| | Player Name | Rating | Age |
| #1 | Géza Maróczy | 2807 | 36y10m | (#5 all-time among players aged 36y10m) |
| #2 | Carl Schlechter | 2761 | 32y10m | (#14 all-time among players aged 32y10m) |
| #3 | Siegbert Tarrasch | 2753 | 44y10m | (#6 all-time among players aged 44y10m) |
| #4 | Frank Marshall | 2738 | 29y5m | (#25 all-time among players aged 29y5m) |
| #5 | Oldrich Duras | 2718 | 24y3m | (#30 all-time among players aged 24y3m) |
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| #6 | Richard Teichmann | 2705 | 38y1m | (#40 all-time among players aged 38y1m) |
| #7 | Akiba Rubinstein | 2699 | 24y3m | (#40 all-time among players aged 24y3m) |
| #8 | Dawid Janowsky | 2675 | 38y7m | (#63 all-time among players aged 38y7m) |
| #9 | Emanuel Lasker | 2671 | 38y1m | (#67 all-time among players aged 38y1m) |
| #10 | Georg Marco | 2667 | 43y2m | (#53 all-time among players aged 43y2m) |
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| #11 | Heinrich Wolf | 2660 | 31y3m | (#125 all-time among players aged 31y3m) |
| #12 | Amos Burn | 2660 | 58y1m | (#12 all-time among players aged 58y1m) |
| #13 | William Napier | 2653 | 26y0m | (#124 all-time among players aged 26y0m) |
| #14 | Léo Forgács | 2648 | 25y3m | (#122 all-time among players aged 25y3m) |
| #15 | Mikhail Chigorin | 2636 | 56y2m | (#20 all-time among players aged 56y2m) |
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| #16 | Ossip Bernstein | 2630 | 24y3m | (#141 all-time among players aged 24y3m) |
| #17 | Jacques Mieses | 2626 | 41y11m | (#125 all-time among players aged 41y11m) |
| #18 | Joseph Blackburne | 2614 | 65y1m | (#5 all-time among players aged 65y1m) |
| #19 | Rudolf Swiderski | 2613 | 28y6m | (#246 all-time among players aged 28y6m) |
| #20 | Semyon Alapin | 2612 | 50y2m | (#63 all-time among players aged 50y2m) |
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| #21 | Paul Leonhardt | 2611 | 29y2m | (#263 all-time among players aged 29y2m) |
| #22 | Curt von Bardeleben | 2610 | 45y10m | (#102 all-time among players aged 45y10m) |
| #23 | Julius Perlis | 2593 | 27y0m | (#295 all-time among players aged 27y0m) |
| #24 | Rudolf Spielmann | 2589 | 23y8m | (#258 all-time among players aged 23y8m) |
| #25 | Johann Berger | 2589 | 61y9m | (#13 all-time among players aged 61y9m) |
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| #26 | Eugene Znosko-Borovsky | 2579 | 22y5m | (#235 all-time among players aged 22y5m) |
| #27 | Georg Salwe | 2577 | 44y3m | (#197 all-time among players aged 44y3m) |
| #28 | Erich Cohn | 2575 | 22y10m | (#253 all-time among players aged 22y10m) |
| #29 | Wilhelm Cohn | 2574 | 47y11m | (#119 all-time among players aged 47y11m) |
| #30 | Milan Vidmar Sr | 2557 | 21y7m | (#269 all-time among players aged 21y7m) |
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| #31 | Hans Fahrni | 2557 | 32y3m | (#518 all-time among players aged 32y3m) |
| #32 | Hugo Süchting | 2555 | 32y3m | (#524 all-time among players aged 32y3m) |
| #33 | Albert Fox | 2547 | 25y9m | (#512 all-time among players aged 25y9m) |
| #34 | Aleksander Flamberg | 2546 | 27y0m | (#575 all-time among players aged 27y0m) |
| #35 | Benjamin Leussen | 2540 | 30y9m | (#619 all-time among players aged 30y9m) |
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| #36 | Walter John | 2540 | 28y0m | (#625 all-time among players aged 28y0m) |
| #37 | Horatio Caro | 2518 | 44y6m | (#367 all-time among players aged 44y6m) |
| #38 | Arturo Reggio | 2518 | 44y0m | (#369 all-time among players aged 44y0m) |
| #39 | Adolf Albin | 2516 | 58y4m | (#64 all-time among players aged 58y4m) |
| #40 | Francis Lee | 2515 | 50y0m | (#211 all-time among players aged 50y0m) |
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| #41 | Leopold Löwy | 2510 | 35y5m | (#694 all-time among players aged 35y5m) |
| #42 | Paul Johner | 2509 | 19y4m | (#255 all-time among players aged 19y4m) |
| #43 | Hermann von Gottschall | 2508 | 44y3m | (#400 all-time among players aged 44y3m) |
| #44 | Ignacy Kopa | 2503 | 46y0m | (#358 all-time among players aged 46y0m) |
| #45 | Jean Taubenhaus | 2502 | 56y1m | (#102 all-time among players aged 56y1m) |
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| #46 | Dirk Bleijkmans | 2498 | | |
| #47 | Rudolf Loman | 2486 | 45y3m | (#441 all-time among players aged 45y3m) |
| #48 | Georg Schories | 2475 | | |
| #49 | Jan te Kolsté | 2469 | 32y4m | (#1157 all-time among players aged 32y4m) |
| #50 | Ehrhardt Post | 2468 | 25y4m | (#1149 all-time among players aged 25y4m) |
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| #51 | Johannes Esser | 2464 | 29y3m | (#1265 all-time among players aged 29y3m) |
| #52 | Dawid Przepiórka | 2450 | 26y1m | (#1359 all-time among players aged 26y1m) |
| #53 | Aron Nimzowitsch | 2444 | 20y2m | (#670 all-time among players aged 20y2m) |
| #54 | Wilhelm Schwann | 2404 | | |
| #55 | Gerard Oskam | 2400 | 26y9m | (#1880 all-time among players aged 26y9m) |
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| #56 | Cornelius Trimborn | 2386 | 49y6m | (#537 all-time among players aged 49y6m) |
| #57 | John Baird | 2345 | 54y11m | (#357 all-time among players aged 54y11m) |
| #58 | Fritz Englund | 2291 | 35y11m | (#1942 all-time among players aged 35y11m) |
| #59 | Åke Petterson | 2287 | | |