The September FIDE rating list is now published, with 5 players over 2800 ELO. For the 51st time Carlsen leads the ratings, this time with 2856 ELO, unchanged since he has not played any rated games in the month of August. Anand, Topalov, Nakamura, and Caruana have not participated in rated events either, and they continue as part of the 2800 ELO club.
Ding Liren has added 12 points to his rating, and with 2782 ELO is right behind Anish Giri, who continues at 6th with 2793 ELO.
The Turkish Super League has added 5 points to the rating of Wesley So, something he is quickly losing with his participation at the Sinquefield Cup. Exactly the opposite is the situation with Levon Aronian, who is out of top 10, but will return after his nice performance in the USA.
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| Rank | Name | Country | Rating |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2853 |
| 2 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2816 |
| 3 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2816 |
| 4 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2814 |
| 5 | Caruana, Fabiano | USA | 2808 |
| 6 | Giri, Anish | NED | 2793 |
| 7 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 2782 |
| 8 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2777 |
| 9 | So, Wesley | USA | 2773 |
| 10 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2771 |
| 11 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2765 |
| 12 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2762 |
| 13 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2758 |
| 14 | Li, Chao b | CHN | 2756 |
| 15 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2748 |
| 16 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2744 |
| 17 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2742 |
| 18 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2741 |
| 19 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2741 |
| 20 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2738 |
| 21 | Harikrishna, P. | IND | 2737 |
| 22 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2736 |
| 23 | Wei, Yi | CHN | 2734 |
| 24 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | 2732 |
| 25 | Navara, David | CZE | 2728 |
| 26 | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2727 |
| 27 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2726 |
| 28 | Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 2725 |
| 29 | Wang, Yue | CHN | 2724 |
| 30 | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2721 |
| 31 | Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | 2720 |
| 32 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2717 |
| 33 | Shirov, Alexei | LAT | 2712 |
| 34 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 2712 |
| 35 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2711 |
| 36 | Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | UKR | 2710 |
| 37 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2710 |
| 38 | Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2710 |
| 39 | Leko, Peter | HUN | 2707 |
| 40 | Howell, David W L | ENG | 2705 |
| 41 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2705 |
| 42 | Ni, Hua | CHN | 2704 |
| 43 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2704 |
| 44 | Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 2702 |
| 45 | Rublevsky, Sergei | RUS | 2702 |
| 46 | Korobov, Anton | UKR | 2700 |
| 47 | Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | 2700 |
| 48 | Kovalenko, Igor | LAT | 2699 |
| 49 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2697 |
| 50 | Ragger, Markus | AUT | 2695 |
| 51 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 2694 |
| 52 | Moiseenko, Alexander | UKR | 2692 |
| 53 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2692 |
| 54 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2691 |
| 55 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 2689 |
| 56 | Matlakov, Maxim | RUS | 2689 |
| 57 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | AZE | 2684 |
| 58 | Hammer, Jon Ludvig | NOR | 2683 |
| 59 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2681 |
| 60 | Robson, Ray | USA | 2680 |
| 61 | Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2679 |
| 62 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | GER | 2678 |
| 63 | Saric, Ivan | CRO | 2678 |
| 64 | Short, Nigel D | ENG | 2678 |
| 65 | Laznicka, Viktor | CZE | 2676 |
| 66 | Artemiev, Vladislav | RUS | 2675 |
| 67 | Adhiban, B. | IND | 2674 |
| 68 | McShane, Luke J | ENG | 2674 |
| 69 | Rodshtein, Maxim | ISR | 2673 |
| 70 | Lysyj, Igor | RUS | 2671 |
| 71 | Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 2671 |
| 72 | Hou, Yifan | CHN | 2671 |
| 73 | Bareev, Evgeny | RUS | 2669 |
| 74 | Granda Zuniga, Julio E | PER | 2667 |
| 75 | Negi, Parimarjan | IND | 2664 |
| 76 | Sjugirov, Sanan | RUS | 2664 |
| 77 | Onischuk, Alexander | USA | 2662 |
| 78 | Dubov, Daniil | RUS | 2661 |
| 79 | Popov, Ivan | RUS | 2661 |
| 80 | Areshchenko, Alexander | UKR | 2661 |
| 81 | Gharamian, Tigran | FRA | 2660 |
| 82 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | RUS | 2660 |
| 83 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | 2660 |
| 84 | Balogh, Csaba | HUN | 2659 |
| 85 | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | CUB | 2659 |
| 86 | Fedoseev, Vladimir | RUS | 2659 |
| 87 | Sadler, Matthew D | ENG | 2659 |
| 88 | Ivanisevic, Ivan | SRB | 2658 |
| 89 | Movsesian, Sergei | ARM | 2658 |
| 90 | Tkachiev, Vladislav | FRA | 2658 |
| 91 | Najer, Evgeniy | RUS | 2658 |
| 92 | Safarli, Eltaj | AZE | 2657 |
| 93 | Bukavshin, Ivan | RUS | 2657 |
| 94 | Mamedov, Rauf | AZE | 2657 |
| 95 | Zhigalko, Sergei | BLR | 2656 |
| 96 | Meier, Georg | GER | 2656 |
| 97 | Shankland, Samuel L | USA | 2656 |
| 98 | Smirin, Ilia | ISR | 2655 |
| 99 | Nielsen, Peter Heine | DEN | 2655 |
| 100 | Postny, Evgeny | ISR | 2653 |
In the women section, Hou Yifan continues her undisputed lead with 2671 ELO, close to a hundred points ahead of opposition. No one else on the list is above 2600 ELO, and only 15 other players are above 2500 ELO.
That trend brings a logical result and we see a deflation in women ratings. While the average ELO of top 100 women was 2442 in August, this September it drops full 5 ELO points to 2437.
| Rank | Name | Country | Rating |
| 1 | Hou, Yifan | CHN | 2671 |
| 2 | Koneru, Humpy | IND | 2578 |
| 3 | Dzagnidze, Nana | GEO | 2573 |
| 4 | Muzychuk, Anna | UKR | 2549 |
| 5 | Ju, Wenjun | CHN | 2542 |
| 6 | Cmilyte, Viktorija | LTU | 2534 |
| 7 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS | 2530 |
| 8 | Gunina, Valentina | RUS | 2529 |
| 9 | Muzychuk, Mariya | UKR | 2528 |
| 10 | Zhao, Xue | CHN | 2524 |
| 11 | Lagno, Kateryna | RUS | 2523 |
| 12 | Cramling, Pia | SWE | 2513 |
| 13 | Harika, Dronavalli | IND | 2508 |
| 14 | Khotenashvili, Bela | GEO | 2502 |
| 15 | Batsiashvili, Nino | GEO | 2500 |
| 16 | Stefanova, Antoaneta | BUL | 2500 |
| 17 | Goryachkina, Aleksandra | RUS | 2497 |
| 18 | Sebag, Marie | FRA | 2496 |
| 19 | Tan, Zhongyi | CHN | 2492 |
| 20 | Kosintseva, Nadezhda | RUS | 2489 |
| 21 | Girya, Olga | RUS | 2483 |
| 22 | Zhukova, Natalia | UKR | 2482 |
| 23 | Zatonskih, Anna | USA | 2476 |
| 24 | Galliamova, Alisa | RUS | 2475 |
| 25 | Kosintseva, Tatiana | RUS | 2475 |
| 26 | Krush, Irina | USA | 2475 |
| 27 | Danielian, Elina | ARM | 2474 |
| 28 | Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina | RUS | 2464 |
| 29 | Hoang, Thanh Trang | HUN | 2464 |
| 30 | Javakhishvili, Lela | GEO | 2463 |
| 31 | Shen, Yang | CHN | 2460 |
| 32 | Socko, Monika | POL | 2456 |
| 33 | Paehtz, Elisabeth | GER | 2452 |
| 34 | Melia, Salome | GEO | 2452 |
| 35 | Bodnaruk, Anastasia | RUS | 2451 |
| 36 | Munguntuul, Batkhuyag | MGL | 2448 |
| 37 | Pogonina, Natalija | RUS | 2445 |
| 38 | Moser, Eva | AUT | 2442 |
| 39 | Skripchenko, Almira | FRA | 2441 |
| 40 | Mkrtchian, Lilit | ARM | 2440 |
| 41 | Hunt, Harriet V | ENG | 2439 |
| 42 | Huang, Qian | CHN | 2438 |
| 43 | Padmini, Rout | IND | 2437 |
| 44 | Ding, Yixin | CHN | 2435 |
| 45 | Savina, Anastasia | RUS | 2434 |
| 46 | Nomin-Erdene, Davaademberel | MGL | 2434 |
| 47 | Lei, Tingjie | CHN | 2431 |
| 48 | Zawadzka, Jolanta | POL | 2430 |
| 49 | Guo, Qi | CHN | 2427 |
| 50 | Ushenina, Anna | UKR | 2426 |
| 51 | Khurtsidze, Nino | GEO | 2425 |
| 52 | Kashlinskaya, Alina | RUS | 2424 |
| 53 | Peptan, Corina-Isabela | ROU | 2423 |
| 54 | Cori T., Deysi | PER | 2419 |
| 55 | Turova, Irina | RUS | 2419 |
| 56 | Alexandrova, Olga | ESP | 2418 |
| 57 | Zhu, Chen | QAT | 2418 |
| 58 | Aulia, Medina Warda | INA | 2417 |
| 59 | Guseva, Marina | RUS | 2411 |
| 60 | Sukandar, Irine Kharisma | INA | 2411 |
| 61 | Saduakassova, Dinara | KAZ | 2409 |
| 62 | Bojkovic, Natasa | SRB | 2404 |
| 63 | Arabidze, Meri | GEO | 2403 |
| 64 | Gaponenko, Inna | UKR | 2402 |
| 65 | Karavade, Eesha | IND | 2401 |
| 66 | Ziaziulkina, Nastassia | BLR | 2401 |
| 67 | Ni, Shiqun | CHN | 2399 |
| 68 | Michna, Marta | GER | 2398 |
| 69 | Zhai, Mo | CHN | 2397 |
| 70 | Khademalsharieh, Sarasadat | IRI | 2397 |
| 71 | Batchimeg, Tuvshintugs | MGL | 2395 |
| 72 | Szczepkowska-Horowska, Karina | POL | 2395 |
| 73 | Daulyte, Deimante | LTU | 2392 |
| 74 | Majdan-Gajewska, Joanna | POL | 2391 |
| 75 | Rajlich, Iweta | POL | 2389 |
| 76 | Ryjanova, Julia | RUS | 2387 |
| 77 | Tania, Sachdev | IND | 2385 |
| 78 | Zaiatz, Elena | RUS | 2385 |
| 79 | Atalik, Ekaterina | TUR | 2384 |
| 80 | Haast, Anne | NED | 2384 |
| 81 | Videnova, Iva | BUL | 2384 |
| 82 | Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina | ESP | 2383 |
| 83 | Stockova, Zuzana | SVK | 2382 |
| 84 | Velikic, Adela | SRB | 2381 |
| 85 | Abdumalik, Zhansaya | KAZ | 2380 |
| 86 | Vasilevich, Tatjana | UKR | 2380 |
| 87 | L’Ami, Alina | ROU | 2379 |
| 88 | Zhang, Xiaowen | CHN | 2377 |
| 89 | Charochkina, Daria | RUS | 2376 |
| 90 | Kovanova, Baira | RUS | 2376 |
| 91 | Peng, Zhaoqin | NED | 2376 |
| 92 | Matveeva, Svetlana | RUS | 2375 |
| 93 | Houska, Jovanka | ENG | 2374 |
| 94 | Bulmaga, Irina | ROU | 2372 |
| 95 | Lujan, Carolina | ARG | 2372 |
| 96 | Li, Ruofan | SIN | 2370 |
| 97 | Berend, Elvira | LUX | 2370 |
| 98 | Guramishvili, Sopiko | GEO | 2370 |
| 99 | Lomineishvili, Maia | GEO | 2369 |
| 100 | Milliet, Sophie | FRA | 2368 |
| 101 | Zimina, Olga | ITA | 2368 |
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