Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: November 1896 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Emanuel Lasker  2842    27y11m   (#3 all-time among players aged 27y11m) 
 #2  Siegbert Tarrasch  2766    34y8m   (#13 all-time among players aged 34y8m) 
 #3  Mikhail Chigorin  2765    46y0m   (#3 all-time among players aged 46y0m) 
 #4  Wilhelm Steinitz  2754    60y6m   (#1 all-time among players aged 60y6m) 
 #5  Harry Pillsbury  2754    23y11m   (#12 all-time among players aged 23y11m) 
 #6  Géza Maróczy  2731    26y8m   (#33 all-time among players aged 26y8m) 
 #7  Dawid Janowsky  2693    28y5m   (#65 all-time among players aged 28y5m) 
 #8  Curt von Bardeleben  2686    35y8m   (#67 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #9  Berthold Englisch  2685    45y4m   (#31 all-time among players aged 45y4m) 
 #10  Carl Schlechter  2684    22y8m   (#44 all-time among players aged 22y8m) 
 #11  Carl Walbrodt  2676    25y0m   (#74 all-time among players aged 25y0m) 
 #12  Miksa Weiss  2675    39y4m   (#56 all-time among players aged 39y4m) 
 #13  Emanuel Schiffers  2672    46y6m   (#37 all-time among players aged 46y6m) 
 #14  Joseph Blackburne  2663    54y11m   (#17 all-time among players aged 54y11m) 
 #15  Rezsö Charousek  2661    23y2m   (#81 all-time among players aged 23y2m) 
 #16  Paul Lipke  2654    26y5m   (#118 all-time among players aged 26y5m) 
 #17  Richard Teichmann  2639    27y11m   (#160 all-time among players aged 27y11m) 
 #18  W Weiss  2638   
 #19  Georg Marco  2635    33y0m   (#169 all-time among players aged 33y0m) 
 #20  Edward Jones  2623    35y10m   (#177 all-time among players aged 35y10m) 
 #21  Jackson Showalter  2619    36y9m   (#178 all-time among players aged 36y9m) 
 #22  Szymon Winawer  2598    58y8m   (#23 all-time among players aged 58y8m) 
 #23  Albert Hodges  2597    35y4m   (#259 all-time among players aged 35y4m) 
 #24  Johann Berger  2593    51y7m   (#66 all-time among players aged 51y7m) 
 #25  Henry Atkins  2589    24y3m   (#259 all-time among players aged 24y3m) 
 #26  Amos Burn  2587    47y11m   (#101 all-time among players aged 47y11m) 
 #27  Jacques Mieses  2585    31y9m   (#375 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #28  Jacques Schwarz  2584    40y10m   (#232 all-time among players aged 40y10m) 
 #29  Adolf Albin  2576    48y2m   (#121 all-time among players aged 48y2m) 
 #30  Isidor Gunsberg  2573    42y0m   (#237 all-time among players aged 42y0m) 
 #31  Alexander Halprin  2556    28y8m   (#516 all-time among players aged 28y8m) 
 #32  Theodor von Scheve  2553    45y5m   (#226 all-time among players aged 45y5m) 
 #33  Victor Exner  2552   
 #34  Adolf Schwarz  2551    60y1m   (#35 all-time among players aged 60y1m) 
 #35  Max Judd  2547    44y11m   (#253 all-time among players aged 44y11m) 
 #36  James Mason  2546    47y0m   (#205 all-time among players aged 47y0m) 
 #37  Francis Lee  2545    39y10m   (#378 all-time among players aged 39y10m) 
 #38  Samuel Tinsley  2539    49y10m   (#171 all-time among players aged 49y10m) 
 #39  Eugene Delmar  2539    55y2m   (#79 all-time among players aged 55y2m) 
 #40  Josef Noa  2534    40y1m   (#431 all-time among players aged 40y1m) 
 #41  Adolf Zinkl  2532    25y4m   (#598 all-time among players aged 25y4m) 
 #42  Louis van Vliet  2531    28y10m   (#696 all-time among players aged 28y10m) 
 #43  Moritz Porges  2530    38y8m   (#495 all-time among players aged 38y8m) 
 #44  Hugo Fähndrich  2526    45y4m   (#302 all-time among players aged 45y4m) 
 #45  John Baird  2526    44y9m   (#322 all-time among players aged 44y9m) 
 #46  Emil Kemény  2523    36y10m   (#593 all-time among players aged 36y10m) 
 #47  Samuel Lipschütz  2523    33y4m   (#701 all-time among players aged 33y4m) 
 #48  Wilhelm Cohn  2519    37y9m   (#581 all-time among players aged 37y9m) 
 #49  John Owen  2518    69y7m   (#9 all-time among players aged 69y7m) 
 #50  B Jankowitsch  2517   
 #51  Rudolf Loman  2516    35y1m   (#682 all-time among players aged 35y1m) 
 #52  Jean Taubenhaus  2510    45y11m   (#329 all-time among players aged 45y11m) 
 #53  Henry Bird  2510    66y4m   (#24 all-time among players aged 66y4m) 
 #54  Kaufmann  2502   
 #55  Jacob Halpern  2495    51y2m   (#236 all-time among players aged 51y2m) 
 #56  J Moore Hanham  2494    56y10m   (#100 all-time among players aged 56y10m) 
 #57  Joseph Blake  2491    37y9m   (#755 all-time among players aged 37y9m) 
 #58  Emil Schallopp  2482    53y3m   (#205 all-time among players aged 53y3m) 
 #59  Andrey Chardin  2480   
 #60  Hugo Süchting  2480    22y1m   (#700 all-time among players aged 22y1m) 
 #61  John Barry  2476    22y11m   (#838 all-time among players aged 22y11m) 
 #62  Ignatz von Popiel  2474    33y4m   (#1061 all-time among players aged 33y4m) 
 #63  Herbert Jacobs  2472    33y5m   (#1096 all-time among players aged 33y5m) 
 #64  George Bellingham  2470    22y2m   (#787 all-time among players aged 22y2m) 
 #65  Herbert Trenchard  2469    39y2m   (#817 all-time among players aged 39y2m) 
 #66  C Horwitz  2453   
 #67  Edward Jones  2453   
 #68  Judd  2453   
 #69  David Baird  2441    41y11m   (#812 all-time among players aged 41y11m) 
 #70  Kasimir de Weydlich  2436   
 #71  John Elwell  2435    50y11m   (#376 all-time among players aged 50y11m) 
 #72  Muller  2431   
 #73  Andrés Vásquez  2429    52y0m   (#347 all-time among players aged 52y0m) 
 #74  William Gunston  2428    40y2m   (#988 all-time among players aged 40y2m) 
 #75  Moritz Lewitt  2427    33y3m   (#1472 all-time among players aged 33y3m) 
 #76  Beniamino Vergani  2418    33y5m   (#1544 all-time among players aged 33y5m) 
 #77  Nicolai Jasnogrodsky  2416    37y3m   (#1263 all-time among players aged 37y3m) 
 #78  Edward Jackson  2415    29y6m   (#1753 all-time among players aged 29y6m) 
 #79  E Creswell  2411   
 #80  Henry Cole  2396   
 #81  Albert Mandelbaum  2395   
 #82  Richard Fenton  2389    59y8m   (#173 all-time among players aged 59y8m) 
 #83  Dr Farrow  2388   
 #84  Ernst Varain  2385    38y5m   (#1337 all-time among players aged 38y5m) 
 #85  Philipp Meitner  2384    58y10m   (#189 all-time among players aged 58y10m) 
 #86  James Mortimer  2380    63y7m   (#108 all-time among players aged 63y7m) 
 #87  Rolland  2351   
 #88  F Fenzl  2339   
 #89  Charles Lambert  2335   
 #90  W Ingoldsby  2294   
 #91  B Wilmot  2287