Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: June 1961 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Tigran Petrosian  2785    32y0m   (#6 all-time among players aged 32y0m) 
 #2  Mikhail Tal  2777    24y7m   (#8 all-time among players aged 24y7m) 
 #3  Mikhail Botvinnik  2772    49y10m   (#4 all-time among players aged 49y10m) 
 #4  Viktor Korchnoi  2766    30y3m   (#13 all-time among players aged 30y3m) 
 #5  Vassily Smyslov  2755    40y3m   (#14 all-time among players aged 40y3m) 
 #6  Paul Keres  2753    45y5m   (#6 all-time among players aged 45y5m) 
 #7  Boris Spassky  2750    24y5m   (#12 all-time among players aged 24y5m) 
 #8  Efim Geller  2743    36y3m   (#22 all-time among players aged 36y3m) 
 #9  Bobby Fischer  2731    18y3m   (#4 all-time among players aged 18y3m) 
 #10  Ratmir Kholmov  2730    36y1m   (#32 all-time among players aged 36y1m) 
 #11  Svetozar Gligoric  2721    38y4m   (#27 all-time among players aged 38y4m) 
 #12  Mark Taimanov  2702    35y4m   (#47 all-time among players aged 35y4m) 
 #13  Yury Averbakh  2702    39y4m   (#37 all-time among players aged 39y4m) 
 #14  Lev Polugaevsky  2691    26y7m   (#64 all-time among players aged 26y7m) 
 #15  Miguel Najdorf  2680    51y2m   (#22 all-time among players aged 51y2m) 
 #16  Samuel Reshevsky  2679    49y7m   (#21 all-time among players aged 49y7m) 
 #17  David Bronstein  2671    37y4m   (#79 all-time among players aged 37y4m) 
 #18  László Szabó  2670    44y3m   (#44 all-time among players aged 44y3m) 
 #19  Wolfgang Unzicker  2664    36y0m   (#93 all-time among players aged 36y0m) 
 #20  William Lombardy  2664    23y6m   (#79 all-time among players aged 23y6m) 
 #21  Vladimir Bagirov  2662    24y10m   (#98 all-time among players aged 24y10m) 
 #22  Lajos Portisch  2656    24y2m   (#93 all-time among players aged 24y2m) 
 #23  Borislav Ivkov  2655    27y7m   (#128 all-time among players aged 27y7m) 
 #24  Fridrik Olafsson  2653    26y5m   (#119 all-time among players aged 26y5m) 
 #25  Miroslav Filip  2652    32y8m   (#136 all-time among players aged 32y8m) 
 #26  Wolfgang Uhlmann  2650    26y3m   (#125 all-time among players aged 26y3m) 
 #27  Karl Robatsch  2648    32y8m   (#141 all-time among players aged 32y8m) 
 #28  Evgeny Vasiukov  2647    28y3m   (#144 all-time among players aged 28y3m) 
 #29  Aleksandar Matanovic  2641    31y1m   (#163 all-time among players aged 31y1m) 
 #30  Ludek Pachmann  2639    37y1m   (#119 all-time among players aged 37y1m) 
 #31  Larry Evans  2638    29y3m   (#175 all-time among players aged 29y3m) 
 #32  Isaak Boleslavsky  2632    42y0m   (#119 all-time among players aged 42y0m) 
 #33  Robert Byrne  2632    33y2m   (#168 all-time among players aged 33y2m) 
 #34  Arturo Pomar Salamanca  2629    29y9m   (#203 all-time among players aged 29y9m) 
 #35  Aivars Gipslis  2629    24y4m   (#144 all-time among players aged 24y4m) 
 #36  Alexander Cherepkov  2627    40y8m   (#128 all-time among players aged 40y8m) 
 #37  Leonid Stein  2627    26y7m   (#192 all-time among players aged 26y7m) 
 #38  Vladimir Antoshin  2626    32y1m   (#206 all-time among players aged 32y1m) 
 #39  Lev Aronin  2622    40y11m   (#140 all-time among players aged 40y11m) 
 #40  Lothar Schmid  2620    33y1m   (#214 all-time among players aged 33y1m) 
 #41  Vladimir Simagin  2619    42y0m   (#134 all-time among players aged 42y0m) 
 #42  Nikolay Krogius  2617    30y11m   (#234 all-time among players aged 30y11m) 
 #43  Alexander Kotov  2617    47y10m   (#66 all-time among players aged 47y10m) 
 #44  Andrija Fuderer  2617    30y1m   (#238 all-time among players aged 30y1m) 
 #45  Vladas Mikenas  2615    51y2m   (#53 all-time among players aged 51y2m) 
 #46  Bent Larsen  2606    26y3m   (#249 all-time among players aged 26y3m) 
 #47  Milan Matulovic  2606    26y0m   (#244 all-time among players aged 26y0m) 
 #48  Jacob Yukhtman  2606    26y5m   (#258 all-time among players aged 26y5m) 
 #49  Gedeon Barcza  2605    49y10m   (#73 all-time among players aged 49y10m) 
 #50  Yury Nikolaevsky  2604    24y4m   (#210 all-time among players aged 24y4m) 
 #51  Héctor Rossetto  2604    38y9m   (#190 all-time among players aged 38y9m) 
 #52  Raúl Sanguinetti  2603    28y4m   (#285 all-time among players aged 28y4m) 
 #53  Julio Bolbochán  2602    41y3m   (#174 all-time among players aged 41y3m) 
 #54  Pal Benko  2596    32y11m   (#311 all-time among players aged 32y11m) 
 #55  Arthur Bisguier  2594    31y8m   (#337 all-time among players aged 31y8m) 
 #56  István Bilek  2593    28y10m   (#335 all-time among players aged 28y10m) 
 #57  Anatoly Lutikov  2593    28y4m   (#325 all-time among players aged 28y4m) 
 #58  Jonathan Penrose  2588    27y8m   (#339 all-time among players aged 27y8m) 
 #59  Milko Bobotsov  2587    29y9m   (#363 all-time among players aged 29y9m) 
 #60  Johannes Donner  2585    33y11m   (#326 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #61  Nikola Padevsky  2585    28y1m   (#363 all-time among players aged 28y1m) 
 #62  James Sherwin  2583    27y8m   (#365 all-time among players aged 27y8m) 
 #63  Petar Trifunovic  2583    50y10m   (#81 all-time among players aged 50y10m) 
 #64  Charles Kalme  2581    21y7m   (#199 all-time among players aged 21y7m) 
 #65  Eduard Gufeld  2581    25y3m   (#326 all-time among players aged 25y3m) 
 #66  Carlos Guimard  2579    48y2m   (#117 all-time among players aged 48y2m) 
 #67  Mario Bertok  2579    31y9m   (#400 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #68  Bukhuti Gurgenidze  2577    27y7m   (#397 all-time among players aged 27y7m) 
 #69  Herman Pilnik  2573    47y5m   (#138 all-time among players aged 47y5m) 
 #70  Samuel Schweber  2573    24y11m   (#351 all-time among players aged 24y11m) 
 #71  Rashid Nezhmetdinov  2572    48y6m   (#119 all-time among players aged 48y6m) 
 #72  Milan Vukcevich  2572    24y3m   (#326 all-time among players aged 24y3m) 
 #73  Janis Klovans  2572    26y2m   (#394 all-time among players aged 26y2m) 
 #74  Anatoly Bannik  2570    39y6m   (#274 all-time among players aged 39y6m) 
 #75  Alexander Tolush  2570    51y1m   (#102 all-time among players aged 51y1m) 
 #76  Cenek Kottnauer  2569    51y4m   (#94 all-time among players aged 51y4m) 
 #77  Semen Furman  2566    40y6m   (#281 all-time among players aged 40y6m) 
 #78  Alexey Suetin  2566    34y7m   (#411 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #79  Božidar Djuraševic  2564    28y2m   (#470 all-time among players aged 28y2m) 
 #80  Raymond Weinstein  2563    20y2m   (#154 all-time among players aged 20y2m) 
 #81  Vlastimil Hort  2559    17y5m   (#55 all-time among players aged 17y5m) 
 #82  Igor Bondarevsky  2559    48y1m   (#151 all-time among players aged 48y1m) 
 #83  Klaus Darga  2558    27y4m   (#500 all-time among players aged 27y4m) 
 #84  Albéric O'Kelly de Galway  2556    50y1m   (#135 all-time among players aged 50y1m) 
 #85  Theodor Ghitescu  2556    27y5m   (#506 all-time among players aged 27y5m) 
 #86  Iivo Nei  2554    29y8m   (#545 all-time among players aged 29y8m) 
 #87  Tjeerd van Scheltinga  2554    47y3m   (#173 all-time among players aged 47y3m) 
 #88  Andreas Dueckstein  2554    33y10m   (#506 all-time among players aged 33y10m) 
 #89  Mijo Udovcic  2553    40y9m   (#321 all-time among players aged 40y9m) 
 #90  Salo Flohr  2552    52y7m   (#102 all-time among players aged 52y7m) 
 #91  Alfredo Espósito  2551    36y4m   (#444 all-time among players aged 36y4m) 
 #92  Vitaly Tarasov  2551    38y5m   (#397 all-time among players aged 38y5m) 
 #93  Erich Eliskases  2549    48y4m   (#175 all-time among players aged 48y4m) 
 #94  Zdravko Milev  2548    31y8m   (#585 all-time among players aged 31y8m) 
 #95  Borislav Milic  2547    35y8m   (#484 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #96  Atanas Kolarov  2547    27y3m   (#571 all-time among players aged 27y3m) 
 #97  Eero Böök  2547    51y4m   (#136 all-time among players aged 51y4m) 
 #98  Ingi Jóhannsson  2547    24y6m   (#467 all-time among players aged 24y6m) 
 #99  Yury Sakharov  2546    38y9m   (#411 all-time among players aged 38y9m) 
 #100  Stojan Puc  2545    40y2m   (#372 all-time among players aged 40y2m)