December 2004 Top Overall
| 1 | Kamsky, Gata | NY | 2765 |
| 2 | Kaidanov, Gregory | KY | 2730 |
| 3 | Ehlvest, Jaan | NY | 2714 |
| 4 | Goldin, Alexander | KY | 2705 |
| 5 | Nakamura, Hikaru | NY | 2698 |
| 6 | Novikov, Igor | NY | 2690 |
| 7 | Shabalov, Alexander | PA | 2685 |
| 8 | Onischuk, Alexander | MD | 2680 |
| 9 | Ibragimov, Ildar | CT | 2671 |
| 10 | Akobian, Varuzhan | CA | 2665 |
| 11 | Benjamin, Joel | NY | 2643 |
| 12 | Yermolinsky, Alex | CA | 2642 |
| 13 | Ivanov, Alexander | MA | 2640 |
| | Stripunsky, Alexander | NY | 2640 |
| 15 | De Firmian, Nick E | | 2626 |
| 16 | Kudrin, Sergey, Gm | CT | 2623 |
| 17 | Finegold, Benjamin P | MI | 2622 |
| 18 | Wojtkiewicz, Aleks | MD | 2621 |
| 19 | Wolff, Patrick G | VA | 2619 |
| 20 | Christiansen, Larry M | MA | 2611 |
| 21 | Sherzer, Alex I | NJ | 2606 |
| 22 | Serper, Gregory | WA | 2598 |
| | Blehm, Pawel | MD | 2598 |
| 24 | Shulman, Yury | NY | 2596 |
| 25 | Becerra, Julio J | NY | 2591 |
| 26 | Perelshteyn, Eugene | MA | 2579 |
| 27 | Fishbein, Alexander | NJ | 2575 |
| | Sokolin, Leonid M | NJ | 2575 |
| 29 | Fedorowicz, John P | NY | 2572 |
| 30 | Bluvshtein, Mark | | 2567 |
| 31 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | FL | 2564 |
| 32 | Frias, Victor J | NY | 2562 |
| 33 | Polgar, Zsuzsa | NY | 2561 |
| 34 | Gurevich, Dmitry | IL | 2555 |
| 35 | Sevillano, Enrico M | NV | 2553 |
| | Barcenilla, Rogelio P, Jr | AZ | 2553 |
| 37 | Zaitchik, Gennady | PA | 2548 |
| 38 | Matikozyan, Andranik | CA | 2547 |
| 39 | Smetankin, Stanislav | MN | 2543 |
| 40 | Sher, Miron | NY | 2542 |
| | Gonzalez, Renier | FL | 2542 |
| 42 | Altounian, Levon | AZ | 2539 |
| 43 | Palatnik, Semion | TN | 2534 |
| 44 | Khachiyan, Melikset | CA | 2532 |
| 45 | Kreiman, Boris | CA | 2526 |
| 46 | Browne, Walter S | CA | 2525 |
| 47 | Garcia, Gildardo J | CT | 2523 |
| 48 | Ivanov, Igor V | UT | 2522 |
| 49 | Lapshun, Yury | NY | 2521 |
| 50 | Duque, Raymond D | TX | 2516 |
| 51 | Blatny, Pavel | NY | 2515 |
| 52 | Sagalchik, Gennady | NY | 2514 |
| 53 | Kedyk, Dmytro | NY | 2512 |
| 54 | Rohde, Michael A | NY | 2511 |
| 55 | Deng, Kong Liang | CA | 2510 |
| 56 | Lakdawala, Cyrus F | CA | 2507 |
| 57 | De Guzman, Ricardo E | CA | 2505 |
| 58 | Schneider, Dmitry | NY | 2503 |
| 59 | Charbonneau, Pascal | | 2501 |
| 60 | Mezentsev, Vladimir A | CA | 2500 |
| 61 | Kriventsov, Stanislav G | LA | 2497 |
| 62 | Gamboa, Nelson | | 2495 |
| 63 | Kraai, Jesse | NM | 2491 |
| 64 | Florean, Andrei | MI | 2489 |
| 65 | Young, Angelo | IL | 2486 |
| | Foygel, Igor | MA | 2486 |
| 67 | Meyer, Eugene B | VA | 2482 |
| | Chiong, Luis R | PA | 2482 |
| 69 | Brooks, Michael A | MO | 2481 |
| | Enkhbat, Tegshsuren | MD | 2481 |
| 71 | Panchanathan, Magesh C | TX | 2475 |
| 72 | Schroer, Jonathan | NC | 2473 |
| | Kaminski, Marcin | TX | 2473 |
| 74 | Tangborn, Eric K | WA | 2472 |
| 75 | Donaldson, W John | CA | 2469 |
| | Friedel, Joshua E | NH | 2469 |
| 77 | Martinez, Marcel | FL | 2466 |
| 78 | Mulyar, Michael A | CO | 2464 |
| 79 | Bhat, Vinay S | CA | 2462 |
| 80 | Peters, Jack | CA | 2461 |
| 81 | Milman, Lev | NY | 2457 |
| 82 | Zatonskih, Anna | OH | 2451 |
| 83 | London, Dimitri S | NJ | 2449 |
| 84 | Simutowe, Amon | TX | 2444 |
| 85 | Berkovich, Dmitry | OH | 2443 |
| | Hummel, Patrick A | CA | 2443 |
| | Nikolayev, Igor A | NY | 2443 |
| 88 | Muhammad, Stephen A | GA | 2442 |
| 89 | Burnett, Ronald Wayne | TN | 2441 |
| | Pruess, David | CA | 2441 |
| 91 | Blocker, Calvin | OH | 2440 |
| | Pelts, Roman | | 2440 |
| 93 | Morris, Walter D | VA | 2438 |
| 94 | Lein, Anatoly Y | OH | 2436 |
| | Banawa, Jouaquin Carlos B | CA | 2436 |
| 96 | Milovanovic, Rade | TX | 2432 |
| 97 | Almeida, Alfonso A | NY | 2431 |
| 98 | Lopez, Bruci R | FL | 2429 |
| 99 | Vucic, Mladen | NY | 2428 |
| 100 | Ippolito, Dean J | NJ | 2427 |
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