Chess Rankings #4:Peak elo in 1980s
| 1 |  |
Garry Kasparov | 2775 | 1989-01 |
| 2 | |
Anatoly Karpov | 2755 | 1989-07 |
| 3 | |
Mikhail Tal | 2705 | 1980-01 |
| 4 |  |
Viktor Korchnoi | 2695 | 1980-01 |
| 5 |  |
Jan Timman | 2675 | 1988-01 |
| 6 |  |
Nigel Short | 2665 | 1988-07 |
| 7 | |
Artur Yusupov | 2660 | 1986-07 |
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Vasyl Ivanchuk | 2660 | 1989-07 | |
| 9 |  |
Lajos Portisch | 2655 | 1980-01 |
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Alexander Beliavsky | 2655 | 1988-07 | |
| 11 |  |
Ljubomir Ljubojević | 2645 | 1983-01 |
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Rafael Vaganian | 2645 | 1986-01 | |
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Andrei Sokolov | 2645 | 1987-01 | |
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Jonathan Speelman | 2645 | 1988-07 | |
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Valery Salov | 2645 | 1989-07 | |
| 16 |  |
Robert Hübner | 2640 | 1981-07 |
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Ulf Andersson | 2640 | 1983-07 | |
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Mikhail Gurevich | 2640 | 1989-07 | |
| 19 | |
Lev Polugaevsky | 2635 | 1980-01 |
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Boris Spassky | 2635 | 1981-01 |
