Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: July 1886 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Wilhelm Steinitz  2826    50y2m   (#2 all-time among players aged 50y2m) 
 #2  Johannes Zukertort  2745    43y10m   (#12 all-time among players aged 43y10m) 
 #3  Joseph Blackburne  2737    44y7m   (#13 all-time among players aged 44y7m) 
 #4  Berthold Englisch  2677    35y0m   (#80 all-time among players aged 35y0m) 
 #5  Isidor Gunsberg  2660    31y8m   (#124 all-time among players aged 31y8m) 
 #6  Eugene Delmar  2658    44y10m   (#51 all-time among players aged 44y10m) 
 #7  Siegbert Tarrasch  2656    24y4m   (#95 all-time among players aged 24y4m) 
 #8  James Mason  2643    36y8m   (#119 all-time among players aged 36y8m) 
 #9  Szymon Winawer  2641    48y4m   (#42 all-time among players aged 48y4m) 
 #10  Miksa Weiss  2640    29y0m   (#166 all-time among players aged 29y0m) 
 #11  Emil Schallopp  2637    42y11m   (#91 all-time among players aged 42y11m) 
 #12  George Mackenzie  2624    49y4m   (#49 all-time among players aged 49y4m) 
 #13  Mikhail Chigorin  2622    35y8m   (#190 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #14  Henry Bird  2610    56y0m   (#27 all-time among players aged 56y0m) 
 #15  J Moore Hanham  2606    46y6m   (#97 all-time among players aged 46y6m) 
 #16  Amos Burn  2588    37y7m   (#259 all-time among players aged 37y7m) 
 #17  Dion Martinez  2584    49y1m   (#101 all-time among players aged 49y1m) 
 #18  Fritz Riemann  2580    27y6m   (#380 all-time among players aged 27y6m) 
 #19  Hans von Minckwitz  2576    43y3m   (#201 all-time among players aged 43y3m) 
 #20  Samuel Lipschütz  2574    23y0m   (#263 all-time among players aged 23y0m) 
 #21  Johann Berger  2572    41y3m   (#251 all-time among players aged 41y3m) 
 #22  Curt von Bardeleben  2565    25y4m   (#405 all-time among players aged 25y4m) 
 #23  Gustave Simonson  2548    21y10m   (#315 all-time among players aged 21y10m) 
 #24  L Rothschild  2545   
 #25  Ernst Flechsig  2543    33y9m   (#550 all-time among players aged 33y9m) 
 #26  Hyde  2537   
 #27  Vincenz Hrubý  2530    29y10m   (#713 all-time among players aged 29y10m) 
 #28  David Baird  2530    31y7m   (#714 all-time among players aged 31y7m) 
 #29  Alexander Sellman  2528    30y6m   (#718 all-time among players aged 30y6m) 
 #30  H Richardson  2526   
 #31  Hartshorne  2522   
 #32  John Ryan  2522    37y6m   (#589 all-time among players aged 37y6m) 
 #33  John Baird  2507    34y5m   (#768 all-time among players aged 34y5m) 
 #34  William Wayte  2504    56y10m   (#91 all-time among players aged 56y10m) 
 #35  Hermann von Gottschall  2502    23y9m   (#720 all-time among players aged 23y9m) 
 #36  Jean Taubenhaus  2499    35y7m   (#773 all-time among players aged 35y7m) 
 #37  Antony Guest  2492    30y6m   (#1016 all-time among players aged 30y6m) 
 #38  Josef Noa  2490    29y9m   (#1059 all-time among players aged 29y9m) 
 #39  Charles Isaacson  2485    20y7m   (#524 all-time among players aged 20y7m) 
 #40  Albert von Rothschild  2478    41y9m   (#619 all-time among players aged 41y9m) 
 #41  William Pollock  2468    27y5m   (#1226 all-time among players aged 27y5m) 
 #42  D'Oench  2463   
 #43  Wordsworth Donisthorpe  2460    39y4m   (#868 all-time among players aged 39y4m) 
 #44  Arthur Skipworth  2450    56y1m   (#181 all-time among players aged 56y1m) 
 #45  Arnold Schottländer  2447    32y3m   (#1384 all-time among players aged 32y3m) 
 #46  Edmund Thorold  2439    53y10m   (#276 all-time among players aged 53y10m) 
 #47  Clapp  2434   
 #48  George MacDonnell  2433    55y11m   (#205 all-time among players aged 55y11m) 
 #49  Max Bier  2430    32y3m   (#1534 all-time among players aged 32y3m) 
 #50  Wilfried Paulsen  2429    58y0m   (#166 all-time among players aged 58y0m) 
 #51  August Vorrath  2419    48y5m   (#512 all-time among players aged 48y5m) 
 #52  Charles Ranken  2414    58y6m   (#163 all-time among players aged 58y6m) 
 #53  Henry Schieffelin  2406   
 #54  Spiegle  2404   
 #55  Rudolf Loman  2404    24y9m   (#1718 all-time among players aged 24y9m) 
 #56  George Carpenter  2397    42y4m   (#974 all-time among players aged 42y4m) 
 #57  James Mortimer  2391    53y3m   (#380 all-time among players aged 53y3m) 
 #58  George Wainwright  2385    24y8m   (#1867 all-time among players aged 24y8m) 
 #59  John Owen  2366    59y3m   (#202 all-time among players aged 59y3m) 
 #60  Thomas Hewitt  2363   
 #61  Wilfred Palmer  2358    13y0m   (#27 all-time among players aged 13y0m) 
 #62  Henry Reeves  2354    45y6m   (#870 all-time among players aged 45y6m) 
 #63  Daniel Mills  2324    36y11m   (#1756 all-time among players aged 36y11m) 
 #64  John de Soyres  2300    37y3m   (#1786 all-time among players aged 37y3m) 
 #65  Rumbold  2253   
 #66  William Mackeson  2210   
 #67  Joseph Babson  2209