Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: January 1900 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Emanuel Lasker  2858    31y1m   (#3 all-time among players aged 31y1m) 
 #2  Siegbert Tarrasch  2805    37y10m   (#5 all-time among players aged 37y10m) 
 #3  Harry Pillsbury  2798    27y1m   (#7 all-time among players aged 27y1m) 
 #4  Dawid Janowsky  2743    31y7m   (#22 all-time among players aged 31y7m) 
 #5  Géza Maróczy  2743    29y10m   (#24 all-time among players aged 29y10m) 
 #6  Rezsö Charousek  2734    26y4m   (#28 all-time among players aged 26y4m) 
 #7  Mikhail Chigorin  2719    49y2m   (#11 all-time among players aged 49y2m) 
 #8  Amos Burn  2714    51y1m   (#11 all-time among players aged 51y1m) 
 #9  Carl Schlechter  2713    25y10m   (#41 all-time among players aged 25y10m) 
 #10  Samuel Lipschütz  2705    36y6m   (#44 all-time among players aged 36y6m) 
 #11  Wilhelm Steinitz  2687    63y8m   (#2 all-time among players aged 63y8m) 
 #12  Joseph Blackburne  2681    58y1m   (#7 all-time among players aged 58y1m) 
 #13  Semyon Alapin  2670    43y2m   (#49 all-time among players aged 43y2m) 
 #14  Paul Lipke  2663    29y7m   (#120 all-time among players aged 29y7m) 
 #15  Jackson Showalter  2659    39y11m   (#75 all-time among players aged 39y11m) 
 #16  Georg Marco  2636    36y2m   (#145 all-time among players aged 36y2m) 
 #17  Carl Walbrodt  2633    28y2m   (#180 all-time among players aged 28y2m) 
 #18  Hermann Voigt  2623    42y6m   (#118 all-time among players aged 42y6m) 
 #19  Emanuel Schiffers  2612    49y8m   (#67 all-time among players aged 49y8m) 
 #20  Wilhelm Cohn  2610    40y11m   (#159 all-time among players aged 40y11m) 
 #21  James Mason  2599    50y2m   (#75 all-time among players aged 50y2m) 
 #22  Johann Berger  2598    54y9m   (#38 all-time among players aged 54y9m) 
 #23  Walter Shipley  2594    39y7m   (#209 all-time among players aged 39y7m) 
 #24  Miklós Bródy  2582    22y10m   (#233 all-time among players aged 22y10m) 
 #25  Richard Teichmann  2576    31y1m   (#410 all-time among players aged 31y1m) 
 #26  Alexander Halprin  2576    31y10m   (#416 all-time among players aged 31y10m) 
 #27  Theodor von Scheve  2566    48y7m   (#125 all-time among players aged 48y7m) 
 #28  Victor Exner  2563   
 #29  Kaufmann  2563   
 #30  Charles Newman  2562    43y9m   (#241 all-time among players aged 43y9m) 
 #31  Horatio Caro  2562    37y6m   (#368 all-time among players aged 37y6m) 
 #32  Emil Kemény  2561    40y0m   (#304 all-time among players aged 40y0m) 
 #33  Francis Lee  2545    43y0m   (#295 all-time among players aged 43y0m) 
 #34  Heinrich Wolf  2545    24y3m   (#473 all-time among players aged 24y3m) 
 #35  Adolf Zinkl  2545    28y6m   (#580 all-time among players aged 28y6m) 
 #36  Jacob Halpern  2532    54y4m   (#89 all-time among players aged 54y4m) 
 #37  Jan Kotrc  2530    37y5m   (#541 all-time among players aged 37y5m) 
 #38  D Stuart Robinson  2522    40y11m   (#459 all-time among players aged 40y11m) 
 #39  Ignatz von Popiel  2520    36y6m   (#616 all-time among players aged 36y6m) 
 #40  Samuel Bampton  2516    36y4m   (#644 all-time among players aged 36y4m) 
 #41  Hermann von Gottschall  2513    37y3m   (#643 all-time among players aged 37y3m) 
 #42  Arthur Havasi  2511    36y0m   (#698 all-time among players aged 36y0m) 
 #43  Hugo Süchting  2511    25y3m   (#755 all-time among players aged 25y3m) 
 #44  Hugo Fähndrich  2505    48y6m   (#256 all-time among players aged 48y6m) 
 #45  C Weeks  2503   
 #46  Emil Schallopp  2501    56y5m   (#99 all-time among players aged 56y5m) 
 #47  Hugo Boehlke  2497   
 #48  Robert Griffith  2492   
 #49  Jacques Mieses  2486    34y11m   (#893 all-time among players aged 34y11m) 
 #50  Edward Jones  2485   
 #51  Eugene Delmar  2478    58y4m   (#91 all-time among players aged 58y4m) 
 #52  Arved Heinrichsen  2477    23y2m   (#835 all-time among players aged 23y2m) 
 #53  Samuel Tinsley  2472    53y0m   (#232 all-time among players aged 53y0m) 
 #54  Frank Marshall  2472    22y5m   (#812 all-time among players aged 22y5m) 
 #55  J Moore Hanham  2469    60y0m   (#81 all-time among players aged 60y0m) 
 #56  David Baird  2469    45y1m   (#518 all-time among players aged 45y1m) 
 #57  Henry Bird  2467    69y6m   (#21 all-time among players aged 69y6m) 
 #58  Mordecai Morgan  2460    37y1m   (#981 all-time among players aged 37y1m) 
 #59  Adolf Albin  2460    51y4m   (#305 all-time among players aged 51y4m) 
 #60  Adolf Schwarz  2457    63y3m   (#65 all-time among players aged 63y3m) 
 #61  Alexander Fritz  2451    43y0m   (#685 all-time among players aged 43y0m) 
 #62  Julius Kaiser  2440    54y6m   (#246 all-time among players aged 54y6m) 
 #63  Albert Mandelbaum  2432   
 #64  Siegfried Wolf  2430    32y1m   (#1548 all-time among players aged 32y1m) 
 #65  John Welsh Young  2430    33y5m   (#1451 all-time among players aged 33y5m) 
 #66  Hugo Bodenstein  2427   
 #67  Sidney Johnston  2421    30y2m   (#1687 all-time among players aged 30y2m) 
 #68  John McCutcheon  2414    42y8m   (#854 all-time among players aged 42y8m) 
 #69  William Ferris  2412    43y11m   (#794 all-time among players aged 43y11m) 
 #70  Herbert Trenchard  2409    42y4m   (#921 all-time among players aged 42y4m) 
 #71  Jan te Kolsté  2402    25y4m   (#1755 all-time among players aged 25y4m) 
 #72  J Smyth  2387   
 #73  James Magee  2379    33y0m   (#1885 all-time among players aged 33y0m) 
 #74  Bernhard Kagan  2376    33y5m   (#1853 all-time among players aged 33y5m) 
 #75  C Prock  2329   
 #76  Kurt Bendix  2312   
 #77  Max Kempner-Hochstaedt  2310   
 #78  Perry-Smith  2297   
 #79  D Rhoades  2286