Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: July 1887 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Wilhelm Steinitz  2788    51y2m   (#3 all-time among players aged 51y2m) 
 #2  Joseph Blackburne  2738    45y7m   (#13 all-time among players aged 45y7m) 
 #3  Isidor Gunsberg  2726    32y8m   (#31 all-time among players aged 32y8m) 
 #4  Amos Burn  2670    38y7m   (#68 all-time among players aged 38y7m) 
 #5  Johannes Zukertort  2666    44y10m   (#47 all-time among players aged 44y10m) 
 #6  Emil Schallopp  2650    43y11m   (#61 all-time among players aged 43y11m) 
 #7  George Mackenzie  2642    50y4m   (#37 all-time among players aged 50y4m) 
 #8  James Mason  2636    37y8m   (#120 all-time among players aged 37y8m) 
 #9  Miksa Weiss  2635    30y0m   (#175 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #10  Siegbert Tarrasch  2635    25y4m   (#149 all-time among players aged 25y4m) 
 #11  Berthold Englisch  2634    36y0m   (#149 all-time among players aged 36y0m) 
 #12  Samuel Lipschütz  2607    24y0m   (#197 all-time among players aged 24y0m) 
 #13  Eugene Delmar  2596    45y10m   (#123 all-time among players aged 45y10m) 
 #14  Henry Bird  2593    57y0m   (#30 all-time among players aged 57y0m) 
 #15  Jean Taubenhaus  2589    36y7m   (#282 all-time among players aged 36y7m) 
 #16  Hyde  2587   
 #17  Hartshorne  2575   
 #18  Hans von Minckwitz  2568    44y3m   (#225 all-time among players aged 44y3m) 
 #19  Fritz Riemann  2560    28y6m   (#489 all-time among players aged 28y6m) 
 #20  John Ryan  2548    38y6m   (#412 all-time among players aged 38y6m) 
 #21  Johann Berger  2543    42y3m   (#327 all-time among players aged 42y3m) 
 #22  Celso Golmayo Zupide  2541    67y3m   (#12 all-time among players aged 67y3m) 
 #23  J Moore Hanham  2538    47y6m   (#219 all-time among players aged 47y6m) 
 #24  Ernst Flechsig  2530    34y9m   (#617 all-time among players aged 34y9m) 
 #25  L Rothschild  2508   
 #26  Hermann von Gottschall  2504    24y9m   (#788 all-time among players aged 24y9m) 
 #27  William Pollock  2504    28y5m   (#921 all-time among players aged 28y5m) 
 #28  Antony Guest  2494    31y6m   (#977 all-time among players aged 31y6m) 
 #29  Gustave Simonson  2487    22y10m   (#742 all-time among players aged 22y10m) 
 #30  John Baird  2483    35y5m   (#888 all-time among players aged 35y5m) 
 #31  Clapp  2480   
 #32  James Mortimer  2478    54y3m   (#185 all-time among players aged 54y3m) 
 #33  William Wayte  2477    57y10m   (#104 all-time among players aged 57y10m) 
 #34  Arthur Skipworth  2472    57y1m   (#127 all-time among players aged 57y1m) 
 #35  David Baird  2467    32y7m   (#1182 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #36  George MacDonnell  2462    56y11m   (#147 all-time among players aged 56y11m) 
 #37  Henry Schieffelin  2462   
 #38  Charles Isaacson  2462    21y7m   (#783 all-time among players aged 21y7m) 
 #39  Josef Noa  2460    30y9m   (#1317 all-time among players aged 30y9m) 
 #40  D'Oench  2456   
 #41  Arnold Schottländer  2437    33y3m   (#1378 all-time among players aged 33y3m) 
 #42  Wilfried Paulsen  2436    59y0m   (#127 all-time among players aged 59y0m) 
 #43  Charles Ranken  2424    59y6m   (#140 all-time among players aged 59y6m) 
 #44  Max Bier  2423    33y3m   (#1506 all-time among players aged 33y3m) 
 #45  Edmund Thorold  2422    54y10m   (#263 all-time among players aged 54y10m) 
 #46  Rudolf Loman  2421    25y9m   (#1637 all-time among players aged 25y9m) 
 #47  Andrés Vásquez  2416    42y8m   (#846 all-time among players aged 42y8m) 
 #48  George Wainwright  2415    25y8m   (#1675 all-time among players aged 25y8m) 
 #49  August Vorrath  2413    49y5m   (#479 all-time among players aged 49y5m) 
 #50  J Porterfield Rynd  2412    32y6m   (#1687 all-time among players aged 32y6m) 
 #51  Vicente Carvajal  2410    46y8m   (#622 all-time among players aged 46y8m) 
 #52  John Owen  2393    60y3m   (#158 all-time among players aged 60y3m) 
 #53  Henry Reeves  2386    46y6m   (#692 all-time among players aged 46y6m) 
 #54  Albert von Rothschild  2385    42y9m   (#965 all-time among players aged 42y9m) 
 #55  George Carpenter  2381    43y4m   (#949 all-time among players aged 43y4m) 
 #56  Daniel Mills  2378    37y11m   (#1431 all-time among players aged 37y11m) 
 #57  Wordsworth Donisthorpe  2369    40y4m   (#1244 all-time among players aged 40y4m) 
 #58  Spiegle  2302   
 #59  Wilfred Palmer  2291    14y0m   (#83 all-time among players aged 14y0m) 
 #60  W Nicholls  2278   
 #61  Alfred Peake  2264   
 #62  John Chambers  2253    45y6m   (#988 all-time among players aged 45y6m) 
 #63  William Mackeson  2237