GM Vincent Keymer gained 18 points across the 2025 European Team Chess Championship and 2025 European Club Cup to break into the top five for the first time in his career on the November 2025 FIDE rating list. GM Anish Giri is up to fifth, while World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju is back in the top 10, in place of GM Wei Yi. 15-year-old GM Andy Woodward became one of the youngest players ever to cross 2600, while women’s number-two GM Zhu Jiner is now among the top-10 highest-rated female players of all time.
Only GM Magnus Carlsen (who has topped every list since July 2011) and GM Alireza Firouzja were inactive in another busy month for the world’s top 10.
FIDE Classical Ratings Top 100: November 1, 2025
| +/- | Rank | Name | Title | Fed | Rating | Born |
| – | 1 / 1 | Magnus Carlsen | GM | 2839 | 1990 | |
| – | 2 / 2 | Hikaru Nakamura | GM | 2813 (-3) | 1987 | |
| – | 3 / 3 | Fabiano Caruana | GM | 2795 (+6) | 1992 | |
| ↑ | 4 / 9 | Vincent Keymer | GM | 2773 (+18) | 2004 | |
| ↑ | 5 / 7 | Anish Giri | GM | 2769 (+10) | 1994 | |
| ↓ | 6 / 4 | Arjun Erigaisi | GM | 2769 (-4) | 2003 | |
| ↓ | 7 / 5 | Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu | GM | 2768 (-3) | 2005 | |
| – | 8 / 8 | Wesley So | GM | 2764 (+8) | 1993 | |
| ↑ | 9 / 11 | Gukesh Dommaraju | GM | 2763 (+11) | 2006 |
The big rating news a month ago was that FIDE had introduced a special rule to stop Nakamura “farming” rating by gaining 0.8 rating points for wins against opponents rated more than 400 points below him.