Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: July 1897 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Emanuel Lasker  2867    28y7m   (#3 all-time among players aged 28y7m) 
 #2  Mikhail Chigorin  2774    46y8m   (#4 all-time among players aged 46y8m) 
 #3  Siegbert Tarrasch  2759    35y4m   (#10 all-time among players aged 35y4m) 
 #4  Wilhelm Steinitz  2743    61y2m   (#1 all-time among players aged 61y2m) 
 #5  Harry Pillsbury  2743    24y7m   (#17 all-time among players aged 24y7m) 
 #6  Géza Maróczy  2733    27y4m   (#33 all-time among players aged 27y4m) 
 #7  Curt von Bardeleben  2709    36y4m   (#40 all-time among players aged 36y4m) 
 #8  Dawid Janowsky  2706    29y1m   (#50 all-time among players aged 29y1m) 
 #9  Carl Schlechter  2694    23y4m   (#44 all-time among players aged 23y4m) 
 #10  Berthold Englisch  2688    46y0m   (#31 all-time among players aged 46y0m) 
 #11  Miksa Weiss  2669    40y0m   (#60 all-time among players aged 40y0m) 
 #12  Carl Walbrodt  2668    25y8m   (#89 all-time among players aged 25y8m) 
 #13  Emanuel Schiffers  2667    47y2m   (#36 all-time among players aged 47y2m) 
 #14  Joseph Blackburne  2665    55y7m   (#12 all-time among players aged 55y7m) 
 #15  Rezsö Charousek  2662    23y10m   (#82 all-time among players aged 23y10m) 
 #16  Jackson Showalter  2645    37y5m   (#106 all-time among players aged 37y5m) 
 #17  Richard Teichmann  2641    28y7m   (#167 all-time among players aged 28y7m) 
 #18  Georg Marco  2638    33y8m   (#155 all-time among players aged 33y8m) 
 #19  Paul Lipke  2633    27y1m   (#179 all-time among players aged 27y1m) 
 #20  W Weiss  2625   
 #21  Szymon Winawer  2602    59y4m   (#23 all-time among players aged 59y4m) 
 #22  Johann Berger  2600    52y3m   (#55 all-time among players aged 52y3m) 
 #23  Jacques Mieses  2595    32y5m   (#313 all-time among players aged 32y5m) 
 #24  Francis Lee  2594    40y6m   (#195 all-time among players aged 40y6m) 
 #25  Henry Atkins  2593    24y11m   (#269 all-time among players aged 24y11m) 
 #26  Amos Burn  2591    48y7m   (#93 all-time among players aged 48y7m) 
 #27  Albert Hodges  2586    36y0m   (#290 all-time among players aged 36y0m) 
 #28  Edward Jones  2585    36y6m   (#284 all-time among players aged 36y6m) 
 #29  Jacques Schwarz  2581    41y6m   (#228 all-time among players aged 41y6m) 
 #30  Adolf Albin  2578    48y10m   (#111 all-time among players aged 48y10m) 
 #31  Isidor Gunsberg  2576    42y8m   (#208 all-time among players aged 42y8m) 
 #32  Adolf Schwarz  2575    60y9m   (#25 all-time among players aged 60y9m) 
 #33  Alexander Halprin  2555    29y4m   (#526 all-time among players aged 29y4m) 
 #34  James Mason  2555    47y8m   (#169 all-time among players aged 47y8m) 
 #35  George Bellingham  2552    22y10m   (#345 all-time among players aged 22y10m) 
 #36  Victor Exner  2550   
 #37  Max Judd  2548    45y7m   (#231 all-time among players aged 45y7m) 
 #38  Samuel Tinsley  2543    50y6m   (#153 all-time among players aged 50y6m) 
 #39  Emil Kemény  2542    37y6m   (#470 all-time among players aged 37y6m) 
 #40  Samuel Lipschütz  2542    34y0m   (#560 all-time among players aged 34y0m) 
 #41  Josef Noa  2540    40y9m   (#375 all-time among players aged 40y9m) 
 #42  Eugene Delmar  2537    55y10m   (#77 all-time among players aged 55y10m) 
 #43  Louis van Vliet  2537    29y6m   (#655 all-time among players aged 29y6m) 
 #44  Moritz Porges  2537    39y4m   (#435 all-time among players aged 39y4m) 
 #45  Hugo Fähndrich  2536    46y0m   (#253 all-time among players aged 46y0m) 
 #46  Wilhelm Cohn  2534    38y5m   (#475 all-time among players aged 38y5m) 
 #47  Adolf Zinkl  2532    26y0m   (#637 all-time among players aged 26y0m) 
 #48  G Sherrard  2531   
 #49  John Baird  2528    45y5m   (#302 all-time among players aged 45y5m) 
 #50  B Jankowitsch  2526   
 #51  Joseph Blake  2524    38y5m   (#532 all-time among players aged 38y5m) 
 #52  Horatio Caro  2513    35y0m   (#704 all-time among players aged 35y0m) 
 #53  Jean Taubenhaus  2506    46y7m   (#341 all-time among players aged 46y7m) 
 #54  Kaufmann  2505   
 #55  Emil Schallopp  2503    53y11m   (#155 all-time among players aged 53y11m) 
 #56  William Gunston  2501    40y10m   (#550 all-time among players aged 40y10m) 
 #57  Henry Bird  2495    67y0m   (#24 all-time among players aged 67y0m) 
 #58  John Barry  2495    23y7m   (#759 all-time among players aged 23y7m) 
 #59  Edward Jones  2495   
 #60  J Moore Hanham  2491    57y6m   (#91 all-time among players aged 57y6m) 
 #61  Hugo Süchting  2485    22y9m   (#753 all-time among players aged 22y9m) 
 #62  Ignatz von Popiel  2483    34y0m   (#957 all-time among players aged 34y0m) 
 #63  Herbert Jacobs  2482    34y1m   (#956 all-time among players aged 34y1m) 
 #64  John Elwell  2480    51y7m   (#261 all-time among players aged 51y7m) 
 #65  Rudolf Loman  2477    35y9m   (#922 all-time among players aged 35y9m) 
 #66  Judd  2469   
 #67  Herbert Trenchard  2463    39y10m   (#795 all-time among players aged 39y10m) 
 #68  C Horwitz  2460   
 #69  Arved Heinrichsen  2460    20y8m   (#680 all-time among players aged 20y8m) 
 #70  Kasimir de Weydlich  2453   
 #71  John Owen  2444    70y3m   (#22 all-time among players aged 70y3m) 
 #72  Andrés Vásquez  2440    52y8m   (#302 all-time among players aged 52y8m) 
 #73  Edmond MacDonald  2439   
 #74  Jones-Bateman  2439   
 #75  Beniamino Vergani  2435    34y1m   (#1352 all-time among players aged 34y1m) 
 #76  Muller  2431   
 #77  Nicolai Jasnogrodsky  2422    37y11m   (#1175 all-time among players aged 37y11m) 
 #78  Edward Jackson  2422    30y2m   (#1677 all-time among players aged 30y2m) 
 #79  E Creswell  2419   
 #80  Philipp Meitner  2403    59y6m   (#154 all-time among players aged 59y6m) 
 #81  Albert Mandelbaum  2399   
 #82  Richard Fenton  2396    60y4m   (#158 all-time among players aged 60y4m) 
 #83  Dr Farrow  2396   
 #84  James Mortimer  2377    64y3m   (#110 all-time among players aged 64y3m) 
 #85  Charles Lambert  2372   
 #86  B Wilmot  2369   
 #87  Rolland  2367   
 #88  F Fenzl  2353   
 #89  Arthur Skipworth  2307    67y1m   (#96 all-time among players aged 67y1m) 
 #90  W Ingoldsby  2302