| | Player Name | Rating | Age |
| #1 | Emanuel Lasker | 2738 | 21y7m | (#13 all-time among players aged 21y7m) |
| #2 | Wilhelm Steinitz | 2721 | 54y2m | (#4 all-time among players aged 54y2m) |
| #3 | Mikhail Chigorin | 2714 | 39y8m | (#31 all-time among players aged 39y8m) |
| #4 | Miksa Weiss | 2714 | 33y0m | (#43 all-time among players aged 33y0m) |
| #5 | Isidor Gunsberg | 2710 | 35y8m | (#44 all-time among players aged 35y8m) |
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| #6 | Amos Burn | 2700 | 41y7m | (#36 all-time among players aged 41y7m) |
| #7 | Joseph Blackburne | 2687 | 48y7m | (#22 all-time among players aged 48y7m) |
| #8 | Curt von Bardeleben | 2676 | 29y4m | (#93 all-time among players aged 29y4m) |
| #9 | Siegbert Tarrasch | 2672 | 28y4m | (#98 all-time among players aged 28y4m) |
| #10 | George Mackenzie | 2666 | 53y4m | (#21 all-time among players aged 53y4m) |
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| #11 | Johann Bauer | 2644 | 29y1m | (#157 all-time among players aged 29y1m) |
| #12 | Jacques Mieses | 2636 | 25y5m | (#144 all-time among players aged 25y5m) |
| #13 | Samuel Lipschütz | 2634 | 27y0m | (#177 all-time among players aged 27y0m) |
| #14 | James Mason | 2627 | 40y8m | (#127 all-time among players aged 40y8m) |
| #15 | Louis Paulsen | 2623 | 57y6m | (#20 all-time among players aged 57y6m) |
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| #16 | Johann Berger | 2598 | 45y3m | (#127 all-time among players aged 45y3m) |
| #17 | Louis van Vliet | 2594 | 22y6m | (#190 all-time among players aged 22y6m) |
| #18 | Theodor von Scheve | 2591 | 39y1m | (#225 all-time among players aged 39y1m) |
| #19 | Jackson Showalter | 2589 | 30y5m | (#358 all-time among players aged 30y5m) |
| #20 | Emil Schallopp | 2588 | 46y11m | (#125 all-time among players aged 46y11m) |
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| #21 | Bernhard Fleissig | 2584 | 44y8m | (#167 all-time among players aged 44y8m) |
| #22 | Berthold Englisch | 2581 | 39y0m | (#269 all-time among players aged 39y0m) |
| #23 | Horatio Caro | 2574 | 28y0m | (#415 all-time among players aged 28y0m) |
| #24 | William Gunston | 2573 | 33y10m | (#399 all-time among players aged 33y10m) |
| #25 | Joseph Blake | 2565 | 31y5m | (#471 all-time among players aged 31y5m) |
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| #26 | John Owen | 2556 | 63y3m | (#19 all-time among players aged 63y3m) |
| #27 | Max Judd | 2554 | 38y7m | (#379 all-time among players aged 38y7m) |
| #28 | N Miniati | 2551 | 27y6m | (#530 all-time among players aged 27y6m) |
| #29 | Eugene Delmar | 2548 | 48y10m | (#158 all-time among players aged 48y10m) |
| #30 | Henry Bird | 2542 | 60y0m | (#42 all-time among players aged 60y0m) |
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| #31 | Jean Taubenhaus | 2540 | 39y7m | (#400 all-time among players aged 39y7m) |
| #32 | Hermann von Gottschall | 2539 | 27y9m | (#634 all-time among players aged 27y9m) |
| #33 | Josef Noa | 2537 | 33y9m | (#598 all-time among players aged 33y9m) |
| #34 | Semyon Alapin | 2531 | 33y8m | (#643 all-time among players aged 33y8m) |
| #35 | Johannes Metger | 2531 | 38y7m | (#488 all-time among players aged 38y7m) |
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| #36 | William Pollock | 2525 | 31y5m | (#748 all-time among players aged 31y5m) |
| #37 | Emanuel Schiffers | 2522 | 40y2m | (#483 all-time among players aged 40y2m) |
| #38 | Adolf Csánk | 2522 | | |
| #39 | Muller | 2520 | | |
| #40 | Celso Golmayo Zupide | 2519 | 70y3m | (#7 all-time among players aged 70y3m) |
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| #41 | Max Harmonist | 2517 | 26y5m | (#784 all-time among players aged 26y5m) |
| #42 | Alexander Fritz | 2516 | 33y6m | (#748 all-time among players aged 33y6m) |
| #43 | David Baird | 2511 | 35y7m | (#703 all-time among players aged 35y7m) |
| #44 | Georg Marco | 2502 | 26y8m | (#911 all-time among players aged 26y8m) |
| #45 | Hans von Minckwitz | 2500 | 47y3m | (#326 all-time among players aged 47y3m) |
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| #46 | Francis Lee | 2500 | 33y6m | (#854 all-time among players aged 33y6m) |
| #47 | John Ryan | 2493 | 41y6m | (#559 all-time among players aged 41y6m) |
| #48 | J Moore Hanham | 2488 | 50y6m | (#261 all-time among players aged 50y6m) |
| #49 | Constant Burille | 2486 | 23y11m | (#856 all-time among players aged 23y11m) |
| #50 | Gustave Simonson | 2477 | 25y10m | (#1091 all-time among players aged 25y10m) |
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| #51 | Dion Martinez | 2474 | 53y1m | (#225 all-time among players aged 53y1m) |
| #52 | Nikolay Mitropolsky | 2472 | 23y10m | (#955 all-time among players aged 23y10m) |
| #53 | Rudolf Loman | 2471 | 28y9m | (#1196 all-time among players aged 28y9m) |
| #54 | Lee | 2470 | | |
| #55 | Jacques Schwarz | 2463 | 34y6m | (#1091 all-time among players aged 34y6m) |
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| #56 | Charles Moehle | 2463 | 30y8m | (#1280 all-time among players aged 30y8m) |
| #57 | Herbert Trenchard | 2460 | 32y10m | (#1222 all-time among players aged 32y10m) |
| #58 | Charles Locock | 2455 | 27y10m | (#1375 all-time among players aged 27y10m) |
| #59 | Bernhard Hülsen | 2455 | 25y8m | (#1292 all-time among players aged 25y8m) |
| #60 | George Gossip | 2426 | 48y7m | (#495 all-time among players aged 48y7m) |
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| #61 | Andrés Vásquez | 2419 | 45y8m | (#660 all-time among players aged 45y8m) |
| #62 | Arnold van Foreest | 2418 | 27y1m | (#1732 all-time among players aged 27y1m) |
| #63 | Paul Seuffert | 2411 | 30y3m | (#1785 all-time among players aged 30y3m) |
| #64 | James Mortimer | 2406 | 57y3m | (#224 all-time among players aged 57y3m) |
| #65 | Alexander Robbins | 2404 | | |
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| #66 | George Wainwright | 2401 | 28y8m | (#1860 all-time among players aged 28y8m) |
| #67 | Adolf Albin | 2397 | 41y10m | (#1008 all-time among players aged 41y10m) |
| #68 | John Hall | 2396 | 36y11m | (#1414 all-time among players aged 36y11m) |
| #69 | Edmund Thorold | 2394 | 57y10m | (#216 all-time among players aged 57y10m) |
| #70 | Hermann Keidanski | 2386 | 24y8m | (#1853 all-time among players aged 24y8m) |
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| #71 | Joseph Holzwarth | 2385 | | |
| #72 | Alfred Rumboll | 2382 | 53y6m | (#376 all-time among players aged 53y6m) |
| #73 | Karl Holländer | 2375 | 21y11m | (#1506 all-time among players aged 21y11m) |
| #74 | Carl Ahlhausen | 2371 | 55y6m | (#314 all-time among players aged 55y6m) |
| #75 | John Baird | 2367 | 38y5m | (#1426 all-time among players aged 38y5m) |
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| #76 | A Rembe | 2361 | | |
| #77 | Henry Peachey | 2360 | | |
| #78 | I Leather | 2353 | | |
| #79 | Nicholas MacLeod | 2353 | 20y5m | (#1377 all-time among players aged 20y5m) |
| #80 | Louis Uedemann | 2341 | 36y6m | (#1739 all-time among players aged 36y6m) |
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| #81 | William Haller | 2341 | | |
| #82 | A.C. Brown | 2341 | | |
| #83 | Albert Heyde | 2327 | 24y4m | (#2186 all-time among players aged 24y4m) |
| #84 | Arthur Ropes | 2325 | | |
| #85 | George Schott | 2289 | 22y6m | (#2053 all-time among players aged 22y6m) |