Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: January 1948 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Mikhail Botvinnik  2831    36y5m   (#2 all-time among players aged 36y5m) 
 #2  Miguel Najdorf  2795    37y9m   (#6 all-time among players aged 37y9m) 
 #3  Paul Keres  2760    32y0m   (#16 all-time among players aged 32y0m) 
 #4  Gideon Stĺhlberg  2760    40y0m   (#10 all-time among players aged 40y0m) 
 #5  Isaak Boleslavsky  2739    28y7m   (#24 all-time among players aged 28y7m) 
 #6  Vassily Smyslov  2732    26y10m   (#35 all-time among players aged 26y10m) 
 #7  Max Euwe  2730    46y8m   (#13 all-time among players aged 46y8m) 
 #8  David Bronstein  2721    23y11m   (#26 all-time among players aged 23y11m) 
 #9  Alexander Kotov  2715    34y5m   (#41 all-time among players aged 34y5m) 
 #10  Erich Eliskases  2713    34y11m   (#42 all-time among players aged 34y11m) 
 #11  Samuel Reshevsky  2696    36y2m   (#54 all-time among players aged 36y2m) 
 #12  Viacheslav Ragozin  2689    39y3m   (#45 all-time among players aged 39y3m) 
 #13  Petar Trifunovic  2688    37y5m   (#53 all-time among players aged 37y5m) 
 #14  László Szabó  2675    30y10m   (#100 all-time among players aged 30y10m) 
 #15  Folke Ekström  2675    41y3m   (#54 all-time among players aged 41y3m) 
 #16  Svetozar Gligoric  2675    24y11m   (#77 all-time among players aged 24y11m) 
 #17  Saviely Tartakower  2674    60y11m   (#4 all-time among players aged 60y11m) 
 #18  Salo Flohr  2668    39y2m   (#68 all-time among players aged 39y2m) 
 #19  Andor Lilienthal  2665    36y8m   (#82 all-time among players aged 36y8m) 
 #20  Nikolay Novotelnov  2655    36y1m   (#107 all-time among players aged 36y1m) 
 #21  Vasily Panov  2649    41y2m   (#91 all-time among players aged 41y2m) 
 #22  Georgy Lisitsin  2642    38y3m   (#108 all-time among players aged 38y3m) 
 #23  Alexander Tolush  2641    37y8m   (#112 all-time among players aged 37y8m) 
 #24  Herman Pilnik  2640    34y0m   (#157 all-time among players aged 34y0m) 
 #25  Julio Bolbochán  2638    27y10m   (#165 all-time among players aged 27y10m) 
 #26  Vladimir Simagin  2636    28y7m   (#177 all-time among players aged 28y7m) 
 #27  Semen Furman  2635    27y1m   (#173 all-time among players aged 27y1m) 
 #28  Igor Bondarevsky  2632    34y8m   (#170 all-time among players aged 34y8m) 
 #29  Gösta Stoltz  2632    43y8m   (#92 all-time among players aged 43y8m) 
 #30  Eero Böök  2628    37y11m   (#133 all-time among players aged 37y11m) 
 #31  Genrikh Kasparian  2625    37y11m   (#145 all-time among players aged 37y11m) 
 #32  Ludek Pachmann  2610    23y8m   (#181 all-time among players aged 23y8m) 
 #33  Daniel Yanofsky  2609    22y10m   (#157 all-time among players aged 22y10m) 
 #34  Erik Lundin  2609    43y6m   (#125 all-time among players aged 43y6m) 
 #35  Georg Kieninger  2609    45y7m   (#114 all-time among players aged 45y7m) 
 #36  Tigran Petrosian  2608    18y7m   (#47 all-time among players aged 18y7m) 
 #37  Alexander Konstantinopolsky  2607    37y11m   (#199 all-time among players aged 37y11m) 
 #38  Grigory Ravinsky  2606    38y3m   (#196 all-time among players aged 38y3m) 
 #39  Vasja Pirc  2604    40y1m   (#177 all-time among players aged 40y1m) 
 #40  Jan Foltys  2602    39y3m   (#195 all-time among players aged 39y3m) 
 #41  Carlos Guimard  2601    34y9m   (#261 all-time among players aged 34y9m) 
 #42  Reuben Fine  2601    33y3m   (#276 all-time among players aged 33y3m) 
 #43  Al Horowitz  2600    40y2m   (#194 all-time among players aged 40y2m) 
 #44  Arnold Denker  2598    33y11m   (#270 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #45  Vladimir Alatortsev  2598    38y8m   (#207 all-time among players aged 38y8m) 
 #46  Héctor Rossetto  2598    25y4m   (#262 all-time among players aged 25y4m) 
 #47  Albéric O'Kelly de Galway  2596    36y8m   (#244 all-time among players aged 36y8m) 
 #48  Mark Taimanov  2596    21y11m   (#171 all-time among players aged 21y11m) 
 #49  Pablo Michel  2594    42y1m   (#178 all-time among players aged 42y1m) 
 #50  Vladimir Makogonov  2593    43y5m   (#159 all-time among players aged 43y5m) 
 #51  Lev Aronin  2591    27y6m   (#324 all-time among players aged 27y6m) 
 #52  Jácobo Bolbochán  2588    41y1m   (#216 all-time among players aged 41y1m) 
 #53  Yury Averbakh  2587    25y11m   (#321 all-time among players aged 25y11m) 
 #54  A Vasiljev  2585   
 #55  Grigory Levenfish  2584    58y10m   (#30 all-time among players aged 58y10m) 
 #56  Ludwig Rödl  2581    40y9m   (#239 all-time among players aged 40y9m) 
 #57  Milan Jr Vidmar  2577    38y1m   (#288 all-time among players aged 38y1m) 
 #58  Vasilje Tomovic  2572    41y8m   (#250 all-time among players aged 41y8m) 
 #59  Anatoly Ufimtsev  2571    33y8m   (#394 all-time among players aged 33y8m) 
 #60  Vladimir Saigin  2571    30y6m   (#449 all-time among players aged 30y6m) 
 #61  Jorge Pelikán  2570    41y9m   (#252 all-time among players aged 41y9m) 
 #62  Nicolaas Cortlever  2569    32y7m   (#442 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #63  Stojan Puc  2567    26y9m   (#430 all-time among players aged 26y9m) 
 #64  Evgeny Zagoriansky  2563    37y5m   (#355 all-time among players aged 37y5m) 
 #65  Vladimir Zagorovsky  2563    22y7m   (#289 all-time among players aged 22y7m) 
 #66  Isaac Kashdan  2563    42y2m   (#257 all-time among players aged 42y2m) 
 #67  Samuil Zhukhovitsky  2562    31y1m   (#486 all-time among players aged 31y1m) 
 #68  Robert Combe  2560   
 #69  Carlos Maderna  2559    37y5m   (#374 all-time among players aged 37y5m) 
 #70  Ossip Bernstein  2558    65y3m   (#15 all-time among players aged 65y3m) 
 #71  Carlos Skalicka  2558    51y2m   (#126 all-time among players aged 51y2m) 
 #72  Vitaly Chekhover  2556    39y1m   (#351 all-time among players aged 39y1m) 
 #73  Mikhail Yudovich  2556    36y7m   (#412 all-time among players aged 36y7m) 
 #74  Miguel Crues Albareda  2554   
 #75  Ratmir Kholmov  2554    22y8m   (#331 all-time among players aged 22y8m) 
 #76  Cenek Kottnauer  2554    37y11m   (#397 all-time among players aged 37y11m) 
 #77  Mariano Castillo Larenas  2553    42y1m   (#297 all-time among players aged 42y1m) 
 #78  Milan Vidmar Sr  2551    62y7m   (#18 all-time among players aged 62y7m) 
 #79  Ruperto Schroeder  2550   
 #80  German Fridstein  2550    36y2m   (#454 all-time among players aged 36y2m) 
 #81  Ilia Kan  2547    38y8m   (#417 all-time among players aged 38y8m) 
 #82  Herman Steiner  2546    42y9m   (#296 all-time among players aged 42y9m) 
 #83  František Zíta  2545    38y2m   (#430 all-time among players aged 38y2m) 
 #84  George Thomas  2545    66y7m   (#15 all-time among players aged 66y7m) 
 #85  Conel Alexander  2543    38y9m   (#425 all-time among players aged 38y9m) 
 #86  René Letelier Martner  2541    32y4m   (#622 all-time among players aged 32y4m) 
 #87  Marcos Luckis  2539    43y0m   (#321 all-time among players aged 43y0m) 
 #88  Gavriil Veresov  2538    35y6m   (#531 all-time among players aged 35y6m) 
 #89  Oleg Neikirkh  2537    33y10m   (#592 all-time among players aged 33y10m) 
 #90  Wolfgang Unzicker  2534    22y7m   (#425 all-time among players aged 22y7m) 
 #91  Antonio Medina García  2534    28y3m   (#657 all-time among players aged 28y3m) 
 #92  Mihajlo Markovic  2533    24y11m   (#569 all-time among players aged 24y11m) 
 #93  Luis Marini  2531    35y4m   (#576 all-time among players aged 35y4m) 
 #94  Jaroslav Šajtar  2529    26y1m   (#656 all-time among players aged 26y1m) 
 #95  Boris Goldenov  2529    35y0m   (#611 all-time among players aged 35y0m) 
 #96  Alexey Sokolsky  2529    39y3m   (#476 all-time among players aged 39y3m) 
 #97  Borislav Milic  2523    22y3m   (#452 all-time among players aged 22y3m) 
 #98  Aleksandar Božic  2523    25y2m   (#644 all-time among players aged 25y2m) 
 #99  Victor Liublinsky  2522    29y9m   (#776 all-time among players aged 29y9m) 
 #100  Carl Ahues  2521    64y1m   (#31 all-time among players aged 64y1m)