| | Player Name | Rating | Age |
| #1 | José Capablanca | 2877 | 32y6m | (#1 all-time among players aged 32y6m) |
| #2 | Emanuel Lasker | 2762 | 52y5m | (#3 all-time among players aged 52y5m) |
| #3 | Alexander Alekhine | 2721 | 28y7m | (#40 all-time among players aged 28y7m) |
| #4 | Akiba Rubinstein | 2714 | 38y7m | (#34 all-time among players aged 38y7m) |
| #5 | Saviely Tartakower | 2710 | 34y3m | (#46 all-time among players aged 34y3m) |
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| #6 | Boris Kostic | 2706 | 34y3m | (#48 all-time among players aged 34y3m) |
| #7 | Efim Bogoljubow | 2702 | 32y1m | (#61 all-time among players aged 32y1m) |
| #8 | Richard Réti | 2697 | 32y0m | (#70 all-time among players aged 32y0m) |
| #9 | Siegbert Tarrasch | 2639 | 59y2m | (#12 all-time among players aged 59y2m) |
| #10 | Géza Maróczy | 2636 | 51y2m | (#40 all-time among players aged 51y2m) |
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| #11 | Jacques Mieses | 2613 | 56y3m | (#27 all-time among players aged 56y3m) |
| #12 | Paul Johner | 2611 | 33y8m | (#222 all-time among players aged 33y8m) |
| #13 | Gyula Breyer | 2605 | 28y1m | (#281 all-time among players aged 28y1m) |
| #14 | Ernst Grünfeld | 2590 | 27y6m | (#332 all-time among players aged 27y6m) |
| #15 | Rudolf Spielmann | 2582 | 38y0m | (#280 all-time among players aged 38y0m) |
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| #16 | Nikolay Grigoriev | 2578 | 25y9m | (#359 all-time among players aged 25y9m) |
| #17 | Georg Marco | 2572 | 57y6m | (#33 all-time among players aged 57y6m) |
| #18 | Aron Nimzowitsch | 2571 | 34y6m | (#383 all-time among players aged 34y6m) |
| #19 | Max Euwe | 2570 | 20y0m | (#129 all-time among players aged 20y0m) |
| #20 | Allan Nilsson | 2564 | 22y0m | (#261 all-time among players aged 22y0m) |
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| #21 | Alexey Selezniev | 2560 | 33y4m | (#468 all-time among players aged 33y4m) |
| #22 | Max Marchand | 2549 | 32y6m | (#547 all-time among players aged 32y6m) |
| #23 | Arthur Håkansson | 2549 | 32y4m | (#563 all-time among players aged 32y4m) |
| #24 | Walter John | 2547 | 42y4m | (#316 all-time among players aged 42y4m) |
| #25 | Zoltán Balla | 2529 | 37y9m | (#524 all-time among players aged 37y9m) |
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| #26 | Victor Sjöberg | 2528 | 45y4m | (#297 all-time among players aged 45y4m) |
| #27 | Gerard Kroone | 2523 | 24y3m | (#611 all-time among players aged 24y3m) |
| #28 | Paul Leonhardt | 2512 | 43y6m | (#403 all-time among players aged 43y6m) |
| #29 | Jørgen Møller | 2510 | 47y6m | (#286 all-time among players aged 47y6m) |
| #30 | Friedrich Sämisch | 2504 | 24y8m | (#783 all-time among players aged 24y8m) |
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| #31 | Anton Olson | 2500 | 40y4m | (#583 all-time among players aged 40y4m) |
| #32 | Frederick Yates | 2497 | 37y4m | (#730 all-time among players aged 37y4m) |
| #33 | Ernst Jacobsen | 2497 | 32y4m | (#912 all-time among players aged 32y4m) |
| #34 | Roland Scott | 2493 | 33y2m | (#907 all-time among players aged 33y2m) |
| #35 | Carl Carls | 2479 | 40y8m | (#680 all-time among players aged 40y8m) |
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| #36 | Adolf Olland | 2466 | 54y1m | (#213 all-time among players aged 54y1m) |
| #37 | Henri Weenink | 2443 | 28y7m | (#1474 all-time among players aged 28y7m) |
| #38 | Karl Berndtsson-Kullberg | 2437 | 29y2m | (#1522 all-time among players aged 29y2m) |
| #39 | Rudolf Loman | 2429 | 59y7m | (#129 all-time among players aged 59y7m) |
| #40 | Jan te Kolsté | 2428 | 46y8m | (#559 all-time among players aged 46y8m) |
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| #41 | Gerard Oskam | 2420 | 41y1m | (#964 all-time among players aged 41y1m) |
| #42 | Willem Schelfhout | 2399 | 47y0m | (#626 all-time among players aged 47y0m) |
| #43 | Reurt Meijer | 2396 | | |
| #44 | Heinrich Von Hennig | 2394 | | |
| #45 | Anders Larsson | 2349 | | |