Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: January 1889 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Wilhelm Steinitz  2753    52y8m   (#3 all-time among players aged 52y8m) 
 #2  Isidor Gunsberg  2730    34y2m   (#26 all-time among players aged 34y2m) 
 #3  Joseph Blackburne  2727    47y1m   (#13 all-time among players aged 47y1m) 
 #4  Curt von Bardeleben  2690    27y10m   (#75 all-time among players aged 27y10m) 
 #5  George Mackenzie  2685    51y10m   (#19 all-time among players aged 51y10m) 
 #6  Miksa Weiss  2670    31y6m   (#112 all-time among players aged 31y6m) 
 #7  Amos Burn  2649    40y1m   (#94 all-time among players aged 40y1m) 
 #8  Eugene Delmar  2640    47y4m   (#54 all-time among players aged 47y4m) 
 #9  Berthold Englisch  2628    37y6m   (#137 all-time among players aged 37y6m) 
 #10  Fritz Riemann  2627    30y0m   (#204 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #11  Johann Berger  2623    43y9m   (#107 all-time among players aged 43y9m) 
 #12  Emil Schallopp  2621    45y5m   (#92 all-time among players aged 45y5m) 
 #13  James Mason  2615    39y2m   (#155 all-time among players aged 39y2m) 
 #14  Jacques Mieses  2606    23y11m   (#196 all-time among players aged 23y11m) 
 #15  Siegbert Tarrasch  2600    26y10m   (#272 all-time among players aged 26y10m) 
 #16  Louis Paulsen  2588    56y0m   (#38 all-time among players aged 56y0m) 
 #17  Horatio Caro  2585    26y6m   (#335 all-time among players aged 26y6m) 
 #18  Samuel Lipschütz  2576    25y6m   (#357 all-time among players aged 25y6m) 
 #19  Emanuel Schiffers  2576    38y8m   (#285 all-time among players aged 38y8m) 
 #20  Semyon Alapin  2563    32y2m   (#489 all-time among players aged 32y2m) 
 #21  Jean Taubenhaus  2559    38y1m   (#359 all-time among players aged 38y1m) 
 #22  Hermann von Gottschall  2549    26y3m   (#525 all-time among players aged 26y3m) 
 #23  Celso Golmayo Zupide  2547    68y9m   (#7 all-time among players aged 68y9m) 
 #24  Henry Bird  2541    58y6m   (#46 all-time among players aged 58y6m) 
 #25  Gustave Simonson  2539    24y4m   (#509 all-time among players aged 24y4m) 
 #26  Josef Noa  2537    32y3m   (#633 all-time among players aged 32y3m) 
 #27  John Ryan  2527    40y0m   (#476 all-time among players aged 40y0m) 
 #28  Hyde  2524   
 #29  Theodor von Scheve  2518    37y7m   (#589 all-time among players aged 37y7m) 
 #30  William Pollock  2517    29y11m   (#801 all-time among players aged 29y11m) 
 #31  Hartshorne  2511   
 #32  John Owen  2506    61y9m   (#43 all-time among players aged 61y9m) 
 #33  J Moore Hanham  2503    49y0m   (#255 all-time among players aged 49y0m) 
 #34  Johannes Metger  2501    37y1m   (#718 all-time among players aged 37y1m) 
 #35  Max Harmonist  2500    24y11m   (#816 all-time among players aged 24y11m) 
 #36  Daniel Mills  2499    39y5m   (#626 all-time among players aged 39y5m) 
 #37  Antony Guest  2488    33y0m   (#978 all-time among players aged 33y0m) 
 #38  David Baird  2479    34y1m   (#971 all-time among players aged 34y1m) 
 #39  Albert von Rothschild  2471    44y3m   (#545 all-time among players aged 44y3m) 
 #40  Alexander Fritz  2471    32y0m   (#1164 all-time among players aged 32y0m) 
 #41  George MacDonnell  2468    58y5m   (#108 all-time among players aged 58y5m) 
 #42  Edmund Thorold  2466    56y4m   (#152 all-time among players aged 56y4m) 
 #43  Wilfried Paulsen  2464    60y6m   (#88 all-time among players aged 60y6m) 
 #44  Arnold Schottländer  2463    34y9m   (#1083 all-time among players aged 34y9m) 
 #45  August Vorrath  2460    50y11m   (#309 all-time among players aged 50y11m) 
 #46  D'Oench  2458   
 #47  Henry Schieffelin  2456   
 #48  Francis Lee  2456    32y0m   (#1305 all-time among players aged 32y0m) 
 #49  Max Judd  2455    37y1m   (#1022 all-time among players aged 37y1m) 
 #50  Hans von Minckwitz  2446    45y9m   (#562 all-time among players aged 45y9m) 
 #51  Albert Hodges  2443    27y6m   (#1456 all-time among players aged 27y6m) 
 #52  Charles Locock  2442    26y4m   (#1432 all-time among players aged 26y4m) 
 #53  Carl Ahlhausen  2434    54y0m   (#278 all-time among players aged 54y0m) 
 #54  Clapp  2431   
 #55  Bernhard Hülsen  2424    24y2m   (#1455 all-time among players aged 24y2m) 
 #56  Andrés Vásquez  2412    44y2m   (#779 all-time among players aged 44y2m) 
 #57  James Mortimer  2406    55y9m   (#259 all-time among players aged 55y9m) 
 #58  Spiegle  2405   
 #59  Oskar Cordel  2401    45y1m   (#746 all-time among players aged 45y1m) 
 #60  Vicente Carvajal  2390    48y2m   (#595 all-time among players aged 48y2m) 
 #61  John Hall  2379    35y5m   (#1656 all-time among players aged 35y5m) 
 #62  Alfred Rumboll  2362    52y0m   (#468 all-time among players aged 52y0m) 
 #63  Wilfred Palmer  2341    15y6m   (#233 all-time among players aged 15y6m) 
 #64  Albert Heyde  2322    22y10m   (#1983 all-time among players aged 22y10m) 
 #65  John Chambers  2302    47y0m   (#823 all-time among players aged 47y0m)