Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: August 1886 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Wilhelm Steinitz  2809    50y3m   (#2 all-time among players aged 50y3m) 
 #2  Joseph Blackburne  2748    44y8m   (#6 all-time among players aged 44y8m) 
 #3  Johannes Zukertort  2702    43y11m   (#26 all-time among players aged 43y11m) 
 #4  Isidor Gunsberg  2678    31y9m   (#99 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #5  Berthold Englisch  2671    35y1m   (#86 all-time among players aged 35y1m) 
 #6  Siegbert Tarrasch  2652    24y5m   (#107 all-time among players aged 24y5m) 
 #7  James Mason  2648    36y9m   (#104 all-time among players aged 36y9m) 
 #8  Amos Burn  2648    37y8m   (#102 all-time among players aged 37y8m) 
 #9  Miksa Weiss  2638    29y1m   (#173 all-time among players aged 29y1m) 
 #10  Eugene Delmar  2636    44y11m   (#64 all-time among players aged 44y11m) 
 #11  George Mackenzie  2620    49y5m   (#53 all-time among players aged 49y5m) 
 #12  Emil Schallopp  2613    43y0m   (#126 all-time among players aged 43y0m) 
 #13  Samuel Lipschütz  2602    23y1m   (#190 all-time among players aged 23y1m) 
 #14  Jean Taubenhaus  2597    35y8m   (#250 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #15  Henry Bird  2583    56y1m   (#39 all-time among players aged 56y1m) 
 #16  Fritz Riemann  2575    27y7m   (#406 all-time among players aged 27y7m) 
 #17  Hans von Minckwitz  2574    43y4m   (#202 all-time among players aged 43y4m) 
 #18  Dion Martinez  2569    49y2m   (#122 all-time among players aged 49y2m) 
 #19  Johann Berger  2568    41y4m   (#268 all-time among players aged 41y4m) 
 #20  Curt von Bardeleben  2555    25y5m   (#450 all-time among players aged 25y5m) 
 #21  J Moore Hanham  2553    46y7m   (#203 all-time among players aged 46y7m) 
 #22  Ernst Flechsig  2537    33y10m   (#597 all-time among players aged 33y10m) 
 #23  Gustave Simonson  2523    21y11m   (#451 all-time among players aged 21y11m) 
 #24  Hyde  2522   
 #25  L Rothschild  2522   
 #26  Alexander Sellman  2518    30y7m   (#799 all-time among players aged 30y7m) 
 #27  Hartshorne  2507   
 #28  David Baird  2504    31y8m   (#894 all-time among players aged 31y8m) 
 #29  John Ryan  2503    37y7m   (#688 all-time among players aged 37y7m) 
 #30  William Wayte  2501    56y11m   (#93 all-time among players aged 56y11m) 
 #31  Hermann von Gottschall  2500    23y10m   (#739 all-time among players aged 23y10m) 
 #32  Josef Noa  2485    29y10m   (#1091 all-time among players aged 29y10m) 
 #33  John Baird  2484    34y6m   (#923 all-time among players aged 34y6m) 
 #34  Wordsworth Donisthorpe  2483    39y5m   (#721 all-time among players aged 39y5m) 
 #35  Antony Guest  2482    30y7m   (#1095 all-time among players aged 30y7m) 
 #36  William Pollock  2478    27y6m   (#1126 all-time among players aged 27y6m) 
 #37  Charles Isaacson  2462    20y8m   (#663 all-time among players aged 20y8m) 
 #38  Albert von Rothschild  2459    41y10m   (#721 all-time among players aged 41y10m) 
 #39  Arnold Schottländer  2444    32y4m   (#1405 all-time among players aged 32y4m) 
 #40  Arthur Skipworth  2444    56y2m   (#185 all-time among players aged 56y2m) 
 #41  D'Oench  2443   
 #42  Edmund Thorold  2436    53y11m   (#278 all-time among players aged 53y11m) 
 #43  James Mortimer  2434    53y4m   (#295 all-time among players aged 53y4m) 
 #44  Wilfried Paulsen  2427    58y1m   (#166 all-time among players aged 58y1m) 
 #45  Max Bier  2427    32y4m   (#1553 all-time among players aged 32y4m) 
 #46  George MacDonnell  2422    56y0m   (#223 all-time among players aged 56y0m) 
 #47  George Wainwright  2412    24y9m   (#1632 all-time among players aged 24y9m) 
 #48  Clapp  2412   
 #49  Charles Ranken  2411    58y7m   (#170 all-time among players aged 58y7m) 
 #50  Rudolf Loman  2407    24y10m   (#1672 all-time among players aged 24y10m) 
 #51  August Vorrath  2397    48y6m   (#550 all-time among players aged 48y6m) 
 #52  Henry Schieffelin  2389   
 #53  Thomas Hewitt  2389   
 #54  Spiegle  2380   
 #55  George Carpenter  2375    42y5m   (#1023 all-time among players aged 42y5m) 
 #56  Henry Reeves  2370    45y7m   (#829 all-time among players aged 45y7m) 
 #57  John Owen  2366    59y4m   (#199 all-time among players aged 59y4m) 
 #58  Daniel Mills  2343    37y0m   (#1675 all-time among players aged 37y0m) 
 #59  Wilfred Palmer  2330    13y1m   (#32 all-time among players aged 13y1m) 
 #60  John de Soyres  2324    37y4m   (#1721 all-time among players aged 37y4m) 
 #61  Rumbold  2274   
 #62  Joseph Babson  2228   
 #63  William Mackeson  2225