The May FIDE rating list has been published, with Magnus Carlsen and Judit Polgar heading the standing as expected. Carlsen is first in the FIDE Top 100 list with 2835 ELO, no change and no games since the January rating list. He is closely followed by Levon Aronian with 2825 ELO, who raises 5 ELO from 3 games in the Bundesliga.
Third position is for Vladimir Kramnik, the last player over 2800 ELO in the list. Top 10 is completed by Anand (2791), Radjabov (2784), Karjakin (2779), Nakamura (2775), Caruana (2770), Morozevich (2769), and Ivanchuk (2764).
A total of 45 players are above 2700 ELO, with the average of the list being 2704 ELO, or 4 points inflation over the previous list.
Top 100 FIDE, May
| Rank | Name | Country | Rating |
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2835 |
| 2 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2825 |
| 3 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2801 |
| 4 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2791 |
| 5 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2784 |
| 6 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2779 |
| 7 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2775 |
| 8 | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2770 |
| 9 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2769 |
| 10 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2764 |
| 11 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2761 |
| 12 | Topalov, Veselin | BUL | 2752 |
| 13 | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2741 |
| 14 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2741 |
| 15 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2738 |
| 16 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 2738 |
| 17 | Gashimov, Vugar | AZE | 2737 |
| 18 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2736 |
| 19 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2728 |
| 20 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2727 |
| 21 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2726 |
| 22 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2726 |
| 23 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | 2725 |
| 24 | Leko, Peter | HUN | 2723 |
| 25 | Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 2721 |
| 26 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | 2720 |
| 27 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2717 |
| 28 | Bologan, Viktor | MDA | 2716 |
| 29 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2716 |
| 30 | Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 2715 |
| 31 | Riazantsev, Alexander | RUS | 2714 |
| 32 | Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | 2713 |
| 33 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 2712 |
| 34 | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | CUB | 2711 |
| 35 | Moiseenko, Alexander | UKR | 2711 |
| 36 | Polgar, Judit | HUN | 2709 |
| 37 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | 2707 |
| 38 | Navara, David | CZE | 2706 |
| 39 | McShane, Luke J | ENG | 2706 |
| 40 | Short, Nigel D | ENG | 2705 |
| 41 | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2704 |
| 42 | Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 2703 |
| 43 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2703 |
| 44 | Li, Chao b | CHN | 2703 |
| 45 | Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | 2700 |
| 46 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | 2698 |
| 47 | Movsesian, Sergei | ARM | 2698 |
| 48 | Shirov, Alexei | LAT | 2698 |
| 49 | Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | 2697 |
| 50 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 2697 |
| 51 | Berkes, Ferenc | HUN | 2696 |
| 52 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2695 |
| 53 | Dreev, Aleksey | RUS | 2694 |
| 54 | Giri, Anish | NED | 2693 |
| 55 | Laznicka, Viktor | CZE | 2693 |
| 56 | Harikrishna, P. | IND | 2693 |
| 57 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2693 |
| 58 | Rublevsky, Sergei | RUS | 2693 |
| 59 | Areshchenko, Alexander | UKR | 2691 |
| 60 | Wang, Yue | CHN | 2690 |
| 61 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2690 |
| 62 | Efimenko, Zahar | UKR | 2689 |
| 63 | Georgiev, Kiril | BUL | 2689 |
| 64 | Sutovsky, Emil | ISR | 2687 |
| 65 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | RUS | 2683 |
| 66 | Van Wely, Loek | NED | 2682 |
| 67 | Sokolov, Ivan | NED | 2680 |
| 68 | Grachev, Boris | RUS | 2680 |
| 69 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2680 |
| 70 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 2679 |
| 71 | Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2679 |
| 72 | Korobov, Anton | UKR | 2678 |
| 73 | Bartel, Mateusz | POL | 2677 |
| 74 | Kobalia, Mikhail | RUS | 2677 |
| 75 | Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 2677 |
| 76 | Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | UKR | 2676 |
| 77 | Ni, Hua | CHN | 2673 |
| 78 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2673 |
| 79 | Motylev, Alexander | RUS | 2673 |
| 80 | Balogh, Csaba | HUN | 2672 |
| 81 | Gharamian, Tigran | FRA | 2672 |
| 82 | Bauer, Christian | FRA | 2672 |
| 83 | Ragger, Markus | AUT | 2670 |
| 84 | Khenkin, Igor | GER | 2670 |
| 85 | Matlakov, Maxim | RUS | 2668 |
| 86 | Turov, Maxim | RUS | 2667 |
| 87 | Nielsen, Peter Heine | DEN | 2665 |
| 88 | Najer, Evgeniy | RUS | 2664 |
| 89 | Khismatullin, Denis | RUS | 2664 |
| 90 | Kurnosov, Igor | RUS | 2663 |
| 91 | Onischuk, Alexander | USA | 2660 |
| 92 | Azarov, Sergei | BLR | 2658 |
| 93 | Jones, Gawain C B | ENG | 2657 |
| 94 | Petrosian, Tigran L. | ARM | 2657 |
| 95 | Granda Zuniga, Julio E | PER | 2657 |
| 96 | Mchedlishvili, Mikheil | GEO | 2656 |
| 97 | Tiviakov, Sergei | NED | 2656 |
| 98 | Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2656 |
| 99 | Zhigalko, Sergei | BLR | 2656 |
| 100 | Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son | VIE | 2656 |
In the women section Judit Polgar is leading with 2709 ELO, no change and no games since the last period. She is followed by World Champion Yifan Hou with 2623. The Chinese prodigy was very active with 29 games, but lost 16 ELO points mainly due to the Chinese League and the Bangkok Open.
Third place is for the European Champion Anna Muzychuk, who overtakes Humpy Koneru in the standings and inches to the 2600 mark for the first time in her career.
A total of 17 players are above 2500 ELO in the women rating list with the ELO average suffering a 1 point deflation.
Top 100 FIDE women, May
| Rank | Name | Country | Rating |
| 1 | Polgar, Judit | HUN | 2709 |
| 2 | Hou, Yifan | CHN | 2623 |
| 3 | Muzychuk, Anna | SLO | 2598 |
| 4 | Koneru, Humpy | IND | 2589 |
| 5 | Zhao, Xue | CHN | 2549 |
| 6 | Dzagnidze, Nana | GEO | 2547 |
| 7 | Lahno, Kateryna | UKR | 2546 |
| 8 | Kosintseva, Tatiana | RUS | 2532 |
| 9 | Gunina, Valentina | RUS | 2530 |
| 10 | Ju, Wenjun | CHN | 2529 |
| 11 | Kosintseva, Nadezhda | RUS | 2528 |
| 12 | Sebag, Marie | FRA | 2521 |
| 13 | Stefanova, Antoaneta | BUL | 2518 |
| 14 | Zatonskih, Anna | USA | 2510 |
| 15 | Cmilyte, Viktorija | LTU | 2508 |
| 16 | Harika, Dronavalli | IND | 2508 |
| 17 | Khotenashvili, Bela | GEO | 2500 |
| 18 | Paehtz, Elisabeth | GER | 2491 |
| 19 | Zhu, Chen | QAT | 2491 |
| 20 | Danielian, Elina | ARM | 2484 |
| 21 | Socko, Monika | POL | 2484 |
| 22 | Galliamova, Alisa | RUS | 2484 |
| 23 | Ruan, Lufei | CHN | 2483 |
| 24 | Cramling, Pia | SWE | 2478 |
| 25 | Atalik, Ekaterina | TUR | 2474 |
| 26 | Moser, Eva | AUT | 2469 |
| 27 | Xu, Yuhua | CHN | 2465 |
| 28 | Krush, Irina | USA | 2457 |
| 29 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS | 2457 |
| 30 | Dembo, Yelena | GRE | 2457 |
| 31 | Muzychuk, Mariya | UKR | 2456 |
| 32 | Khurtsidze, Nino | GEO | 2456 |
| 33 | Ushenina, Anna | UKR | 2454 |
| 34 | Munguntuul, Batkhuyag | MGL | 2451 |
| 35 | Hoang, Thanh Trang | HUN | 2449 |
| 36 | Javakhishvili, Lela | GEO | 2449 |
| 37 | Mkrtchian, Lilit | ARM | 2449 |
| 38 | Pogonina, Natalija | RUS | 2447 |
| 39 | Matnadze, Ana | ESP | 2446 |
| 40 | Zaiatz, Elena | RUS | 2446 |
| 41 | Zhukova, Natalia | UKR | 2442 |
| 42 | Rajlich, Iweta | POL | 2441 |
| 43 | Skripchenko, Almira | FRA | 2440 |
| 44 | Batsiashvili, Nino | GEO | 2436 |
| 45 | Tan, Zhongyi | CHN | 2430 |
| 46 | Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan | SCO | 2426 |
| 47 | Romanko, Marina | RUS | 2420 |
| 48 | Peptan, Corina-Isabela | ROU | 2420 |
| 49 | Shen, Yang | CHN | 2419 |
| 50 | Li, Ruofan | SIN | 2419 |
| 51 | Huang, Qian | CHN | 2417 |
| 52 | Tania, Sachdev | IND | 2417 |
| 53 | Foisor, Cristina-Adela | ROU | 2417 |
| 54 | Alexandrova, Olga | ESP | 2417 |
| 55 | Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina | RUS | 2417 |
| 56 | Girya, Olga | RUS | 2414 |
| 57 | Khukhashvili, Sopiko | GEO | 2414 |
| 58 | Peng, Zhaoqin | NED | 2414 |
| 59 | Houska, Jovanka | ENG | 2411 |
| 60 | Ovod, Evgenija | RUS | 2410 |
| 61 | Melia, Salome | GEO | 2410 |
| 62 | Turova, Irina | RUS | 2410 |
| 63 | Guramishvili, Sopiko | GEO | 2408 |
| 64 | Gaponenko, Inna | UKR | 2404 |
| 65 | Vasilevich, Tatjana | UKR | 2404 |
| 66 | Wang, Pin | CHN | 2397 |
| 67 | Bodnaruk, Anastasia | RUS | 2394 |
| 68 | Kovanova, Baira | RUS | 2391 |
| 69 | Pham, Le Thao Nguyen | VIE | 2390 |
| 70 | Zdebskaja, Natalia | UKR | 2389 |
| 71 | Szczepkowska-Horowska, Karina | POL | 2387 |
| 72 | Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman | IND | 2387 |
| 73 | Milliet, Sophie | FRA | 2387 |
| 74 | Cori T., Deysi | PER | 2386 |
| 75 | Michna, Marta | GER | 2385 |
| 76 | Zhang, Xiaowen | CHN | 2385 |
| 77 | Bojkovic, Natasa | SRB | 2385 |
| 78 | Repkova, Eva | SVK | 2384 |
| 79 | Paikidze, Nazi | GEO | 2384 |
| 80 | Majdan-Gajewska, Joanna | POL | 2383 |
| 81 | L’Ami, Alina | ROU | 2383 |
| 82 | Tsereteli, Tamar | GEO | 2383 |
| 83 | Gomes, Mary Ann | IND | 2378 |
| 84 | Fierro Baquero, Martha L. | ECU | 2377 |
| 85 | Matveeva, Svetlana | RUS | 2377 |
| 86 | Madl, Ildiko | HUN | 2376 |
| 87 | Vojinovic, Jovana | MNE | 2375 |
| 88 | Wang, Yu A. | CHN | 2375 |
| 89 | Vasilevich, Irina | RUS | 2375 |
| 90 | Kononenko, Tatiana | UKR | 2374 |
| 91 | Kashlinskaya, Alina | RUS | 2372 |
| 92 | Charochkina, Daria | RUS | 2371 |
| 93 | Bulmaga, Irina | ROU | 2370 |
| 94 | Stockova, Zuzana | SVK | 2368 |
| 95 | Lujan, Carolina | ARG | 2367 |
| 96 | Vajda, Szidonia | HUN | 2367 |
| 97 | Linares Napoles, Oleiny | CUB | 2366 |
| 98 | Lomineishvili, Maia | GEO | 2366 |
| 99 | Gara, Ticia | HUN | 2365 |
| 100 | Wang, Jue | CHN | 2364 |
| 101 | Foisor, Sabina-Francesca | USA | 2364 |
Top 20 FIDE juniors
| 1 | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2770 |
| 2 | Giri, Anish | NED | 2693 |
| 3 | Ding, Liren | CHN | 2679 |
| 4 | So, Wesley | PHI | 2653 |
| 5 | Negi, Parimarjan | IND | 2640 |
| 6 | Zherebukh, Yaroslav | UKR | 2632 |
| 7 | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2626 |
| 8 | Sjugirov, Sanan | RUS | 2625 |
| 9 | Hou, Yifan | CHN | 2623 |
| 10 | Safarli, Eltaj | AZE | 2620 |
| 11 | Kovalyov, Anton | ARG | 2619 |
| 12 | Robson, Ray | USA | 2614 |
| 13 | Nyzhnyk, Illya | UKR | 2610 |
| 14 | Shimanov, Aleksandr | RUS | 2600 |
| 15 | Swiercz, Dariusz | POL | 2585 |
| 16 | Durarbayli, Vasif | AZE | 2579 |
| 17 | Rapport, Richard | HUN | 2577 |
| 18 | Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel | ARM | 2577 |
| 19 | Dubov, Daniil | RUS | 2569 |
| 20 | Van Kampen, Robin | NED | 2563 |
Top 20 FIDE girls
| 1 | Hou, Yifan | CHN | 2623 |
| 2 | Muzychuk, Mariya | UKR | 2456 |
| 3 | Bodnaruk, Anastasia | RUS | 2394 |
| 4 | Cori T., Deysi | PER | 2386 |
| 5 | Paikidze, Nazi | GEO | 2384 |
| 6 | Vojinovic, Jovana | MNE | 2375 |
| 7 | Kashlinskaya, Alina | RUS | 2372 |
| 8 | Bulmaga, Irina | ROU | 2370 |
| 9 | Wang, Jue | CHN | 2364 |
| 10 | Guo, Qi | CHN | 2360 |
| 11 | Ziaziulkina, Nastassia | BLR | 2354 |
| 12 | Goryachkina, Aleksandra | RUS | 2353 |
| 13 | Arabidze, Meri | GEO | 2351 |
| 14 | Padmini, Rout | IND | 2345 |
| 15 | Pustovoitova, Daria | RUS | 2307 |
| 16 | Savina, Anastasia | RUS | 2301 |
| 17 | Havlikova, Kristyna | CZE | 2299 |
| 18 | Schut, Lisa | NED | 2299 |
| 19 | Soloviova, Liza | UKR | 2294 |
| 20 | Papp, Petra | HUN | 2292 |
