thats something to think about. another layer of ranks.
Super duper GMs
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Yeah the peak rating is a little arbitrary though... It's hard to really set any criteria that are fair. for example, is Wesley So really stronger overall than Ian Nepomniachtchi? I don't think so. At the time of this writing, Nepo is probably the stronger player -- but So has been over 2800 and Nepo has not.
At the forefront of everyone's mind in chess at all times is the question of what to call those few exceptional players who stand out even among their fellow grandmasters and are making a comfortable living playing chess for a wide audience. The term "Super GM" has been coined to refer to these familiar names -- Richard Rapport, Anish Giri, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Ian Nepomniahtchi -- but what about those players who stand out even among Super GMs? I propose that we call these elite few players who have held FIDE ratings above 2800 to be called Super duper GMs. At the time of this writing, there are only 14 of them: Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Wesley So, Shakriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Ding Liren, Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Grischuk, and Alireza Firouzja.