China and Asia No. 1 Ding Liren is still at World No. 4 but has joined the 2800 club by increasing his rating to 2804 after convincingly winning his match 3-1 against former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov.
Ding is also on an unbeaten 82 game streak which is unprecedented for players competing at the elite level.
Ranked No. 2 in Asia is Indian legend Viswanathan Anand who checks in at 2771. The former World Champion who is nearing his fiftieth birthday is still one of the best players in the world and was an immovable rock with nine drawns in nine games in the recent Sinquefield Cup won jointly by his successor Magnus Carlsen, his World Championship challenger Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian.
In third is China’s Yu Yangi (2765) and in fourth place is India’s Pentala Harikrishna (2743) while fifth is China’s Wei Yi (2742) who is also the world’s Top ranked junior.
Vietnam’s Le Quang Liem (2715) is in sixth place, former China No. 1 Wang Hao (2714) in seventh place ahead of his eighth placed Bu Xiangyi (2712) with India’s Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (2711) in ninth and China’s Li Chao (2708) round out the Asian Top Ten list.