Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: July 1889 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Wilhelm Steinitz  2765    53y2m   (#1 all-time among players aged 53y2m) 
 #2  Isidor Gunsberg  2744    34y8m   (#18 all-time among players aged 34y8m) 
 #3  Mikhail Chigorin  2732    38y8m   (#21 all-time among players aged 38y8m) 
 #4  Miksa Weiss  2727    32y0m   (#35 all-time among players aged 32y0m) 
 #5  Joseph Blackburne  2726    47y7m   (#13 all-time among players aged 47y7m) 
 #6  Amos Burn  2683    40y7m   (#54 all-time among players aged 40y7m) 
 #7  George Mackenzie  2682    52y4m   (#22 all-time among players aged 52y4m) 
 #8  Curt von Bardeleben  2666    28y4m   (#109 all-time among players aged 28y4m) 
 #9  Samuel Lipschütz  2653    26y0m   (#122 all-time among players aged 26y0m) 
 #10  Johann Berger  2625    44y3m   (#101 all-time among players aged 44y3m) 
 #11  James Mason  2622    39y8m   (#142 all-time among players aged 39y8m) 
 #12  Emil Schallopp  2621    45y11m   (#82 all-time among players aged 45y11m) 
 #13  Fritz Riemann  2620    30y6m   (#224 all-time among players aged 30y6m) 
 #14  Jacques Mieses  2616    24y5m   (#178 all-time among players aged 24y5m) 
 #15  Berthold Englisch  2614    38y0m   (#176 all-time among players aged 38y0m) 
 #16  Siegbert Tarrasch  2592    27y4m   (#319 all-time among players aged 27y4m) 
 #17  Louis Paulsen  2590    56y6m   (#39 all-time among players aged 56y6m) 
 #18  Emanuel Schiffers  2576    39y2m   (#273 all-time among players aged 39y2m) 
 #19  Horatio Caro  2575    27y0m   (#399 all-time among players aged 27y0m) 
 #20  Jackson Showalter  2575    29y5m   (#419 all-time among players aged 29y5m) 
 #21  Max Judd  2568    37y7m   (#337 all-time among players aged 37y7m) 
 #22  Theodor von Scheve  2567    38y1m   (#328 all-time among players aged 38y1m) 
 #23  Semyon Alapin  2565    32y8m   (#452 all-time among players aged 32y8m) 
 #24  Joseph Blake  2563    30y5m   (#482 all-time among players aged 30y5m) 
 #25  Eugene Delmar  2563    47y10m   (#143 all-time among players aged 47y10m) 
 #26  Hermann von Gottschall  2557    26y9m   (#487 all-time among players aged 26y9m) 
 #27  Jean Taubenhaus  2556    38y7m   (#366 all-time among players aged 38y7m) 
 #28  Josef Noa  2551    32y9m   (#532 all-time among players aged 32y9m) 
 #29  Henry Bird  2548    59y0m   (#41 all-time among players aged 59y0m) 
 #30  William Pollock  2541    30y5m   (#633 all-time among players aged 30y5m) 
 #31  Celso Golmayo Zupide  2539    69y3m   (#7 all-time among players aged 69y3m) 
 #32  John Ryan  2531    40y6m   (#421 all-time among players aged 40y6m) 
 #33  John Owen  2523    62y3m   (#29 all-time among players aged 62y3m) 
 #34  Hyde  2519   
 #35  Max Harmonist  2516    25y5m   (#721 all-time among players aged 25y5m) 
 #36  Daniel Mills  2514    39y11m   (#524 all-time among players aged 39y11m) 
 #37  Hartshorne  2511   
 #38  David Baird  2510    34y7m   (#731 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #39  Johannes Metger  2507    37y7m   (#657 all-time among players aged 37y7m) 
 #40  Paul Seuffert  2503    29y3m   (#904 all-time among players aged 29y3m) 
 #41  J Moore Hanham  2498    49y6m   (#253 all-time among players aged 49y6m) 
 #42  Antony Guest  2498    33y6m   (#869 all-time among players aged 33y6m) 
 #43  Constant Burille  2496    22y11m   (#697 all-time among players aged 22y11m) 
 #44  Gustave Simonson  2493    24y10m   (#872 all-time among players aged 24y10m) 
 #45  Dion Martinez  2483    52y1m   (#230 all-time among players aged 52y1m) 
 #46  Alexander Fritz  2481    32y6m   (#1060 all-time among players aged 32y6m) 
 #47  S Alexi  2478   
 #48  Wilfried Paulsen  2478    61y0m   (#71 all-time among players aged 61y0m) 
 #49  Edmund Thorold  2477    56y10m   (#128 all-time among players aged 56y10m) 
 #50  Arnold Schottländer  2477    35y3m   (#930 all-time among players aged 35y3m) 
 #51  George MacDonnell  2477    58y11m   (#90 all-time among players aged 58y11m) 
 #52  Heinrich Ranneforth  2474    25y4m   (#1107 all-time among players aged 25y4m) 
 #53  George Gossip  2466    47y7m   (#412 all-time among players aged 47y7m) 
 #54  Francis Lee  2465    32y6m   (#1205 all-time among players aged 32y6m) 
 #55  Henry Schieffelin  2462   
 #56  Charles Locock  2452    26y10m   (#1362 all-time among players aged 26y10m) 
 #57  Clapp  2451   
 #58  Bernhard Hülsen  2449    24y8m   (#1272 all-time among players aged 24y8m) 
 #59  Vicente Carvajal  2437    48y8m   (#460 all-time among players aged 48y8m) 
 #60  D'Oench  2435   
 #61  Dahn  2429   
 #62  Hans von Minckwitz  2424    46y3m   (#588 all-time among players aged 46y3m) 
 #63  Methner  2421   
 #64  Hermann Specht  2421   
 #65  Georges Barbier  2419   
 #66  Burns  2419   
 #67  Carl Ahlhausen  2418    54y6m   (#277 all-time among players aged 54y6m) 
 #68  James Mortimer  2417    56y3m   (#227 all-time among players aged 56y3m) 
 #69  J Schlesinger  2408   
 #70  Andrés Vásquez  2401    44y8m   (#779 all-time among players aged 44y8m) 
 #71  Albert von Rothschild  2390    44y9m   (#823 all-time among players aged 44y9m) 
 #72  John Hall  2389    35y11m   (#1554 all-time among players aged 35y11m) 
 #73  Alfred Rumboll  2373    52y6m   (#432 all-time among players aged 52y6m) 
 #74  John Baird  2373    37y5m   (#1511 all-time among players aged 37y5m) 
 #75  Oskar Cordel  2356    45y7m   (#862 all-time among players aged 45y7m) 
 #76  Nicholas MacLeod  2355    19y5m   (#1100 all-time among players aged 19y5m) 
 #77  John Chambers  2343    47y6m   (#734 all-time among players aged 47y6m) 
 #78  Spiegle  2337   
 #79  Karl Holländer  2332    20y11m   (#1655 all-time among players aged 20y11m) 
 #80  Wilfred Palmer  2330    16y0m   (#320 all-time among players aged 16y0m) 
 #81  John Bierbach  2325   
 #82  Leopold Landau  2301    41y0m   (#1382 all-time among players aged 41y0m) 
 #83  Albert Heyde  2285    23y4m   (#2209 all-time among players aged 23y4m) 
 #84  Lochte  2264