Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: June 1878 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  James Mason  2702    28y7m   (#55 all-time among players aged 28y7m) 
 #2  Louis Paulsen  2689    45y5m   (#32 all-time among players aged 45y5m) 
 #3  Johannes Zukertort  2663    35y9m   (#95 all-time among players aged 35y9m) 
 #4  Adolf Anderssen  2638    59y11m   (#10 all-time among players aged 59y11m) 
 #5  Amos Burn  2637    29y6m   (#184 all-time among players aged 29y6m) 
 #6  Joseph Blackburne  2617    36y6m   (#183 all-time among players aged 36y6m) 
 #7  William Potter  2615    37y10m   (#180 all-time among players aged 37y10m) 
 #8  Edward Alberoni  2609   
 #9  William Wayte  2571    48y9m   (#120 all-time among players aged 48y9m) 
 #10  George MacDonnell  2562    47y10m   (#150 all-time among players aged 47y10m) 
 #11  Szymon Winawer  2562    40y3m   (#296 all-time among players aged 40y3m) 
 #12  John Owen  2524    51y2m   (#186 all-time among players aged 51y2m) 
 #13  Bernard Fisher  2522   
 #14  Carl Göring  2517    37y2m   (#625 all-time among players aged 37y2m) 
 #15  Emil Schallopp  2500    34y10m   (#793 all-time among players aged 34y10m) 
 #16  James Minchin  2500    53y3m   (#175 all-time among players aged 53y3m) 
 #17  Karl Leffmann  2474    42y5m   (#618 all-time among players aged 42y5m) 
 #18  Berthold Englisch  2474    26y11m   (#1168 all-time among players aged 26y11m) 
 #19  John Coker  2459    56y11m   (#155 all-time among players aged 56y11m) 
 #20  Edmund Thorold  2451    45y9m   (#544 all-time among players aged 45y9m) 
 #21  Albert Hodges  2445    16y11m   (#204 all-time among players aged 16y11m) 
 #22  Johannes Metger  2409    26y6m   (#1752 all-time among players aged 26y6m) 
 #23  George Fraser  2408    47y5m   (#588 all-time among players aged 47y5m) 
 #24  Charles Ranken  2395    50y5m   (#479 all-time among players aged 50y5m) 
 #25  Wilfried Paulsen  2390    49y11m   (#506 all-time among players aged 49y11m) 
 #26  Arthur Skipworth  2367    48y0m   (#646 all-time among players aged 48y0m) 
 #27  Ernst Flechsig  2361    25y8m   (#2095 all-time among players aged 25y8m) 
 #28  August Franke  2354    46y5m   (#780 all-time among players aged 46y5m) 
 #29  William Martin  2312    70y6m   (#51 all-time among players aged 70y6m) 
 #30  Walter Spens  2289    36y4m   (#1880 all-time among players aged 36y4m)