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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.
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 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.
Rating World ranking (January 2025) The winner of the 2024 FIDE Circuit [a] Fabiano Caruana: 32 2803 2 The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 [b] TBD TBD The top three finishers in the Chess World Cup 2025 [c] TBD TBD TBD The winner of the 2025 FIDE Circuit [d] TBD Highest rating averaged from August 2025 to January 2026 ...
The FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 will be a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, in September 2025. It forms part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2026. It will be an 11-round Swiss-system tournament.
Former world champion (2000–2007), formerly world no. 1 (1996, 2008), formerly youngest player to achieve 2800+ rating 10 Bulgaria: Veselin Topalov: 2816 2015-07 1975 Highest-ranked Bulgarian player (since 1993), former world champion (FIDE 2005–2006), formerly world no. 1 (2006–2007, 2008–2009) United States: Hikaru Nakamura: 2816 2015-10
Rating World ranking (January 2025) The top three finishers in the Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge: Magnus Carlsen (winner) 34 2831 1 Fabiano Caruana (runner-up) 32 2803 2 Levon Aronian (third place) 42 2747 11 The three highest rated players in the April 2024 FIDE rankings: Hikaru Nakamura: 37 2802 3 Nodirbek Abdusattorov: 20 2768 6 Alireza ...
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.