Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: April 1889 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Wilhelm Steinitz  2762    52y11m   (#2 all-time among players aged 52y11m) 
 #2  Isidor Gunsberg  2736    34y5m   (#25 all-time among players aged 34y5m) 
 #3  Joseph Blackburne  2731    47y4m   (#12 all-time among players aged 47y4m) 
 #4  George Mackenzie  2688    52y1m   (#18 all-time among players aged 52y1m) 
 #5  Mikhail Chigorin  2686    38y5m   (#48 all-time among players aged 38y5m) 
 #6  Miksa Weiss  2681    31y9m   (#90 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #7  Curt von Bardeleben  2675    28y1m   (#96 all-time among players aged 28y1m) 
 #8  Amos Burn  2661    40y4m   (#70 all-time among players aged 40y4m) 
 #9  Emil Schallopp  2638    45y8m   (#62 all-time among players aged 45y8m) 
 #10  Fritz Riemann  2632    30y3m   (#188 all-time among players aged 30y3m) 
 #11  Johann Berger  2630    44y0m   (#96 all-time among players aged 44y0m) 
 #12  Berthold Englisch  2627    37y9m   (#142 all-time among players aged 37y9m) 
 #13  Jacques Mieses  2626    24y2m   (#153 all-time among players aged 24y2m) 
 #14  James Mason  2616    39y5m   (#160 all-time among players aged 39y5m) 
 #15  Siegbert Tarrasch  2605    27y1m   (#255 all-time among players aged 27y1m) 
 #16  Louis Paulsen  2597    56y3m   (#34 all-time among players aged 56y3m) 
 #17  Jackson Showalter  2597    29y2m   (#307 all-time among players aged 29y2m) 
 #18  Horatio Caro  2592    26y9m   (#309 all-time among players aged 26y9m) 
 #19  Eugene Delmar  2589    47y7m   (#105 all-time among players aged 47y7m) 
 #20  Emanuel Schiffers  2582    38y11m   (#260 all-time among players aged 38y11m) 
 #21  Samuel Lipschütz  2580    25y9m   (#349 all-time among players aged 25y9m) 
 #22  Semyon Alapin  2569    32y5m   (#444 all-time among players aged 32y5m) 
 #23  Jean Taubenhaus  2565    38y4m   (#334 all-time among players aged 38y4m) 
 #24  Hermann von Gottschall  2561    26y6m   (#464 all-time among players aged 26y6m) 
 #25  Theodor von Scheve  2559    37y10m   (#370 all-time among players aged 37y10m) 
 #26  John Ryan  2549    40y3m   (#354 all-time among players aged 40y3m) 
 #27  Josef Noa  2549    32y6m   (#548 all-time among players aged 32y6m) 
 #28  Henry Bird  2546    58y9m   (#42 all-time among players aged 58y9m) 
 #29  Celso Golmayo Zupide  2546    69y0m   (#6 all-time among players aged 69y0m) 
 #30  Hyde  2545   
 #31  Paul Seuffert  2544    29y0m   (#607 all-time among players aged 29y0m) 
 #32  Hartshorne  2536   
 #33  William Pollock  2527    30y2m   (#728 all-time among players aged 30y2m) 
 #34  Max Harmonist  2524    25y2m   (#637 all-time among players aged 25y2m) 
 #35  J Moore Hanham  2517    49y3m   (#211 all-time among players aged 49y3m) 
 #36  John Owen  2516    62y0m   (#38 all-time among players aged 62y0m) 
 #37  S Alexi  2512   
 #38  Johannes Metger  2511    37y4m   (#661 all-time among players aged 37y4m) 
 #39  Gustave Simonson  2508    24y7m   (#747 all-time among players aged 24y7m) 
 #40  Daniel Mills  2507    39y8m   (#573 all-time among players aged 39y8m) 
 #41  Max Judd  2498    37y4m   (#728 all-time among players aged 37y4m) 
 #42  Antony Guest  2492    33y3m   (#914 all-time among players aged 33y3m) 
 #43  Heinrich Ranneforth  2489    25y1m   (#929 all-time among players aged 25y1m) 
 #44  Alexander Fritz  2481    32y3m   (#1052 all-time among players aged 32y3m) 
 #45  Wilfried Paulsen  2477    60y9m   (#71 all-time among players aged 60y9m) 
 #46  Henry Schieffelin  2476   
 #47  Arnold Schottländer  2476    35y0m   (#958 all-time among players aged 35y0m) 
 #48  George MacDonnell  2475    58y8m   (#88 all-time among players aged 58y8m) 
 #49  Edmund Thorold  2474    56y7m   (#138 all-time among players aged 56y7m) 
 #50  George Gossip  2470    47y4m   (#408 all-time among players aged 47y4m) 
 #51  Clapp  2468   
 #52  David Baird  2465    34y4m   (#1087 all-time among players aged 34y4m) 
 #53  Carl Ahlhausen  2463    54y3m   (#205 all-time among players aged 54y3m) 
 #54  Francis Lee  2462    32y3m   (#1248 all-time among players aged 32y3m) 
 #55  Bernhard Hülsen  2461    24y5m   (#1156 all-time among players aged 24y5m) 
 #56  D'Oench  2451   
 #57  Charles Locock  2449    26y7m   (#1376 all-time among players aged 26y7m) 
 #58  Albert Hodges  2444    27y9m   (#1479 all-time among players aged 27y9m) 
 #59  Hans von Minckwitz  2443    46y0m   (#549 all-time among players aged 46y0m) 
 #60  Dahn  2435   
 #61  Hermann Specht  2434   
 #62  Methner  2434   
 #63  James Mortimer  2413    56y0m   (#245 all-time among players aged 56y0m) 
 #64  Vicente Carvajal  2412    48y5m   (#526 all-time among players aged 48y5m) 
 #65  J Schlesinger  2412   
 #66  Andrés Vásquez  2400    44y5m   (#811 all-time among players aged 44y5m) 
 #67  Albert von Rothschild  2400    44y6m   (#810 all-time among players aged 44y6m) 
 #68  John Hall  2386    35y8m   (#1591 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #69  Alfred Peake  2384   
 #70  Oskar Cordel  2373    45y4m   (#830 all-time among players aged 45y4m) 
 #71  Alfred Rumboll  2370    52y3m   (#437 all-time among players aged 52y3m) 
 #72  John Bierbach  2343   
 #73  Spiegle  2340   
 #74  Wilfred Palmer  2321    15y9m   (#297 all-time among players aged 15y9m) 
 #75  John Chambers  2314    47y3m   (#793 all-time among players aged 47y3m) 
 #76  Karl Holländer  2310    20y8m   (#1689 all-time among players aged 20y8m) 
 #77  Albert Heyde  2295    23y1m   (#2127 all-time among players aged 23y1m) 
 #78  Leopold Landau  2294    40y9m   (#1411 all-time among players aged 40y9m) 
 #79  Lochte  2269