Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: October 1888 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Wilhelm Steinitz  2752    52y5m   (#4 all-time among players aged 52y5m) 
 #2  Isidor Gunsberg  2736    33y11m   (#21 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #3  Joseph Blackburne  2730    46y10m   (#14 all-time among players aged 46y10m) 
 #4  George Mackenzie  2685    51y7m   (#22 all-time among players aged 51y7m) 
 #5  Miksa Weiss  2679    31y3m   (#96 all-time among players aged 31y3m) 
 #6  Curt von Bardeleben  2678    27y7m   (#91 all-time among players aged 27y7m) 
 #7  Amos Burn  2661    39y10m   (#73 all-time among players aged 39y10m) 
 #8  Berthold Englisch  2640    37y3m   (#116 all-time among players aged 37y3m) 
 #9  Emil Schallopp  2638    45y2m   (#64 all-time among players aged 45y2m) 
 #10  Johann Berger  2630    43y6m   (#94 all-time among players aged 43y6m) 
 #11  Jackson Showalter  2623    28y8m   (#213 all-time among players aged 28y8m) 
 #12  James Mason  2623    38y11m   (#139 all-time among players aged 38y11m) 
 #13  Siegbert Tarrasch  2617    26y7m   (#219 all-time among players aged 26y7m) 
 #14  Fritz Riemann  2612    29y9m   (#266 all-time among players aged 29y9m) 
 #15  Louis Paulsen  2597    55y9m   (#36 all-time among players aged 55y9m) 
 #16  Eugene Delmar  2594    47y1m   (#109 all-time among players aged 47y1m) 
 #17  Jacques Mieses  2594    23y8m   (#238 all-time among players aged 23y8m) 
 #18  Emanuel Schiffers  2583    38y5m   (#278 all-time among players aged 38y5m) 
 #19  Samuel Lipschütz  2572    25y3m   (#366 all-time among players aged 25y3m) 
 #20  Semyon Alapin  2569    31y11m   (#473 all-time among players aged 31y11m) 
 #21  Hyde  2565   
 #22  Jean Taubenhaus  2564    37y10m   (#345 all-time among players aged 37y10m) 
 #23  Horatio Caro  2560    26y3m   (#464 all-time among players aged 26y3m) 
 #24  Hartshorne  2556   
 #25  Paul Seuffert  2552    28y6m   (#530 all-time among players aged 28y6m) 
 #26  Henry Bird  2552    58y3m   (#41 all-time among players aged 58y3m) 
 #27  Celso Golmayo Zupide  2549    68y6m   (#8 all-time among players aged 68y6m) 
 #28  Hermann von Gottschall  2548    26y0m   (#531 all-time among players aged 26y0m) 
 #29  John Ryan  2547    39y9m   (#377 all-time among players aged 39y9m) 
 #30  Josef Noa  2539    32y0m   (#635 all-time among players aged 32y0m) 
 #31  J Moore Hanham  2537    48y9m   (#181 all-time among players aged 48y9m) 
 #32  Gustave Simonson  2534    24y1m   (#541 all-time among players aged 24y1m) 
 #33  William Pollock  2524    29y8m   (#751 all-time among players aged 29y8m) 
 #34  Theodor von Scheve  2522    37y4m   (#592 all-time among players aged 37y4m) 
 #35  Daniel Mills  2516    39y2m   (#548 all-time among players aged 39y2m) 
 #36  Max Harmonist  2514    24y8m   (#700 all-time among players aged 24y8m) 
 #37  Johannes Metger  2513    36y10m   (#645 all-time among players aged 36y10m) 
 #38  Antony Guest  2496    32y9m   (#921 all-time among players aged 32y9m) 
 #39  John Owen  2488    61y6m   (#56 all-time among players aged 61y6m) 
 #40  S Alexi  2486   
 #41  Burns  2482   
 #42  Clapp  2477   
 #43  George MacDonnell  2475    58y2m   (#96 all-time among players aged 58y2m) 
 #44  Max Judd  2475    36y10m   (#903 all-time among players aged 36y10m) 
 #45  Henry Schieffelin  2475   
 #46  Alexander Fritz  2474    31y9m   (#1129 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #47  Hans von Minckwitz  2472    45y6m   (#487 all-time among players aged 45y6m) 
 #48  Edmund Thorold  2470    56y1m   (#147 all-time among players aged 56y1m) 
 #49  Wilfried Paulsen  2461    60y3m   (#87 all-time among players aged 60y3m) 
 #50  Arnold Schottländer  2460    34y6m   (#1130 all-time among players aged 34y6m) 
 #51  Francis Lee  2458    31y9m   (#1280 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #52  D'Oench  2457   
 #53  David Baird  2455    33y10m   (#1221 all-time among players aged 33y10m) 
 #54  Carl Ahlhausen  2448    53y9m   (#258 all-time among players aged 53y9m) 
 #55  August Vorrath  2446    50y8m   (#359 all-time among players aged 50y8m) 
 #56  Charles Locock  2445    26y1m   (#1412 all-time among players aged 26y1m) 
 #57  Albert Hodges  2445    27y3m   (#1444 all-time among players aged 27y3m) 
 #58  Bernhard Hülsen  2438    23y11m   (#1278 all-time among players aged 23y11m) 
 #59  J Porterfield Rynd  2426    33y9m   (#1459 all-time among players aged 33y9m) 
 #60  Georges Barbier  2420   
 #61  James Mortimer  2410    55y6m   (#253 all-time among players aged 55y6m) 
 #62  Andrés Vásquez  2408    43y11m   (#812 all-time among players aged 43y11m) 
 #63  Albert von Rothschild  2397    44y0m   (#856 all-time among players aged 44y0m) 
 #64  Vicente Carvajal  2391    47y11m   (#600 all-time among players aged 47y11m) 
 #65  Oskar Cordel  2380    44y10m   (#844 all-time among players aged 44y10m) 
 #66  John Hall  2380    35y2m   (#1664 all-time among players aged 35y2m) 
 #67  Peter Fyfe  2372   
 #68  Alfred Rumboll  2362    51y9m   (#474 all-time among players aged 51y9m) 
 #69  Spiegle  2328   
 #70  Karl Rothländer  2327    25y2m   (#2241 all-time among players aged 25y2m) 
 #71  Leopold Landau  2325    40y3m   (#1397 all-time among players aged 40y3m) 
 #72  Walter Spens  2322    46y8m   (#829 all-time among players aged 46y8m) 
 #73  Wilfred Palmer  2316    15y3m   (#214 all-time among players aged 15y3m) 
 #74  Albert Heyde  2314    22y7m   (#1991 all-time among players aged 22y7m) 
 #75  John Chambers  2308    46y9m   (#848 all-time among players aged 46y9m) 
 #76  Kirdorf  2301