| | Player Name | Rating | Age |
| #1 | James Mason | 2702 | 28y7m | (#55 all-time among players aged 28y7m) |
| #2 | Louis Paulsen | 2689 | 45y5m | (#32 all-time among players aged 45y5m) |
| #3 | Johannes Zukertort | 2663 | 35y9m | (#95 all-time among players aged 35y9m) |
| #4 | Adolf Anderssen | 2638 | 59y11m | (#10 all-time among players aged 59y11m) |
| #5 | Amos Burn | 2637 | 29y6m | (#184 all-time among players aged 29y6m) |
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| #6 | Joseph Blackburne | 2617 | 36y6m | (#183 all-time among players aged 36y6m) |
| #7 | William Potter | 2615 | 37y10m | (#180 all-time among players aged 37y10m) |
| #8 | Edward Alberoni | 2609 | | |
| #9 | William Wayte | 2571 | 48y9m | (#120 all-time among players aged 48y9m) |
| #10 | George MacDonnell | 2562 | 47y10m | (#150 all-time among players aged 47y10m) |
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| #11 | Szymon Winawer | 2562 | 40y3m | (#296 all-time among players aged 40y3m) |
| #12 | John Owen | 2524 | 51y2m | (#186 all-time among players aged 51y2m) |
| #13 | Bernard Fisher | 2522 | | |
| #14 | Carl Göring | 2517 | 37y2m | (#625 all-time among players aged 37y2m) |
| #15 | Emil Schallopp | 2500 | 34y10m | (#793 all-time among players aged 34y10m) |
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| #16 | James Minchin | 2500 | 53y3m | (#175 all-time among players aged 53y3m) |
| #17 | Karl Leffmann | 2474 | 42y5m | (#618 all-time among players aged 42y5m) |
| #18 | Berthold Englisch | 2474 | 26y11m | (#1168 all-time among players aged 26y11m) |
| #19 | John Coker | 2459 | 56y11m | (#155 all-time among players aged 56y11m) |
| #20 | Edmund Thorold | 2451 | 45y9m | (#544 all-time among players aged 45y9m) |
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| #21 | Albert Hodges | 2445 | 16y11m | (#204 all-time among players aged 16y11m) |
| #22 | Johannes Metger | 2409 | 26y6m | (#1752 all-time among players aged 26y6m) |
| #23 | George Fraser | 2408 | 47y5m | (#588 all-time among players aged 47y5m) |
| #24 | Charles Ranken | 2395 | 50y5m | (#479 all-time among players aged 50y5m) |
| #25 | Wilfried Paulsen | 2390 | 49y11m | (#506 all-time among players aged 49y11m) |
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| #26 | Arthur Skipworth | 2367 | 48y0m | (#646 all-time among players aged 48y0m) |
| #27 | Ernst Flechsig | 2361 | 25y8m | (#2095 all-time among players aged 25y8m) |
| #28 | August Franke | 2354 | 46y5m | (#780 all-time among players aged 46y5m) |
| #29 | William Martin | 2312 | 70y6m | (#51 all-time among players aged 70y6m) |
| #30 | Walter Spens | 2289 | 36y4m | (#1880 all-time among players aged 36y4m) |