The Top Chess Players in the World

GM Thomas Beerdsen 2502 | #596

Bio coming soon.

Haowen Xue 2502 | #596

GM Savva Vetokhin 2502 | #596

GM Susanto Megaranto 2502 | #596

Susanto Megaranto is an Indonesian grandmaster. In the second round of the 2021 FIDE World Cup, he forfeited his match with GM Fabiano Caruana after testing positive for Covid-19.

IM Eytan Rozen 2502 | #596

GM Praveen Balakrishnan 2502 | #596

GM Praveen Balakrishnan is an American chess grandmaster at the University of Chicago.

GM Tong Xiao 2502 | #596

GM Paul Velten 2501 | #607

IM Vladislav Nozdrachev 2501 | #607

Bio coming soon.

GM Visakh N R 2501 | #607

The initials are derived from his father and the person should be referred to by the given name, Visakh.

GM Steven Zierk 2501 | #607

IM Safal Bora 2501 | #607

IM Read Samadov 2501 | #607

IM Read Samadov is an Azerbaijani chess player who qualified for the 2023 Junior Speed Chess Championship.

GM Kirk Ghazarian 2501 | #607

IM Marko Nenezic 2501 | #607

GM Vlastimil Babula 2501 | #607

GM Jan Bernasek 2501 | #607

GM Mukhiddin Madaminov 2501 | #607

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GM Luka Budisavljevic 2501 | #607

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GM Guillaume Lamard 2500 | #619

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GM Youri Solodovnitchenko 2500 | #619

GM Alisher Suleymenov 2500 | #619

Alisher Suleymenov is a Kazakhstani grandmaster who scored an upset win over GM Magnus Carlsen in the second round of the 2023 Qatar Masters.

GM Evgenios Ioannidis 2500 | #619

IM Brewington Hardaway 2499 | #623

GM-elect Brewington Hardaway is an American chess prodigy. He earned the international master title in November 2023 and qualified for the grandmaster title just a year later, making him the first U.S.-born Black grandmaster ever, and second African-American after GM Maurice Ashley.

GM Ermes Espinosa Veloz 2499 | #623