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January 2025 FIDE Rankings Rank Prev Player Rating Change 1 1 Magnus Carlsen: 2831 0 2 2 Fabiano Caruana: 2803 -2 3 3 Hikaru Nakamura: 2802 0 4 4 Arjun Erigaisi: 2801 0 5 5 Gukesh Dommaraju: 2777 -6 6 6 Nodirbek Abdusattorov: 2768 -9 7 7 Alireza Firouzja: 2763 0 8 8 Ian Nepomniachtchi: 2754 -1 9 9 Wei Yi: 2751 -2 10 10 Viswanathan Anand: 2750 0
The Women's World Chess Championship 2025 will take place in 2025 as a match between Ju Wenjun, the current champion, and Tan Zhongyi, the winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024. [1] Both players previously challenged for the world championship in May 2018 , with Ju defeating then-world champion Tan 5½–4½ to win the title.
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" and rankings of countries according to the average rating of their top 10 players and top 10 female players in the classical time control.
The 2025 FIDE Circuit is a system comprising the top chess tournaments in 2025, which serves as a qualification path for the Candidates Tournament 2026. Players receive points based on their performance and the strength of the tournament. A player's final Circuit score is the sum of their seven best results of the year.
For example, in 2021, the top 4 finishers qualified for the Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23 including Aleksandra Goryachkina who qualified as the 2020 World Championship runner-up. Year Dates
Current Women's World Chess Champion Ju Wenjun from China. The Women's World Chess Championship is a chess match played to determine the Women's World Chess Champion. It has been administered by FIDE since its inception in 1927, unlike the absolute World Chess Championship, which only came under FIDE's control in 1948.
The International Chess Federation – also known as FIDE – says players who have transitioned from male to female have “no right to participate” in women’s events until the federation ...
FIDE publishes lists of highest-rated girl chess players; a "girl" is defined as being a player who is aged under 20 at the start of the year, and female. The following is a list of the players ranked number one girl in the FIDE rating system from January 2000 to the present day, along with their ratings during the periods in question.