Select Top 20 players for every rating period from 1967 using the box at the top right of the table.
These ratings are official FIDE ratings.
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| 1 | Kasparov, Garry | 2830 | 2003 Jul | 40 |
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| 2 | Kramnik, Vladimir | 2785 | 2003 Jul | 28 |
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| 3 | Anand, Viswanathan | 2774 | 2003 Jul | 33 |
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| 4 | Leko, Peter | 2739 | 2003 Jul | 23 |
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| 5 | Topalov, Veselin | 2735 | 2003 Jul | 28 |
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| 6 | Grischuk, Alexander | 2732 | 2003 Jul | 19 |
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| 7 | Shirov, Alexei | 2732 | 2003 Jul | 30 |
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| 8 | Svidler, Peter | 2723 | 2003 Jul | 27 |
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| 9 | Bareev, Evgeny | 2721 | 2003 Jul | 36 |
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| 10 | Adams, Michael | 2719 | 2003 Jul | 31 |
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| 11 | Polgar, Judit | 2718 | 2003 Jul | 26 |
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| 12 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | 2718 | 2003 Jul | 19 |
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| 13 | Ivanchuk, Vasyl | 2710 | 2003 Jul | 34 |
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| 14 | Akopian, Vladimir | 2703 | 2003 Jul | 31 |
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| 15 | Azmaiparashvili, Zurab | 2702 | 2003 Jul | 43 |
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| 16 | Short, Nigel | 2701 | 2003 Jul | 38 |
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| 17 | Dreev, Aleksey | 2698 | 2003 Jul | 34 |
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| 18 | Malakhov, Vladimir | 2696 | 2003 Jul | 22 |
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| 19 | Gelfand, Boris | 2695 | 2003 Jul | 35 |
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| 20 | Sokolov Ivan | 2693 | 2003 Jul | 35 |
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