The 2016 Grand Chess Tour shall invite the top-three finishers from the 2015 Grand Chess Tour and six players by rating. The rating used shall be the average of each monthly FIDE rating supplement from February to December, as well as the live rating list immediately after the 2015 London Chess Classic. Live ratings will be updated daily in the table below.

Rank Player Feb 2015 Mar 2015 Apr 2015 May 2015 Jun 2015 Jul 2015 Aug 2015 Sep 2015 Oct 2015 Nov 2015 Dec 2015 Live

13 DEC 15 Average 1 Carlsen, Magnus 2865 2863 2863 2876 2876 2853 2853 2853 2850 2850 2834 2833.4 2855.8 2 Topalov, Veselin 2800 2798 2798 2798 2798 2816 2816 2816 2813 2803 2803 2780.5 2803.3 3 Anand, Vishy 2797 2791 2791 2804 2804 2816 2816 2816 2803 2803 2796 2784.6 2801.8 4 Nakamura, Hikaru 2776 2798 2798 2799 2802 2814 2814 2814 2816 2793 2793 2786.6 2800.3 5 Caruana, Fabiano 2811 2802 2802 2803 2805 2797 2808 2808 2796 2787 2787 2787.3 2799.4 6 Giri, Anish 2797 2790 2790 2776 2773 2791 2793 2793 2798 2778 2784 2793.8 2788.1 7 Kramnik, Vladimir 2783 2783 2783 2777 2783 2783 2777 2777 2777 2796 2796 2796 2784.3 8 So, Wesley 2788 2788 2788 2778 2778 2780 2779 2773 2760 2767 2775 2775 2777.4 9 Aronian, Levon 2777 2770 2770 2776 2780 2765 2765 2765 2784 2781 2788 2792.6 2776.1 10 Grischuk, Alex 2810 2794 2794 2780 2781 2771 2771 2771 2774 2750 2747 2756.1 2774.9 11 Ding Liren 2755 2755 2751 2757 2749 2749 2770 2782 2782 2781 2776 2766 2764.4 12 Karjakin, Sergey 2760 2757 2757 2753 2753 2753 2753 2762 2762 2766 2766 2766 2759.0 13 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2775 2765 2762 2754 2723 2731 2731 2744 2758 2765 2773 2784.3 2755.4 14 Tomashevsky, Evgeny 2745 2745 2749 2745 2745 2747 2758 2758 2743 2744 2744 2741.7 2747.1 15 Jakovenko, Dmitry 2742 2744 2738 2759 2757 2759 2748 2748 2735 2737 2737 2740.2 2745.4