Top 100 Players 2011
Rank | Name | Country | Rating | B-Year |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2821 | 1990 |
| 2 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2817 | 1969 |
| 3 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2805 | 1982 |
| 4 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2788 | 1990 |
| 5 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2781 | 1975 |
| 6 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2768 | 1969 |
| 7 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2768 | 1983 |
| 8 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2768 | 1975 |
| 9 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2766 | 1987 |
| 10 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2765 | 1985 |
| 11 | Gashimov, Vugar | AZE | 2760 | 1986 |
| 12 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2746 | 1968 |
| 13 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2746 | 1983 |
| 14 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2744 | 1987 |
| 15 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2741 | 1974 |
| 16 | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2739 | 1976 |
| 17 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2736 | 1983 |
| 18 | Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 2733 | 1987 |
| 19 | Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | 2726 | 1976 |
| 20 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 2724 | 1982 |
| 21 | Navara, David | CZE | 2722 | 1985 |
| 22 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2722 | 1990 |
| 23 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | 2719 | 1983 |
| 24 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 2718 | 1989 |
| 25 | Leko, Peter | HUN | 2717 | 1979 |
| 26 | Moiseenko, Alexander | UKR | 2715 | 1980 |
| 27 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2715 | 1991 |
| 28 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2715 | 1971 |
| 29 | Shirov, Alexei | ESP | 2714 | 1972 |
| 30 | Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 2713 | 1983 |
| 31 | Dreev, Aleksey | RUS | 2711 | 1969 |
| 32 | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2711 | 1992 |
| 33 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2711 | 1990 |
| 34 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2710 | 1983 |
| 35 | Wang, Yue | CHN | 2709 | 1987 |
| 36 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2707 | 1987 |
| 37 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | 2706 | 1985 |
| 38 | Efimenko, Zahar | UKR | 2706 | 1985 |
| 39 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 2706 | 1980 |
| 40 | Giri, Anish | NED | 2701 | 1994 |
| 41 | Sutovsky, Emil | ISR | 2700 | 1977 |
| 42 | Movsesian, Sergei | ARM | 2700 | 1978 |
| 43 | Polgar, Judit | HUN | 2699 | 1976 |
| 44 | Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 2698 | 1981 |
| 45 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2697 | 1983 |
| 46 | Berkes, Ferenc | HUN | 2696 | 1985 |
| 47 | Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | 2696 | 1990 |
| 48 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2694 | 1977 |
| 49 | Zhigalko, Sergei | BLR | 2689 | 1989 |
| 50 | Riazantsev, Alexander | RUS | 2688 | 1985 |
| 51 | Short, Nigel D | ENG | 2687 | 1965 |
| 52 | Motylev, Alexander | RUS | 2685 | 1979 |
| 53 | Rublevsky, Sergei | RUS | 2684 | 1974 |
| 54 | Van Wely, Loek | NED | 2683 | 1972 |
| 55 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2683 | 1987 |
| 56 | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2683 | 1986 |
| 57 | Areshchenko, Alexander | UKR | 2682 | 1986 |
| 58 | Potkin, Vladimir | RUS | 2682 | 1982 |
| 59 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | 2681 | 1981 |
| 60 | Laznicka, Viktor | CZE | 2681 | 1988 |
| 61 | Nielsen, Peter Heine | DEN | 2681 | 1973 |
| 62 | Grachev, Boris | RUS | 2680 | 1986 |
| 63 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | 2679 | 1985 |
| 64 | Kobalia, Mikhail | RUS | 2679 | 1978 |
| 65 | Mamedov, Rauf | AZE | 2679 | 1988 |
| 66 | Bologan, Viktor | MDA | 2678 | 1971 |
| 67 | Smirin, Ilia | ISR | 2676 | 1968 |
| 68 | Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2675 | 1985 |
| 69 | Onischuk, Alexander | USA | 2675 | 1975 |
| 70 | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | CUB | 2673 | 1982 |
| 71 | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2672 | 1994 |
| 72 | Sokolov, Ivan | NED | 2672 | 1968 |
| 73 | Korobov, Anton | UKR | 2671 | 1985 |
| 74 | McShane, Luke J | ENG | 2671 | 1984 |
| 75 | Gharamian, Tigran | FRA | 2670 | 1984 |
| 76 | Harikrishna, P. | IND | 2669 | 1986 |
| 77 | Li, Chao b | CHN | 2669 | 1989 |
| 78 | Roiz, Michael | ISR | 2669 | 1983 |
| 79 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2669 | 1979 |
| 80 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2669 | 1986 |
| 81 | Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | 2667 | 1971 |
| 82 | Feller, Sebastien | FRA | 2666 | 1991 |
| 83 | Timofeev, Artyom | RUS | 2665 | 1985 |
| 84 | Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2663 | 1983 |
| 85 | Ni, Hua | CHN | 2662 | 1983 |
| 86 | Fridman, Daniel | GER | 2659 | 1976 |
| 87 | Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 2659 | 1985 |
| 88 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | RUS | 2659 | 1976 |
| 89 | So, Wesley | PHI | 2658 | 1993 |
| 90 | Meier, Georg | GER | 2656 | 1987 |
| 91 | Khismatullin, Denis | RUS | 2656 | 1984 |
| 92 | Sandipan, Chanda | IND | 2656 | 1983 |
| 93 | Georgiev, Kiril | BUL | 2654 | 1965 |
| 94 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 2654 | 1992 |
| 95 | Markus, Robert | SRB | 2652 | 1983 |
| 96 | Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | UKR | 2652 | 1986 |
| 97 | Ragger, Markus | AUT | 2651 | 1988 |
| 98 | Milov, Vadim | SUI | 2651 | 1972 |
| 99 | Lupulescu, Constantin | ROU | 2650 | 1984 |
| 100 | Khairullin, Ildar | RUS | 2649 | 1990 |