The World Chess Federation has published the March edition of the FIDE rating list. Magnus Carlsen continues at the top position with 2872, maintaining the same rating as during the February rating list. In fact, only one player from the February top 10 had active rated game – Viswanathan Anand, who added 4 ELO pints at Grenke Classic.
With the currently concluded Reykjavik Open 2013, Wesley So enters breaks the 2700 barrier and appears at 2701 at 50th postion. A total of 52 players are now at the 2700 club, with the average rating of the top 100 list remaining at 2703. Eduardo Iturrizaga also climbs to his highest ever position, at 2650 after 19 games in February. Grzegorz Gajewski also appears for the first time on the list, at 101th position with 2650 ELO.
Top 100 March rating list
| Rank | Name | Country | Rating |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2872 |
| 2 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2810 |
| 3 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2809 |
| 4 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2793 |
| 5 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2786 |
| 6 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2784 |
| 7 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2771 |
| 8 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2767 |
| 9 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2766 |
| 10 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2764 |
| 11 | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2760 |
| 12 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2758 |
| 13 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2757 |
| 14 | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2747 |
| 15 | Leko, Peter | HUN | 2744 |
| 16 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 2743 |
| 17 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2741 |
| 18 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2740 |
| 19 | Gashimov, Vugar | AZE | 2737 |
| 20 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2734 |
| 21 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2733 |
| 22 | Giri, Anish | NED | 2729 |
| 23 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2727 |
| 24 | Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | 2727 |
| 25 | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2725 |
| 26 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | 2723 |
| 27 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2722 |
| 28 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2722 |
| 29 | Areshchenko, Alexander | UKR | 2720 |
| 30 | Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 2712 |
| 31 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2709 |
| 32 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2709 |
| 33 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 2709 |
| 34 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2708 |
| 35 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 2707 |
| 36 | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | CUB | 2707 |
| 37 | Navara, David | CZE | 2706 |
| 38 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2706 |
| 39 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | 2706 |
| 40 | Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 2706 |
| 41 | Wang, Yue | CHN | 2706 |
| 42 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2705 |
| 43 | Harikrishna, P. | IND | 2705 |
| 44 | Riazantsev, Alexander | RUS | 2705 |
| 45 | Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | 2704 |
| 46 | Moiseenko, Alexander | UKR | 2703 |
| 47 | Berkes, Ferenc | HUN | 2702 |
| 48 | Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 2702 |
| 49 | Korobov, Anton | UKR | 2702 |
| 50 | So, Wesley | PHI | 2701 |
| 51 | Shirov, Alexei | LAT | 2700 |
| 52 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2700 |
| 53 | McShane, Luke J | ENG | 2698 |
| 54 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2697 |
| 55 | Short, Nigel D | ENG | 2697 |
| 56 | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2696 |
| 57 | Efimenko, Zahar | UKR | 2696 |
| 58 | Polgar, Judit | HUN | 2696 |
| 59 | Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 2695 |
| 60 | Movsesian, Sergei | ARM | 2695 |
| 61 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 2694 |
| 62 | Grachev, Boris | RUS | 2693 |
| 63 | Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | 2689 |
| 64 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | 2688 |
| 65 | Rublevsky, Sergei | RUS | 2688 |
| 66 | Li, Chao b | CHN | 2686 |
| 67 | Van Wely, Loek | NED | 2684 |
| 68 | Bologan, Viktor | MDA | 2681 |
| 69 | Edouard, Romain | FRA | 2680 |
| 70 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2677 |
| 71 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | 2677 |
| 72 | Motylev, Alexander | RUS | 2676 |
| 73 | Gareev, Timur | USA | 2674 |
| 74 | Gyimesi, Zoltan | HUN | 2674 |
| 75 | Laznicka, Viktor | CZE | 2674 |
| 76 | Sutovsky, Emil | ISR | 2671 |
| 77 | Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | UKR | 2666 |
| 78 | Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2666 |
| 79 | Potkin, Vladimir | RUS | 2665 |
| 80 | Onischuk, Alexander | USA | 2663 |
| 81 | Petrosian, Tigran L. | ARM | 2663 |
| 82 | Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2662 |
| 83 | Mamedov, Rauf | AZE | 2662 |
| 84 | Gharamian, Tigran | FRA | 2660 |
| 85 | Smirin, Ilia | ISR | 2659 |
| 86 | Fridman, Daniel | GER | 2658 |
| 87 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | RUS | 2658 |
| 88 | Georgiev, Kiril | BUL | 2657 |
| 89 | Khairullin, Ildar | RUS | 2657 |
| 90 | Nielsen, Peter Heine | DEN | 2656 |
| 91 | Zhigalko, Sergei | BLR | 2656 |
| 92 | Ragger, Markus | AUT | 2655 |
| 93 | Dreev, Aleksey | RUS | 2654 |
| 94 | Jones, Gawain C B | ENG | 2653 |
| 95 | Matlakov, Maxim | RUS | 2653 |
| 96 | Meier, Georg | GER | 2652 |
| 97 | Filippov, Anton | UZB | 2652 |
| 98 | Kobalia, Mikhail | RUS | 2652 |
| 99 | Istratescu, Andrei | FRA | 2651 |
| 100 | Iturrizaga, Eduardo | VEN | 2650 |
| 101 | Gajewski, Grzegorz | POL | 2650 |
| 102 | Tiviakov, Sergei | NED | 2650 |
