| | Player Name | Rating | Age |
| #1 | Bobby Fischer | 2796 | 26y0m | (#7 all-time among players aged 26y0m) |
| #2 | Viktor Korchnoi | 2778 | 38y0m | (#8 all-time among players aged 38y0m) |
| #3 | Boris Spassky | 2770 | 32y2m | (#10 all-time among players aged 32y2m) |
| #4 | Tigran Petrosian | 2748 | 39y9m | (#13 all-time among players aged 39y9m) |
| #5 | Vassily Smyslov | 2745 | 48y0m | (#8 all-time among players aged 48y0m) |
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| #6 | Lev Polugaevsky | 2744 | 34y4m | (#20 all-time among players aged 34y4m) |
| #7 | Mikhail Botvinnik | 2739 | 57y7m | (#2 all-time among players aged 57y7m) |
| #8 | Leonid Stein | 2737 | 34y4m | (#23 all-time among players aged 34y4m) |
| #9 | Bent Larsen | 2734 | 34y0m | (#23 all-time among players aged 34y0m) |
| #10 | Efim Geller | 2724 | 44y0m | (#19 all-time among players aged 44y0m) |
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| #11 | Lajos Portisch | 2724 | 31y11m | (#37 all-time among players aged 31y11m) |
| #12 | Mikhail Tal | 2719 | 32y4m | (#38 all-time among players aged 32y4m) |
| #13 | Paul Keres | 2718 | 53y2m | (#8 all-time among players aged 53y2m) |
| #14 | Ratmir Kholmov | 2702 | 43y10m | (#27 all-time among players aged 43y10m) |
| #15 | Vlastimil Hort | 2698 | 25y2m | (#44 all-time among players aged 25y2m) |
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| #16 | Mark Taimanov | 2694 | 43y1m | (#31 all-time among players aged 43y1m) |
| #17 | David Bronstein | 2682 | 45y1m | (#32 all-time among players aged 45y1m) |
| #18 | Svetozar Gligoric | 2681 | 46y1m | (#34 all-time among players aged 46y1m) |
| #19 | Alexey Suetin | 2678 | 42y4m | (#52 all-time among players aged 42y4m) |
| #20 | Semen Furman | 2673 | 48y3m | (#28 all-time among players aged 48y3m) |
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| #21 | Nikolay Krogius | 2670 | 38y8m | (#68 all-time among players aged 38y8m) |
| #22 | Alexander Zaitsev | 2668 | 33y9m | (#97 all-time among players aged 33y9m) |
| #23 | Aivars Gipslis | 2665 | 32y1m | (#117 all-time among players aged 32y1m) |
| #24 | Milan Matulovic | 2660 | 33y9m | (#110 all-time among players aged 33y9m) |
| #25 | Samuel Reshevsky | 2656 | 57y4m | (#11 all-time among players aged 57y4m) |
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| #26 | Miguel Najdorf | 2653 | 58y11m | (#11 all-time among players aged 58y11m) |
| #27 | Evgeny Vasiukov | 2651 | 36y0m | (#119 all-time among players aged 36y0m) |
| #28 | Fridrik Olafsson | 2650 | 34y2m | (#125 all-time among players aged 34y2m) |
| #29 | Wolfgang Uhlmann | 2648 | 34y0m | (#132 all-time among players aged 34y0m) |
| #30 | Anatoly Lutikov | 2644 | 36y1m | (#129 all-time among players aged 36y1m) |
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| #31 | Florin Gheorghiu | 2644 | 24y11m | (#135 all-time among players aged 24y11m) |
| #32 | Vladimir Liberzon | 2643 | 32y0m | (#158 all-time among players aged 32y0m) |
| #33 | Viacheslav Osnos | 2643 | 33y8m | (#146 all-time among players aged 33y8m) |
| #34 | Borislav Ivkov | 2640 | 35y4m | (#143 all-time among players aged 35y4m) |
| #35 | Eduard Gufeld | 2640 | 33y0m | (#153 all-time among players aged 33y0m) |
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| #36 | Dragoljub Ciric | 2638 | 33y4m | (#155 all-time among players aged 33y4m) |
| #37 | Pal Benko | 2637 | 40y8m | (#112 all-time among players aged 40y8m) |
| #38 | Anatoly Lein | 2634 | 38y0m | (#121 all-time among players aged 38y0m) |
| #39 | Vladimir Savon | 2634 | 28y6m | (#178 all-time among players aged 28y6m) |
| #40 | Larry Evans | 2630 | 37y0m | (#149 all-time among players aged 37y0m) |
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| #41 | Klaus Darga | 2628 | 35y1m | (#178 all-time among players aged 35y1m) |
| #42 | Lubomir Kavalek | 2625 | 25y7m | (#170 all-time among players aged 25y7m) |
| #43 | Lothar Schmid | 2622 | 40y10m | (#134 all-time among players aged 40y10m) |
| #44 | Wolfgang Unzicker | 2622 | 43y9m | (#109 all-time among players aged 43y9m) |
| #45 | Aleksandar Matanovic | 2622 | 38y10m | (#141 all-time among players aged 38y10m) |
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| #46 | Bruno Parma | 2620 | 27y3m | (#216 all-time among players aged 27y3m) |
| #47 | Oscar Panno | 2619 | 34y0m | (#207 all-time among players aged 34y0m) |
| #48 | Bojan Kurajica | 2619 | 21y4m | (#95 all-time among players aged 21y4m) |
| #49 | Yury Sakharov | 2618 | 46y6m | (#81 all-time among players aged 46y6m) |
| #50 | Janis Klovans | 2618 | 33y11m | (#206 all-time among players aged 33y11m) |
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| #51 | Georgy Tringov | 2615 | 32y0m | (#243 all-time among players aged 32y0m) |
| #52 | Vladimir Antoshin | 2613 | 39y10m | (#160 all-time among players aged 39y10m) |
| #53 | Yury Averbakh | 2613 | 47y1m | (#80 all-time among players aged 47y1m) |
| #54 | Vladimir Tukmakov | 2612 | 23y0m | (#158 all-time among players aged 23y0m) |
| #55 | Vitaly Tseshkovsky | 2611 | 24y6m | (#195 all-time among players aged 24y6m) |
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| #56 | Isaak Boleslavsky | 2610 | 49y9m | (#69 all-time among players aged 49y9m) |
| #57 | Robert Hübner | 2608 | 20y4m | (#88 all-time among players aged 20y4m) |
| #58 | Leonid Shamkovich | 2608 | 45y9m | (#109 all-time among players aged 45y9m) |
| #59 | Abram Khasin | 2608 | 46y1m | (#100 all-time among players aged 46y1m) |
| #60 | Jonathan Penrose | 2607 | 35y5m | (#230 all-time among players aged 35y5m) |
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| #61 | Mikhail Podgaets | 2604 | 21y8m | (#143 all-time among players aged 21y8m) |
| #62 | Raúl Sanguinetti | 2603 | 36y1m | (#228 all-time among players aged 36y1m) |
| #63 | Henrique Mecking | 2600 | 17y2m | (#30 all-time among players aged 17y2m) |
| #64 | Bukhuti Gurgenidze | 2598 | 35y4m | (#257 all-time among players aged 35y4m) |
| #65 | Igor Zaitsev | 2596 | 30y10m | (#326 all-time among players aged 30y10m) |
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| #66 | Robert Byrne | 2594 | 40y11m | (#201 all-time among players aged 40y11m) |
| #67 | Milko Bobotsov | 2592 | 37y6m | (#248 all-time among players aged 37y6m) |
| #68 | Ludek Pachmann | 2592 | 44y10m | (#143 all-time among players aged 44y10m) |
| #69 | Helmut Pfleger | 2592 | 25y7m | (#292 all-time among players aged 25y7m) |
| #70 | Gyözö Forintos | 2592 | 33y8m | (#305 all-time among players aged 33y8m) |
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| #71 | Gedeon Barcza | 2589 | 57y7m | (#27 all-time among players aged 57y7m) |
| #72 | Miroslav Filip | 2588 | 40y5m | (#215 all-time among players aged 40y5m) |
| #73 | Jan Smejkal | 2588 | 23y0m | (#224 all-time among players aged 23y0m) |
| #74 | Victor Zheliandinov | 2587 | 34y0m | (#322 all-time among players aged 34y0m) |
| #75 | Arturo Pomar Salamanca | 2581 | 37y6m | (#291 all-time among players aged 37y6m) |
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| #76 | Nikola Padevsky | 2581 | 35y10m | (#322 all-time among players aged 35y10m) |
| #77 | Enver Bukic | 2580 | 31y3m | (#393 all-time among players aged 31y3m) |
| #78 | Rudolf Teschner | 2580 | 47y1m | (#135 all-time among players aged 47y1m) |
| #79 | Hrvoje Messing | 2579 | 28y8m | (#388 all-time among players aged 28y8m) |
| #80 | Gennady Ageichenko | 2579 | 27y9m | (#390 all-time among players aged 27y9m) |
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| #81 | Laszlo Barczay | 2578 | 33y1m | (#392 all-time among players aged 33y1m) |
| #82 | Duncan Suttles | 2576 | 23y3m | (#268 all-time among players aged 23y3m) |
| #83 | Rein Etruk | 2576 | 31y0m | (#413 all-time among players aged 31y0m) |
| #84 | Boris Vladimirov | 2575 | 39y10m | (#258 all-time among players aged 39y10m) |
| #85 | Johannes Donner | 2574 | 41y8m | (#245 all-time among players aged 41y8m) |
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| #86 | Alexander Kotov | 2573 | 55y7m | (#50 all-time among players aged 55y7m) |
| #87 | László Szabó | 2571 | 52y0m | (#88 all-time among players aged 52y0m) |
| #88 | Anatoly Bikhovsky | 2570 | 34y11m | (#381 all-time among players aged 34y11m) |
| #89 | James Sherwin | 2569 | 35y5m | (#376 all-time among players aged 35y5m) |
| #90 | István Bilek | 2569 | 36y7m | (#359 all-time among players aged 36y7m) |
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| #91 | William Lombardy | 2565 | 31y3m | (#465 all-time among players aged 31y3m) |
| #92 | Dusan Ivkovic | 2565 | 38y5m | (#331 all-time among players aged 38y5m) |
| #93 | Ivan Radulov | 2564 | 30y2m | (#477 all-time among players aged 30y2m) |
| #94 | Dragoljub Velimirovic | 2563 | 26y10m | (#459 all-time among players aged 26y10m) |
| #95 | Levente Lengyel | 2563 | 35y9m | (#400 all-time among players aged 35y9m) |
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| #96 | Aleksander Nikitin | 2563 | 34y2m | (#437 all-time among players aged 34y2m) |
| #97 | Yury Nikolaevsky | 2562 | 32y1m | (#484 all-time among players aged 32y1m) |
| #98 | Vladimir Bagirov | 2562 | 32y7m | (#478 all-time among players aged 32y7m) |
| #99 | Donald Byrne | 2562 | 38y9m | (#340 all-time among players aged 38y9m) |
| #100 | Vladimir Sergievsky | 2560 | 32y5m | (#501 all-time among players aged 32y5m) |