Top Players
FIDE top 10 by Elo rating - January 1976
- Anatoly Karpov Soviet Union 2695
- Viktor Korchnoi Soviet Union 2670
- Tigran Petrosian Soviet Union 2635
- Lev Polugaevsky Soviet Union 2635
- Boris Spassky Soviet Union 2630
- Bent Larsen Denmark 2625
- Lajos Portisch Hungary 2625
- Efim Geller Soviet Union 2620
- Ljubomir Ljubojević Yugoslavia 2620
- Henrique Mecking Brazil 2620
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