FIDE world rankings

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes the lists "Top 100 Players", "Top 100 Women", "Top 100 Juniors" and "Top 100 Girls" rankings of countries according to the average rating of their top 10 players and top 10 female players. The Elo rating system is used.

Top players

Best Performing Countries – Open[1]
Federation (≥3 Players)	Players (Among Top 100)
Russia	22
United States	11
China	8
Ukraine	8
India	8
Azerbaijan	5
Hungary	4
Spain	4
England	3
Armenia	2
Other	25

The top 20 players were ranked on 1 May 2022 as follows:[1]

Rank	Rank change*	Player	Rating	Rating change*
1		Magnus Carlsen	2864
2	1	Ding Liren	2806	7
3	1	Alireza Firouzja	2804
4	1	Fabiano Caruana	2786	5
5	2	Richárd Rapport	2776
6	3	Ian Nepomniachtchi	2773
7	3	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2770	1
8	2	Wesley So	2766	12
9	5	Levon Aronian	2765	20
10	2	Anish Giri	2761	12
11	5	Hikaru Nakamura	2760	10
12		Leinier Domínguez	2753	3
13		Teimour Radjabov	2753
14		Viswanathan Anand	2751
15	4	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2750	8
16	1	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2750
17		Sergey Karjakin	2747
18		Wang Hao	2744
19		Alexander Grischuk	2742
20		Veselin Topalov	2730
*Change from the previous month

Top women

Best Performing Countries – Women[2]
Federation (≥3 Players)	Players (Among Top 100)
Russia	18
China	13
Georgia	6
India	6
Poland	6
France	5
Ukraine	5
United States	4
Azerbaijan	4
Armenia	3
Kazakhstan	3
Spain	3
Other	25

The top 20 female players were ranked on 1 May 2022 as follows:[2]

Rank	Rank change*	Player	Rating	Rating change*
1		Hou Yifan	2650
2		Aleksandra Goryachkina	2610
3		Ju Wenjun	2560
4		Kateryna Lagno	2550
5		Mariya Muzychuk	2540
6		Lei Tingjie	2535
7		Nana Dzagnidze	2531
8		Anna Muzychuk	2529
9		Tan Zhongyi	2525
10		Harika Dronavalli	2517
11		Alexandra Kosteniuk	2513	3
12	3	Alina Kashlinskaya	2498	8
13		Elisabeth Paehtz	2497	3
14	2	Polina Shuvalova	2493	11
15	1	Zhansaya Abdumalik	2489	7
16		Sarasadat Khademalsharieh	2488
17		Bela Khotenashvili	2485
18		Lela Javakhishvili	2480	2
19	4	Marie Sebag	2472	11
20	1	Natalija Pogonina	2472
*Change from the previous month

Top juniors

Best Performing Countries – Juniors[3]
Federation (≥3 Players)	Players (Among Top 100)
India	21
United States	11
Russia	10
Azerbaijan	5
Netherlands	4
Ukraine	4
Uzbekistan	4
Armenia	3
Germany	3
Other	35

Juniors are considered to be players who will remain under the age of 21 years for the duration of the current calendar year.

The top 20 juniors were ranked on 1 May 2022 as follows:[3]

Rank	Rank change*	Player	Rating	Rating change*
1		Alireza Firouzja	2804
2		Andrey Esipenko	2709	14
3		Arjun Erigaisi	2675	15
4	1	Vincent Keymer	2667	13
5	1	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	2661
6	3	Gukesh D	2659	22
7	3	Hans Niemann	2656	19
8	1	Nihal Sarin	2646	2
9	3	Kirill Shevchenko	2644	8
10	4	Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu	2642	18
11	3	Shant Sargsyan	2641	2
12	1	Nodirbek Yakubboev	2630
13	1	Velimir Ivić	2623	2
14	2	Raunak Sadhwani	2619	9
15		Awonder Liang	2613
16		Jonas Buhl Bjerre	2610	1
17		Javokhir Sindarov	2609
18	11	Arseniy Nesterov	2569	38
19		Daniel Dardha	2561	9
20	2	Luis Engel	2560
*Change from the previous month

Top girls

Best Performing Countries – Girls[4]
Federation (≥3 Players)	Players (Among Top 100)
Russia	19
India	13
China	7
Kazakhstan	7
United States	7
Bulgaria	6
Poland	5
Germany	4
Cuba	3
Other	29

Girls are considered to be female players who will remain under the age of 21 years for the duration of the current calendar year.

The top 20 girls were ranked on 1 May 2022 as follows:[4]

Rank	Rank change*	Player	Rating	Rating change*
1		Zhu Jiner	2464
2		Olga Badelka	2453
3		Bibisara Assaubayeva	2439
4	4	Nurgyul Salimova	2418	15
5		Carissa Yip	2418
6	2	Meruert Kamalidenova	2408	19
7	1	Leya Garifullina	2402	10
8	1	Aleksandra Maltsevskaya	2396	10
9	13	Govhar Beydullayeva	2384	76
10	4	Maria Malicka	2377	48
11	2	Ning Kaiyu	2374
12	2	Annie Wang	2372
13	2	Vantika Agrawal	2371	7
14	2	Eline Roebers	2369	13
15	2	Alice Lee	2344	10
16	1	Gaal Zsoka	2323	4
17	2	Divya Deshmukh	2317	4
18		Song Yuxin	2317
19	12	Urh Zala	2315	31
20		Sahithi Varshini M	2312
*Change from the previous month

Top federations

Every month, FIDE publishes a list ranking federations according to the average rating of their top 10 players. The top 20 federations were ranked as follows on 1 April 2022:[5]

Rank	Federation	Average top 10 rating
1	United States	2728
2	Russia	2712
3	China	2697
4	India	2671
5	Ukraine	2670
6	Azerbaijan	2651
7	France	2643
8	Armenia	2636
9	Spain	2635
10	Hungary	2632
11	Germany	2631
12	Poland	2629
13	Netherlands	2628
14	Czech Republic	2607
15	Israel	2598
16	Norway	2594
17	England	2580
18	Croatia	2579
19	Argentina	2567
20	Georgia	2566

References

"Chess Rankings". FIDE. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
"Chess Rankings". FIDE. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
"Chess Rankings". FIDE. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
"Chess Rankings". FIDE. Archived from the original on 6 September 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
"Top Chess Federations". FIDE. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2022.

External links

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[Open-1] "Chess Rankings". FIDE. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.

[Women-2] "Chess Rankings". FIDE. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.

[Juniors-3] "Chess Rankings". FIDE. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2022.

[Girls-4] "Chess Rankings". FIDE. Archived from the original on 6 September 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2022.

[5] "Top Chess Federations". FIDE. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2022.