Chess players’ worldwide ratings based on ELO points, as of the April 2020 (source: FIDE.com)
| FIDE Rating # | Name | Fed | Rating |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2863 |
| 2 | Caruana, Fabiano | USA | 2835 |
| 3 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 2791 |
| 4 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2784 |
| 5 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2778 |
| 6 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2777 |
| 7 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2773 |
| 8 | So, Wesley | USA | 2770 |
| 9 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2765 |
| 10 | Giri, Anish | NED | 2764 |
| 11 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2764 |
| 12 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 2763 |
| 13 | Rapport, Richard | HUN | 2760 |
| 14 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | USA | 2758 |
| 15 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2753 |
| 16 | Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2753 |
| 17 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2752 |
| 18 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2736 |
| 19 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2735 |
| 20 | Wei, Yi | CHN | 2732 |
| 21 | Firouzja, Alireza | FID | 2728 |
| 22 | Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | 2726 |
| 23 | Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi | IND | 2726 |
| 24 | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2723 |
| 25 | Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 2722 |