| | Player Name | Rating | Age |
| #1 | Emanuel Lasker | 2834 | 45y7m | (#1 all-time among players aged 45y7m) |
| #2 | José Capablanca | 2823 | 25y8m | (#3 all-time among players aged 25y8m) |
| #3 | Akiba Rubinstein | 2769 | 31y9m | (#10 all-time among players aged 31y9m) |
| #4 | Alexander Alekhine | 2764 | 21y9m | (#8 all-time among players aged 21y9m) |
| #5 | Frank Marshall | 2744 | 36y11m | (#21 all-time among players aged 36y11m) |
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| #6 | Siegbert Tarrasch | 2725 | 52y4m | (#6 all-time among players aged 52y4m) |
| #7 | Aron Nimzowitsch | 2716 | 27y8m | (#44 all-time among players aged 27y8m) |
| #8 | Carl Schlechter | 2709 | 40y4m | (#35 all-time among players aged 40y4m) |
| #9 | Richard Teichmann | 2708 | 45y7m | (#25 all-time among players aged 45y7m) |
| #10 | Rudolf Spielmann | 2699 | 31y2m | (#64 all-time among players aged 31y2m) |
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| #11 | Saviely Tartakower | 2688 | 27y5m | (#78 all-time among players aged 27y5m) |
| #12 | Ossip Bernstein | 2677 | 31y9m | (#101 all-time among players aged 31y9m) |
| #13 | Oldrich Duras | 2673 | 31y9m | (#108 all-time among players aged 31y9m) |
| #14 | Milan Vidmar Sr | 2649 | 29y1m | (#143 all-time among players aged 29y1m) |
| #15 | Dawid Janowsky | 2627 | 46y1m | (#68 all-time among players aged 46y1m) |
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| #16 | Lajos Asztalos | 2622 | 25y0m | (#184 all-time among players aged 25y0m) |
| #17 | Géza Maróczy | 2616 | 44y4m | (#113 all-time among players aged 44y4m) |
| #18 | Gyula Breyer | 2609 | 21y3m | (#110 all-time among players aged 21y3m) |
| #19 | Grigory Levenfish | 2593 | 25y4m | (#285 all-time among players aged 25y4m) |
| #20 | Amos Burn | 2581 | 65y7m | (#12 all-time among players aged 65y7m) |
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| #21 | Joseph Blackburne | 2581 | 72y7m | (#4 all-time among players aged 72y7m) |
| #22 | Stepan Levitsky | 2579 | 38y3m | (#287 all-time among players aged 38y3m) |
| #23 | Zoltán Balla | 2579 | 30y11m | (#397 all-time among players aged 30y11m) |
| #24 | Hugo Süchting | 2578 | 39y9m | (#252 all-time among players aged 39y9m) |
| #25 | Aleksander Flamberg | 2578 | 34y6m | (#352 all-time among players aged 34y6m) |
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| #26 | Dawid Przepiórka | 2574 | 33y7m | (#390 all-time among players aged 33y7m) |
| #27 | Georg Salwe | 2563 | 51y9m | (#101 all-time among players aged 51y9m) |
| #28 | Erich Cohn | 2563 | 30y4m | (#472 all-time among players aged 30y4m) |
| #29 | Léo Forgács | 2562 | 32y9m | (#472 all-time among players aged 32y9m) |
| #30 | Frederick Yates | 2559 | 30y6m | (#510 all-time among players aged 30y6m) |
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| #31 | Semyon Alapin | 2554 | 57y8m | (#47 all-time among players aged 57y8m) |
| #32 | Károly Sterk | 2553 | 32y10m | (#517 all-time among players aged 32y10m) |
| #33 | Richard Réti | 2553 | 25y2m | (#453 all-time among players aged 25y2m) |
| #34 | Adolf Olland | 2549 | 47y3m | (#189 all-time among players aged 47y3m) |
| #35 | Paul Leonhardt | 2549 | 36y8m | (#442 all-time among players aged 36y8m) |
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| #36 | Moishe Lowcki | 2548 | 33y6m | (#526 all-time among players aged 33y6m) |
| #37 | Johannes Esser | 2545 | 36y9m | (#466 all-time among players aged 36y9m) |
| #38 | Oscar Chajes | 2542 | 40y7m | (#364 all-time among players aged 40y7m) |
| #39 | Zsigmond Barász | 2538 | 36y6m | (#506 all-time among players aged 36y6m) |
| #40 | Georg Marco | 2538 | 50y8m | (#155 all-time among players aged 50y8m) |
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| #41 | Charles Jaffe | 2530 | 35y6m | (#587 all-time among players aged 35y6m) |
| #42 | Paul Johner | 2523 | 26y10m | (#743 all-time among players aged 26y10m) |
| #43 | Sergey Freiman | 2521 | 32y6m | (#744 all-time among players aged 32y6m) |
| #44 | Jacques Mieses | 2521 | 49y5m | (#202 all-time among players aged 49y5m) |
| #45 | Arnold Aurbach | 2520 | | |
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| #46 | František Treybal | 2518 | 31y7m | (#792 all-time among players aged 31y7m) |
| #47 | Hans Fahrni | 2518 | 39y9m | (#508 all-time among players aged 39y9m) |
| #48 | Carl Carls | 2517 | 33y10m | (#732 all-time among players aged 33y10m) |
| #49 | Abram Rabinovich | 2503 | 36y6m | (#727 all-time among players aged 36y6m) |
| #50 | Abraham Kupchik | 2498 | 22y4m | (#625 all-time among players aged 22y4m) |
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| #51 | Jenö Székely | 2495 | 28y6m | (#992 all-time among players aged 28y6m) |
| #52 | Edward Lasker | 2487 | 28y7m | (#1068 all-time among players aged 28y7m) |
| #53 | Karel Treybal | 2485 | 29y5m | (#1098 all-time among players aged 29y5m) |
| #54 | Karel Hromádka | 2479 | 27y3m | (#1114 all-time among players aged 27y3m) |
| #55 | Stefano Rosselli del Turco | 2475 | 37y0m | (#892 all-time among players aged 37y0m) |
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| #56 | Rafael Blanco Estera | 2475 | 29y6m | (#1193 all-time among players aged 29y6m) |
| #57 | Isidor Gunsberg | 2460 | 59y8m | (#94 all-time among players aged 59y8m) |
| #58 | Jan te Kolsté | 2459 | 39y10m | (#818 all-time among players aged 39y10m) |
| #59 | Gustaf Nyholm | 2455 | 34y6m | (#1169 all-time among players aged 34y6m) |
| #60 | Edward Tennenwurzel | 2445 | 35y6m | (#1172 all-time among players aged 35y6m) |
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| #61 | Juan Corzo Príncipe | 2442 | 41y1m | (#861 all-time among players aged 41y1m) |
| #62 | Abraham Speijer | 2442 | 40y8m | (#882 all-time among players aged 40y8m) |
| #63 | John Homer Stapfer | 2441 | | |
| #64 | Karel Opocenský | 2433 | 22y5m | (#1115 all-time among players aged 22y5m) |
| #65 | K. Geus | 2422 | | |
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| #66 | Fritz Englund | 2414 | 43y5m | (#822 all-time among players aged 43y5m) |
| #67 | Rudolf Loman | 2408 | 52y9m | (#361 all-time among players aged 52y9m) |
| #68 | Willem Schelfhout | 2316 | 40y2m | (#1447 all-time among players aged 40y2m) |
| #69 | Arnold van Foreest | 2273 | 51y1m | (#597 all-time among players aged 51y1m) |