| | Player Name | Rating | Age |
| #1 | Dawid Janowsky | 2773 | 35y11m | (#8 all-time among players aged 35y11m) |
| #2 | Géza Maróczy | 2764 | 34y2m | (#12 all-time among players aged 34y2m) |
| #3 | Emanuel Lasker | 2757 | 35y5m | (#11 all-time among players aged 35y5m) |
| #4 | Siegbert Tarrasch | 2754 | 42y2m | (#10 all-time among players aged 42y2m) |
| #5 | Harry Pillsbury | 2741 | 31y5m | (#27 all-time among players aged 31y5m) |
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| #6 | Mikhail Chigorin | 2733 | 53y6m | (#4 all-time among players aged 53y6m) |
| #7 | Carl Schlechter | 2719 | 30y2m | (#35 all-time among players aged 30y2m) |
| #8 | Frank Marshall | 2701 | 26y9m | (#55 all-time among players aged 26y9m) |
| #9 | Richard Teichmann | 2685 | 35y5m | (#69 all-time among players aged 35y5m) |
| #10 | Georg Marco | 2665 | 40y6m | (#66 all-time among players aged 40y6m) |
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| #11 | Henry Atkins | 2656 | 31y9m | (#134 all-time among players aged 31y9m) |
| #12 | Jackson Showalter | 2651 | 44y3m | (#60 all-time among players aged 44y3m) |
| #13 | Hans Wolf | 2650 | | |
| #14 | Jacques Mieses | 2649 | 39y3m | (#93 all-time among players aged 39y3m) |
| #15 | Heinrich Wolf | 2641 | 28y7m | (#168 all-time among players aged 28y7m) |
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| #16 | Ossip Bernstein | 2637 | 21y7m | (#77 all-time among players aged 21y7m) |
| #17 | Rudolf Swiderski | 2627 | 25y10m | (#169 all-time among players aged 25y10m) |
| #18 | William Napier | 2602 | 23y4m | (#194 all-time among players aged 23y4m) |
| #19 | Albert Fox | 2591 | 23y1m | (#217 all-time among players aged 23y1m) |
| #20 | Adolf Olland | 2588 | 37y1m | (#266 all-time among players aged 37y1m) |
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| #21 | Thomas Lawrence | 2569 | 33y2m | (#421 all-time among players aged 33y2m) |
| #22 | Julius Perlis | 2561 | 24y4m | (#381 all-time among players aged 24y4m) |
| #23 | Jean Taubenhaus | 2561 | 53y5m | (#76 all-time among players aged 53y5m) |
| #24 | James Mason | 2555 | 54y6m | (#68 all-time among players aged 54y6m) |
| #25 | Alexander Levin | 2553 | 33y0m | (#521 all-time among players aged 33y0m) |
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| #26 | John Barry | 2553 | 30y5m | (#551 all-time among players aged 30y5m) |
| #27 | Curt von Bardeleben | 2548 | 43y2m | (#273 all-time among players aged 43y2m) |
| #28 | Albert Hodges | 2546 | 42y10m | (#296 all-time among players aged 42y10m) |
| #29 | Wilhelm Cohn | 2544 | 45y3m | (#252 all-time among players aged 45y3m) |
| #30 | Augustin Neumann | 2533 | 25y0m | (#562 all-time among players aged 25y0m) |
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| #31 | Adolf Albin | 2533 | 55y8m | (#76 all-time among players aged 55y8m) |
| #32 | Isidor Gunsberg | 2532 | 49y6m | (#175 all-time among players aged 49y6m) |
| #33 | Hugo Süchting | 2532 | 29y7m | (#686 all-time among players aged 29y7m) |
| #34 | Hermann von Gottschall | 2530 | 41y7m | (#410 all-time among players aged 41y7m) |
| #35 | Theodor von Scheve | 2529 | 52y11m | (#125 all-time among players aged 52y11m) |
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| #36 | Eugene Delmar | 2522 | 62y8m | (#28 all-time among players aged 62y8m) |
| #37 | Ignatz von Popiel | 2507 | 40y10m | (#523 all-time among players aged 40y10m) |
| #38 | Joseph Blackburne | 2499 | 62y5m | (#38 all-time among players aged 62y5m) |
| #39 | Eugene Znosko-Borovsky | 2497 | 19y9m | (#356 all-time among players aged 19y9m) |
| #40 | Léo Forgács | 2490 | 22y7m | (#688 all-time among players aged 22y7m) |
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| #41 | Leopold Löwy | 2474 | 32y9m | (#1092 all-time among players aged 32y9m) |
| #42 | L Eisenberg | 2472 | | |
| #43 | Rudolf Loman | 2455 | 42y7m | (#687 all-time among players aged 42y7m) |
| #44 | Arturo Reggio | 2450 | 41y4m | (#787 all-time among players aged 41y4m) |
| #45 | James Mortimer | 2365 | 71y1m | (#34 all-time among players aged 71y1m) |
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| #46 | C. Moreau | 2309 | | |