| No. | Name: | City: | Country: | rating |
| 1 | NAKAMURA SHIGERU | Tanashi | Japan | 2894 |
| 2 | Hasegawa Kazuto | Amagasaki | Japan | 2728 |
| 3 | Meritee Ando | Tallinn | Estonia | 2695 |
| 4 | Kawamura Norihiko | Yawata | Japan | 2686 |
| 5 | Sagara Takashi | Osaka | Japan | 2669 |
| 6 | Nishizono Norio | Kyoto | Japan | 2634 |
| 7 | Iljin Dmitrij | Yelets | Russia | 2619 |
| 8 | Reims Aldis | Riga | Latvia | 2595 |
| 9 | Nara Hideki | Yokohama | Japan | 2569 |
| 10 | Nishiyama Atsushi | Nara | Japan | 2565 |
| 11 | Kozhin Mikhail | Dubna | Russia | 2551 |
| 12 | Yamaguchi Makoto | Hatano | Japan | 2533 |
| 13 | Hayakawa Yoshimi | Kyoto | Japan | 2525 |
| 14 | Karlsson Stefan | Stockholm | Sweden | 2496 |
| 15 | Poghosyan Albert | Yerevan | Armenia | 2491 |
| 16 | Voskanyan Eduard | Yerevan | Armenia | 2489 |
| 17 | Veidemanis Arnis | Riga | Latvia | 2479 |
| 18 | Klimashin Alexander | St.Petersburg | Russia | 2475 |
| 19 | Sushkov Vladimir | Gatchina | Russia | 2471 |
| 20 | Peskov Stepan | Zhigulyovsk | Russia | 2464 |
| 21 | Ooi Kozo | Kyoto | Japan | 2453 |
| 22 | Tarannikov Juri | Moscow | Russia | 2452 |
| 23 | Nikonov Konstantin | Elektrostal | Russia | 2449 |
| 24 | Isobe Taizan | Omiya | Japan | 2445 |
| 25 | Ishitani ShinŽichi | Fuji | Japan | 2440 |
| 26 | Okumura Toyohiko | Kyoto | Japan | 2435 |
| 27 | Sinyov Igor | Moscow | Russia | 2434 |
| 28 | Tanaka Tadayoshi | Tokyo | Japan | 2427 |
| 29 | Sundling Ingvar | Stockholm | Sweden | 2424 |
| 30 | Suzuki Naoya | Sendai | Japan | 2418 |
| 31 | Fedorkin Oleg | Moscow | Russia | 2418 |
| 32 | Bobkov Yevgeni | Moscow | Russia | 2414 |
| 33 | Fujinami Hisao | Japan | 2414 | |
| 34 | Kabanov Dmitri | Zhigulyovsk | Russia | 2405 |
| 35 | Soosyrv Ants | Tallinn | Estonia | 2404 |
| 36 | Johannesson Rickard | Jonkoping | Sweden | 2404 |
| 37 | Karejev Vladislav | Nizhni Novgorod | Russia | 2400 |
| 38 | Nishimura Toshio | Arao | Japan | 2398 |
| 39 | Mikhailov Alexander | Moscow | Russia | 2396 |
| 40 | Makarov Pavel | Moscow | Russia | 2393 |
| 41 | Kuga Akio | Sasebo | Japan | 2393 |
| 42 | Kashihara Akihiko | Kobe | Japan | 2388 |
| 43 | Mitsumori Masao | Hasuta | Japan | 2381 |
| 44 | Ponomarenko Nikolay | Kharkov | Ukraine | 2380 |
| 45 | Miyoshi Takeo | Aichi | Japan | 2375 |
| 46 | Milevsky Alexander | Moscow | Russia | 2372 |
| 47 | Fujumoto Kazuhiko | Tokorozawa | Japan | 2366 |
| 48 | Sakashita Shoichi | Furuoka | Japan | 2366 |
| 49 | Matsuura Hiroshi | Hiroshima | Japan | 2365 |
| 50 | Gardstrom Petter | Uppsala | Sweden | 2361 |
| 51 | Segal A. | Kishinyov | Moldova | 2361 |
| 52 | Teterovskis Nils | Riga | Latvia | 2359 |
| 53 | Arai Masatoshi | Kumagaya | Japan | 2359 |
| 54 | Dvojeglazov Vladimir | Tomsk | Russia | 2359 |
| 55 | Ses Pavel | St. Petersburg | Russia | 2353 |
| 56 | Guljajev Igor | Kertch | Ukraine | 2351 |
| 57 | Henningsson Anders | Jonkoping | Sweden | 2351 |
| 58 | Suslov Alexander | Kishinyov | Moldova | 2349 |
| 59 | Smirnov Sergey | Moscow | Russia | 2348 |
| 60 | Andersons Andris | Saldus | Latvia | 2345 |
| 61 | Salnikov Pavel | St. Petersburg | Russia | 2343 |
| 62 | Bashirov R. | Ulyanovsk | Russia | 2340 |
| 63 | Oota Tsuyoshi | Hamamatsu | Japan | 2339 |
| 64 | Atreshenkov Gennadi | Voronezh | Russia | 2336 |
| 65 | Kusajima Masato | Japan | 2335 | |
| 66 | Gurckis Gatis | Viksna | Latvia | 2335 |
| 67 | Tuvikene Margus | Tallinn | Estonia | 2330 |
| 68 | Krasnonosov Dmitrij | Moscow | Russia | 2329 |
| 69 | Andersson Tord | Uppsala | Sweden | 2326 |
| 70 | Mishin Andrey | St. Petersburg | Russia | 2325 |
| 71 | Grigoryan Nerses | Razdan | Armenia |