Professor Arpad Elo’s virtual rating list of history’s greatest players in the pre-Fischer era.
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1 | Capablanca | 2725 | 1888 |
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2 | Botvinnik | 2720 | 1911 |
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3 | Lasker | 2720 | 1868 |
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4 | Tal | 2700 | 1936 |
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5 | Alekhine | 2690 | 1892 |
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6 | Morphy | 2690 | 1837 |
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7 | Smyslov | 2690 | 1921 |
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8 | Petrosian | 2680 | 1929 |
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9 | Reshevsky | 2680 | 1911 |
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10 | Spassky | 2680 | 1937 |
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11 | Bronstein | 2670 | 1924 |
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12 | Keres | 2670 | 1916 |
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13 | Korchnoi | 2665 | 1931 |
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14 | Fine | 2660 | 1914 |
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15 | Geller | 2655 | 1925 |
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16 | Boleslavsky | 2650 | 1919 |
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17 | Euwe | 2650 | 1901 |
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18 | Steinitz | 2650 | 1836 |
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19 | Rubinstein | 2640 | 1882 |
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20 | Najdorf | 2635 | 1910 |
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21 | Pillsbury | 2630 | 1872 |
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22 | Portisch | 2630 | 1937 |
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23 | Timman | 2630 | 1951 |
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24 | Flohr | 2620 | 1908 |
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25 | Gligoric | 2620 | 1923 |
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26 | Kholmov | 2620 | 1925 |
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27 | Kotov | 2620 | 1913 |
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28 | Larsen | 2620 | 1935 |
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29 | Maroczy | 2620 | 1870 |
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30 | Stein | 2620 | 1934 |
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31 | Averbakh | 2615 | 1922 |
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32 | Nimzowitsch | 2615 | 1886 |
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33 | Andersson | 2610 | 1951 |
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34 | Bogoljubow | 2610 | 1889 |
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35 | Furman | 2610 | 1920 |
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36 | Ljubojevic | 2610 | 1950 |
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37 | Szabo | 2610 | 1917 |
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38 | Tarrasch | 2610 | 1862 |
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39 | Mecking | 2608 | 1952 |
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40 | Polugaevsky | 2605 | 1934 |
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41 | Anderssen | 2600 | 1818 |
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42 | Chigorin | 2600 | 1850 |
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43 | Schlechter | 2600 | 1874 |
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44 | Taimanov | 2600 | 1926 |
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45 | Vidmar | 2600 | 1885 |
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46 | Von der Lasa | 2600 | 1818 |
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47 | Zukertort | 2600 | 1842 |
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