| Rnk | Name | Title | Country | Rating | Games | B-Year |
| 1 | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2792 | 4 | 1969 |
| 2 | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2769 | 1 | 1975 |
| 3 | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2768 | 10 | 1975 |
| 4 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2762 | 22 | 1969 |
| 5 | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2758 | 18 | 1977 |
| 6 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2755 | 14 | 1985 |
| 7 | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2751 | 9 | 1979 |
| 8 | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2750 | 15 | 1982 |
| 9 | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2746 | 7 | 1987 |
| 10 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2735 | 29 | 1983 |
| 11 | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2735 | 28 | 1972 |
| 12 | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2735 | 6 | 1976 |
| 13 | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2733 | 21 | 1968 |
| 14 | Adams, Michael | g | ENG | 2731 | 8 | 1971 |
| 15 | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2726 | 18 | 1983 |
| 16 | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2717 | 28 | 1974 |
| 17 | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2710 | 19 | 1990 |
| 18 | Akopian, Vladimir | g | ARM | 2708 | 5 | 1971 |
| 19 | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2707 | 10 | 1976 |
| 20 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2706 | 16 | 1983 |
| 21 | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2701 | 24 | 1983 |
| 22 | Wang, Yue | g | CHN | 2696 | 25 | 1987 |
| 23 | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2695 | 20 | 1983 |
| 24 | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2689 | 26 | 1985 |
| 25 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2687 | 10 | 1971 | |
| 26 | Bu, Xiangzhi | g | CHN | 2685 | 27 | 1985 |
| 27 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | g | UZB | 2683 | 17 | 1979 |
| 28 | Short, Nigel D | g | ENG | 2683 | 10 | 1965 |
| 29 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | g | ROU | 2682 | 33 | 1976 |
| 30 | Almasi, Zoltan | g | HUN | 2682 | 17 | 1976 |