Peak Average Ratings: 1 year peak range

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Peak Average Ratings: 1 year peak range

	Player Name	Average Rating	1 year peak range
#1	Bobby Fischer	2881	1972-Jan through 1972-Dec
#2	Garry Kasparov	2879	1990-Jan through 1990-Dec
#3	Mikhail Botvinnik	2871	1946-Jan through 1946-Dec
#4	José Capablanca	2866	1919-Jan through 1919-Dec
#5	Emanuel Lasker	2863	1894-Jan through 1894-Dec

#6	Alexander Alekhine	2851	1931-Jan through 1931-Dec
#7	Anatoly Karpov	2842	1989-Jan through 1989-Dec
#8	Viswanathan Anand	2828	1998-Jan through 1998-Dec
#9	Vladimir Kramnik	2822	2002-Jan through 2002-Dec
#10	Siegbert Tarrasch	2818	1895-Jan through 1895-Dec

#11	Géza Maróczy	2815	1906-Jan through 1906-Dec
#12	Harry Pillsbury	2813	1901-Jan through 1901-Dec
#13	Viktor Korchnoi	2803	1978-Jan through 1978-Dec
#14	Wilhelm Steinitz	2802	1886-Jan through 1886-Dec
#15	Vassily Ivanchuk	2799	1992-Jan through 1992-Dec

#16	Vassily Smyslov	2794	1956-Jan through 1956-Dec
#17	Mikhail Tal	2793	1960-Jan through 1960-Dec
#18	Tigran Petrosian	2791	1963-Jan through 1963-Dec
#19	Akiba Rubinstein	2787	1913-Jan through 1913-Dec
#20	David Bronstein	2783	1951-Jan through 1951-Dec

#21	Miguel Najdorf	2783	1947-Jan through 1947-Dec
#22	Johannes Zukertort	2782	1884-Jan through 1884-Dec
#23	Samuel Reshevsky	2780	1953-Jan through 1953-Dec
#24	Paul Keres	2779	1956-Jan through 1956-Dec
#25	Gata Kamsky	2775	1995-Jan through 1995-Dec

#26	Aron Nimzowitsch	2774	1929-Jan through 1929-Dec
#27	Boris Spassky	2771	1969-Jan through 1969-Dec
#28	Veselin Topalov	2766	1997-Jan through 1997-Dec
#29	Dawid Janowsky	2765	1905-Jan through 1905-Dec
#30	Mikhail Chigorin	2765	1897-Jan through 1897-Dec

#31	Efim Bogoljubow	2763	1926-Jan through 1926-Dec
#32	Efim Geller	2761	1963-Jan through 1963-Dec
#33	Alexander Morozevich	2761	2001-Jan through 2001-Dec
#34	Frank Marshall	2761	1917-Jan through 1917-Dec
#35	Boris Gelfand	2760	1992-Jan through 1992-Dec

#36	Peter Leko	2760	2000-Jan through 2000-Dec
#37	Valery Salov	2760	1994-Jan through 1994-Dec
#38	Max Euwe	2759	1936-Jan through 1936-Dec
#39	Reuben Fine	2757	1941-Jan through 1941-Dec
#40	Alexei Shirov	2757	1999-Jan through 1999-Dec

#41	Carl Schlechter	2756	1911-Jan through 1911-Dec
#42	Lev Polugaevsky	2754	1977-Jan through 1977-Dec
#43	Rafael Vaganian	2754	1985-Jan through 1985-Dec
#44	Michael Adams	2753	2002-Jan through 2002-Dec
#45	Leonid Stein	2752	1966-Jan through 1966-Dec

#46	Alexander Beliavsky	2752	1985-Jan through 1985-Dec
#47	Gideon Stĺhlberg	2750	1948-Jan through 1948-Dec
#48	Lajos Portisch	2750	1980-Jan through 1980-Dec
#49	Alexander Kotov	2750	1950-Jan through 1950-Dec
#50	Jan Timman	2749	1988-Jan through 1988-Dec

#51	Artur Jussupow	2749	1987-Jan through 1987-Dec
#52	Ruslan Ponomariov	2747	2002-Jan through 2002-Dec
#53	Salo Flohr	2746	1935-Jan through 1935-Dec
#54	Evgeny Bareev	2746	1991-Jan through 1991-Dec
#55	Bent Larsen	2746	1971-Jan through 1971-Dec

#56	Peter Svidler	2746	2004-Jan through 2004-Dec
#57	Nigel Short	2745	1989-Jan through 1989-Dec
#58	Judit Polgar	2743	2004-Jan through 2004-Dec
#59	Isaak Boleslavsky	2741	1950-Jan through 1950-Dec
#60	Alexander Grischuk	2741	2004-Jan through 2004-Dec

#61	Ignatz Kolisch	2741	1868-Jan through 1868-Dec
#62	Ulf Andersson	2740	1983-Jan through 1983-Dec
#63	Isaac Kashdan	2740	1932-Jan through 1932-Dec
#64	Joseph Blackburne	2737	1886-Jan through 1886-Dec
#65	Gustav Neumann	2737	1868-Jan through 1868-Dec

#66	Paul Morphy	2737	1859-Jan through 1859-Dec
#67	Oldrich Duras	2736	1909-Jan through 1909-Dec
#68	Svetozar Gligoric	2735	1959-Jan through 1959-Dec
#69	Andrey Sokolov	2733	1986-Jan through 1986-Dec
#70	Vladimir Makogonov	2732	1944-Jan through 1944-Dec

#71	Richard Teichmann	2731	1911-Jan through 1911-Dec
#72	Mark Taimanov	2731	1954-Jan through 1954-Dec
#73	Ljubomir Ljubojevic	2729	1983-Jan through 1983-Dec
#74	Rezsö Charousek	2729	1899-Jan through 1899-Dec
#75	Mikhail Gurevich	2728	1990-Jan through 1990-Dec

#76	Samuel Lipschütz	2728	1901-Jan through 1901-Dec
#77	Isidor Gunsberg	2728	1889-Jan through 1889-Dec
#78	Robert Hübner	2728	1973-Jan through 1973-Dec
#79	Milan Vidmar Sr	2727	1919-Jan through 1919-Dec
#80	Jonathan Speelman	2727	1988-Jan through 1988-Dec

#81	Ratmir Kholmov	2727	1961-Jan through 1961-Dec
#82	Erich Eliskases	2726	1948-Jan through 1948-Dec
#83	Jaan Ehlvest	2726	1990-Jan through 1990-Dec
#84	Henrique Mecking	2725	1977-Jan through 1977-Dec
#85	Alexander Khalifman	2721	1991-Jan through 1991-Dec

#86	Vlastimil Hort	2721	1977-Jan through 1977-Dec
#87	Zoltán Ribli	2720	1984-Jan through 1984-Dec
#88	Amos Burn	2719	1900-Jan through 1900-Dec
#89	Adolf Anderssen	2718	1870-Jan through 1870-Dec
#90	Sergei Rublevsky	2718	1998-Jan through 1998-Dec

#91	Leonid Yudasin	2718	1991-Jan through 1991-Dec
#92	Alexey Dreev	2717	1996-Jan through 1996-Dec
#93	Oleg Romanishin	2717	1977-Jan through 1977-Dec
#94	László Szabó	2716	1953-Jan through 1953-Dec
#95	Predrag Nikolic	2715	1987-Jan through 1987-Dec

#96	Paul Lipke	2715	1895-Jan through 1895-Dec
#97	Berthold Suhle	2714	1866-Jan through 1866-Dec
#98	Robert Byrne	2713	1974-Jan through 1974-Dec
#99	Georgy Agzamov	2713	1985-Jan through 1985-Dec
#100	James Mason	2712	1877-Jan through 1877-Dec

NOTE: For each player, the "peak" one-year span of their career is identified. All possible one-year spans are considered (always starting in January) in which the player had an active rating for 12 consecutive months. The one-year span with the highest average rating (across all 12 months) is considered to be the player's "peak" one year range.