In the last list of the top players we published, we went over the best Norwegian Chess players. Now in this article, we’re going through the ten best blitz chess players in the world, ranked from FIDE.
10. Ding Liren
Full name: Ding Liren
Title: Grandmaster
Born: October 24, 1992
Federation: China
Ratings
World Ranking: 2
Rapid: 2836
Blitz: 2788
Classical: 2806
Profiles
Ding Liren is a Chinese Grandmaster born on October 24, 1992. Liren is the Chinese chest player with the highest FIDE rating and has become a Chinese chess champion three times.
He held a grandmaster title and was a winner in the 2019 Grand chess tour after managing to beat Maxime Vachier. He was ranked the highest blitz player globally in 2016 after achieving a blitz rating of 2875.
Furthermore, Liren was the first chess player from China to participate in the Candidates Tournament, where he passed the 2800 FIDE rating mark, the highest world ranking.
9. Daniil Dubov
Full name: Daniil Dubov
Title: Grandmaster
Born: April 18, 1996
Federation: Russia
Ratings
World Ranking: 35
Rapid: 2712
Blitz: 2791
Classical: 2702
Profiles
Daniil Dubov is a famous Russian Grandmaster born on April 18, 1996. Dubov was awarded his grandmaster in 2011 at the age of 14. He was declared the rapid champion after becoming a winner of the world rapid chess championship, which was held in 2018 in Saint Petersburg.
Dubov also finished in the 4th place in the World Blitz championships he participated in December 2021, where he scored 14.5/21 points.
8. Alireza Firouzja
Full name: Alireza Firouzja
Title: Grandmaster
Born: June 18, 2003
Federation: France
Ratings
World Ranking: 3
Rapid: 2670
Blitz: 2791
Classical: 2793
Profiles
Alireza Firouzja is a famous chess player born in Iran on June 18, 2003. He is a chess grandmaster with a federation of France. He was ranked position three in the world FIDE chess ranking from May 2022.
Alireza is the youngest Iranian-France chess player to achieve a rating of 2800 after breaking the Magnus Carlsen record set for about half a year. He earned a peak position of position two, which he held from December 2021 to May 2022.
7. Yangyi Yu
Full name: Yangyi Yu
Title: Grandmaster
Born: June 8, 1994
Federation: China
Ratings
World Ranking: 27
Rapid: 2738
Blitz: 2898
Classical: 2710
Profiles
Yu Yangyi, born on June 8, 1994, is a Chinese chess player with a grandmaster player title; he was awarded By FIDE in 2009 when he was 14.
Yangyi is a committed chess player who has had positive progress in his chess career and was a winner of the Open tournament of Qatar Masters in December 2014. In the game, Yangyi beat Anish Giri and Vladimir Kramnik, among other veteran chess players, making him gain more popularity as a strong Chinese chess player.
6. Maxime Vachier Lagrave
Full name: Maxime Vachier Lagrave
Title: Grandmaster
Born: October 21, 1990
Federation: France
Ratings
World Ranking: 10
Rapid: 2764
Blitz: 2813
Classical: 2760
Profiles
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is a famous French chess player born on October 21, 1990. FIDE awarded Maxime a grandmaster title in the year 2005.
Maxime is currently the world chess champion in the blitz world chess championships. He has presently rated the seventh position among the highest-ranked chess players in the chess game history after achieving a peak rating of 2819.
5. Vladislav Artemiev
Full name: Vladislav Artemiev
Title: Grandmaster
Born: March 5, 1998
Federation: Russia
Ratings
World Ranking: 39 (active)
Rapid: 2710
Blitz: 2832
Classical: 2697
Profiles
Born on March 5, 1998, Vladislav Artemiev is a famous Russian chess grandmaster. Artemiev started participating in chess games when he was about seven years old.
Vladislav is a two-time winner of the European chess championships in the youth section under 14 categories. Artemiev earned his grandmaster title from FIDE in 2014. Artemiev is also a former chess prodigy in his chess career.
4. Magnus Carlsen
Full name: Magnus Carlsen
Title: Grandmaster
Born: November 30, 1990
Federation: Norway
Ratings
World Ranking: 1
Rapid: 2847
Blitz: 2832
Classical: 2864
Profiles
Magnus Carlsen is a famous Norwegian chess player born on November 30, 1990. Magnus was declared the second-youngest chess champion in the world in 2013 when he was 22. In addition, Carlsen won his grandmaster title and was awarded by FIDE at 13. He is the third-youngest chess player to become the world champion in chess history.
3. Fabiano Caruana
Full name: Fabiano Caruana
Title: Grandmaster
Born: July 30, 1992
Federation: United States of America
Ratings
World Ranking: 4
Rapid: 2766
Blitz: 2847
Classical: 2783
Profiles
Fabiano Caruana is an Italian-American famous chess player born on July 30, 1992, in Italy. As a chess prodigy, he won his chess grandmaster title in 2007 when he was 14. This made him the youngest chess player to be awarded a grandmaster title in the history of chess games in both the United States and Italy during his time.
He achieved a peak rating of 2844 in June 2022 and currently has a ranking of number 4 since June 2022.
2. Hikaru Nakamura
Full name: Hikaru Nakamura
Title: Grandmaster
Born: December 9, 1987
Federation: United States of America
Ratings
World Ranking: 19
Rapid: 2837
Blitz: 2850
Classical: 2760
Profiles
Hikaru Nakamura is an American chess grandmaster born on December 9, 1987. Apart from being a veteran chess prodigy, he is also a famous streamer.
FIDE awarded him a chess grandmaster title in 2003 at 15. This made him the youngest American chess player to be awarded a grandmaster title in 2003. Nakamura has a record of being a five times winner of the United States chess championships.
In addition, he was also the winner of the chess tournament of the Tata Steel Group in the 2011 edition. He also represented his country in the Chess Olympiads five times and won gold and bronze medals with the team.
1. Levon Aronian
Full name: Levon Grigori Aronian
Title: Grandmaster
Born: October 6, 1982
Federation: United States of America
Ratings
World Ranking: 5
Rapid: 2728
Blitz: 2850
Classical: 2775
Profiles
Levon Aronian is a famous chess player from Armenia and currently plays for the United States of America. Levon was born on October 6, 1982, and was awarded a grandmaster title by FIDE in 2000 when he was 17.
In March 2014, he was ranked number 2 in the world chess ranking by FIDE when he scored 2830. This made him the fourth chess player with the highest rating in the history of chess games.
That concludes the list of the best blitz Chess players. If you like list posts like this, you may also be interested in seeing the ten best Indian Chess players or the best Canadian Chess players.