The Keene-Divinsky list is far from being perfect but is a honest attempt to make an all time ranking list and, most important of all, is based on objective data: games. It also consider some players who may not be very famous in the West but are very good players indeed (Stein #15; Kholmov #24; Furman #26; Szabo #46).
This is the complete Keene-Divinsky list based on 64 (previously subjectively selected) players’ one another games from 18th century to mid-1987.
1. Kasparov
2. Karpov
3. Fischer
4. Botvinnik
5. Capablanca
6. Lasker
7. Korchnoi
8. Spassky
9. Smyslov
10. Petrosian
11. Morphy
12. Polugaevsky
13. Geller
14. Tal
15. Stein
16. Keres
17. Bronstein
18. Alekhine
19. Sokolov
20. Boleslavsky
21. Portisch
22. Reshevsky
23. Yusupov
24. Kholmov
25. Averbakh
26. Furman
27. Belyavsky
28. Timman
29. Larsen
30. Taimanov
31. Vaganian
32. Kotov
33. Flohr
34. Ljubojevic
35. Najdorf
36. Szabo
37. Gligoric
38. Fine
39. Huebner
40. Andersson
41. Seirawan
42. Euwe
43. Hort
44. Rubinstein
45. Mecking
46. Maroczy
47. Steinitz
48. Vidmar
49. Bernstein
50. Nimzovitsch
51. Bogoljubov
52. Short
53. Tarrasch
54. Pillsbury
55. Schlechter
56. Marshall
57. Anderssen
58. Charousek
59. Chigorin
60. Teichmann
61. Janowski
62. Duras
63. Blackburne
64. Zukertort
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