Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: March 1961 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Mikhail Tal  2796    24y4m   (#6 all-time among players aged 24y4m) 
 #2  Tigran Petrosian  2784    31y9m   (#6 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #3  Vassily Smyslov  2759    40y0m   (#11 all-time among players aged 40y0m) 
 #4  Paul Keres  2758    45y2m   (#5 all-time among players aged 45y2m) 
 #5  Viktor Korchnoi  2756    30y0m   (#14 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #6  Efim Geller  2745    36y0m   (#19 all-time among players aged 36y0m) 
 #7  Boris Spassky  2744    24y2m   (#17 all-time among players aged 24y2m) 
 #8  Ratmir Kholmov  2736    35y10m   (#29 all-time among players aged 35y10m) 
 #9  Mikhail Botvinnik  2729    49y7m   (#8 all-time among players aged 49y7m) 
 #10  Bobby Fischer  2729    18y0m   (#3 all-time among players aged 18y0m) 
 #11  Svetozar Gligoric  2724    38y1m   (#28 all-time among players aged 38y1m) 
 #12  Mark Taimanov  2704    35y1m   (#50 all-time among players aged 35y1m) 
 #13  Yury Averbakh  2701    39y1m   (#37 all-time among players aged 39y1m) 
 #14  Lev Polugaevsky  2698    26y4m   (#54 all-time among players aged 26y4m) 
 #15  László Szabó  2684    44y0m   (#34 all-time among players aged 44y0m) 
 #16  Samuel Reshevsky  2683    49y4m   (#19 all-time among players aged 49y4m) 
 #17  Miguel Najdorf  2680    50y11m   (#22 all-time among players aged 50y11m) 
 #18  David Bronstein  2678    37y1m   (#65 all-time among players aged 37y1m) 
 #19  Lajos Portisch  2670    23y11m   (#75 all-time among players aged 23y11m) 
 #20  Wolfgang Unzicker  2669    35y9m   (#84 all-time among players aged 35y9m) 
 #21  William Lombardy  2665    23y3m   (#79 all-time among players aged 23y3m) 
 #22  Vladimir Bagirov  2660    24y7m   (#96 all-time among players aged 24y7m) 
 #23  Fridrik Olafsson  2656    26y2m   (#115 all-time among players aged 26y2m) 
 #24  Wolfgang Uhlmann  2656    26y0m   (#116 all-time among players aged 26y0m) 
 #25  Borislav Ivkov  2652    27y4m   (#130 all-time among players aged 27y4m) 
 #26  Karl Robatsch  2650    32y5m   (#141 all-time among players aged 32y5m) 
 #27  Miroslav Filip  2648    32y5m   (#145 all-time among players aged 32y5m) 
 #28  Ludek Pachmann  2648    36y10m   (#101 all-time among players aged 36y10m) 
 #29  Larry Evans  2644    29y0m   (#157 all-time among players aged 29y0m) 
 #30  Aleksandar Matanovic  2637    30y10m   (#173 all-time among players aged 30y10m) 
 #31  Isaak Boleslavsky  2637    41y9m   (#113 all-time among players aged 41y9m) 
 #32  Aivars Gipslis  2635    24y1m   (#132 all-time among players aged 24y1m) 
 #33  Andrija Fuderer  2631    29y10m   (#200 all-time among players aged 29y10m) 
 #34  Alexander Kotov  2630    47y7m   (#59 all-time among players aged 47y7m) 
 #35  Arturo Pomar Salamanca  2629    29y6m   (#204 all-time among players aged 29y6m) 
 #36  Vladimir Antoshin  2629    31y10m   (#193 all-time among players aged 31y10m) 
 #37  Evgeny Vasiukov  2628    28y0m   (#191 all-time among players aged 28y0m) 
 #38  Alexander Cherepkov  2627    40y5m   (#124 all-time among players aged 40y5m) 
 #39  Lothar Schmid  2626    32y10m   (#202 all-time among players aged 32y10m) 
 #40  Vladas Mikenas  2622    50y11m   (#50 all-time among players aged 50y11m) 
 #41  Leonid Stein  2622    26y4m   (#191 all-time among players aged 26y4m) 
 #42  Nikolay Krogius  2622    30y8m   (#215 all-time among players aged 30y8m) 
 #43  Vladimir Simagin  2619    41y9m   (#140 all-time among players aged 41y9m) 
 #44  Robert Byrne  2617    32y11m   (#235 all-time among players aged 32y11m) 
 #45  Gedeon Barcza  2616    49y7m   (#59 all-time among players aged 49y7m) 
 #46  Jacob Yukhtman  2609    26y2m   (#239 all-time among players aged 26y2m) 
 #47  Yury Nikolaevsky  2608    24y1m   (#195 all-time among players aged 24y1m) 
 #48  Bent Larsen  2607    26y0m   (#236 all-time among players aged 26y0m) 
 #49  Lev Aronin  2605    40y8m   (#170 all-time among players aged 40y8m) 
 #50  Raúl Sanguinetti  2604    28y1m   (#283 all-time among players aged 28y1m) 
 #51  Julio Bolbochán  2602    41y0m   (#182 all-time among players aged 41y0m) 
 #52  Pal Benko  2601    32y8m   (#289 all-time among players aged 32y8m) 
 #53  Milan Matulovic  2600    25y9m   (#253 all-time among players aged 25y9m) 
 #54  István Bilek  2600    28y7m   (#298 all-time among players aged 28y7m) 
 #55  Jonathan Penrose  2598    27y5m   (#290 all-time among players aged 27y5m) 
 #56  Héctor Rossetto  2598    38y6m   (#217 all-time among players aged 38y6m) 
 #57  Arthur Bisguier  2597    31y5m   (#318 all-time among players aged 31y5m) 
 #58  Anatoly Lutikov  2597    28y1m   (#316 all-time among players aged 28y1m) 
 #59  Johannes Donner  2597    33y8m   (#286 all-time among players aged 33y8m) 
 #60  Milko Bobotsov  2594    29y6m   (#323 all-time among players aged 29y6m) 
 #61  Mario Bertok  2590    31y6m   (#347 all-time among players aged 31y6m) 
 #62  James Sherwin  2586    27y5m   (#346 all-time among players aged 27y5m) 
 #63  Charles Kalme  2585    21y4m   (#165 all-time among players aged 21y4m) 
 #64  Janis Klovans  2584    25y11m   (#335 all-time among players aged 25y11m) 
 #65  Petar Trifunovic  2584    50y7m   (#82 all-time among players aged 50y7m) 
 #66  Nikola Padevsky  2582    27y10m   (#375 all-time among players aged 27y10m) 
 #67  Bukhuti Gurgenidze  2582    27y4m   (#367 all-time among players aged 27y4m) 
 #68  Eduard Gufeld  2579    25y0m   (#325 all-time among players aged 25y0m) 
 #69  Raymond Weinstein  2575    19y11m   (#117 all-time among players aged 19y11m) 
 #70  Carlos Guimard  2575    47y11m   (#118 all-time among players aged 47y11m) 
 #71  Alexander Tolush  2574    50y10m   (#91 all-time among players aged 50y10m) 
 #72  Anatoly Bannik  2573    39y3m   (#276 all-time among players aged 39y3m) 
 #73  Milan Vukcevich  2573    24y0m   (#316 all-time among players aged 24y0m) 
 #74  Herman Pilnik  2571    47y2m   (#144 all-time among players aged 47y2m) 
 #75  Rashid Nezhmetdinov  2571    48y3m   (#127 all-time among players aged 48y3m) 
 #76  Samuel Schweber  2569    24y8m   (#353 all-time among players aged 24y8m) 
 #77  Klaus Darga  2569    27y1m   (#435 all-time among players aged 27y1m) 
 #78  Vlastimil Hort  2569    17y2m   (#46 all-time among players aged 17y2m) 
 #79  Alexey Suetin  2566    34y4m   (#411 all-time among players aged 34y4m) 
 #80  Borislav Milic  2561    35y5m   (#405 all-time among players aged 35y5m) 
 #81  Semen Furman  2558    40y3m   (#316 all-time among players aged 40y3m) 
 #82  Salo Flohr  2558    52y4m   (#97 all-time among players aged 52y4m) 
 #83  Yury Sakharov  2557    38y6m   (#361 all-time among players aged 38y6m) 
 #84  Božidar Djuraševic  2557    27y11m   (#508 all-time among players aged 27y11m) 
 #85  Zdravko Milev  2557    31y5m   (#524 all-time among players aged 31y5m) 
 #86  Tjeerd van Scheltinga  2557    47y0m   (#179 all-time among players aged 47y0m) 
 #87  Atanas Kolarov  2556    27y0m   (#506 all-time among players aged 27y0m) 
 #88  Maximilián Ujtelky  2556    45y11m   (#212 all-time among players aged 45y11m) 
 #89  Andreas Dueckstein  2555    33y7m   (#489 all-time among players aged 33y7m) 
 #90  Theodor Ghitescu  2554    27y2m   (#524 all-time among players aged 27y2m) 
 #91  Vladislav Shianovsky  2554    31y3m   (#534 all-time among players aged 31y3m) 
 #92  Igor Bondarevsky  2553    47y10m   (#173 all-time among players aged 47y10m) 
 #93  Donald Byrne  2553    30y9m   (#540 all-time among players aged 30y9m) 
 #94  Iivo Nei  2552    29y5m   (#545 all-time among players aged 29y5m) 
 #95  Erich Eliskases  2552    48y1m   (#172 all-time among players aged 48y1m) 
 #96  Stojan Puc  2550    39y11m   (#353 all-time among players aged 39y11m) 
 #97  Ingi Jóhannsson  2548    24y3m   (#447 all-time among players aged 24y3m) 
 #98  Georgy Tringov  2545    24y0m   (#461 all-time among players aged 24y0m) 
 #99  Peter Dely  2545    26y8m   (#580 all-time among players aged 26y8m) 
 #100  Jirí Fichtl  2545    40y1m   (#377 all-time among players aged 40y1m)