World Chess Rankings:

Rating system is very useful when it comes to rank players in a certain game. It makes things easier and practical because otherwise it is very difficult to determine who the best player is. Ranks are given to the player’s according to their performance. Like many other games chess players are also ranked. To determine world chess rankings Elo rating system is used by FIDE (World Chess Federation) which is a governing body connecting different national chess federation. Elo rating system was shaped by Arpad Elo which was previously be used only for chess game but now it is used to rate some other games as well.

World chess rankings are for the countries as well as players. To start with, following table shows the first 10 ranks of country’s federation as per their 10 strongest player’s average scores. Men and women rankings are shown separately.

Using the same Elo rating system top 10 best Chess Players are also determined according to their performance. These rankings are determined after tournaments and are done four times a year. These rankings are very useful in determining which players should be invited in the matches. Following are the 10 top chess players with their ratings.

 These rankings are practiced from quite a time now; the player who had achieved the highest rate ever was Garry Kasparov (retired). His rate was 2851 in July 1999 and January 2000.