Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: December 1945 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Mikhail Botvinnik  2884    34y4m   (#1 all-time among players aged 34y4m) 
 #2  Alexander Alekhine  2762    53y2m   (#2 all-time among players aged 53y2m) 
 #3  Vassily Smyslov  2750    24y9m   (#12 all-time among players aged 24y9m) 
 #4  Paul Keres  2749    29y11m   (#16 all-time among players aged 29y11m) 
 #5  Miguel Najdorf  2748    35y8m   (#14 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #6  Isaak Boleslavsky  2746    26y6m   (#19 all-time among players aged 26y6m) 
 #7  Vladimir Makogonov  2733    41y4m   (#20 all-time among players aged 41y4m) 
 #8  Gideon Stĺhlberg  2713    37y11m   (#36 all-time among players aged 37y11m) 
 #9  Samuel Reshevsky  2693    34y1m   (#63 all-time among players aged 34y1m) 
 #10  Alexander Kotov  2691    32y4m   (#77 all-time among players aged 32y4m) 
 #11  Salo Flohr  2677    37y1m   (#70 all-time among players aged 37y1m) 
 #12  David Bronstein  2673    21y10m   (#48 all-time among players aged 21y10m) 
 #13  Reuben Fine  2672    31y2m   (#105 all-time among players aged 31y2m) 
 #14  Vladas Mikenas  2669    35y8m   (#86 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #15  Herman Pilnik  2664    31y11m   (#116 all-time among players aged 31y11m) 
 #16  Viacheslav Ragozin  2664    37y2m   (#84 all-time among players aged 37y2m) 
 #17  Alexander Konstantinopolsky  2663    35y10m   (#94 all-time among players aged 35y10m) 
 #18  Pablo Michel  2659    40y0m   (#73 all-time among players aged 40y0m) 
 #19  Andor Lilienthal  2650    34y7m   (#122 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #20  Efim Bogoljubow  2639    56y8m   (#18 all-time among players aged 56y8m) 
 #21  Alexander Tolush  2638    35y7m   (#149 all-time among players aged 35y7m) 
 #22  Al Horowitz  2637    38y1m   (#119 all-time among players aged 38y1m) 
 #23  Iosif Rudakovsky  2637    31y11m   (#168 all-time among players aged 31y11m) 
 #24  Alexey Sokolsky  2634    37y2m   (#133 all-time among players aged 37y2m) 
 #25  Carlos Guimard  2631    32y8m   (#187 all-time among players aged 32y8m) 
 #26  Gavriil Veresov  2630    33y5m   (#175 all-time among players aged 33y5m) 
 #27  Igor Bondarevsky  2626    32y7m   (#208 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #28  Vitaly Chekhover  2619    37y0m   (#171 all-time among players aged 37y0m) 
 #29  Jan Foltys  2617    37y2m   (#177 all-time among players aged 37y2m) 
 #30  Georgy Lisitsin  2617    36y2m   (#185 all-time among players aged 36y2m) 
 #31  Jorge Pelikán  2616    39y8m   (#156 all-time among players aged 39y8m) 
 #32  Héctor Rossetto  2606    23y3m   (#180 all-time among players aged 23y3m) 
 #33  Abram Khavin  2604    31y11m   (#293 all-time among players aged 31y11m) 
 #34  Julio Bolbochán  2603    25y9m   (#245 all-time among players aged 25y9m) 
 #35  Miroslav Katetov  2600    27y9m   (#293 all-time among players aged 27y9m) 
 #36  Ilia Kan  2600    36y7m   (#238 all-time among players aged 36y7m) 
 #37  František Zíta  2599    36y1m   (#240 all-time among players aged 36y1m) 
 #38  Evgeny Zagoriansky  2595    35y4m   (#266 all-time among players aged 35y4m) 
 #39  Vladimir Simagin  2594    26y6m   (#293 all-time among players aged 26y6m) 
 #40  Emil Richter  2594    51y11m   (#66 all-time among players aged 51y11m) 
 #41  Vladimir Alatortsev  2594    36y7m   (#259 all-time among players aged 36y7m) 
 #42  Peter Romanovsky  2593    53y5m   (#54 all-time among players aged 53y5m) 
 #43  Jácobo Bolbochán  2592    39y0m   (#223 all-time among players aged 39y0m) 
 #44  Vasily Panov  2591    39y1m   (#224 all-time among players aged 39y1m) 
 #45  Carlos Maderna  2587    35y4m   (#289 all-time among players aged 35y4m) 
 #46  Isaac Kashdan  2567    40y1m   (#280 all-time among players aged 40y1m) 
 #47  Aleksandrs Koblencs  2567    29y3m   (#447 all-time among players aged 29y3m) 
 #48  Karel Opocenský  2565    53y10m   (#65 all-time among players aged 53y10m) 
 #49  Ludek Pachmann  2564    21y7m   (#244 all-time among players aged 21y7m) 
 #50  Weaver Adams  2560    44y8m   (#224 all-time among players aged 44y8m) 
 #51  Mariano Castillo Larenas  2556    40y0m   (#330 all-time among players aged 40y0m) 
 #52  Moshe Czerniak  2556    35y10m   (#435 all-time among players aged 35y10m) 
 #53  Jaroslav Šajtar  2555    24y0m   (#392 all-time among players aged 24y0m) 
 #54  Jose Maria Cristia  2548   
 #55  Abram Poliak  2545    43y6m   (#285 all-time among players aged 43y6m) 
 #56  Anatoly Ufimtsev  2542    31y7m   (#626 all-time among players aged 31y7m) 
 #57  Herman Steiner  2541    40y8m   (#373 all-time among players aged 40y8m) 
 #58  Boris Ratner  2533    36y11m   (#537 all-time among players aged 36y11m) 
 #59  Grigory Ravinsky  2532    36y2m   (#550 all-time among players aged 36y2m) 
 #60  Friedrich Sämisch  2528    49y3m   (#181 all-time among players aged 49y3m) 
 #61  Cenek Kottnauer  2527    35y10m   (#585 all-time among players aged 35y10m) 
 #62  Lev Aronin  2525    25y5m   (#639 all-time among players aged 25y5m) 
 #63  Karel Urbanec  2524   
 #64  A. Budo  2524   
 #65  Walter Cruz  2523    35y11m   (#601 all-time among players aged 35y11m) 
 #66  Josef Lokvenc  2521    46y7m   (#288 all-time among players aged 46y7m) 
 #67  José Araiza Munoz  2520    45y9m   (#312 all-time among players aged 45y9m) 
 #68  Marcos Luckis  2519    40y11m   (#473 all-time among players aged 40y11m) 
 #69  Albert Pinkus  2517    42y9m   (#413 all-time among players aged 42y9m) 
 #70  Karel Hromádka  2513    58y8m   (#61 all-time among players aged 58y8m) 
 #71  Carlos Hounié Fleurquin  2495    39y1m   (#665 all-time among players aged 39y1m) 
 #72  Jaromír Florián  2495    34y4m   (#838 all-time among players aged 34y4m) 
 #73  German Fridstein  2491    34y1m   (#888 all-time among players aged 34y1m) 
 #74  Vladimir Saigin  2490    28y5m   (#1034 all-time among players aged 28y5m) 
 #75  George Shainswit  2485    27y11m   (#1083 all-time among players aged 27y11m) 
 #76  Romeo García Vera  2483   
 #77  Rodrigo Flores Alvarez  2483    32y4m   (#1040 all-time among players aged 32y4m) 
 #78  Grigory Goldberg  2481    37y5m   (#842 all-time among players aged 37y5m) 
 #79  Milan Bartošek  2481    32y9m   (#1042 all-time among players aged 32y9m) 
 #80  Oldrich Novotny  2480   
 #81  Victor Liublinsky  2477    27y8m   (#1141 all-time among players aged 27y8m) 
 #82  Bedrich Thelen  2476    40y7m   (#698 all-time among players aged 40y7m) 
 #83  Francisco Benkö  2475    35y6m   (#938 all-time among players aged 35y6m) 
 #84  Jirí Fichtl  2474    24y10m   (#1049 all-time among players aged 24y10m) 
 #85  Josef Dobiáš  2474    59y0m   (#90 all-time among players aged 59y0m) 
 #86  René Letelier Martner  2474    30y3m   (#1184 all-time among players aged 30y3m) 
 #87  Augustin Tikovský  2470    33y11m   (#1059 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #88  Meir Rauch  2470    36y2m   (#962 all-time among players aged 36y2m) 
 #89  Mikhail Kamishov  2469    36y11m   (#935 all-time among players aged 36y11m) 
 #90  Virgilio Fenoglio  2468    43y10m   (#571 all-time among players aged 43y10m) 
 #91  Guillermo Puiggrós  2467    33y9m   (#1092 all-time among players aged 33y9m) 
 #92  Jacob Levin  2465    41y10m   (#684 all-time among players aged 41y10m) 
 #93  Karel Prucha  2463    44y11m   (#541 all-time among players aged 44y11m) 
 #94  Juan Iliesco  2454    47y8m   (#439 all-time among players aged 47y8m) 
 #95  I Aramanovich  2453   
 #96  Enrique Reinhardt  2449    42y9m   (#711 all-time among players aged 42y9m) 
 #97  Cayetano Rebizzo  2448    37y4m   (#1048 all-time among players aged 37y4m) 
 #98  Anthony Santasiere  2445    41y0m   (#852 all-time among players aged 41y0m) 
 #99  Renato Sanguinetti  2442    29y8m   (#1497 all-time among players aged 29y8m) 
 #100  Victor Baturinsky  2439    31y6m   (#1489 all-time among players aged 31y6m)