| | Player Name | Rating | Age |
| #1 | Mikhail Tal | 2796 | 24y4m | (#6 all-time among players aged 24y4m) |
| #2 | Tigran Petrosian | 2784 | 31y9m | (#6 all-time among players aged 31y9m) |
| #3 | Vassily Smyslov | 2759 | 40y0m | (#11 all-time among players aged 40y0m) |
| #4 | Paul Keres | 2758 | 45y2m | (#5 all-time among players aged 45y2m) |
| #5 | Viktor Korchnoi | 2756 | 30y0m | (#14 all-time among players aged 30y0m) |
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| #6 | Efim Geller | 2745 | 36y0m | (#19 all-time among players aged 36y0m) |
| #7 | Boris Spassky | 2744 | 24y2m | (#17 all-time among players aged 24y2m) |
| #8 | Ratmir Kholmov | 2736 | 35y10m | (#29 all-time among players aged 35y10m) |
| #9 | Mikhail Botvinnik | 2729 | 49y7m | (#8 all-time among players aged 49y7m) |
| #10 | Bobby Fischer | 2729 | 18y0m | (#3 all-time among players aged 18y0m) |
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| #11 | Svetozar Gligoric | 2724 | 38y1m | (#28 all-time among players aged 38y1m) |
| #12 | Mark Taimanov | 2704 | 35y1m | (#50 all-time among players aged 35y1m) |
| #13 | Yury Averbakh | 2701 | 39y1m | (#37 all-time among players aged 39y1m) |
| #14 | Lev Polugaevsky | 2698 | 26y4m | (#54 all-time among players aged 26y4m) |
| #15 | László Szabó | 2684 | 44y0m | (#34 all-time among players aged 44y0m) |
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| #16 | Samuel Reshevsky | 2683 | 49y4m | (#19 all-time among players aged 49y4m) |
| #17 | Miguel Najdorf | 2680 | 50y11m | (#22 all-time among players aged 50y11m) |
| #18 | David Bronstein | 2678 | 37y1m | (#65 all-time among players aged 37y1m) |
| #19 | Lajos Portisch | 2670 | 23y11m | (#75 all-time among players aged 23y11m) |
| #20 | Wolfgang Unzicker | 2669 | 35y9m | (#84 all-time among players aged 35y9m) |
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| #21 | William Lombardy | 2665 | 23y3m | (#79 all-time among players aged 23y3m) |
| #22 | Vladimir Bagirov | 2660 | 24y7m | (#96 all-time among players aged 24y7m) |
| #23 | Fridrik Olafsson | 2656 | 26y2m | (#115 all-time among players aged 26y2m) |
| #24 | Wolfgang Uhlmann | 2656 | 26y0m | (#116 all-time among players aged 26y0m) |
| #25 | Borislav Ivkov | 2652 | 27y4m | (#130 all-time among players aged 27y4m) |
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| #26 | Karl Robatsch | 2650 | 32y5m | (#141 all-time among players aged 32y5m) |
| #27 | Miroslav Filip | 2648 | 32y5m | (#145 all-time among players aged 32y5m) |
| #28 | Ludek Pachmann | 2648 | 36y10m | (#101 all-time among players aged 36y10m) |
| #29 | Larry Evans | 2644 | 29y0m | (#157 all-time among players aged 29y0m) |
| #30 | Aleksandar Matanovic | 2637 | 30y10m | (#173 all-time among players aged 30y10m) |
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| #31 | Isaak Boleslavsky | 2637 | 41y9m | (#113 all-time among players aged 41y9m) |
| #32 | Aivars Gipslis | 2635 | 24y1m | (#132 all-time among players aged 24y1m) |
| #33 | Andrija Fuderer | 2631 | 29y10m | (#200 all-time among players aged 29y10m) |
| #34 | Alexander Kotov | 2630 | 47y7m | (#59 all-time among players aged 47y7m) |
| #35 | Arturo Pomar Salamanca | 2629 | 29y6m | (#204 all-time among players aged 29y6m) |
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| #36 | Vladimir Antoshin | 2629 | 31y10m | (#193 all-time among players aged 31y10m) |
| #37 | Evgeny Vasiukov | 2628 | 28y0m | (#191 all-time among players aged 28y0m) |
| #38 | Alexander Cherepkov | 2627 | 40y5m | (#124 all-time among players aged 40y5m) |
| #39 | Lothar Schmid | 2626 | 32y10m | (#202 all-time among players aged 32y10m) |
| #40 | Vladas Mikenas | 2622 | 50y11m | (#50 all-time among players aged 50y11m) |
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| #41 | Leonid Stein | 2622 | 26y4m | (#191 all-time among players aged 26y4m) |
| #42 | Nikolay Krogius | 2622 | 30y8m | (#215 all-time among players aged 30y8m) |
| #43 | Vladimir Simagin | 2619 | 41y9m | (#140 all-time among players aged 41y9m) |
| #44 | Robert Byrne | 2617 | 32y11m | (#235 all-time among players aged 32y11m) |
| #45 | Gedeon Barcza | 2616 | 49y7m | (#59 all-time among players aged 49y7m) |
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| #46 | Jacob Yukhtman | 2609 | 26y2m | (#239 all-time among players aged 26y2m) |
| #47 | Yury Nikolaevsky | 2608 | 24y1m | (#195 all-time among players aged 24y1m) |
| #48 | Bent Larsen | 2607 | 26y0m | (#236 all-time among players aged 26y0m) |
| #49 | Lev Aronin | 2605 | 40y8m | (#170 all-time among players aged 40y8m) |
| #50 | Raúl Sanguinetti | 2604 | 28y1m | (#283 all-time among players aged 28y1m) |
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| #51 | Julio Bolbochán | 2602 | 41y0m | (#182 all-time among players aged 41y0m) |
| #52 | Pal Benko | 2601 | 32y8m | (#289 all-time among players aged 32y8m) |
| #53 | Milan Matulovic | 2600 | 25y9m | (#253 all-time among players aged 25y9m) |
| #54 | István Bilek | 2600 | 28y7m | (#298 all-time among players aged 28y7m) |
| #55 | Jonathan Penrose | 2598 | 27y5m | (#290 all-time among players aged 27y5m) |
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| #56 | Héctor Rossetto | 2598 | 38y6m | (#217 all-time among players aged 38y6m) |
| #57 | Arthur Bisguier | 2597 | 31y5m | (#318 all-time among players aged 31y5m) |
| #58 | Anatoly Lutikov | 2597 | 28y1m | (#316 all-time among players aged 28y1m) |
| #59 | Johannes Donner | 2597 | 33y8m | (#286 all-time among players aged 33y8m) |
| #60 | Milko Bobotsov | 2594 | 29y6m | (#323 all-time among players aged 29y6m) |
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| #61 | Mario Bertok | 2590 | 31y6m | (#347 all-time among players aged 31y6m) |
| #62 | James Sherwin | 2586 | 27y5m | (#346 all-time among players aged 27y5m) |
| #63 | Charles Kalme | 2585 | 21y4m | (#165 all-time among players aged 21y4m) |
| #64 | Janis Klovans | 2584 | 25y11m | (#335 all-time among players aged 25y11m) |
| #65 | Petar Trifunovic | 2584 | 50y7m | (#82 all-time among players aged 50y7m) |
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| #66 | Nikola Padevsky | 2582 | 27y10m | (#375 all-time among players aged 27y10m) |
| #67 | Bukhuti Gurgenidze | 2582 | 27y4m | (#367 all-time among players aged 27y4m) |
| #68 | Eduard Gufeld | 2579 | 25y0m | (#325 all-time among players aged 25y0m) |
| #69 | Raymond Weinstein | 2575 | 19y11m | (#117 all-time among players aged 19y11m) |
| #70 | Carlos Guimard | 2575 | 47y11m | (#118 all-time among players aged 47y11m) |
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| #71 | Alexander Tolush | 2574 | 50y10m | (#91 all-time among players aged 50y10m) |
| #72 | Anatoly Bannik | 2573 | 39y3m | (#276 all-time among players aged 39y3m) |
| #73 | Milan Vukcevich | 2573 | 24y0m | (#316 all-time among players aged 24y0m) |
| #74 | Herman Pilnik | 2571 | 47y2m | (#144 all-time among players aged 47y2m) |
| #75 | Rashid Nezhmetdinov | 2571 | 48y3m | (#127 all-time among players aged 48y3m) |
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| #76 | Samuel Schweber | 2569 | 24y8m | (#353 all-time among players aged 24y8m) |
| #77 | Klaus Darga | 2569 | 27y1m | (#435 all-time among players aged 27y1m) |
| #78 | Vlastimil Hort | 2569 | 17y2m | (#46 all-time among players aged 17y2m) |
| #79 | Alexey Suetin | 2566 | 34y4m | (#411 all-time among players aged 34y4m) |
| #80 | Borislav Milic | 2561 | 35y5m | (#405 all-time among players aged 35y5m) |
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| #81 | Semen Furman | 2558 | 40y3m | (#316 all-time among players aged 40y3m) |
| #82 | Salo Flohr | 2558 | 52y4m | (#97 all-time among players aged 52y4m) |
| #83 | Yury Sakharov | 2557 | 38y6m | (#361 all-time among players aged 38y6m) |
| #84 | Božidar Djuraševic | 2557 | 27y11m | (#508 all-time among players aged 27y11m) |
| #85 | Zdravko Milev | 2557 | 31y5m | (#524 all-time among players aged 31y5m) |
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| #86 | Tjeerd van Scheltinga | 2557 | 47y0m | (#179 all-time among players aged 47y0m) |
| #87 | Atanas Kolarov | 2556 | 27y0m | (#506 all-time among players aged 27y0m) |
| #88 | Maximilián Ujtelky | 2556 | 45y11m | (#212 all-time among players aged 45y11m) |
| #89 | Andreas Dueckstein | 2555 | 33y7m | (#489 all-time among players aged 33y7m) |
| #90 | Theodor Ghitescu | 2554 | 27y2m | (#524 all-time among players aged 27y2m) |
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| #91 | Vladislav Shianovsky | 2554 | 31y3m | (#534 all-time among players aged 31y3m) |
| #92 | Igor Bondarevsky | 2553 | 47y10m | (#173 all-time among players aged 47y10m) |
| #93 | Donald Byrne | 2553 | 30y9m | (#540 all-time among players aged 30y9m) |
| #94 | Iivo Nei | 2552 | 29y5m | (#545 all-time among players aged 29y5m) |
| #95 | Erich Eliskases | 2552 | 48y1m | (#172 all-time among players aged 48y1m) |
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| #96 | Stojan Puc | 2550 | 39y11m | (#353 all-time among players aged 39y11m) |
| #97 | Ingi Jóhannsson | 2548 | 24y3m | (#447 all-time among players aged 24y3m) |
| #98 | Georgy Tringov | 2545 | 24y0m | (#461 all-time among players aged 24y0m) |
| #99 | Peter Dely | 2545 | 26y8m | (#580 all-time among players aged 26y8m) |
| #100 | Jirí Fichtl | 2545 | 40y1m | (#377 all-time among players aged 40y1m) |