Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: July 1881 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Johannes Zukertort  2719    38y10m   (#28 all-time among players aged 38y10m) 
 #2  Joseph Blackburne  2672    39y7m   (#58 all-time among players aged 39y7m) 
 #3  Berthold Englisch  2662    30y0m   (#118 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #4  George Mackenzie  2660    44y4m   (#50 all-time among players aged 44y4m) 
 #5  Adolf Schwarz  2651    44y9m   (#57 all-time among players aged 44y9m) 

 #6  Louis Paulsen  2648    48y6m   (#39 all-time among players aged 48y6m) 
 #7  William Potter  2610    40y11m   (#160 all-time among players aged 40y11m) 
 #8  James Mason  2605    31y8m   (#287 all-time among players aged 31y8m) 
 #9  Samuel Rosenthal  2602    43y10m   (#139 all-time among players aged 43y10m) 
 #10  Max Judd  2600    29y7m   (#307 all-time among players aged 29y7m) 

 #11  Szymon Winawer  2595    43y4m   (#159 all-time among players aged 43y4m) 
 #12  Henry Bird  2591    51y0m   (#76 all-time among players aged 51y0m) 
 #13  Isidor Gunsberg  2585    26y8m   (#341 all-time among players aged 26y8m) 
 #14  James Grundy  2551    26y5m   (#530 all-time among players aged 26y5m) 
 #15  Charles Moehle  2546    21y8m   (#313 all-time among players aged 21y8m) 

 #16  Jules de Rivière  2544    51y2m   (#144 all-time among players aged 51y2m) 
 #17  Hans von Minckwitz  2538    38y3m   (#463 all-time among players aged 38y3m) 
 #18  Fritz Riemann  2532    22y6m   (#432 all-time among players aged 22y6m) 
 #19  Emil Schallopp  2503    37y11m   (#655 all-time among players aged 37y11m) 
 #20  Arnold Schottländer  2494    27y3m   (#979 all-time among players aged 27y3m) 

 #21  Miksa Weiss  2490    24y0m   (#847 all-time among players aged 24y0m) 
 #22  Wilfried Paulsen  2483    53y0m   (#208 all-time among players aged 53y0m) 
 #23  Max Bier  2483    27y3m   (#1073 all-time among players aged 27y3m) 
 #24  Alexander Sellman  2479    25y6m   (#1060 all-time among players aged 25y6m) 
 #25  Albert Clerc  2476    51y6m   (#267 all-time among players aged 51y6m) 

 #26  Carl Wemmers  2474    36y6m   (#919 all-time among players aged 36y6m) 
 #27  Ernst Flechsig  2454    28y9m   (#1370 all-time among players aged 28y9m) 
 #28  H Gifford  2430   
 #29  James Congdon  2411    46y6m   (#620 all-time among players aged 46y6m) 
 #30  Alexander Fritz  2402    24y6m   (#1709 all-time among players aged 24y6m) 

 #31  John Ryan  2388    32y6m   (#1875 all-time among players aged 32y6m) 
 #32  Karl Pitschel  2385    52y6m   (#417 all-time among players aged 52y6m) 
 #33  Constantin Schwede  2384    26y9m   (#2021 all-time among players aged 26y9m) 
 #34  Charles-Emile Chasery  2361    52y6m   (#444 all-time among players aged 52y6m) 
 #35  de Boistertre  2329   

 #36  August Franke  2328    49y6m   (#619 all-time among players aged 49y6m) 
 #37  Albert Cohnfeld  2321   
 #38  Victor Knorre  2318    40y9m   (#1373 all-time among players aged 40y9m) 
 #39  Carl Schmid  2318    41y3m   (#1306 all-time among players aged 41y3m) 
 #40  Robert Barnes  2266