Statistics for Chess: Top 20 Highest Rated Players of All-Time

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Country	Date	ELO	Answer	% Correct
RUS	July 1999	2851	Garry Kasparov	98%
NOR	May 2014	2882	Magnus Carlsen	98%
USA	April 1972	2785	Bobby Fischer	92%
IND	March 2011	2817	Viswanathan Anand	90%
USA	October 2014	2844	Fabiano Caruana	87%
USA	October 2015	2816	Hikaru Nakamura	87%
CHN	November 2018	2816	Ding Liren	75%
USA	February 2017	2822	Wesley So	73%
RUS	May 2021	2792	Ian Nepomniachtchi	71%
RUS	October 2016	2817	Vladimir Kramnik	67%
NED	October 2015	2798	Anish Giri	65%
BGR	July 2015	2816	Veselin Topalov	65%
ARM	March 2014	2830	Levon Aronian	63%
FRA	August 2016	2819	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	62%
RUS	July 2011	2788	Sergey Karjakin	60%
RUS	December 2014	2810	Alexander Grischuk	58%
AZE	September 2018	2820	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	56%
AZE	November 2012	2793	Teimour Radjabov	40%
UKR	October 2007	2787	Vassily Ivanchuk	37%
RUS	July 2008	2788	Alexander Morozevich	15%