Chess Rankings #6:Peak elo in 2000s
| 1 |  |
Garry Kasparov | 2851 | 2000-01 |
| 2 |  |
Veselin Topalov | 2813 | 2006-07 |
| 3 | |
Vladimir Kramnik | 2811[b] | 2002-01 |
| 4 |  |
Viswanathan Anand | 2803 | 2006-04 |
| 5 |  |
Magnus Carlsen | 2801 | 2009-11 |
| 6 | |
Alexander Morozevich | 2788 | 2008-07 |
| 7 |  |
Vasyl Ivanchuk | 2787 | 2007-10 |
| 8 |   |
Levon Aronian | 2786 | 2009-11 |
| 9 | |
Peter Svidler | 2765 | 2006-01 |
| 10 |  |
Peter Leko | 2763 | 2005-04 |
| 11 |  |
Teimour Radjabov | 2761 | 2009-01 |
| 12 | |
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 2760 | 2008-01 |
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Dmitry Jakovenko | 2760 | 2009-01 | |
| 14 | |
Vugar Gashimov | 2758 | 2009-11 |
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Boris Gelfand | 2758 | 2009-11 | |
| 16 |  |
Alexei Shirov | 2755 | 2008-01 |
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Michael Adams | 2755 | 2000-07 | |
| 18 |   |
Sergei Movsesian | 2751 | 2009-01 |
| 19 | |
Alexander Grischuk | 2748 | 2009-04 |
| 20 | |
Ruslan Ponomariov | 2743 | 2002-04 |
