Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: August 1908 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Akiba Rubinstein  2761    25y10m   (#12 all-time among players aged 25y10m) 
 #2  Emanuel Lasker  2753    39y8m   (#11 all-time among players aged 39y8m) 
 #3  Géza Maróczy  2753    38y5m   (#11 all-time among players aged 38y5m) 
 #4  Carl Schlechter  2738    34y5m   (#24 all-time among players aged 34y5m) 
 #5  Oldrich Duras  2726    25y10m   (#32 all-time among players aged 25y10m) 

 #6  Siegbert Tarrasch  2718    46y5m   (#18 all-time among players aged 46y5m) 
 #7  Richard Teichmann  2698    39y8m   (#39 all-time among players aged 39y8m) 
 #8  Milan Vidmar Sr  2682    23y2m   (#54 all-time among players aged 23y2m) 
 #9  Léo Forgács  2679    26y10m   (#82 all-time among players aged 26y10m) 
 #10  Frank Marshall  2676    31y0m   (#102 all-time among players aged 31y0m) 

 #11  Aron Nimzowitsch  2673    21y9m   (#45 all-time among players aged 21y9m) 
 #12  Ossip Bernstein  2663    25y10m   (#105 all-time among players aged 25y10m) 
 #13  Dawid Janowsky  2648    40y2m   (#91 all-time among players aged 40y2m) 
 #14  Jacques Mieses  2644    43y6m   (#74 all-time among players aged 43y6m) 
 #15  Saviely Tartakower  2640    21y6m   (#66 all-time among players aged 21y6m) 

 #16  Georg Marco  2635    44y9m   (#70 all-time among players aged 44y9m) 
 #17  Heinrich Wolf  2634    32y10m   (#175 all-time among players aged 32y10m) 
 #18  Amos Burn  2629    59y8m   (#14 all-time among players aged 59y8m) 
 #19  Georg Salwe  2627    45y10m   (#75 all-time among players aged 45y10m) 
 #20  Paul Leonhardt  2623    30y9m   (#210 all-time among players aged 30y9m) 

 #21  Rudolf Spielmann  2604    25y3m   (#247 all-time among players aged 25y3m) 
 #22  Fedor Dus-Chotimirsky  2600    28y11m   (#301 all-time among players aged 28y11m) 
 #23  Julius Perlis  2593    28y7m   (#317 all-time among players aged 28y7m) 
 #24  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky  2593    24y0m   (#246 all-time among players aged 24y0m) 
 #25  Walter John  2589    29y7m   (#360 all-time among players aged 29y7m) 

 #26  Joseph Blackburne  2582    66y8m   (#7 all-time among players aged 66y8m) 
 #27  Semyon Alapin  2577    51y9m   (#81 all-time among players aged 51y9m) 
 #28  Rudolf Swiderski  2574    30y1m   (#433 all-time among players aged 30y1m) 
 #29  Giovanni Martinolich Jr  2550    24y2m   (#430 all-time among players aged 24y2m) 
 #30  Johann Berger  2548    63y4m   (#21 all-time among players aged 63y4m) 

 #31  Hans Fahrni  2544    33y10m   (#553 all-time among players aged 33y10m) 
 #32  Ehrhardt Post  2529    26y11m   (#702 all-time among players aged 26y11m) 
 #33  Erich Cohn  2527    24y5m   (#574 all-time among players aged 24y5m) 
 #34  Hugo Süchting  2527    33y10m   (#665 all-time among players aged 33y10m) 
 #35  Horatio Caro  2523    46y1m   (#295 all-time among players aged 46y1m) 

 #36  Georg Schories  2519   
 #37  Wilhelm Cohn  2517    49y6m   (#212 all-time among players aged 49y6m) 
 #38  Arturo Reggio  2506    45y7m   (#367 all-time among players aged 45y7m) 
 #39  Adolf Olland  2506    41y4m   (#505 all-time among players aged 41y4m) 
 #40  Moritz Billecard  2499    32y7m   (#893 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 

 #41  Curt von Bardeleben  2497    47y5m   (#325 all-time among players aged 47y5m) 
 #42  Theodor von Scheve  2493    57y2m   (#94 all-time among players aged 57y2m) 
 #43  Johannes Metger  2489    56y8m   (#111 all-time among players aged 56y8m) 
 #44  E Heilmann  2489   
 #45  Albert Fox  2488    27y4m   (#1041 all-time among players aged 27y4m) 

 #46  Jean Taubenhaus  2483    57y8m   (#100 all-time among players aged 57y8m) 
 #47  Dawid Przepiórka  2477    27y8m   (#1150 all-time among players aged 27y8m) 
 #48  Leopold Löwy  2474    37y0m   (#899 all-time among players aged 37y0m) 
 #49  Jan Kvícala  2467    40y7m   (#747 all-time among players aged 40y7m) 
 #50  Francis Lee  2464    51y7m   (#293 all-time among players aged 51y7m) 

 #51  Paul Johner  2458    20y11m   (#723 all-time among players aged 20y11m) 
 #52  Hector Shoosmith  2456    31y7m   (#1314 all-time among players aged 31y7m) 
 #53  Abram Rabinovich  2455    30y7m   (#1373 all-time among players aged 30y7m) 
 #54  Adolf Albin  2445    59y11m   (#107 all-time among players aged 59y11m) 
 #55  František Treybal  2439    25y8m   (#1448 all-time among players aged 25y8m) 

 #56  Ladislav Prokeš  2438    24y2m   (#1324 all-time among players aged 24y2m) 
 #57  Franz Jacob  2435   
 #58  Louis van Vliet  2435    40y7m   (#933 all-time among players aged 40y7m) 
 #59  Emil Schallopp  2425    65y0m   (#73 all-time among players aged 65y0m) 
 #60  Richard Réti  2368    19y3m   (#999 all-time among players aged 19y3m) 

 #61  James Mortimer  2356    75y4m   (#13 all-time among players aged 75y4m) 
 #62  Kurt Moll  2337