World Top 100 January 2004 FIDE Rating List 1 Kasparov, Garry................. g RUS 2831 6 13.04.63 2 Kramnik, Vladimir............... g RUS 2777 0 25.06.75 3 Anand, Viswanathan.............. g IND 2766 0 11.12.69 4 Svidler, Peter.................. g RUS 2747 24 17.06.76 5 Shirov, Alexei.................. g ESP 2736 16 04.07.72 6 Topalov, Veselin................ g BUL 2735 0 15.03.75 7 Morozevich, Alexander........... g RUS 2732 23 18.07.77 8 Polgar, Judit (GM).............. wg HUN 2728 6 23.07.76 9 Ponomariov, Ruslan.............. g UKR 2722 8 11.10.83 10 Leko, Peter..................... g HUN 2722 0 08.09.79 11 Adams, Michael.................. g ENG 2720 7 17.11.71 12 Grischuk, Alexander............. g RUS 2719 22 31.10.83 13 Ivanchuk, Vassily............... g UKR 2716 16 18.03.69 14 Bareev, Evgeny.................. g RUS 2714 14 21.11.66 15 Gelfand, Boris.................. g ISR 2709 15 24.06.68 16 Sokolov, Ivan................... g NED 2706 22 13.06.68 17 Short, Nigel D.................. g ENG 2702 9 01.06.65 18 Malakhov, Vladimir.............. g RUS 2700 24 27.11.80 19 Akopian, Vladimir............... g ARM 2693 6 07.12.71 20 Dreev, Alexey................... g RUS 2682 15 30.01.69 21 Karpov, Anatoly................. g RUS 2682 6 23.05.51 22 Ye, Jiangchuan.................. g CHN 2681 0 20.11.60 23 Bologan, Viktor................. g MDA 2679 31 14.12.71 24 Aleksandrov, Aleksej............ g BLR 2679 23 11.05.73 25 Azmaiparashvili, Zurab.......... g GEO 2678 15 16.03.60 26 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter......... g ROM 2678 0 01.08.76 27 Lautier, Joel................... g FRA 2676 14 12.04.73 28 Khalifman, Alexander............ g RUS 2674 23 18.01.66 29 Smirin, Ilia.................... g ISR 2670 13 21.01.68 30 Beliavsky, Alexander G.......... g SLO 2667 18 17.12.53 31 Sutovsky, Emil.................. g ISR 2666 14 19.09.77 32 Bacrot, Etienne................. g FRA 2664 11 22.01.83 33 Vallejo Pons, Francisco......... g ESP 2663 24 21.08.82 34 Sakaev, Konstantin.............. g RUS 2656 16 13.04.74 35 Radjabov, Teimour............... g AZE 2656 9 12.03.87 36 Gurevich, Mikhail.