Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: December 1909 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Emanuel Lasker  2847    41y0m   (#1 all-time among players aged 41y0m) 
 #2  Akiba Rubinstein  2780    27y2m   (#10 all-time among players aged 27y2m) 
 #3  José Capablanca  2764    21y1m   (#7 all-time among players aged 21y1m) 
 #4  Géza Maróczy  2737    39y9m   (#19 all-time among players aged 39y9m) 
 #5  Oldrich Duras  2727    27y2m   (#38 all-time among players aged 27y2m) 
 #6  Carl Schlechter  2726    35y9m   (#33 all-time among players aged 35y9m) 
 #7  Richard Teichmann  2703    41y0m   (#34 all-time among players aged 41y0m) 
 #8  Siegbert Tarrasch  2694    47y9m   (#20 all-time among players aged 47y9m) 
 #9  Milan Vidmar Sr  2690    24y6m   (#53 all-time among players aged 24y6m) 
 #10  Frank Marshall  2686    32y4m   (#86 all-time among players aged 32y4m) 
 #11  Aron Nimzowitsch  2682    23y1m   (#49 all-time among players aged 23y1m) 
 #12  Ossip Bernstein  2682    27y2m   (#83 all-time among players aged 27y2m) 
 #13  Dawid Janowsky  2658    41y6m   (#78 all-time among players aged 41y6m) 
 #14  Saviely Tartakower  2644    22y10m   (#94 all-time among players aged 22y10m) 
 #15  Georg Salwe  2644    47y2m   (#52 all-time among players aged 47y2m) 
 #16  Rudolf Spielmann  2640    26y7m   (#153 all-time among players aged 26y7m) 
 #17  Jacques Mieses  2640    44y10m   (#66 all-time among players aged 44y10m) 
 #18  Paul Leonhardt  2636    32y1m   (#182 all-time among players aged 32y1m) 
 #19  Julius Perlis  2631    29y11m   (#193 all-time among players aged 29y11m) 
 #20  Léo Forgács  2627    28y2m   (#194 all-time among players aged 28y2m) 
 #21  Fedor Dus-Chotimirsky  2616    30y3m   (#235 all-time among players aged 30y3m) 
 #22  Charles Jaffe  2615    30y11m   (#254 all-time among players aged 30y11m) 
 #23  Walter John  2600    30y11m   (#311 all-time among players aged 30y11m) 
 #24  Georg Marco  2596    46y1m   (#115 all-time among players aged 46y1m) 
 #25  Amos Burn  2588    61y0m   (#18 all-time among players aged 61y0m) 
 #26  Heinrich Wolf  2579    34y2m   (#360 all-time among players aged 34y2m) 
 #27  Semyon Alapin  2559    53y1m   (#83 all-time among players aged 53y1m) 
 #28  Joseph Blackburne  2556    68y0m   (#8 all-time among players aged 68y0m) 
 #29  Erich Cohn  2555    25y9m   (#480 all-time among players aged 25y9m) 
 #30  Giovanni Martinolich Jr  2542    25y6m   (#542 all-time among players aged 25y6m) 
 #31  Abraham Speijer  2541    36y1m   (#505 all-time among players aged 36y1m) 
 #32  Johann Berger  2541    64y8m   (#22 all-time among players aged 64y8m) 
 #33  Miklós Bródy  2541    32y9m   (#584 all-time among players aged 32y9m) 
 #34  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky  2540    25y4m   (#540 all-time among players aged 25y4m) 
 #35  Hugo Süchting  2539    35y2m   (#535 all-time among players aged 35y2m) 
 #36  Adolf Olland  2531    42y8m   (#353 all-time among players aged 42y8m) 
 #37  Jackson Showalter  2530    49y10m   (#184 all-time among players aged 49y10m) 
 #38  Georg Schories  2519   
 #39  Sergey Freiman  2510    27y11m   (#845 all-time among players aged 27y11m) 
 #40  Karel Treybal  2505    24y10m   (#777 all-time among players aged 24y10m) 
 #41  Paul Johner  2504    22y3m   (#571 all-time among players aged 22y3m) 
 #42  Wilhelm Cohn  2502    50y10m   (#219 all-time among players aged 50y10m) 
 #43  Moritz Billecard  2501    33y11m   (#827 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #44  Theodor von Scheve  2496    58y6m   (#75 all-time among players aged 58y6m) 
 #45  Curt von Bardeleben  2494    48y9m   (#284 all-time among players aged 48y9m) 
 #46  Arpád Jakab  2492   
 #47  Johannes Metger  2492    58y0m   (#86 all-time among players aged 58y0m) 
 #48  Dawid Przepiórka  2486    29y0m   (#1078 all-time among players aged 29y0m) 
 #49  Benjamin Leussen  2485    33y8m   (#957 all-time among players aged 33y8m) 
 #50  Jan Kvícala  2473    41y11m   (#643 all-time among players aged 41y11m) 
 #51  Leopold Löwy  2470    38y4m   (#835 all-time among players aged 38y4m) 
 #52  Ladislav Prokeš  2468    25y6m   (#1156 all-time among players aged 25y6m) 
 #53  Hector Shoosmith  2464    32y11m   (#1177 all-time among players aged 32y11m) 
 #54  Adolf Albin  2461    61y3m   (#81 all-time among players aged 61y3m) 
 #55  Abram Rabinovich  2460    31y11m   (#1279 all-time among players aged 31y11m) 
 #56  Hermann von Gottschall  2460    47y2m   (#442 all-time among players aged 47y2m) 
 #57  Franz Jacob  2447   
 #58  Louis van Vliet  2446    41y11m   (#771 all-time among players aged 41y11m) 
 #59  František Treybal  2445    27y0m   (#1419 all-time among players aged 27y0m) 
 #60  Alexander Fritz  2445    52y11m   (#290 all-time among players aged 52y11m) 
 #61  Johannes Esser  2436    32y2m   (#1469 all-time among players aged 32y2m) 
 #62  Rudolf Loman  2407    48y2m   (#548 all-time among players aged 48y2m) 
 #63  James Mortimer  2384    76y8m   (#8 all-time among players aged 76y8m) 
 #64  Richard Réti  2366    20y7m   (#1327 all-time among players aged 20y7m)