Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: December 1890 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Emanuel Lasker  2781    22y0m   (#4 all-time among players aged 22y0m) 
 #2  Siegbert Tarrasch  2728    28y9m   (#37 all-time among players aged 28y9m) 
 #3  Mikhail Chigorin  2712    40y1m   (#29 all-time among players aged 40y1m) 
 #4  Miksa Weiss  2710    33y5m   (#45 all-time among players aged 33y5m) 
 #5  Wilhelm Steinitz  2710    54y7m   (#4 all-time among players aged 54y7m) 
 #6  Isidor Gunsberg  2700    36y1m   (#48 all-time among players aged 36y1m) 
 #7  Amos Burn  2699    42y0m   (#35 all-time among players aged 42y0m) 
 #8  Joseph Blackburne  2684    49y0m   (#20 all-time among players aged 49y0m) 
 #9  Berthold Lasker  2681    30y0m   (#88 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #10  George Mackenzie  2658    53y9m   (#25 all-time among players aged 53y9m) 
 #11  Curt von Bardeleben  2656    29y9m   (#133 all-time among players aged 29y9m) 
 #12  Theodor von Scheve  2642    39y6m   (#104 all-time among players aged 39y6m) 
 #13  Samuel Lipschütz  2642    27y5m   (#150 all-time among players aged 27y5m) 
 #14  Johann Bauer  2637    29y6m   (#181 all-time among players aged 29y6m) 
 #15  Horatio Caro  2635    28y5m   (#178 all-time among players aged 28y5m) 
 #16  James Mason  2627    41y1m   (#134 all-time among players aged 41y1m) 
 #17  Louis Paulsen  2619    57y11m   (#19 all-time among players aged 57y11m) 
 #18  Jacques Mieses  2613    25y10m   (#214 all-time among players aged 25y10m) 
 #19  Emil Schallopp  2598    47y4m   (#102 all-time among players aged 47y4m) 
 #20  Max Judd  2597    39y0m   (#213 all-time among players aged 39y0m) 
 #21  Samuel Tinsley  2588    43y11m   (#168 all-time among players aged 43y11m) 
 #22  Johann Berger  2587    45y8m   (#142 all-time among players aged 45y8m) 
 #23  Henry Bird  2583    60y5m   (#23 all-time among players aged 60y5m) 
 #24  Berthold Englisch  2581    39y5m   (#248 all-time among players aged 39y5m) 
 #25  Bernhard Fleissig  2578    45y1m   (#168 all-time among players aged 45y1m) 
 #26  Semyon Alapin  2572    34y1m   (#391 all-time among players aged 34y1m) 
 #27  William Gunston  2563    34y3m   (#437 all-time among players aged 34y3m) 
 #28  Jean Taubenhaus  2562    40y0m   (#300 all-time among players aged 40y0m) 
 #29  N Miniati  2556    27y11m   (#512 all-time among players aged 27y11m) 
 #30  Jackson Showalter  2554    30y10m   (#532 all-time among players aged 30y10m) 
 #31  Eugene Delmar  2543    49y3m   (#152 all-time among players aged 49y3m) 
 #32  Francis Lee  2531    33y11m   (#630 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #33  Johannes Metger  2531    39y0m   (#473 all-time among players aged 39y0m) 
 #34  Muller  2529   
 #35  Joseph Blake  2529    31y10m   (#706 all-time among players aged 31y10m) 
 #36  Max Harmonist  2527    26y10m   (#713 all-time among players aged 26y10m) 
 #37  William Pollock  2525    31y10m   (#734 all-time among players aged 31y10m) 
 #38  Hermann von Gottschall  2523    28y2m   (#751 all-time among players aged 28y2m) 
 #39  Alexander Fritz  2519    33y11m   (#715 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #40  Adolf Csánk  2518   
 #41  Emanuel Schiffers  2516    40y7m   (#488 all-time among players aged 40y7m) 
 #42  David Baird  2513    36y0m   (#676 all-time among players aged 36y0m) 
 #43  John Owen  2513    63y8m   (#32 all-time among players aged 63y8m) 
 #44  Celso Golmayo Zupide  2510    70y8m   (#6 all-time among players aged 70y8m) 
 #45  Georg Marco  2498    27y1m   (#956 all-time among players aged 27y1m) 
 #46  John Ryan  2496    41y11m   (#537 all-time among players aged 41y11m) 
 #47  J Moore Hanham  2489    50y11m   (#238 all-time among players aged 50y11m) 
 #48  Constant Burille  2487    24y4m   (#908 all-time among players aged 24y4m) 
 #49  Rudolf Loman  2484    29y2m   (#1081 all-time among players aged 29y2m) 
 #50  Bernhard Hülsen  2483    26y1m   (#1051 all-time among players aged 26y1m) 
 #51  Gustave Simonson  2481    26y3m   (#1071 all-time among players aged 26y3m) 
 #52  Nikolay Mitropolsky  2478    24y3m   (#964 all-time among players aged 24y3m) 
 #53  Charles Moehle  2476    31y1m   (#1154 all-time among players aged 31y1m) 
 #54  Dion Martinez  2476    53y6m   (#208 all-time among players aged 53y6m) 
 #55  Herbert Trenchard  2472    33y3m   (#1085 all-time among players aged 33y3m) 
 #56  Heinrich Ranneforth  2471    26y9m   (#1189 all-time among players aged 26y9m) 
 #57  Louis van Vliet  2469    22y11m   (#895 all-time among players aged 22y11m) 
 #58  Oscar Müller  2465    30y11m   (#1265 all-time among players aged 30y11m) 
 #59  Lee  2464   
 #60  James Mortimer  2463    57y8m   (#127 all-time among players aged 57y8m) 
 #61  Jacques Schwarz  2463    34y11m   (#1070 all-time among players aged 34y11m) 
 #62  Arnold van Foreest  2431    27y6m   (#1585 all-time among players aged 27y6m) 
 #63  Hans von Minckwitz  2431    47y8m   (#503 all-time among players aged 47y8m) 
 #64  Charles Locock  2430    28y3m   (#1603 all-time among players aged 28y3m) 
 #65  Paul Seuffert  2427    30y8m   (#1622 all-time among players aged 30y8m) 
 #66  Andrés Vásquez  2424    46y1m   (#608 all-time among players aged 46y1m) 
 #67  Jan Heemskerk  2421    23y10m   (#1424 all-time among players aged 23y10m) 
 #68  Edmund Thorold  2412    58y3m   (#172 all-time among players aged 58y3m) 
 #69  Hermann Keidanski  2411    25y1m   (#1647 all-time among players aged 25y1m) 
 #70  John Hall  2407    37y4m   (#1322 all-time among players aged 37y4m) 
 #71  Karl Holländer  2404    22y4m   (#1349 all-time among players aged 22y4m) 
 #72  George Gossip  2399    49y0m   (#522 all-time among players aged 49y0m) 
 #73  Adolf Albin  2397    42y3m   (#971 all-time among players aged 42y3m) 
 #74  Carl Ahlhausen  2395    55y11m   (#262 all-time among players aged 55y11m) 
 #75  Alfred Rumboll  2395    53y11m   (#336 all-time among players aged 53y11m) 
 #76  Joseph Holzwarth  2389   
 #77  A Rembe  2388   
 #78  Henry Peachey  2379   
 #79  George Wainwright  2372    29y1m   (#2115 all-time among players aged 29y1m) 
 #80  John Baird  2372    38y10m   (#1350 all-time among players aged 38y10m) 
 #81  I Leather  2359   
 #82  Nicholas MacLeod  2359    20y10m   (#1431 all-time among players aged 20y10m) 
 #83  Albert Heyde  2359    24y9m   (#2040 all-time among players aged 24y9m) 
 #84  J Malta  2347   
 #85  Arthur Ropes  2318   
 #86  Arnoldus van Rhijn  2303    46y9m   (#853 all-time among players aged 46y9m) 
 #87  Christian Messemaker  2289    69y7m   (#56 all-time among players aged 69y7m) 
 #88  George Schott  2236    22y11m   (#2205 all-time among players aged 22y11m)