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 Elo rating system is used.
The top 20 players were ranked on 1 January 2025 as follows:[1]
| Rank | Player | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Magnus Carlsen | style='text-align:center' | 2831 |
| 2 |  Fabiano Caruana | style='text-align:center' | 2803 |
| 3 | Hikaru Nakamura | style='text-align:center' | 2802 |
| 4 |  Arjun Erigaisi | 2801 | |
| 5 | Gukesh Dommaraju | style='text-align:center' | 2777 |
| 6 |  Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 2768 | |
| 7 |  Alireza Firouzja | 2763 | |
| 8 |  Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2754 | |
| 9 |  Wei Yi | 2751 | |
| 10 | Viswanathan Anand | style='text-align:center' | 2750 |
| 11 | Levon Aronian | 2747 | |
| 12 | Wesley So | 2747 | |
| 13 | R Praggnanandhaa | 2741 | |
| 14 | Leinier Domínguez Pérez | 2741 | |
| 15 |  Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2740 | |
| 16 | Lê Quang Liêm | 2739 | |
| 17 | Ding Liren | 2734 | |
| 18 | Hans Niemann | 2734 | |
| 19 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2733 | |
| 20 | Vincent Keymer | 2733 | |
The top 20 female players were ranked on 1 January 2025 as follows:[2]
| Rank | Player | Rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hou Yifan | style='text-align:center' | 2633 | |
| 2 | Ju Wenjun | style='text-align:center' | 2561 | |
| 3 | Tan Zhongyi | style='text-align:center' | 2561 | |
| 4 | Lei Tingjie | style='text-align:center' | 2552 | |
| 5 | Aleksandra Goryachkina | style='text-align:center' | 2546 | |
| 6 | Koneru Humpy | style='text-align:center' | 2523 | |
| 7 |  Nana Dzagnidze | style='text-align:center' | 2518 | |
| 8 | Kateryna Lagno | style='text-align:center' | 2515 | |
| 9 |  Anna Muzychuk | style='text-align:center' | 2515 | |
| 10 | Zhu Jiner | style='text-align:center' | 2514 | |
| 11 | Polina Shuvalova | style='text-align:center' | 2508 | |
| 12 | Alina Kashlinskaya | style='text-align:center' | 2493 | |
| 13 |  Bibisara Assaubayeva | style='text-align:center' | 2492 | |
| 14 | Divya Deshmukh | style='text-align:center' | 2490 | |
| 15 | Mariya Muzychuk | style='text-align:center' | 2490 | |
| 16 | Harika Dronavalli | style='text-align:center' | 2489 | |
| 17 | Alexandra Kosteniuk | style='text-align:center' | 2484 | |
| 18 | Nino Batsiashvili | style='text-align:center' | 2476 | |
| 19 | Vaishali Rameshbabu | style='text-align:center' | 2476 | |
| 20 | Yuliia Osmak | style='text-align:center' | 2463 |
Juniors are considered to be male 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 January 2025 as follows:[3]
| Rank | Player | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gukesh Dommaraju | 2783 | |
| 2 | R Praggnanandhaa | 2741 | |
| 3 | Javokhir Sindarov | 2692 | |
| 4 | Raunak Sadhwani | 2675 | |
| 5 | Volodar Murzin | style='text-align:center' | 2657 |
| 6 |  Daniel Dardha | style='text-align:center' | 2645 |
| 7 | Leon Luke Mendonca | style='text-align:center' | 2639 |
| 8 |  Ediz Gürel | style='text-align:center' | 2624 |
| 9 |  Aydin Suleymanli | 2623 | |
| 10 | Pranav V | 2615 | |
| 11 | Bardiya Daneshvar | 2604 | |
| 12 | Abhimanyu Mishra | 2600 | |
| 13 | Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş | 2599 | |
| 14 | Christopher Yoo | 2588 | |
| 15 | Pranesh M | 2586 | |
| 16 | Marc'Andria Maurizzi | 2579 | |
| 17 |  Denis Lazavik | 2578 | |
| 18 | Bharath Subramaniyam | 2567 | |
| 19 | Aleksey Grebnev | 2555 | |
| 20 | Ivan Zemlyanskii | 2554 | |
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 January 2025 as follows:[4]
| Rank | Player | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Divya Deshmukh | style='text-align:center' | 2490 |
| 2 | Lu Miaoyi | style='text-align:center' | 2429 |
| 3 |  Zsóka Gaál | style='text-align:center' | 2404 |
| 4 | Alice Lee | style='text-align:center' | 2386 |
| 5 | Song Yuxin | style='text-align:center' | 2384 |
| 6 | Eline Roebers | style='text-align:center' | 2381 |
| 7 | Anna Shukhman | style='text-align:center' | 2365 |
| 8 | Meruert Kamalidenova | style='text-align:center' | 2355 |
| 9 | Afruza Khamdamova | style='text-align:center' | 2354 |
| 10 | Sarayu Velpula | style='text-align:center' | 2347 |
| 11 |  Dana Kochavi | style='text-align:center' | 2345 |
| 12 | Bayanmunkh Amin-Erdene | style='text-align:center' | 2342 |
| 13 | Alua Nurman | style='text-align:center' | 2336 |
| 14 | Amina Kairbekova | style='text-align:center' | 2336 |
| 15 | Savitha Shri Baskar | style='text-align:center' | 2331 |
| 16 | Rakshitta Ravi | style='text-align:center' | 2320 |
| 17 | Olga Karmanova | style='text-align:center' | 2316 |
| 18 | Nadya Toncheva | style='text-align:center' | 2313 |
| 19 |  Machteld van Foreest | style='text-align:center' | 2312 |
| 20 | Sahithi Varshini Moogi | style='text-align:center' | 2309 |
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 January 2025:[5]
| Rank | Federation | Average top 10 rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2731 | ||
| 2 | 2723 | ||
| 3 | 2672 | ||
| 4 | 2657 | ||
| 5 | 2635 | ||
| 6 | 2627 | ||
| 7 | 2623 | ||
| 8 | 2622 | ||
| 9 | 2622 | ||
| 10 | 2621 | ||
| 11 | 2619 | ||
| 12 | 2615 | ||
| 13 | 2603 | ||
| 14 | 2599 | ||
| 15 | 2596 | ||
| 16 | 2590 | ||
| 17 | 2583 | ||
| 18 | 2572 | ||
| 19 | 2570 | ||
| 20 | 2564 |