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Professor Arpad Elo’s virtual rating list of history’s greatest players in the pre-Fischer era.

#	Name		Rating	Notes	Born
1	Capablanca	Cuba 1	2725	3rd World Champion (1921–27)	1888
2	Botvinnik	Soviet Union 2	2720	6th World Champion (1948–57; 1958–60; 1961–63)	1911
3	Lasker	Germany 3	2720	2nd World Champion (1894–1921)	1868
4	Tal	Soviet Union 4	2700	8th World Champion (1960–61)	1936
5	Alekhine	Russian Federation 5	2690	4th World Champion (1927–35; 1937–46)	1892
6	Morphy	United States 6	2690	World Champion 1858–62 (unofficial)	1837
7	Smyslov	Soviet Union 7	2690	7th World Champion (1957–58)	1921
8	Petrosian	Soviet Union 8	2680	9th World Champion (1963–69)	1929
9	Reshevsky	Poland 9	2680	7-time US Champion; =1st Buenos Aires 1960	1911
10	Spassky	Soviet Union 10	2680	10th World Champion (1969–72)	1937
11	Bronstein	Soviet Union 11	2670	World Championship Challenger 1951	1924
12	Keres	Soviet Union 12	2670	Soviet Champion 147, 1950, 1951; 2nd at 5 Candidates	1916
13	Korchnoi	Soviet Union 13	2665	World Championship Challenger 1978, 1981; 4 time Soviet Champion; 8 time Candidate	1931
14	Fine	United States 14	2660	=1st AVRO 1938	1914
15	Geller	Soviet Union 15	2655	6 time Candidate; twice Soviet champion	1925
16	Boleslavsky	Soviet Union 16	2650	=1st Budapest Candidates 1950	1919
17	Euwe	Netherlands 17	2650	5th World Champion (1935–37)	1901
18	Steinitz	Austrian Empire 18	2650	1st World Champion (1886–94)	1836
19	Rubinstein	Poland 19	2640	Bad Pistyan 1912 or =1st St Petersburgh 1909	1882
20	Najdorf	Poland 20	2635	2-time Candidate 1950 & 1953; Amsterdam 1950	1910
21	Pillsbury	United States 21	2630	Hastings 1895	1872
22	Portisch	Hungary 22	2630	8-time Candidate	1937
23	Timman	Netherlands 23	2630	FIDE World Championship Challenger 1993; Linares 1988	1951
24	Flohr	Poland 24	2620	Leningrad-Moscow 1939	1908
25	Gligoric	Yugoslavia 25	2620	3-time Candidate (1953, 1958, 1968)	1923
26	Kholmov	Soviet Union 26	2620	=1st Soviet Championship 1963	1925
27	Kotov	Soviet Union 27	2620	Twice-Candidate: Budapest 1950 & Zurich 1953	1913
28	Larsen	Denmark 28	2620	4-time Candidate: 1965, 1968, 1971 & 1978	1935
29	Maroczy	Hungary 29	2620	Ostend 1905	1870
30	Stein	Soviet Union 30	2620	3-time Soviet Champion 1963, 1965, and 1966-7	1934
31	Averbakh	Soviet Union 31	2615	Candidate (Zurich1953)	1922
32	Nimzowitsch	Russian Federation 32	2615	Carlsbad 1929	1886
33	Andersson	Sweden 33	2610	Wijk aan Zee 1983	1951
34	Bogoljubow	Russian Federation 34	2610	Moscow 1925; twice World Championship Challenger vs Alekhine	1889
35	Furman	Soviet Union 35	2610	Harrachov 1966	1920
36	Ljubojevic	Yugoslavia 36	2610	Linares 1985	1950
37	Szabo	Hungary 37	2610	3-time Candidate	1917
38	Tarrasch	Germany 38	2610	World Championship Challenger (1908); Monte Carlo 1903	1862
39	Mecking	Brazil 39	2608	2-time Candidate; Augusta 1984 & Lucerne 1977	1952
40	Polugaevsky	Soviet Union 40	2605	3-time Candidate Moscow 1974; Lucerne 1977; semi-final Buenos Aires 1980	1934
41	Anderssen	Germany 41	2600	London 1851	1818
42	Chigorin	Russian Federation 42	2600	World Championship Challenger 1889 & 1892; =1st New York 1889	1850
43	Schlechter	Austrian Empire 43	2600	World Championship Challenger 1911	1874
44	Taimanov	Soviet Union 44	2600	Two-time Candidate 1953 and 1971	1926
45	Vidmar	Austrian-Hungarian Empire 45	2600	=1st Hasting 1925-26	1885
46	Von der Lasa	Germany 46	2600	(no tournaments or formal matches) Beat Staunton, Anderssen and Loewenthal in offhand games	1818
47	Zukertort	Poland 47	2600	World Championship Match 1886; tournament – London 1883	1842

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