Just go to the FIDE web site and the list will be there. http://ratings.fide.com/toplist.phtml
Chess World Champion
The candidate master rating of the top chess player in the world is typically around 2200-2300.
As of now, Stockfish 15 has an Elo rating of around 3600, making it one of the top chess engines in the world alongside engines like Leela Chess Zero and AlphaZero.
Yes, he is a fine classical chess player having defeated many of the world's top players in classical.
The average FIDE rating of the top chess players in the world is around 2750.
Magnus Carlsen, the current World Chess Champion, has defeated Stockfish, a top computer chess engine, in exhibition matches. However, in official competitive matches, Stockfish is considered to be stronger due to its ability to calculate millions of moves per second.
No, but I'd rank him in the top 5.
Most of the top players have come from Russia.
Usually not much at all (even most grandmaster typically make under $70,000/year as professionals) until you get to be in the top ten, where you get the sponsors and invitations to the top invite-only chess tournaments. At that point you could be be making millions.
In 2016, some of the best chess books were "The Longest Game: The Five Kasparov-Karpov Matches for the World Chess Championship" by Jan Timman and "The Complete Manual of Positional Chess: The Russian Chess School 2.0 - Middlegame Structures and Dynamics" by Konstantin Sakaev and Konstantin Landa. These books were considered top choices for chess enthusiasts because they offered in-depth analysis, strategic insights, and valuable lessons from some of the greatest chess players in history.
As of now, Leela Zero's strength is competitive with other top chess engines, but it may vary depending on the specific hardware and settings used for comparison.
Rafael Nadal