Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: October 1882 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Johannes Zukertort  2736    40y1m   (#19 all-time among players aged 40y1m) 
 #2  Wilhelm Steinitz  2727    46y5m   (#16 all-time among players aged 46y5m) 
 #3  George Mackenzie  2712    45y7m   (#24 all-time among players aged 45y7m) 
 #4  Szymon Winawer  2702    44y7m   (#25 all-time among players aged 44y7m) 
 #5  Joseph Blackburne  2701    40y10m   (#37 all-time among players aged 40y10m) 
 #6  James Mason  2685    32y11m   (#78 all-time among players aged 32y11m) 
 #7  Berthold Englisch  2638    31y3m   (#167 all-time among players aged 31y3m) 
 #8  Louis Paulsen  2616    49y9m   (#56 all-time among players aged 49y9m) 
 #9  Alexander Wittek  2605    30y0m   (#294 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #10  Vincenz Hrubý  2601    26y1m   (#265 all-time among players aged 26y1m) 
 #11  Samuel Rosenthal  2598    45y1m   (#129 all-time among players aged 45y1m) 
 #12  Max Judd  2590    30y10m   (#352 all-time among players aged 30y10m) 
 #13  Adolf Schwarz  2583    46y0m   (#141 all-time among players aged 46y0m) 
 #14  Isidor Gunsberg  2583    27y11m   (#365 all-time among players aged 27y11m) 
 #15  Mikhail Chigorin  2576    31y11m   (#427 all-time among players aged 31y11m) 
 #16  Miksa Weiss  2576    25y3m   (#348 all-time among players aged 25y3m) 
 #17  Hans von Minckwitz  2560    39y6m   (#317 all-time among players aged 39y6m) 
 #18  Jacques Schwarz  2538    26y9m   (#628 all-time among players aged 26y9m) 
 #19  Josef Noa  2532    26y0m   (#636 all-time among players aged 26y0m) 
 #20  Johann Berger  2527    37y6m   (#558 all-time among players aged 37y6m) 
 #21  Jules de Rivière  2525    52y5m   (#150 all-time among players aged 52y5m) 
 #22  Philipp Meitner  2518    44y9m   (#353 all-time among players aged 44y9m) 
 #23  Henry Bird  2517    52y3m   (#168 all-time among players aged 52y3m) 
 #24  Fritz Riemann  2507    23y9m   (#682 all-time among players aged 23y9m) 
 #25  Bernhard Fleissig  2506    36y11m   (#692 all-time among players aged 36y11m) 
 #26  Emil Schallopp  2503    39y2m   (#604 all-time among players aged 39y2m) 
 #27  Wilfried Paulsen  2502    54y3m   (#142 all-time among players aged 54y3m) 
 #28  Moritz Porges  2487    24y7m   (#939 all-time among players aged 24y7m) 
 #29  Arnold Schottländer  2482    28y6m   (#1101 all-time among players aged 28y6m) 
 #30  Preston Ware Jr  2459    61y2m   (#85 all-time among players aged 61y2m) 
 #31  Max Bier  2445    28y6m   (#1464 all-time among players aged 28y6m) 
 #32  Semyon Alapin  2443    25y11m   (#1423 all-time among players aged 25y11m) 
 #33  Adolf Csánk  2440   
 #34  Emanuel Schiffers  2434    32y5m   (#1491 all-time among players aged 32y5m) 
 #35  Alexander Fritz  2397    25y9m   (#1841 all-time among players aged 25y9m) 
 #36  Constantin Schwede  2393    28y0m   (#1958 all-time among players aged 28y0m) 
 #37  Karl Pitschel  2378    53y9m   (#376 all-time among players aged 53y9m) 
 #38  Charles-Emile Chasery  2376    53y9m   (#381 all-time among players aged 53y9m) 
 #39  Carl Schmid  2344    42y6m   (#1111 all-time among players aged 42y6m) 
 #40  Victor Knorre  2340    42y0m   (#1170 all-time among players aged 42y0m) 
 #41  de Boistertre  2327   
 #42  H von Schuetz  2321