The Top Chess Players in the World - Page 6

GM Jonas Buhl Bjerre 2615 | #94

GM Jonas Bjerre is a Danish chess grandmaster. He began 2024 as the #8 rated junior player in the world, and the second-highest rated in Europe behind only GM Vincent Keymer.

GM Peter Heine Nielsen

GM Peter Heine Nielsen is a Danish grandmaster living in Lithuania who is the longtime lead second for World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Prior to working with Carlsen, Nielsen was a second for the previous world champion, GM Viswanathan Anand. After earning the GM title in 1994, Nielsen became five-time...

GM Bassem Amin 2614 | #96

Bassem Amin is an Egyptian grandmaster and six-time African Chess Champion. He also has three Arab Chess Championships, multiple African and Arab youth titles, and three bronze medals in the World Youth/Junior Chess Championships. Amin is the highest-rated player not only in Egypt but in Africa as well....

GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko 2614 | #96

Yuriy Kryvoruchko is a Ukrainian grandmaster and the 2013 Ukrainian Chess Champion. That victory came after he defeated GM and former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov on tiebreaks. The same year, Kryvoruchko made it to the third round of the World Cup after a surprising win against GM Michael Adams...

GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan 2613 | #98

Samvel Ter-Sahakyan is an Armenian grandmaster and the 2020 national champion.  He won the Under-10 and the Under-18 European Youth Chess Championships in 2003 and 2009 respectively as well as the World U-18 Chess Championship in 2011. Ter-Sahakyan won the PRO Chess League with the Armenian Eagles...

GM Georg Meier 2612 | #99

Georg Meier is a German-born grandmaster who now represents Uruguay. He learned chess at the age of three. He won the German Under-16 Championship in 2003 and became a GM in 2007. In 2011, he won the European Team Championship with the German team, scoring 5.5/9 on board two. Meier reached his...

GM Ferenc Berkes 2612 | #99

Ferenc Berkes is a Hungarian grandmaster and eight-time national champion. His impressive list of Hungarian Chess Championships took place in 2004, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2018. Two years before winning his first national championship, he was the 2002 World Under 18 World Champion. He’s...

GM Vasif Durarbayli

GM Vasif Durarbayli is a grandmaster from Azerbaijan who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup. He is a two-time Azerbaijani Chess Champion (2021, 2023).

GM Mukhiddin Madaminov 2611 | #102

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GM Ma Qun 2611 | #102

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GM Ioannis Papaioannou

GM Ante Brkic

Ante Brkic is a Croatian chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Gabriel Sargissian 2610 | #104

Gabriel Sargissian is an Armenian grandmaster who won three Olympic gold medals with his national team.  As a young player, Sargissian won the Under-14 World Youth Chess Championship in 1996. He won bronze at the European Junior Chess Championship in 1998 and the individual European championship...

GM Laurent Fressinet 2608 | #105

GM Laurent Fressinet is a French grandmaster, two-time French champion, and longtime second to GM Magnus Carlsen.

GM Christopher Yoo 2607 | #106

Christopher Yoo is an American grandmaster and the 2020 U.S. Cadet (U16) Champion. He won that title with an undefeated performance, eclipsing the field by two and a half points. The same year, the 13-year-old finished in fifth place (out of 10) at the U.S. Junior (U21) Championship. Yoo became the...

GM Julio E Granda Zuniga

Julio E Granda Zuniga is a Peruvian Grandmaster.

GM Daniel Dardha

Daniel Dardha is a chess grandmaster from Belgium. He is both the youngest-ever Belgian national champion (2019 and again in 2021) and the youngest Belgian grandmaster (2021).

GM Jules Moussard

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GM Zhou Jianchao 2605 | #107

GM Zhou Jianchao is a Chinese-American grandmaster. From 2025-26, he played 158 official games without losing a single one.

GM Miguel Santos Ruiz

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GM Oleksandr Bortnyk 2604 | #108

Oleksandr Bortnyk is a Ukrainian grandmaster who earned that title in 2015 at the age of 19. He was the 2014 World Youth Champion in the under-18 group. Bortnyk is an incredibly talented speed chess player and reached the 2019 Bullet Chess Championship finals against GM Hikaru Nakamura. His Chess.com...

GM Yuriy Kuzubov

Yuriy Kuzubov is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Cristobal Henriquez Villagra 2603 | #109

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GM Nils Grandelius 2603 | #109

Nils Grandelius is a Swedish grandmaster and the top-ranked player in that country (as of February 2021). He won the Swedish Chess Championship in 2015 and as a junior took the under-18 World Youth Chess Champions in 2010. In 2019, Grandelius spent several months ranked among the world’s top-50...

GM Alexandr Predke 2603 | #109

Alexandr Predke is a Russian grandmaster who won the U16 Russian Youth Chess Championship in 2010. He placed third in the 2014 Russian Junior Championship (U20), and then in 2017, finished second in the Lev Polugaevsky Memorial tournament. In September 2019, he made his first appearance in the world’s...