Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: September 1904 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Dawid Janowsky  2773    36y3m   (#8 all-time among players aged 36y3m) 
 #2  Géza Maróczy  2771    34y6m   (#10 all-time among players aged 34y6m) 
 #3  Siegbert Tarrasch  2748    42y6m   (#15 all-time among players aged 42y6m) 
 #4  Emanuel Lasker  2747    35y9m   (#17 all-time among players aged 35y9m) 
 #5  Harry Pillsbury  2735    31y9m   (#29 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #6  Mikhail Chigorin  2725    53y10m   (#4 all-time among players aged 53y10m) 
 #7  Carl Schlechter  2724    30y6m   (#34 all-time among players aged 30y6m) 
 #8  Frank Marshall  2707    27y1m   (#50 all-time among players aged 27y1m) 
 #9  Richard Teichmann  2689    35y9m   (#63 all-time among players aged 35y9m) 
 #10  Henry Atkins  2668    32y1m   (#111 all-time among players aged 32y1m) 
 #11  William Napier  2653    23y8m   (#95 all-time among players aged 23y8m) 
 #12  Jackson Showalter  2651    44y7m   (#58 all-time among players aged 44y7m) 
 #13  Jacques Mieses  2645    39y7m   (#98 all-time among players aged 39y7m) 
 #14  Hans Wolf  2644   
 #15  Georg Marco  2644    40y10m   (#96 all-time among players aged 40y10m) 
 #16  Ossip Bernstein  2628    21y11m   (#102 all-time among players aged 21y11m) 
 #17  Rudolf Swiderski  2624    26y2m   (#182 all-time among players aged 26y2m) 
 #18  Heinrich Wolf  2621    28y11m   (#226 all-time among players aged 28y11m) 
 #19  Joseph Blackburne  2605    62y9m   (#8 all-time among players aged 62y9m) 
 #20  Albert Fox  2590    23y5m   (#243 all-time among players aged 23y5m) 
 #21  Julius Perlis  2587    24y8m   (#290 all-time among players aged 24y8m) 
 #22  Reginald Michell  2585    31y5m   (#365 all-time among players aged 31y5m) 
 #23  Curt von Bardeleben  2581    43y6m   (#187 all-time among players aged 43y6m) 
 #24  Adolf Olland  2576    37y5m   (#307 all-time among players aged 37y5m) 
 #25  Thomas Lawrence  2569    33y6m   (#424 all-time among players aged 33y6m) 
 #26  Isidor Gunsberg  2565    49y10m   (#124 all-time among players aged 49y10m) 
 #27  Hector Shoosmith  2564    27y8m   (#469 all-time among players aged 27y8m) 
 #28  George Bellingham  2559    30y0m   (#520 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #29  Jean Taubenhaus  2555    53y9m   (#74 all-time among players aged 53y9m) 
 #30  John Barry  2552    30y9m   (#547 all-time among players aged 30y9m) 
 #31  Alexander Levin  2549    33y4m   (#535 all-time among players aged 33y4m) 
 #32  Benjamin Leussen  2548    28y5m   (#555 all-time among players aged 28y5m) 
 #33  Johann Berger  2547    59y5m   (#39 all-time among players aged 59y5m) 
 #34  Louis van Vliet  2545    36y8m   (#474 all-time among players aged 36y8m) 
 #35  Albert Hodges  2544    43y2m   (#295 all-time among players aged 43y2m) 
 #36  Hugo Süchting  2536    29y11m   (#660 all-time among players aged 29y11m) 
 #37  Paul Leonhardt  2535    26y10m   (#648 all-time among players aged 26y10m) 
 #38  Wilhelm Cohn  2534    45y7m   (#273 all-time among players aged 45y7m) 
 #39  Augustin Neumann  2532    25y4m   (#596 all-time among players aged 25y4m) 
 #40  Theodor von Scheve  2529    53y3m   (#117 all-time among players aged 53y3m) 
 #41  Adolf Albin  2524    56y0m   (#81 all-time among players aged 56y0m) 
 #42  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky  2523    20y1m   (#273 all-time among players aged 20y1m) 
 #43  Eugene Delmar  2520    63y0m   (#31 all-time among players aged 63y0m) 
 #44  Abraham Speijer  2515    30y10m   (#829 all-time among players aged 30y10m) 
 #45  Oldrich Duras  2515    21y11m   (#492 all-time among players aged 21y11m) 
 #46  Francis Lee  2514    47y8m   (#270 all-time among players aged 47y8m) 
 #47  Hermann von Gottschall  2507    41y11m   (#478 all-time among players aged 41y11m) 
 #48  James Mason  2506    54y10m   (#120 all-time among players aged 54y10m) 
 #49  Ignatz von Popiel  2505    41y2m   (#519 all-time among players aged 41y2m) 
 #50  Horatio Caro  2494    42y2m   (#537 all-time among players aged 42y2m) 
 #51  Léo Forgács  2490    22y11m   (#731 all-time among players aged 22y11m) 
 #52  Herbert Jacobs  2477    41y3m   (#652 all-time among players aged 41y3m) 
 #53  Creassey Tattersall  2477   
 #54  Walter John  2476    25y8m   (#1081 all-time among players aged 25y8m) 
 #55  L Eisenberg  2470   
 #56  Arthur Mackenzie  2464    33y8m   (#1147 all-time among players aged 33y8m) 
 #57  Arturo Reggio  2449    41y8m   (#778 all-time among players aged 41y8m) 
 #58  Max2 Lange  2447   
 #59  RC. MacDonald  2444   
 #60  Wilfred Palmer  2444    31y2m   (#1449 all-time among players aged 31y2m) 
 #61  Leopold Löwy  2442    33y1m   (#1355 all-time among players aged 33y1m) 
 #62  Oscar Müller  2441    44y8m   (#653 all-time among players aged 44y8m) 
 #63  Milan Vidmar Sr  2434    19y3m   (#582 all-time among players aged 19y3m) 
 #64  Rudolf Loman  2428    42y11m   (#801 all-time among players aged 42y11m) 
 #65  Johannes Esser  2420    26y11m   (#1707 all-time among players aged 26y11m) 
 #66  Samuel Passmore  2414    40y8m   (#1029 all-time among players aged 40y8m) 
 #67  W Meiners  2398    42y7m   (#924 all-time among players aged 42y7m) 
 #68  Fred Brown  2394   
 #69  Arthur John Curnock  2390   
 #70  William Gunston  2389    48y0m   (#590 all-time among players aged 48y0m) 
 #71  Jan Heemskerk  2384    37y7m   (#1435 all-time among players aged 37y7m) 
 #72  Cornelius Trimborn  2379    47y2m   (#667 all-time among players aged 47y2m) 
 #73  Jan te Kolsté  2364    30y0m   (#2163 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #74  James Mortimer  2337    71y5m   (#32 all-time among players aged 71y5m) 
 #75  Wilhelm Schwann  2334   
 #76  CH. Chepmell  2330   
 #77  C. Moreau  2311   
 #78  John de Soyres  2265    55y5m   (#382 all-time among players aged 55y5m)