| | Player Name | Rating | Age |
| #1 | Emanuel Lasker | 2820 | 41y11m | (#1 all-time among players aged 41y11m) |
| #2 | Akiba Rubinstein | 2779 | 28y1m | (#10 all-time among players aged 28y1m) |
| #3 | Carl Schlechter | 2757 | 36y8m | (#14 all-time among players aged 36y8m) |
| #4 | José Capablanca | 2741 | 22y0m | (#16 all-time among players aged 22y0m) |
| #5 | Oldrich Duras | 2737 | 28y1m | (#32 all-time among players aged 28y1m) |
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| #6 | Richard Teichmann | 2727 | 41y11m | (#22 all-time among players aged 41y11m) |
| #7 | Géza Maróczy | 2722 | 40y8m | (#26 all-time among players aged 40y8m) |
| #8 | Aron Nimzowitsch | 2709 | 24y0m | (#33 all-time among players aged 24y0m) |
| #9 | Frank Marshall | 2699 | 33y3m | (#54 all-time among players aged 33y3m) |
| #10 | Rudolf Spielmann | 2691 | 27y6m | (#74 all-time among players aged 27y6m) |
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| #11 | Milan Vidmar Sr | 2681 | 25y5m | (#67 all-time among players aged 25y5m) |
| #12 | Ossip Bernstein | 2676 | 28y1m | (#89 all-time among players aged 28y1m) |
| #13 | Siegbert Tarrasch | 2661 | 48y8m | (#28 all-time among players aged 48y8m) |
| #14 | Dawid Janowsky | 2647 | 42y5m | (#83 all-time among players aged 42y5m) |
| #15 | Georg Salwe | 2641 | 48y1m | (#41 all-time among players aged 48y1m) |
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| #16 | Fedor Dus-Chotimirsky | 2634 | 31y2m | (#180 all-time among players aged 31y2m) |
| #17 | Paul Leonhardt | 2633 | 33y0m | (#172 all-time among players aged 33y0m) |
| #18 | Saviely Tartakower | 2620 | 23y9m | (#157 all-time among players aged 23y9m) |
| #19 | Julius Perlis | 2618 | 30y10m | (#225 all-time among players aged 30y10m) |
| #20 | Léo Forgács | 2617 | 29y1m | (#241 all-time among players aged 29y1m) |
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| #21 | Alexander Alekhine | 2617 | 18y1m | (#32 all-time among players aged 18y1m) |
| #22 | Jacques Mieses | 2612 | 45y9m | (#101 all-time among players aged 45y9m) |
| #23 | Charles Jaffe | 2595 | 31y10m | (#323 all-time among players aged 31y10m) |
| #24 | Friedrich Köhnlein | 2577 | 30y11m | (#408 all-time among players aged 30y11m) |
| #25 | Amos Burn | 2571 | 61y11m | (#16 all-time among players aged 61y11m) |
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| #26 | Erich Cohn | 2567 | 26y8m | (#432 all-time among players aged 26y8m) |
| #27 | Walter John | 2557 | 31y10m | (#528 all-time among players aged 31y10m) |
| #28 | Heinrich Wolf | 2554 | 35y1m | (#450 all-time among players aged 35y1m) |
| #29 | Semyon Alapin | 2548 | 54y0m | (#81 all-time among players aged 54y0m) |
| #30 | Hugo Süchting | 2545 | 36y1m | (#482 all-time among players aged 36y1m) |
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| #31 | Abraham Speijer | 2545 | 37y0m | (#464 all-time among players aged 37y0m) |
| #32 | Johann Berger | 2544 | 65y7m | (#19 all-time among players aged 65y7m) |
| #33 | Jackson Showalter | 2540 | 50y9m | (#151 all-time among players aged 50y9m) |
| #34 | Adolf Olland | 2540 | 43y7m | (#307 all-time among players aged 43y7m) |
| #35 | Johannes Esser | 2525 | 33y1m | (#694 all-time among players aged 33y1m) |
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| #36 | Eugene Znosko-Borovsky | 2523 | 26y3m | (#719 all-time among players aged 26y3m) |
| #37 | Paul Johner | 2521 | 23y2m | (#547 all-time among players aged 23y2m) |
| #38 | Joseph Blackburne | 2521 | 68y11m | (#9 all-time among players aged 68y11m) |
| #39 | Sergey Freiman | 2518 | 28y10m | (#807 all-time among players aged 28y10m) |
| #40 | Frederick Yates | 2503 | 26y10m | (#904 all-time among players aged 26y10m) |
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| #41 | Curt von Bardeleben | 2499 | 49y8m | (#255 all-time among players aged 49y8m) |
| #42 | Benjamin Leussen | 2496 | 34y7m | (#829 all-time among players aged 34y7m) |
| #43 | Ladislav Prokeš | 2489 | 26y5m | (#1037 all-time among players aged 26y5m) |
| #44 | Jan Kvícala | 2487 | 42y10m | (#548 all-time among players aged 42y10m) |
| #45 | Abram Rabinovich | 2476 | 32y10m | (#1087 all-time among players aged 32y10m) |
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| #46 | Richard Réti | 2464 | 21y6m | (#750 all-time among players aged 21y6m) |
| #47 | František Treybal | 2463 | 27y11m | (#1279 all-time among players aged 27y11m) |
| #48 | Franz Jacob | 2452 | | |
| #49 | Rudolf Loman | 2427 | 49y1m | (#459 all-time among players aged 49y1m) |
| #50 | Georg Schories | 2418 | | |