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Most Dominant Player between 1900 and 1920 See more details
   Emanuel Lasker: 12.0 years as #1 (between January 1900 and March 1919)
The player who was ranked #1 most often between 1900 and 1920 was Emanuel Lasker, with 144 different months as the top-ranked player (a total of 12.0 years). Next on the list were Géza Maróczy (2.5 years) and Akiba Rubinstein (2.1 years).
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   José Capablanca: 2873 (September 1919)
The player who achieved the highest peak rating between 1900 and 1920 was José Capablanca, with a rating of 2873 on the September 1919 list. The next-highest peak ratings between 1900 and 1920 were achieved by Emanuel Lasker (2869 on the July 1900 list) and Géza Maróczy (2820 on the May 1906 list).
     Player Name       Peak Rating       World Rank (at time of Peak Rating)       Age (at time of Peak Rating)   
 #1    José Capablanca      2873      #1 on September 1919 rating list      30y10m   
 #2    Emanuel Lasker      2869      #1 on July 1900 rating list      31y7m   
 #3    Géza Maróczy      2820      #1 on May 1906 rating list      36y2m   
 #4    Harry Pillsbury      2816      #2 on July 1901 rating list      28y7m   
 #5    Siegbert Tarrasch      2814      #2 on January 1906 rating list      43y10m   
 #6    Akiba Rubinstein      2789      #1 on June 1913 rating list      30y8m   
 #7    Alexander Alekhine      2781      #3 on February 1918 rating list      25y4m   
 #8    Dawid Janowsky      2776      #1 on July 1904 rating list      36y1m   
 #9    Carl Schlechter      2764      #3 on January 1911 rating list      36y10m   
 #10    Frank Marshall      2762      #3 on December 1917 rating list      40y4m   
 #11    Mikhail Chigorin      2759      #3 on April 1904 rating list      53y5m   
 #12    Richard Teichmann      2744      #5 on January 1912 rating list      43y1m   
 #13    Aron Nimzowitsch      2744      #2 on June 1913 rating list      26y7m   
 #14    Oldrich Duras      2743      #4 on August 1909 rating list      26y10m   
 #15    Samuel Lipschütz      2742      #4 on January 1901 rating list      37y6m   
 #16    Rezsö Charousek      2734      #6 on March 1900 rating list      26y6m   
 #17    Milan Vidmar Sr      2731      #5 on April 1919 rating list      33y10m   
 #18    Amos Burn      2728      #6 on October 1900 rating list      51y10m   
 #19    Rudolf Spielmann      2716      #7 on January 1913 rating list      29y8m   
 #20    Henry Atkins      2702      #6 on January 1903 rating list      30y5m   
 #21    Saviely Tartakower      2699      #10 on January 1914 rating list      26y11m   
 #22    Boris Kostic      2698      #6 on December 1919 rating list      32y10m   
 #23    Ossip Bernstein      2688      #9 on January 1906 rating list      23y3m   
 #24    Wilhelm Steinitz      2687      #11 on January 1900 rating list      63y8m   
 #25    Efim Bogoljubow      2683      #7 on December 1919 rating list      30y8m   
 #26    Joseph Blackburne      2681      #12 on January 1900 rating list      58y1m   
 #27    Léo Forgács      2681      #9 on April 1908 rating list      26y6m   
 #28    G Rotlewi      2678      #12 on February 1912 rating list      23y1m   
 #29    Semyon Alapin      2678      #9 on April 1902 rating list      45y5m   
 #30    Georg Marco      2673      #9 on June 1906 rating list      42y7m   
 #31    Hans Wolf      2671      #10 on January 1903 rating list         -   
 #32    Theodor von Scheve      2669      #10 on January 1902 rating list      50y7m   
 #33    Jackson Showalter      2664      #10 on December 1900 rating list      40y10m   
 #34    Paul Lipke      2663      #12 on May 1900 rating list      29y11m   
 #35    William Napier      2662      #11 on June 1906 rating list      25y5m   
 #36    Heinrich Wolf      2660      #11 on January 1907 rating list      31y3m   
 #37    Jacques Mieses      2660      #11 on August 1907 rating list      42y6m   
 #38    Richard Réti      2657      #10 on December 1919 rating list      30y7m   
 #39    Oscar Chajes      2657      #11 on December 1919 rating list      46y0m   
 #40    Lajos Asztalos      2656      #14 on July 1913 rating list      24y0m   
 #41    Julius Perlis      2648      #14 on June 1913 rating list      33y5m   
 #42    Jenö Székely      2646      #14 on January 1913 rating list      27y0m   
 #43    Georg Salwe      2644      #13 on January 1910 rating list      47y3m   
 #44    Johann Berger      2640      #13 on January 1906 rating list      60y9m   
 #45    Paul Leonhardt      2639      #16 on June 1910 rating list      32y7m   
 #46    Fedor Dus-Chotimirsky      2638      #14 on January 1911 rating list      31y4m   
 #47    Arthur Kaufmann      2637      #8 on January 1917 rating list      44y9m   
 #48    George Bellingham      2637      #15 on March 1902 rating list      27y6m   
 #49    Walter Shipley      2634      #12 on September 1901 rating list      41y3m   
 #50    James Mason      2634      #15 on May 1900 rating list      50y6m   
 #51    Carl Walbrodt      2633      #17 on January 1900 rating list      28y2m   
 #52    Philip Richardson      2633      #13 on January 1901 rating list      59y2m   
 #53    Gyula Breyer      2630      #9 on December 1917 rating list      24y8m   
 #54    Rudolf Swiderski      2629      #16 on April 1904 rating list      25y9m   
 #55    Hermann Voigt      2628      #18 on February 1900 rating list      42y7m   
 #56    Curt von Bardeleben      2624      #20 on June 1906 rating list      45y3m   
 #57    Wilhelm Cohn      2623      #14 on July 1901 rating list      42y5m   
 #58    Charles Newman      2618      #20 on May 1900 rating list      44y1m   
 #59    Charles Jaffe      2616      #21 on January 1910 rating list      31y0m   
 #60    Eugene Znosko-Borovsky      2613      #18 on December 1914 rating list      30y4m   
 #61    Emil Kemény      2612      #21 on May 1900 rating list      40y4m   
 #62    Emanuel Schiffers      2612      #19 on January 1900 rating list      49y8m   
 #63    Adolf Olland      2609      #19 on June 1902 rating list      35y2m   
 #64    Alexey Selezniev      2608      #15 on December 1919 rating list      31y11m   
 #65    Isidor Gunsberg      2607      #18 on August 1901 rating list      46y9m   
 #66    Miklós Bródy      2607      #24 on March 1900 rating list      23y0m   
 #67    Albert Hodges      2604      #21 on August 1900 rating list      39y1m   
 #68    Stepan Levitsky      2603      #22 on January 1913 rating list      36y9m   
 #69    Walter John      2602      #21 on September 1908 rating list      29y8m   
 #70    Grigory Levenfish      2599      #18 on February 1914 rating list      24y11m   
 #71    Hugo Süchting      2594      #21 on March 1912 rating list      37y5m   
 #72    Adolf Albin      2594      #20 on January 1903 rating list      54y4m   
 #73    Erich Cohn      2593      #22 on January 1912 rating list      27y10m   
 #74    Albert Fox      2592      #19 on August 1904 rating list      23y4m   
 #75    Jřrgen Mřller      2592      #25 on January 1908 rating list      34y2m   
 #76    Louis van Vliet      2591      #27 on June 1900 rating list      32y5m   
 #77    Jean Taubenhaus      2588      #20 on February 1903 rating list      52y2m   
 #78    Abraham Kupchik      2587      #17 on December 1918 rating list      26y9m   
 #79    Sergey Lebedev      2585      #23 on March 1901 rating list      33y2m   
 #80    Reginald Michell      2585      #22 on September 1904 rating list      31y5m   
 #81    Dawid Przepiórka      2585      #25 on June 1913 rating list      32y6m   
 #82    Kornél Havasi      2584      #24 on January 1913 rating list      21y0m   
 #83    Zoltán Balla      2584      #22 on March 1914 rating list      30y7m   
 #84    Victor Exner      2584      #25 on July 1901 rating list         -   
 #85    Friedrich Köhnlein      2583      #24 on February 1911 rating list      31y2m   
 #86    Aleksander Flamberg      2578      #25 on July 1914 rating list      34y6m   
 #87    Alexey Goncharov      2577      #27 on February 1901 rating list      22y1m   
 #88    Sergey Sharov      2577      #28 on February 1901 rating list         -   
 #89    Alexander Halprin      2576      #26 on January 1900 rating list      31y10m   
 #90    Zsigmond Barász      2572      #30 on March 1912 rating list      34y2m   
 #91    Augustin Neumann      2572      #26 on January 1905 rating list      25y8m   
 #92    Thomas Lawrence      2571      #24 on August 1904 rating list      33y5m   
 #93    Hector Shoosmith      2571      #25 on August 1904 rating list      27y7m   
 #94    Johannes Esser      2570      #29 on September 1913 rating list      35y11m   
 #95    Frederick Yates      2570      #23 on July 1915 rating list      31y6m   
 #96    Sergey Freiman      2568      #32 on June 1913 rating list      31y5m   
 #97    Károly Sterk      2568      #31 on July 1913 rating list      31y10m   
 #98    Moishe Lowcki      2568      #22 on November 1916 rating list      35y10m   
 #99    Herbert Jacobs      2567      #29 on December 1900 rating list      37y6m   
 #100    Kaufmann      2563      #31 on February 1900 rating list         -   
Strongest Tournament between 1900 and 1920 Summary only | Top 5 | Top 10 | Top 20 | Top 50 | Top 100
   St. Petersburg, 1914: Class 18 (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)
The strongest tournament held between 1900 and 1920 was St. Petersburg 1914. This was a Class 18 tournament, including six of the top ten players in the world (from the April 1914 rating list). The next-strongest tournaments were San Sebastian 1911 (Class 18) and Ostend 1905 (Class 16).
     Event       Class       Top Ten Participation    Specific participants from top ten on rating list
 #1    St. Petersburg, 1914      18      #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6    #1 Akiba Rubinstein (2784), #2 José Capablanca (2771), #3 Frank Marshall (2754), #4 Alexander Alekhine (2753), #5 Aron Nimzowitsch (2738), #6 Siegbert Tarrasch (2723) from April 1914 rating list
 #2    San Sebastian, 1911      18      #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10    #2 Akiba Rubinstein (2775), #3 Carl Schlechter (2763), #4 José Capablanca (2740), #5 Oldrich Duras (2738), #6 Richard Teichmann (2733), #7 Aron Nimzowitsch (2712), #8 Frank Marshall (2703), #9 Rudolf Spielmann (2701), #10 Milan Vidmar Sr (2678) from February 1911 rating list
 #3    Ostend, 1905      16      #1, #2, #3, #6, #7, #8, #9    #1 Géza Maróczy (2781), #2 Dawid Janowsky (2770), #3 Siegbert Tarrasch (2744), #6 Carl Schlechter (2733), #7 Mikhail Chigorin (2723), #8 Frank Marshall (2715), #9 Richard Teichmann (2703) from January 1905 rating list
 #4    Paris, 1900      16      #1, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8    #1 Emanuel Lasker (2851), #3 Harry Pillsbury (2801), #4 Géza Maróczy (2748), #5 Dawid Janowsky (2745), #6 Mikhail Chigorin (2718), #7 Carl Schlechter (2716), #8 Amos Burn (2713) from May 1900 rating list
 #5    St. Petersburg, 1909      15      #1, #2, #4, #5, #7, #8    #1 Emanuel Lasker (2814), #2 Akiba Rubinstein (2759), #4 Carl Schlechter (2744), #5 Oldrich Duras (2738), #7 Richard Teichmann (2700), #8 Milan Vidmar Sr (2696) from January 1909 rating list
 #6    Ostend, 1906      15      #1, #3, #4, #5, #6, #9    #1 Géza Maróczy (2817), #3 Dawid Janowsky (2764), #4 Carl Schlechter (2745), #5 Frank Marshall (2726), #6 Richard Teichmann (2713), #9 Ossip Bernstein (2688), #10 Georg Marco (2663) from January 1906 rating list
 #7    Monte Carlo, 1902      15      #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #10    #2 Harry Pillsbury (2811), #3 Géza Maróczy (2761), #4 Carl Schlechter (2747), #5 Dawid Janowsky (2720), #6 Mikhail Chigorin (2718), #10 Theodor von Scheve (2669) from January 1902 rating list
 #8    Karlsbad, 1911      15      #2, #3, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10    #2 Akiba Rubinstein (2776), #3 Carl Schlechter (2764), #5 Oldrich Duras (2740), #6 Richard Teichmann (2731), #7 Aron Nimzowitsch (2713), #8 Frank Marshall (2701), #9 Rudolf Spielmann (2700), #10 Milan Vidmar Sr (2678) from January 1911 rating list
 #9    San Sebastian, 1912      14      #2, #3, #5, #6, #8, #9, #10    #2 Akiba Rubinstein (2772), #3 Carl Schlechter (2755), #5 Richard Teichmann (2744), #6 Aron Nimzowitsch (2719), #8 Frank Marshall (2711), #9 Siegbert Tarrasch (2700), #10 Rudolf Spielmann (2694) from January 1912 rating list
 #10    Karlsbad, 1907      14      #2, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9    #2 Géza Maróczy (2768), #4 Carl Schlechter (2740), #5 Akiba Rubinstein (2724), #6 Frank Marshall (2715), #7 Oldrich Duras (2704), #8 Richard Teichmann (2692), #9 Dawid Janowsky (2672) from August 1907 rating list
NOTE: "Class" is a Chessmetrics formula used to rank the strength of a tournament, by using the participation of top-10 players from the rating list (rather than just using the average rating of all participants). For more details, go here.
Strongest Match between 1900 and 1920 See more details
   Janowsky-Schlechter II (Karlsbad), 1902: #4 vs #5
The strongest match held between 1900 and 1920 was Janowsky-Schlechter II (Karlsbad), 1902. This was a matchup of #4 vs #5, including #4 Carl Schlechter (2747) and #5 Dawid Janowsky (2720) from the January 1902 rating list. Next on the list were Lasker-Schlechter Match (World Championship, GER/AUT), 1910 (#1 vs #6) and Lasker-Tarrasch I (World Championship, Germany), 1908 (#2 vs #6).
Best Individual Event Performance between 1900 and 1920 See more details
   Emanuel Lasker: 2876 in Lasker-Marshall I (World Championship, USA), 1907
The best individual event performance between 1900 and 1920 was achieved by Emanuel Lasker with a Chessmetrics Performance Rating of 2876 in Lasker-Marshall I (World Championship, USA), 1907. The next-best individual event performances were achieved by Emanuel Lasker (2853 performance) in St. Petersburg, 1914, and by Géza Maróczy (2837 performance) in Ostend, 1905.