Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: February 1889 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Isidor Gunsberg  2729    34y3m   (#30 all-time among players aged 34y3m) 
 #2  Joseph Blackburne  2725    47y2m   (#13 all-time among players aged 47y2m) 
 #3  Mikhail Chigorin  2722    38y3m   (#27 all-time among players aged 38y3m) 
 #4  Wilhelm Steinitz  2715    52y9m   (#8 all-time among players aged 52y9m) 
 #5  George Mackenzie  2681    51y11m   (#22 all-time among players aged 51y11m) 
 #6  Curt von Bardeleben  2669    27y11m   (#103 all-time among players aged 27y11m) 
 #7  Miksa Weiss  2668    31y7m   (#117 all-time among players aged 31y7m) 
 #8  Amos Burn  2647    40y2m   (#95 all-time among players aged 40y2m) 
 #9  Emil Schallopp  2635    45y6m   (#65 all-time among players aged 45y6m) 
 #10  Eugene Delmar  2630    47y5m   (#61 all-time among players aged 47y5m) 
 #11  Fritz Riemann  2629    30y1m   (#199 all-time among players aged 30y1m) 
 #12  Berthold Englisch  2628    37y7m   (#139 all-time among players aged 37y7m) 
 #13  Johann Berger  2625    43y10m   (#105 all-time among players aged 43y10m) 
 #14  Jacques Mieses  2622    24y0m   (#159 all-time among players aged 24y0m) 
 #15  James Mason  2612    39y3m   (#164 all-time among players aged 39y3m) 
 #16  Siegbert Tarrasch  2602    26y11m   (#261 all-time among players aged 26y11m) 
 #17  Louis Paulsen  2592    56y1m   (#35 all-time among players aged 56y1m) 
 #18  Horatio Caro  2591    26y7m   (#315 all-time among players aged 26y7m) 
 #19  Emanuel Schiffers  2577    38y9m   (#273 all-time among players aged 38y9m) 
 #20  Samuel Lipschütz  2571    25y7m   (#384 all-time among players aged 25y7m) 
 #21  Semyon Alapin  2564    32y3m   (#477 all-time among players aged 32y3m) 
 #22  Paul Seuffert  2561    28y10m   (#485 all-time among players aged 28y10m) 
 #23  Jean Taubenhaus  2559    38y2m   (#363 all-time among players aged 38y2m) 
 #24  Hermann von Gottschall  2554    26y4m   (#502 all-time among players aged 26y4m) 
 #25  Theodor von Scheve  2544    37y8m   (#456 all-time among players aged 37y8m) 
 #26  Josef Noa  2540    32y4m   (#624 all-time among players aged 32y4m) 
 #27  Celso Golmayo Zupide  2539    68y10m   (#6 all-time among players aged 68y10m) 
 #28  Henry Bird  2539    58y7m   (#45 all-time among players aged 58y7m) 
 #29  John Ryan  2529    40y1m   (#460 all-time among players aged 40y1m) 
 #30  Max Harmonist  2519    25y0m   (#672 all-time among players aged 25y0m) 
 #31  Hyde  2517   
 #32  William Pollock  2515    30y0m   (#816 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #33  S Alexi  2512   
 #34  Gustave Simonson  2508    24y5m   (#726 all-time among players aged 24y5m) 
 #35  John Owen  2505    61y10m   (#43 all-time among players aged 61y10m) 
 #36  Johannes Metger  2505    37y2m   (#686 all-time among players aged 37y2m) 
 #37  Hartshorne  2504   
 #38  Daniel Mills  2499    39y6m   (#624 all-time among players aged 39y6m) 
 #39  J Moore Hanham  2496    49y1m   (#281 all-time among players aged 49y1m) 
 #40  Heinrich Ranneforth  2489    24y11m   (#921 all-time among players aged 24y11m) 
 #41  Antony Guest  2486    33y1m   (#976 all-time among players aged 33y1m) 
 #42  Alexander Fritz  2474    32y1m   (#1132 all-time among players aged 32y1m) 
 #43  David Baird  2472    34y2m   (#1035 all-time among players aged 34y2m) 
 #44  Carl Ahlhausen  2471    54y1m   (#207 all-time among players aged 54y1m) 
 #45  Wilfried Paulsen  2468    60y7m   (#79 all-time among players aged 60y7m) 
 #46  George MacDonnell  2467    58y6m   (#105 all-time among players aged 58y6m) 
 #47  Arnold Schottländer  2467    34y10m   (#1041 all-time among players aged 34y10m) 
 #48  Albert von Rothschild  2465    44y4m   (#556 all-time among players aged 44y4m) 
 #49  Edmund Thorold  2465    56y5m   (#158 all-time among players aged 56y5m) 
 #50  Bernhard Hülsen  2459    24y3m   (#1136 all-time among players aged 24y3m) 
 #51  August Vorrath  2456    51y0m   (#316 all-time among players aged 51y0m) 
 #52  Francis Lee  2454    32y1m   (#1315 all-time among players aged 32y1m) 
 #53  Henry Schieffelin  2453   
 #54  D'Oench  2453   
 #55  Max Judd  2451    37y2m   (#1033 all-time among players aged 37y2m) 
 #56  Hans von Minckwitz  2445    45y10m   (#564 all-time among players aged 45y10m) 
 #57  Charles Locock  2441    26y5m   (#1446 all-time among players aged 26y5m) 
 #58  Albert Hodges  2440    27y7m   (#1481 all-time among players aged 27y7m) 
 #59  Methner  2433   
 #60  Hermann Specht  2433   
 #61  Dahn  2432   
 #62  Clapp  2427   
 #63  J Schlesinger  2408   
 #64  James Mortimer  2404    55y10m   (#254 all-time among players aged 55y10m) 
 #65  Spiegle  2401   
 #66  Andrés Vásquez  2387    44y3m   (#870 all-time among players aged 44y3m) 
 #67  Vicente Carvajal  2383    48y3m   (#597 all-time among players aged 48y3m) 
 #68  John Hall  2377    35y6m   (#1663 all-time among players aged 35y6m) 
 #69  Oskar Cordel  2367    45y2m   (#849 all-time among players aged 45y2m) 
 #70  Alfred Rumboll  2360    52y1m   (#472 all-time among players aged 52y1m) 
 #71  Wilfred Palmer  2339    15y7m   (#243 all-time among players aged 15y7m) 
 #72  John Bierbach  2337   
 #73  John Chambers  2303    47y1m   (#817 all-time among players aged 47y1m) 
 #74  Karl Holländer  2297    20y6m   (#1686 all-time among players aged 20y6m) 
 #75  Albert Heyde  2297    22y11m   (#2090 all-time among players aged 22y11m) 
 #76  Leopold Landau  2287    40y7m   (#1432 all-time among players aged 40y7m) 
 #77  Lochte  2264