These are the top-10 chess players in the world as per the rating list released in September 2009 by the FIDE.
1)Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)-2813
2)Viswanathan Anand (India)-2788
3)Levon Aronian (Armenia)-2773
4)Magnus Carlsen (Norway)-2772
5)Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)-2772
6)Peter Leko (Hungary)-2762
7)Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan)-2757
8)Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine)-2756
9)Boris Gelfand (Israel)-2756
10)Alexander Morozevich(Russia)-2750