The TOP 10 chess players in the world

These people are the 10 better chess players in the world. Comment if you want all the best players in the next blog! 

GM Magnus Carlsen
 
2853 | #1
Norway
GM Magnus Carlsen is the current world chess champion. To many people, he’s the best to ever play the game, although GMs Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer remain in the conversation. At any rate, the clear and remarkable point is that before turning 30 years old, Carlsen has already earned...
  
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi
 
2795 | #2
Russia
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (“Nepo” for short) is a Russian super grandmaster who won the 2020-21 Candidates Tournament and challenged GM Magnus Carlsen for the 2021 World Championship. Nepomniachtchi has a terrific overall record against world champions. At standard time controls, he has positive...
  
GM Ding Liren
 
2788 | #3
China
Ding Liren is a Chinese super grandmaster who will play against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 2023 World Championship. Ding won his first Chinese Chess Championship at the age of 16, making him the youngest to ever do so. In the 2017 and 2019 Chess World Cup, he became the first player in history to...
  
GM Alireza Firouzja
 
2785 | #4
France
Alireza Firouzja is an Iranian-born grandmaster who now plays for France. He is a world championship candidate and two-time Iranian champion. In late 2019 and early 2020, Firouzja electrified the chess world with his second place finish in the World Rapid Championship (one point behind World Champion...
  
GM Hikaru Nakamura
 
2775 | #5
United States
Hikaru Nakamura was born December 9, 1987 in Hirakata, Japan. His family moved to the United States when he was just two years old, and the Stars and Stripes are the only national banner he has known as a chess player.  Nakamura has been one of the world’s top players for well over a decade....
  
GM Anish Giri
 
2768 | #6
Netherlands
GM Anish Giri is a four-time Dutch champion and a world-class player. He has been ranked as high as number three in the world and reached his peak rating of 2802 on February 15, 2015. Giri has represented the Netherlands at the Olympiads since 2010. He won the 2012 Reggio Emilia tournament and the 2017...
  
GM Fabiano Caruana
 
2764 | #7
United States
The prodigy who broke the record held by GM Hikaru Nakamura for America's youngest chess grandmaster, Fabiano Caruana, has climbed the mountain of chess and reached the summit. This grandmaster has had a ranking as high as number-two in the world and has won numerous tournaments in his career. In 2018...
  
GM Wesley So
 
2760 | #8
United States
Wesley So is a Filipino-American super grandmaster who is among the world’s best chess players. He began as a chess prodigy who entered tournaments at nine years old. At 14, he became the ninth youngest GM in history. The next year, he became the youngest player to pass the 2600 rating threshold,...
  
GM Viswanathan Anand
 
2754 | #9
India
The name Viswanathan is a patronymic, and the player should be referred to by his name, Anand.Viswanathan Anand, the 15th undisputed chess champion and surely the greatest Indian chess player of all time, was born on Dec. 11, 1969 in Mayiladuthurai in Tamil Nadu, the southeasternmost state in India....
  
GM Sergey Karjakin
 
2747 | #10
Russia
Sergey Karjakin is an elite chess player who broke the record of youngest-ever GM at 12 years and seven months of age in 2003. Karjakin held his record until 2021 when GM Abhimanyu Mishra broke his record. Most notably, he pushed GM Magnus Carlsen—typically considered one of the two...