Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: September 1942 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Mikhail Botvinnik  2766    31y1m   (#13 all-time among players aged 31y1m) 
 #2  Samuel Reshevsky  2758    30y10m   (#17 all-time among players aged 30y10m) 
 #3  Alexander Alekhine  2751    49y11m   (#5 all-time among players aged 49y11m) 
 #4  Paul Keres  2732    26y8m   (#32 all-time among players aged 26y8m) 
 #5  Gideon Stĺhlberg  2726    34y8m   (#32 all-time among players aged 34y8m) 
 #6  Max Euwe  2716    41y4m   (#26 all-time among players aged 41y4m) 
 #7  Vassily Smyslov  2713    21y6m   (#18 all-time among players aged 21y6m) 
 #8  Miguel Najdorf  2710    32y5m   (#48 all-time among players aged 32y5m) 
 #9  Reuben Fine  2706    27y11m   (#51 all-time among players aged 27y11m) 
 #10  Paul Schmidt  2693    26y1m   (#56 all-time among players aged 26y1m) 
 #11  Erich Eliskases  2678    29y7m   (#93 all-time among players aged 29y7m) 
 #12  Andor Lilienthal  2677    31y4m   (#96 all-time among players aged 31y4m) 
 #13  Al Horowitz  2677    34y10m   (#81 all-time among players aged 34y10m) 
 #14  Vladimir Makogonov  2670    38y1m   (#70 all-time among players aged 38y1m) 
 #15  Isaak Boleslavsky  2668    23y3m   (#76 all-time among players aged 23y3m) 
 #16  Igor Bondarevsky  2667    29y4m   (#107 all-time among players aged 29y4m) 
 #17  Klaus Junge  2661    18y8m   (#15 all-time among players aged 18y8m) 
 #18  Gösta Stoltz  2649    38y4m   (#102 all-time among players aged 38y4m) 
 #19  Efim Bogoljubow  2643    53y5m   (#30 all-time among players aged 53y5m) 
 #20  Kurt Richter  2640    41y10m   (#109 all-time among players aged 41y10m) 
 #21  Erik Lundin  2632    38y2m   (#127 all-time among players aged 38y2m) 
 #22  Paulin Frydman  2628    37y4m   (#139 all-time among players aged 37y4m) 
 #23  Isaac Kashdan  2627    36y10m   (#161 all-time among players aged 36y10m) 
 #24  Jan Foltys  2626    33y11m   (#187 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #25  Vladimirs Petrovs  2625    35y0m   (#188 all-time among players aged 35y0m) 
 #26  Ludwig Engels  2622    36y9m   (#169 all-time among players aged 36y9m) 
 #27  Salo Flohr  2621    33y10m   (#200 all-time among players aged 33y10m) 
 #28  Gavriil Veresov  2619    30y2m   (#226 all-time among players aged 30y2m) 
 #29  Peter Dubinin  2618    33y3m   (#216 all-time among players aged 33y3m) 
 #30  Viacheslav Ragozin  2609    33y11m   (#233 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #31  Alexander Kotov  2608    29y1m   (#279 all-time among players aged 29y1m) 
 #32  Bjřrn Nielsen  2601    34y11m   (#260 all-time among players aged 34y11m) 
 #33  Anton Kohler  2600   
 #34  Vladas Mikenas  2598    32y5m   (#305 all-time among players aged 32y5m) 
 #35  Georgy Lisitsin  2595    32y11m   (#316 all-time among players aged 32y11m) 
 #36  Mark Stolberg  2589    20y8m   (#128 all-time among players aged 20y8m) 
 #37  Arnoldus van den Hoek  2587    20y9m   (#135 all-time among players aged 20y9m) 
 #38  Ilia Kan  2584    33y4m   (#351 all-time among players aged 33y4m) 
 #39  Hans Müller  2582    45y9m   (#148 all-time among players aged 45y9m) 
 #40  Albert Pinkus  2581    39y6m   (#247 all-time among players aged 39y6m) 
 #41  Herman Pilnik  2580    28y8m   (#386 all-time among players aged 28y8m) 
 #42  Alexander Konstantinopolsky  2578    32y7m   (#380 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #43  Karl Gilg  2575    41y8m   (#244 all-time among players aged 41y8m) 
 #44  Cenek Kottnauer  2573    32y7m   (#405 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #45  Eduard Gerstenfeld  2573    27y8m   (#417 all-time among players aged 27y8m) 
 #46  Carlos Guimard  2572    29y5m   (#432 all-time among players aged 29y5m) 
 #47  Vasily Panov  2570    35y10m   (#371 all-time among players aged 35y10m) 
 #48  Movsa Feigin  2569    34y7m   (#401 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #49  Alexey Sokolsky  2569    33y11m   (#412 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #50  Georg Kieninger  2568    40y3m   (#271 all-time among players aged 40y3m) 
 #51  Jácobo Bolbochán  2568    35y9m   (#379 all-time among players aged 35y9m) 
 #52  Pablo Michel  2567    36y9m   (#356 all-time among players aged 36y9m) 
 #53  Josef Lokvenc  2563    43y4m   (#236 all-time among players aged 43y4m) 
 #54  László Szabó  2563    25y6m   (#423 all-time among players aged 25y6m) 
 #55  Albert Simonson  2563    27y9m   (#480 all-time among players aged 27y9m) 
 #56  Ludovit Potucek  2562   
 #57  Arnold Denker  2559    28y7m   (#499 all-time among players aged 28y7m) 
 #58  Evgeny Zagoriansky  2558    32y1m   (#512 all-time among players aged 32y1m) 
 #59  Jacob Levin  2556    38y7m   (#364 all-time among players aged 38y7m) 
 #60  Karel Opocenský  2555    50y7m   (#126 all-time among players aged 50y7m) 
 #61  Vladimir Alatortsev  2553    33y4m   (#508 all-time among players aged 33y4m) 
 #62  Abraham Kupchik  2550    50y6m   (#140 all-time among players aged 50y6m) 
 #63  Héctor Rossetto  2549    20y0m   (#175 all-time among players aged 20y0m) 
 #64  Grigory Levenfish  2545    53y6m   (#90 all-time among players aged 53y6m) 
 #65  Herbert Heinicke  2545    37y6m   (#459 all-time among players aged 37y6m) 
 #66  Gerhard Pfeiffer  2543    19y3m   (#147 all-time among players aged 19y3m) 
 #67  Karel Hromádka  2542    55y5m   (#74 all-time among players aged 55y5m) 
 #68  Genrikh Kasparian  2541    32y7m   (#600 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #69  Julio Bolbochán  2539    22y6m   (#398 all-time among players aged 22y6m) 
 #70  Grigory Ravinsky  2539    32y11m   (#605 all-time among players aged 32y11m) 
 #71  Haije Kramer  2536    24y10m   (#540 all-time among players aged 24y10m) 
 #72  Rudolf1 Keller  2536    25y3m   (#564 all-time among players aged 25y3m) 
 #73  František Zíta  2535    32y10m   (#624 all-time among players aged 32y10m) 
 #74  Miroslav Katetov  2533    24y6m   (#568 all-time among players aged 24y6m) 
 #75  Iosif Rudakovsky  2531    28y8m   (#692 all-time among players aged 28y8m) 
 #76  Rudolf Palme  2531    32y6m   (#672 all-time among players aged 32y6m) 
 #77  Ludwig Rellstab Sr  2530    37y10m   (#519 all-time among players aged 37y10m) 
 #78  Jorge Pelikán  2528    36y5m   (#576 all-time among players aged 36y5m) 
 #79  Fred Reinfeld  2528   
 #80  Géza Füster  2528    32y7m   (#688 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #81  Samuil Zhukhovitsky  2527    25y9m   (#645 all-time among players aged 25y9m) 
 #82  Pál Réthy  2523    37y8m   (#563 all-time among players aged 37y8m) 
 #83  Tjeerd van Scheltinga  2520    28y6m   (#776 all-time among players aged 28y6m) 
 #84  Benito Villegas  2520    65y8m   (#26 all-time among players aged 65y8m) 
 #85  Teodor Regedzinski  2514    48y5m   (#241 all-time among players aged 48y5m) 
 #86  Lev Kaiev  2514    29y7m   (#828 all-time among players aged 29y7m) 
 #87  Josef Rejfír  2512    33y0m   (#784 all-time among players aged 33y0m) 
 #88  Kurt Rahn  2510   
 #89  Sidney Bernstein  2510    31y2m   (#855 all-time among players aged 31y2m) 
 #90  Salo Landau  2509    39y5m   (#580 all-time among players aged 39y5m) 
 #91  József Szily  2508    28y11m   (#885 all-time among players aged 28y11m) 
 #92  Vitaly Chekhover  2508    33y9m   (#773 all-time among players aged 33y9m) 
 #93  Wilhelm Ernst  2507    38y8m   (#624 all-time among players aged 38y8m) 
 #94  Moshe Czerniak  2506    32y7m   (#839 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #95  Franciszek Sulik  2505    35y8m   (#735 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #96  George Shainswit  2500    24y8m   (#825 all-time among players aged 24y8m) 
 #97  David Polland  2500   
 #98  Eduard Hahn  2499    31y8m   (#931 all-time among players aged 31y8m) 
 #99  Juan Vinuesa  2495   
 #100  Nicolaas Cortlever  2495    27y3m   (#969 all-time among players aged 27y3m)