There are 37 players rated 2700 or more. Two are new: Laurent Fressinet and Fabiano Caruana, who both enter the list for the first time, whereas Alexander Onischuk and Peter Heine Nielsen have slipped out of this 'elite' category.
The biggest riser was Michael Adams after a remarkable run in the British Championship.
As you can see in the list below (in bold in the 1/9/10 column), only nine of these players have gained rating points in the previous couple of months.
Ranking | Name | Country | Age | Rating 1/9/10 | Rating 1/7/10 | Rating 1/5/10 | rating 1/3/10 | Career Highest |
1 | Magnus Carlsen | NOR | 19 | 2826 | 2826 | 2813 | 2813 | 2826 |
2 | Veselin Topalov | BUL | 35 | 2803 | 2803 | 2812 | 2805 | 2813 |
3 | Viswanathan Anand | IND | 40 | 2800 | 2800 | 2789 | 2787 | 2803 |
4 | Levon Aronian | ARM | 27 | 2783 | 2783 | 2783 | 2782 | 2786 |
5 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 35 | 2780 | 2790 | 2790 | 2790 | 2811 |
6 | Pavel Eljanov | UKR | 27 | 2761 | 2755 | 2751 | 2736 | 2761 |
7 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 26 | 2760 | 2760 | 2760 | 2756 | 2760 |
8 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | AZE | 25 | 2756 | 2761 | 2763 | 2760 | 2763 |
9 | Vassily Ivanchuk | UKR | 41 | 2754 | 2739 | 2741 | 2748 | 2787 |
10 | Boris Gelfand | ISR | 42 | 2751 | 2739 | 2741 | 2750 | 2761 |
11 | Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR | 26 | 2749 | 2734 | 2733 | 2737 | 2749 |
12 | Alexei Shirov | ESP | 38 | 2749 | 2749 | 2742 | 2737 | 2755 |
13 | Teimour Radjabov | AZE | 23 | 2748 | 2748 | 2740 | 2740 | 2761 |
14 | Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 20 | 2747 | 2747 | 2739 | 2725 | 2747 |
15 | Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 22 | 2733 | 2729 | 2733 | 2735 | 2735 |
16 | Wang Yue | CHN | 23 | 2732 | 2716 | 2752 | 2749 | 2752 |
17 | Peter Svidler | RUS | 34 | 2731 | 2734 | 2735 | 2750 | 2765 |
18 | Michael Adams | ENG | 38 | 2728 | 2706 | 2697 | 2704 | 2755 |
19 | Dmitry Jakovenko | RUS | 27 | 2726 | 2726 | 2725 | 2725 | 2760 |
20 | Vladimir Malakhov | RUS | 29 | 2725 | 2732 | 2722 | 2721 | 2732 |
21 | Peter Leko | HUN | 30 | 2724 | 2734 | 2735 | 2735 | 2763 |
22 | Wang Hao | CHN | 21 | 2724 | 2724 | 2722 | 2715 | 2724 |
23 | Sergei Movsesian | SVK | 31 | 2723 | 2723 | 2717 | 2709 | 2751 |
24 | David Navara | CZE | 25 | 2722 | 2731 | 2718 | 2708 | 2731 |
25 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | FRA | 19 | 2721 | 2723 | 2710 | 2727 | 2730 |
26 | Vugar Gashimov | AZE | 24 | 2719 | 2719 | 2734 | 2740 | 2759 |
27 | Laurent Fressinet | FRA | 28 | 2718 | 2697 | 2689 | 2670 | 2718 |
28 | Etienne Bacrot | FRA | 27 | 2716 | 2720 | 2710 | 2714 | 2731 |
29 | Leinier Dominguez Perez | CUB | 26 | 2716 | 2716 | 2713 | 2713 | 2721 |
30 | Baadur Jobava | GEO | 26 | 2710 | 2710 | 2715 | 2695 | 2715 |
31 | Nikita Vitiugov | RUS | 23 | 2709 | 2722 | 2707 | 2710 | 2722 |
32 | Zoltan Almasi | HUN | 34 | 2707 | 2717 | 2725 | 2720 | 2725 |
33 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | RUS | 20 | 2706 | 2706 | 2695 | 2656 | 2706 |
34 | Gata Kamsky | USA | 36 | 2705 | 2713 | 2702 | 2702 | 2745 |
35 | Evgeny Tomashevsky | RUS | 23 | 2701 | 2708 | 2708 | 2701 | 2708 |
36 | Fabiano Caruana | ITA | 18 | 2700 | 2697 | 2675 | 2680 | 2700 |
37 | Alexander Morozevich | RUS | 33 | 2700 | 2715 | 2715 | 2715 | 2788 |
In the right-hand column, those players who have their career best rating at the present time have had their peak rating highlighted. Apart from newcomers Fressinet and Caruana, both Ukrainians Eljanov and Ponomariov have achieved their highest ever rating.
In terms of age Boris Gelfand is the oldest and Fabiano Caruana the youngest. There are three teenagers (Carlsen and Vachier-Lagrave as well as Caruana), three 40+s (Anand, Ivanchuk and Gelfand), ten players between 30 and 39, and as many as 21 players in their twenties.