Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: February 1886 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Johannes Zukertort  2798    43y5m   (#2 all-time among players aged 43y5m) 
 #2  Wilhelm Steinitz  2751    49y9m   (#5 all-time among players aged 49y9m) 
 #3  Joseph Blackburne  2717    44y2m   (#20 all-time among players aged 44y2m) 
 #4  Berthold Englisch  2680    34y7m   (#81 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #5  Szymon Winawer  2670    47y11m   (#31 all-time among players aged 47y11m) 
 #6  James Mason  2669    36y3m   (#85 all-time among players aged 36y3m) 
 #7  Siegbert Tarrasch  2657    23y11m   (#93 all-time among players aged 23y11m) 
 #8  Eugene Delmar  2645    44y5m   (#67 all-time among players aged 44y5m) 
 #9  Miksa Weiss  2636    28y7m   (#176 all-time among players aged 28y7m) 
 #10  Emil Schallopp  2634    42y6m   (#101 all-time among players aged 42y6m) 
 #11  George Mackenzie  2633    48y11m   (#46 all-time among players aged 48y11m) 
 #12  Samuel Rosenthal  2633    48y5m   (#46 all-time among players aged 48y5m) 
 #13  J Moore Hanham  2632    46y1m   (#61 all-time among players aged 46y1m) 
 #14  Mikhail Chigorin  2629    35y3m   (#172 all-time among players aged 35y3m) 
 #15  Isidor Gunsberg  2618    31y3m   (#233 all-time among players aged 31y3m) 
 #16  Henry Bird  2596    55y7m   (#38 all-time among players aged 55y7m) 
 #17  Fritz Riemann  2581    27y1m   (#368 all-time among players aged 27y1m) 
 #18  Curt von Bardeleben  2577    24y11m   (#334 all-time among players aged 24y11m) 
 #19  Johann Berger  2576    40y10m   (#253 all-time among players aged 40y10m) 
 #20  Hans von Minckwitz  2575    42y10m   (#207 all-time among players aged 42y10m) 
 #21  Dion Martinez  2575    48y8m   (#116 all-time among players aged 48y8m) 
 #22  Vincenz Hrubý  2563    29y5m   (#479 all-time among players aged 29y5m) 
 #23  Gustave Simonson  2558    21y5m   (#248 all-time among players aged 21y5m) 
 #24  L Rothschild  2548   
 #25  Ernst Flechsig  2544    33y4m   (#559 all-time among players aged 33y4m) 
 #26  Jacques Schwarz  2536    30y1m   (#664 all-time among players aged 30y1m) 
 #27  David Baird  2535    31y2m   (#672 all-time among players aged 31y2m) 
 #28  Louis Paulsen  2534    53y1m   (#115 all-time among players aged 53y1m) 
 #29  H Richardson  2533   
 #30  Jules de Rivière  2527    55y9m   (#82 all-time among players aged 55y9m) 
 #31  Alexander Sellman  2521    30y1m   (#764 all-time among players aged 30y1m) 
 #32  William Wayte  2509    56y5m   (#88 all-time among players aged 56y5m) 
 #33  John Baird  2504    34y0m   (#792 all-time among players aged 34y0m) 
 #34  Josef Noa  2502    29y4m   (#918 all-time among players aged 29y4m) 
 #35  Hermann von Gottschall  2498    23y4m   (#714 all-time among players aged 23y4m) 
 #36  Jean Taubenhaus  2495    35y2m   (#809 all-time among players aged 35y2m) 
 #37  John Ryan  2495    37y1m   (#750 all-time among players aged 37y1m) 
 #38  Charles Isaacson  2485    20y2m   (#445 all-time among players aged 20y2m) 
 #39  Alexander Fritz  2450    29y1m   (#1399 all-time among players aged 29y1m) 
 #40  Arnold Schottländer  2446    31y10m   (#1404 all-time among players aged 31y10m) 
 #41  Arthur Skipworth  2439    55y8m   (#200 all-time among players aged 55y8m) 
 #42  Max Lange  2439    53y6m   (#281 all-time among players aged 53y6m) 
 #43  Edmund Thorold  2433    53y5m   (#292 all-time among players aged 53y5m) 
 #44  Max Bier  2428    31y10m   (#1561 all-time among players aged 31y10m) 
 #45  C Fisher  2427   
 #46  Wilfried Paulsen  2424    57y7m   (#187 all-time among players aged 57y7m) 
 #47  Karl Leffmann  2416    50y1m   (#448 all-time among players aged 50y1m) 
 #48  James Mortimer  2411    52y10m   (#351 all-time among players aged 52y10m) 
 #49  Charles Ranken  2409    58y1m   (#180 all-time among players aged 58y1m) 
 #50  William Pollock  2408    27y0m   (#1814 all-time among players aged 27y0m) 
 #51  August Vorrath  2408    48y0m   (#544 all-time among players aged 48y0m) 
 #52  James Minchin  2404    60y11m   (#142 all-time among players aged 60y11m) 
 #53  George MacDonnell  2403    55y6m   (#268 all-time among players aged 55y6m) 
 #54  George Carpenter  2395    41y11m   (#1010 all-time among players aged 41y11m) 
 #55  Wilfred Palmer  2387    12y7m   (#15 all-time among players aged 12y7m) 
 #56  Henry Schieffelin  2364   
 #57  Rudolf Loman  2348    24y4m   (#2081 all-time among players aged 24y4m) 
 #58  John Owen  2346    58y10m   (#229 all-time among players aged 58y10m) 
 #59  Daniel Mills  2337    36y6m   (#1763 all-time among players aged 36y6m) 
 #60  William Mackeson  2240