Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: May 1909 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Emanuel Lasker  2817    40y5m   (#2 all-time among players aged 40y5m) 
 #2  Akiba Rubinstein  2767    26y7m   (#12 all-time among players aged 26y7m) 
 #3  José Capablanca  2767    20y6m   (#4 all-time among players aged 20y6m) 
 #4  Géza Maróczy  2745    39y2m   (#15 all-time among players aged 39y2m) 
 #5  Oldrich Duras  2741    26y7m   (#24 all-time among players aged 26y7m) 
 #6  Carl Schlechter  2740    35y2m   (#21 all-time among players aged 35y2m) 
 #7  Richard Teichmann  2702    40y5m   (#39 all-time among players aged 40y5m) 
 #8  Siegbert Tarrasch  2696    47y2m   (#22 all-time among players aged 47y2m) 
 #9  Aron Nimzowitsch  2684    22y6m   (#46 all-time among players aged 22y6m) 
 #10  Milan Vidmar Sr  2684    23y11m   (#53 all-time among players aged 23y11m) 
 #11  Frank Marshall  2680    31y9m   (#95 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #12  Ossip Bernstein  2668    26y7m   (#99 all-time among players aged 26y7m) 
 #13  Léo Forgács  2658    27y7m   (#121 all-time among players aged 27y7m) 
 #14  Dawid Janowsky  2655    40y11m   (#76 all-time among players aged 40y11m) 
 #15  Saviely Tartakower  2644    22y3m   (#82 all-time among players aged 22y3m) 
 #16  Georg Salwe  2638    46y7m   (#62 all-time among players aged 46y7m) 
 #17  Paul Leonhardt  2634    31y6m   (#179 all-time among players aged 31y6m) 
 #18  Jacques Mieses  2632    44y3m   (#83 all-time among players aged 44y3m) 
 #19  Rudolf Spielmann  2624    26y0m   (#183 all-time among players aged 26y0m) 
 #20  Julius Perlis  2619    29y4m   (#236 all-time among players aged 29y4m) 
 #21  Georg Marco  2617    45y6m   (#95 all-time among players aged 45y6m) 
 #22  Fedor Dus-Chotimirsky  2613    29y8m   (#252 all-time among players aged 29y8m) 
 #23  Amos Burn  2611    60y5m   (#18 all-time among players aged 60y5m) 
 #24  Walter John  2602    30y4m   (#302 all-time among players aged 30y4m) 
 #25  Charles Jaffe  2601    30y4m   (#309 all-time among players aged 30y4m) 
 #26  Heinrich Wolf  2592    33y7m   (#310 all-time among players aged 33y7m) 
 #27  Joseph Blackburne  2573    67y5m   (#7 all-time among players aged 67y5m) 
 #28  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky  2566    24y9m   (#369 all-time among players aged 24y9m) 
 #29  Semyon Alapin  2562    52y6m   (#90 all-time among players aged 52y6m) 
 #30  Giovanni Martinolich Jr  2547    24y11m   (#473 all-time among players aged 24y11m) 
 #31  Rudolf Swiderski  2546    30y10m   (#581 all-time among players aged 30y10m) 
 #32  Miklós Bródy  2543    32y2m   (#616 all-time among players aged 32y2m) 
 #33  Johann Berger  2540    64y1m   (#25 all-time among players aged 64y1m) 
 #34  Abraham Speijer  2539    35y6m   (#525 all-time among players aged 35y6m) 
 #35  Hugo Süchting  2535    34y7m   (#589 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #36  Erich Cohn  2531    25y2m   (#590 all-time among players aged 25y2m) 
 #37  Ehrhardt Post  2525    27y8m   (#725 all-time among players aged 27y8m) 
 #38  Georg Schories  2520   
 #39  Adolf Olland  2520    42y1m   (#415 all-time among players aged 42y1m) 
 #40  Sergey Freiman  2510    27y4m   (#865 all-time among players aged 27y4m) 
 #41  Horatio Caro  2507    46y10m   (#316 all-time among players aged 46y10m) 
 #42  Wilhelm Cohn  2506    50y3m   (#222 all-time among players aged 50y3m) 
 #43  Karel Treybal  2502    24y3m   (#763 all-time among players aged 24y3m) 
 #44  Moritz Billecard  2501    33y4m   (#849 all-time among players aged 33y4m) 
 #45  Paul Johner  2497    21y8m   (#575 all-time among players aged 21y8m) 
 #46  Theodor von Scheve  2494    57y11m   (#83 all-time among players aged 57y11m) 
 #47  Curt von Bardeleben  2492    48y2m   (#317 all-time among players aged 48y2m) 
 #48  Johannes Metger  2491    57y5m   (#95 all-time among players aged 57y5m) 
 #49  Arpád Jakab  2491   
 #50  Dawid Przepiórka  2480    28y5m   (#1126 all-time among players aged 28y5m) 
 #51  E Heilmann  2480   
 #52  Leopold Löwy  2470    37y9m   (#877 all-time among players aged 37y9m) 
 #53  Jan Kvícala  2467    41y4m   (#704 all-time among players aged 41y4m) 
 #54  Francis Lee  2462    52y4m   (#265 all-time among players aged 52y4m) 
 #55  Hector Shoosmith  2460    32y4m   (#1262 all-time among players aged 32y4m) 
 #56  Ladislav Prokeš  2460    24y11m   (#1191 all-time among players aged 24y11m) 
 #57  Hermann von Gottschall  2458    46y7m   (#474 all-time among players aged 46y7m) 
 #58  Abram Rabinovich  2453    31y4m   (#1361 all-time among players aged 31y4m) 
 #59  Adolf Albin  2451    60y8m   (#95 all-time among players aged 60y8m) 
 #60  Franz Jacob  2441   
 #61  Louis van Vliet  2439    41y4m   (#843 all-time among players aged 41y4m) 
 #62  Alexander Fritz  2439    52y4m   (#317 all-time among players aged 52y4m) 
 #63  František Treybal  2438    26y5m   (#1471 all-time among players aged 26y5m) 
 #64  Emil Schallopp  2429    65y9m   (#65 all-time among players aged 65y9m) 
 #65  James Mortimer  2371    76y1m   (#10 all-time among players aged 76y1m) 
 #66  Kurt Moll  2354   
 #67  Richard Réti  2352    20y0m   (#1245 all-time among players aged 20y0m)