Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: January 1886 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Wilhelm Steinitz  2777    49y8m   (#3 all-time among players aged 49y8m) 
 #2  Johannes Zukertort  2757    43y4m   (#10 all-time among players aged 43y4m) 
 #3  Joseph Blackburne  2717    44y1m   (#21 all-time among players aged 44y1m) 
 #4  Berthold Englisch  2679    34y6m   (#85 all-time among players aged 34y6m) 
 #5  Szymon Winawer  2673    47y10m   (#28 all-time among players aged 47y10m) 
 #6  James Mason  2670    36y2m   (#87 all-time among players aged 36y2m) 
 #7  Siegbert Tarrasch  2657    23y10m   (#90 all-time among players aged 23y10m) 
 #8  J Moore Hanham  2651    46y0m   (#51 all-time among players aged 46y0m) 
 #9  Samuel Rosenthal  2635    48y4m   (#46 all-time among players aged 48y4m) 
 #10  Miksa Weiss  2634    28y6m   (#175 all-time among players aged 28y6m) 
 #11  Emil Schallopp  2633    42y5m   (#107 all-time among players aged 42y5m) 
 #12  George Mackenzie  2632    48y10m   (#47 all-time among players aged 48y10m) 
 #13  Mikhail Chigorin  2629    35y2m   (#176 all-time among players aged 35y2m) 
 #14  Eugene Delmar  2628    44y4m   (#91 all-time among players aged 44y4m) 
 #15  Isidor Gunsberg  2609    31y2m   (#264 all-time among players aged 31y2m) 
 #16  Henry Bird  2599    55y6m   (#36 all-time among players aged 55y6m) 
 #17  Fritz Riemann  2581    27y0m   (#371 all-time among players aged 27y0m) 
 #18  Curt von Bardeleben  2579    24y10m   (#325 all-time among players aged 24y10m) 
 #19  Johann Berger  2576    40y9m   (#249 all-time among players aged 40y9m) 
 #20  Hans von Minckwitz  2574    42y9m   (#207 all-time among players aged 42y9m) 
 #21  Dion Martinez  2574    48y7m   (#114 all-time among players aged 48y7m) 
 #22  Vincenz Hrubý  2566    29y4m   (#457 all-time among players aged 29y4m) 
 #23  Gustave Simonson  2552    21y4m   (#270 all-time among players aged 21y4m) 
 #24  Ernst Flechsig  2543    33y3m   (#560 all-time among players aged 33y3m) 
 #25  L Rothschild  2542   
 #26  Louis Paulsen  2538    53y0m   (#116 all-time among players aged 53y0m) 
 #27  Jacques Schwarz  2536    30y0m   (#668 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #28  H Richardson  2529   
 #29  Jules de Rivière  2527    55y8m   (#83 all-time among players aged 55y8m) 
 #30  Alexander Sellman  2522    30y0m   (#773 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #31  David Baird  2520    31y1m   (#786 all-time among players aged 31y1m) 
 #32  William Wayte  2513    56y4m   (#85 all-time among players aged 56y4m) 
 #33  Antony Guest  2505    30y0m   (#888 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #34  Wordsworth Donisthorpe  2505    38y10m   (#611 all-time among players aged 38y10m) 
 #35  Josef Noa  2504    29y3m   (#900 all-time among players aged 29y3m) 
 #36  Hermann von Gottschall  2497    23y3m   (#715 all-time among players aged 23y3m) 
 #37  Jean Taubenhaus  2493    35y1m   (#838 all-time among players aged 35y1m) 
 #38  Charles Isaacson  2478    20y1m   (#470 all-time among players aged 20y1m) 
 #39  John Baird  2477    33y11m   (#1008 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #40  John Ryan  2469    37y0m   (#926 all-time among players aged 37y0m) 
 #41  Alexander Fritz  2448    29y0m   (#1435 all-time among players aged 29y0m) 
 #42  Arnold Schottländer  2445    31y9m   (#1406 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #43  Arthur Skipworth  2438    55y7m   (#213 all-time among players aged 55y7m) 
 #44  Max Lange  2436    53y5m   (#284 all-time among players aged 53y5m) 
 #45  Edmund Thorold  2436    53y4m   (#290 all-time among players aged 53y4m) 
 #46  Max Bier  2427    31y9m   (#1563 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #47  George MacDonnell  2423    55y5m   (#237 all-time among players aged 55y5m) 
 #48  James Mortimer  2423    52y9m   (#331 all-time among players aged 52y9m) 
 #49  Wilfried Paulsen  2423    57y6m   (#189 all-time among players aged 57y6m) 
 #50  William Pollock  2422    26y11m   (#1678 all-time among players aged 26y11m) 
 #51  C Fisher  2419   
 #52  Karl Leffmann  2413    50y0m   (#462 all-time among players aged 50y0m) 
 #53  Charles Ranken  2409    58y0m   (#188 all-time among players aged 58y0m) 
 #54  James Minchin  2405    60y10m   (#140 all-time among players aged 60y10m) 
 #55  August Vorrath  2400    47y11m   (#583 all-time among players aged 47y11m) 
 #56  George Carpenter  2387    41y10m   (#1048 all-time among players aged 41y10m) 
 #57  Wilfred Palmer  2386    12y6m   (#14 all-time among players aged 12y6m) 
 #58  George Wainwright  2383    24y2m   (#1820 all-time among players aged 24y2m) 
 #59  Rudolf Loman  2375    24y3m   (#1893 all-time among players aged 24y3m) 
 #60  John de Soyres  2353    36y9m   (#1679 all-time among players aged 36y9m) 
 #61  Thomas Hewitt  2353   
 #62  John Owen  2348    58y9m   (#232 all-time among players aged 58y9m) 
 #63  Henry Schieffelin  2343   
 #64  Daniel Mills  2329    36y5m   (#1790 all-time among players aged 36y5m) 
 #65  Henry Reeves  2322    45y0m   (#961 all-time among players aged 45y0m) 
 #66  Rumbold  2322   
 #67  Joseph Babson  2262   
 #68  William Mackeson  2223