| | Player Name | Rating | Age |
| #1 | Akiba Rubinstein | 2761 | 25y10m | (#12 all-time among players aged 25y10m) |
| #2 | Emanuel Lasker | 2753 | 39y8m | (#11 all-time among players aged 39y8m) |
| #3 | Géza Maróczy | 2753 | 38y5m | (#11 all-time among players aged 38y5m) |
| #4 | Carl Schlechter | 2738 | 34y5m | (#24 all-time among players aged 34y5m) |
| #5 | Oldrich Duras | 2726 | 25y10m | (#32 all-time among players aged 25y10m) |
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| #6 | Siegbert Tarrasch | 2718 | 46y5m | (#18 all-time among players aged 46y5m) |
| #7 | Richard Teichmann | 2698 | 39y8m | (#39 all-time among players aged 39y8m) |
| #8 | Milan Vidmar Sr | 2682 | 23y2m | (#54 all-time among players aged 23y2m) |
| #9 | Léo Forgács | 2679 | 26y10m | (#82 all-time among players aged 26y10m) |
| #10 | Frank Marshall | 2676 | 31y0m | (#102 all-time among players aged 31y0m) |
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| #11 | Aron Nimzowitsch | 2673 | 21y9m | (#45 all-time among players aged 21y9m) |
| #12 | Ossip Bernstein | 2663 | 25y10m | (#105 all-time among players aged 25y10m) |
| #13 | Dawid Janowsky | 2648 | 40y2m | (#91 all-time among players aged 40y2m) |
| #14 | Jacques Mieses | 2644 | 43y6m | (#74 all-time among players aged 43y6m) |
| #15 | Saviely Tartakower | 2640 | 21y6m | (#66 all-time among players aged 21y6m) |
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| #16 | Georg Marco | 2635 | 44y9m | (#70 all-time among players aged 44y9m) |
| #17 | Heinrich Wolf | 2634 | 32y10m | (#175 all-time among players aged 32y10m) |
| #18 | Amos Burn | 2629 | 59y8m | (#14 all-time among players aged 59y8m) |
| #19 | Georg Salwe | 2627 | 45y10m | (#75 all-time among players aged 45y10m) |
| #20 | Paul Leonhardt | 2623 | 30y9m | (#210 all-time among players aged 30y9m) |
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| #21 | Rudolf Spielmann | 2604 | 25y3m | (#247 all-time among players aged 25y3m) |
| #22 | Fedor Dus-Chotimirsky | 2600 | 28y11m | (#301 all-time among players aged 28y11m) |
| #23 | Julius Perlis | 2593 | 28y7m | (#317 all-time among players aged 28y7m) |
| #24 | Eugene Znosko-Borovsky | 2593 | 24y0m | (#246 all-time among players aged 24y0m) |
| #25 | Walter John | 2589 | 29y7m | (#360 all-time among players aged 29y7m) |
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| #26 | Joseph Blackburne | 2582 | 66y8m | (#7 all-time among players aged 66y8m) |
| #27 | Semyon Alapin | 2577 | 51y9m | (#81 all-time among players aged 51y9m) |
| #28 | Rudolf Swiderski | 2574 | 30y1m | (#433 all-time among players aged 30y1m) |
| #29 | Giovanni Martinolich Jr | 2550 | 24y2m | (#430 all-time among players aged 24y2m) |
| #30 | Johann Berger | 2548 | 63y4m | (#21 all-time among players aged 63y4m) |
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| #31 | Hans Fahrni | 2544 | 33y10m | (#553 all-time among players aged 33y10m) |
| #32 | Ehrhardt Post | 2529 | 26y11m | (#702 all-time among players aged 26y11m) |
| #33 | Erich Cohn | 2527 | 24y5m | (#574 all-time among players aged 24y5m) |
| #34 | Hugo Süchting | 2527 | 33y10m | (#665 all-time among players aged 33y10m) |
| #35 | Horatio Caro | 2523 | 46y1m | (#295 all-time among players aged 46y1m) |
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| #36 | Georg Schories | 2519 | | |
| #37 | Wilhelm Cohn | 2517 | 49y6m | (#212 all-time among players aged 49y6m) |
| #38 | Arturo Reggio | 2506 | 45y7m | (#367 all-time among players aged 45y7m) |
| #39 | Adolf Olland | 2506 | 41y4m | (#505 all-time among players aged 41y4m) |
| #40 | Moritz Billecard | 2499 | 32y7m | (#893 all-time among players aged 32y7m) |
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| #41 | Curt von Bardeleben | 2497 | 47y5m | (#325 all-time among players aged 47y5m) |
| #42 | Theodor von Scheve | 2493 | 57y2m | (#94 all-time among players aged 57y2m) |
| #43 | Johannes Metger | 2489 | 56y8m | (#111 all-time among players aged 56y8m) |
| #44 | E Heilmann | 2489 | | |
| #45 | Albert Fox | 2488 | 27y4m | (#1041 all-time among players aged 27y4m) |
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| #46 | Jean Taubenhaus | 2483 | 57y8m | (#100 all-time among players aged 57y8m) |
| #47 | Dawid Przepiórka | 2477 | 27y8m | (#1150 all-time among players aged 27y8m) |
| #48 | Leopold Löwy | 2474 | 37y0m | (#899 all-time among players aged 37y0m) |
| #49 | Jan Kvícala | 2467 | 40y7m | (#747 all-time among players aged 40y7m) |
| #50 | Francis Lee | 2464 | 51y7m | (#293 all-time among players aged 51y7m) |
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| #51 | Paul Johner | 2458 | 20y11m | (#723 all-time among players aged 20y11m) |
| #52 | Hector Shoosmith | 2456 | 31y7m | (#1314 all-time among players aged 31y7m) |
| #53 | Abram Rabinovich | 2455 | 30y7m | (#1373 all-time among players aged 30y7m) |
| #54 | Adolf Albin | 2445 | 59y11m | (#107 all-time among players aged 59y11m) |
| #55 | František Treybal | 2439 | 25y8m | (#1448 all-time among players aged 25y8m) |
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| #56 | Ladislav Prokeš | 2438 | 24y2m | (#1324 all-time among players aged 24y2m) |
| #57 | Franz Jacob | 2435 | | |
| #58 | Louis van Vliet | 2435 | 40y7m | (#933 all-time among players aged 40y7m) |
| #59 | Emil Schallopp | 2425 | 65y0m | (#73 all-time among players aged 65y0m) |
| #60 | Richard Réti | 2368 | 19y3m | (#999 all-time among players aged 19y3m) |
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| #61 | James Mortimer | 2356 | 75y4m | (#13 all-time among players aged 75y4m) |
| #62 | Kurt Moll | 2337 | | |