 2018 in Sarpsborg 6-14 July.

Norwegian Championship 2019 in Larvik 5-13 July.

Norwegian Championship 2020 at Hell
(funny name in English, but not in Norwegian).

Norwegian Championship 2021 in Bergen.

Top 100 in Norway with FIDE rating November 2018

* Active Norwegian players with 2400 or more in FIDE rating *

Click on the name to look at the games for the player!
Click on "Rp" for rating progress (chart) for the chess player! Scroll down at that website!
After you have clicked on "Rp", then click on "Profile" to look at the picture of the chosen player.

Other Norwegian famous player:

Olaf Barda, from Norway, was the first Norwegian International Master.
He became no 4 in the 1st World Correspondence Chess, 1950 - 1953

IM is when the player became International Master in chess.
Click on the name for games and "Wikipedia" for information!

Ivar Bern was first Norwegian ICCF World Champion.
He won the 17th World Correspondence Chess, 2002 - 2007

Norwegian Grandmaster gallery:

Click on the name to look at the games for the player!

Tournaments 1843 - 2018 and last 5 years:

Tournament number in green (link) and
year when the tournaments was played.
It will be 50 tournaments at each site.

Nordic active players outside Norway >2500:

Other famous Nordic chess players:

Bent Larsen, from Denmark, was the first Western player to pose a serious challenge to the Soviet Union's dominance in chess.

GM is the year when the player became Grandmaster in chess.
IM is the year when the player became International Master in chess.
Click on the name for games and "Wikipedia" for information!

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