| Ratings 
 
 
  | Year | Rank | Edo | Dev. | Games |  
  | 1918 | 35 | 2467 | (74) | 12 |  
  | 1919 | 35 | 2460 | (74) | 0 |  
  | 1920 | 36 | 2453 | (72) | 0 |  
  | 1921 | 40 | 2446 | (67) | 0 |  
  | 1922 | 45 | 2439 | (59) | 0 |  
  | 1923 | 51 | 2432 | (45) | 12 |  
  | 1924 | 30 | 2472 | (37) | 27 |  
  | 1925 | 39 | 2454 | (34) | 40 |  
  | 1926 | 60 | 2418 | (41) | 10 |  
  | 1927 | 88 | 2393 | (38) | 20 |  
  | 1928 | 84 | 2403 | (38) | 25 |  
  | 1929 | 82 | 2405 | (42) | 14 |  
  | 1930 | 104 | 2392 | (50) | 0 |  
  | 1931 | 129 | 2379 | (50) | 16 |  
 
Rating table notes
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| Biographical data |  | 
   | Name: Vilner, Yakov Semenovich |  
   | Born: 25 Sep. 1899 |  
   | Died: 29 June 1931 |  |  |  
   | Notes: |  
   | Feenstra Kuiper has 'Willner'. |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1921-1930, page 340 |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1931-1935, page 5 |  
   | Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 446 |  
   | Soltis, Soviet Chess, page 7, 47 |  
   | Thulin, Name index to CTC, page 286 |  | Web |  
   | Tkachenko, Sergey.  [СПАСИТЕЛЬ АЛЕХИНА] |  
   | [Yakov Vilner] |  |  |