Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: May 1904 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Dawid Janowsky  2773    35y11m   (#8 all-time among players aged 35y11m) 
 #2  Géza Maróczy  2764    34y2m   (#12 all-time among players aged 34y2m) 
 #3  Emanuel Lasker  2757    35y5m   (#11 all-time among players aged 35y5m) 
 #4  Siegbert Tarrasch  2754    42y2m   (#10 all-time among players aged 42y2m) 
 #5  Harry Pillsbury  2741    31y5m   (#27 all-time among players aged 31y5m) 
 #6  Mikhail Chigorin  2733    53y6m   (#4 all-time among players aged 53y6m) 
 #7  Carl Schlechter  2719    30y2m   (#35 all-time among players aged 30y2m) 
 #8  Frank Marshall  2701    26y9m   (#55 all-time among players aged 26y9m) 
 #9  Richard Teichmann  2685    35y5m   (#69 all-time among players aged 35y5m) 
 #10  Georg Marco  2665    40y6m   (#66 all-time among players aged 40y6m) 
 #11  Henry Atkins  2656    31y9m   (#134 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #12  Jackson Showalter  2651    44y3m   (#60 all-time among players aged 44y3m) 
 #13  Hans Wolf  2650   
 #14  Jacques Mieses  2649    39y3m   (#93 all-time among players aged 39y3m) 
 #15  Heinrich Wolf  2641    28y7m   (#168 all-time among players aged 28y7m) 
 #16  Ossip Bernstein  2637    21y7m   (#77 all-time among players aged 21y7m) 
 #17  Rudolf Swiderski  2627    25y10m   (#169 all-time among players aged 25y10m) 
 #18  William Napier  2602    23y4m   (#194 all-time among players aged 23y4m) 
 #19  Albert Fox  2591    23y1m   (#217 all-time among players aged 23y1m) 
 #20  Adolf Olland  2588    37y1m   (#266 all-time among players aged 37y1m) 
 #21  Thomas Lawrence  2569    33y2m   (#421 all-time among players aged 33y2m) 
 #22  Julius Perlis  2561    24y4m   (#381 all-time among players aged 24y4m) 
 #23  Jean Taubenhaus  2561    53y5m   (#76 all-time among players aged 53y5m) 
 #24  James Mason  2555    54y6m   (#68 all-time among players aged 54y6m) 
 #25  Alexander Levin  2553    33y0m   (#521 all-time among players aged 33y0m) 
 #26  John Barry  2553    30y5m   (#551 all-time among players aged 30y5m) 
 #27  Curt von Bardeleben  2548    43y2m   (#273 all-time among players aged 43y2m) 
 #28  Albert Hodges  2546    42y10m   (#296 all-time among players aged 42y10m) 
 #29  Wilhelm Cohn  2544    45y3m   (#252 all-time among players aged 45y3m) 
 #30  Augustin Neumann  2533    25y0m   (#562 all-time among players aged 25y0m) 
 #31  Adolf Albin  2533    55y8m   (#76 all-time among players aged 55y8m) 
 #32  Isidor Gunsberg  2532    49y6m   (#175 all-time among players aged 49y6m) 
 #33  Hugo Süchting  2532    29y7m   (#686 all-time among players aged 29y7m) 
 #34  Hermann von Gottschall  2530    41y7m   (#410 all-time among players aged 41y7m) 
 #35  Theodor von Scheve  2529    52y11m   (#125 all-time among players aged 52y11m) 
 #36  Eugene Delmar  2522    62y8m   (#28 all-time among players aged 62y8m) 
 #37  Ignatz von Popiel  2507    40y10m   (#523 all-time among players aged 40y10m) 
 #38  Joseph Blackburne  2499    62y5m   (#38 all-time among players aged 62y5m) 
 #39  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky  2497    19y9m   (#356 all-time among players aged 19y9m) 
 #40  Léo Forgács  2490    22y7m   (#688 all-time among players aged 22y7m) 
 #41  Leopold Löwy  2474    32y9m   (#1092 all-time among players aged 32y9m) 
 #42  L Eisenberg  2472   
 #43  Rudolf Loman  2455    42y7m   (#687 all-time among players aged 42y7m) 
 #44  Arturo Reggio  2450    41y4m   (#787 all-time among players aged 41y4m) 
 #45  James Mortimer  2365    71y1m   (#34 all-time among players aged 71y1m) 
 #46  C. Moreau  2309