Chess Rankings #5:Peak elo in 1990s
| 1 | Garry Kasparov | 2851 | 1999-07 | |
| 2 | Viswanathan Anand | 2795 | 1998-07 | |
| 3 | Vladimir Kramnik | 2790 | 1998-01 | |
| 4 | Anatoly Karpov | 2780 | 1994-07 | |
| 5 | Alexander Morozevich | 2758 | 1999-07 | |
| 6 | Veselin Topalov | 2750 | 1996-07 | |
| 7 | Gata Kamsky | 2745 | 1996-07 | |
| 8 | Alexei Shirov | 2740 | 1994-07 | |
| Vasyl Ivanchuk | 2740 | 1995-07 | ||
| 10 | Michael Adams | 2716 | 1999-01 | |
| 11 | Valery Salov | 2715 | 1995-01 | |
| 12 | Peter Svidler | 2713 | 1999-01 | |
| Boris Gelfand | 2713 | 1999-07 | ||
| 14 | Alexander Beliavsky | 2710 | 1997-07 | |
| 15 | Peter Leko | 2701 | 1999-07 | |
| 16 | Evgeny Bareev | 2698 | 1999-07 | |
| 17 | Nigel Short | 2697 | 1999-01 | |
| 18 | Sergei Rublevsky | 2685 | 1998-07 | |
| 19 | Zurab Azmaiparashvili | 2681 | 1999-01 | |
| 20 | Jan Timman | 2680 | 1990-01 | |
| Artur Yusupov | 2680 | 1995-07 |