Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: October 1945 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Mikhail Botvinnik  2885    34y2m   (#1 all-time among players aged 34y2m) 
 #2  Alexander Alekhine  2770    53y0m   (#1 all-time among players aged 53y0m) 
 #3  Miguel Najdorf  2748    35y6m   (#14 all-time among players aged 35y6m) 
 #4  Paul Keres  2748    29y9m   (#18 all-time among players aged 29y9m) 
 #5  Vassily Smyslov  2747    24y7m   (#14 all-time among players aged 24y7m) 
 #6  Isaak Boleslavsky  2745    26y4m   (#17 all-time among players aged 26y4m) 
 #7  Vladimir Makogonov  2735    41y2m   (#20 all-time among players aged 41y2m) 
 #8  Gideon Stĺhlberg  2714    37y9m   (#35 all-time among players aged 37y9m) 
 #9  Samuel Reshevsky  2700    33y11m   (#54 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #10  Alexander Kotov  2692    32y2m   (#79 all-time among players aged 32y2m) 
 #11  Salo Flohr  2678    36y11m   (#68 all-time among players aged 36y11m) 
 #12  Reuben Fine  2676    31y0m   (#99 all-time among players aged 31y0m) 
 #13  David Bronstein  2669    21y8m   (#51 all-time among players aged 21y8m) 
 #14  Vladas Mikenas  2668    35y6m   (#87 all-time among players aged 35y6m) 
 #15  Alexander Konstantinopolsky  2665    35y8m   (#89 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #16  Herman Pilnik  2664    31y9m   (#121 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #17  Viacheslav Ragozin  2658    37y0m   (#88 all-time among players aged 37y0m) 
 #18  Pablo Michel  2655    39y10m   (#80 all-time among players aged 39y10m) 
 #19  Andor Lilienthal  2650    34y5m   (#130 all-time among players aged 34y5m) 
 #20  Efim Bogoljubow  2643    56y6m   (#18 all-time among players aged 56y6m) 
 #21  Al Horowitz  2641    37y11m   (#113 all-time among players aged 37y11m) 
 #22  Alexander Tolush  2639    35y5m   (#146 all-time among players aged 35y5m) 
 #23  Iosif Rudakovsky  2637    31y9m   (#169 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #24  Alexey Sokolsky  2635    37y0m   (#136 all-time among players aged 37y0m) 
 #25  Gavriil Veresov  2630    33y3m   (#175 all-time among players aged 33y3m) 
 #26  Igor Bondarevsky  2624    32y5m   (#204 all-time among players aged 32y5m) 
 #27  Carlos Guimard  2623    32y6m   (#214 all-time among players aged 32y6m) 
 #28  Jan Foltys  2621    37y0m   (#166 all-time among players aged 37y0m) 
 #29  Vitaly Chekhover  2619    36y10m   (#174 all-time among players aged 36y10m) 
 #30  Georgy Lisitsin  2617    36y0m   (#192 all-time among players aged 36y0m) 
 #31  Jorge Pelikán  2613    39y6m   (#165 all-time among players aged 39y6m) 
 #32  Miroslav Katetov  2607    27y7m   (#257 all-time among players aged 27y7m) 
 #33  Héctor Rossetto  2607    23y1m   (#179 all-time among players aged 23y1m) 
 #34  Julio Bolbochán  2606    25y7m   (#238 all-time among players aged 25y7m) 
 #35  Abram Khavin  2603    31y9m   (#291 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #36  František Zíta  2602    35y11m   (#237 all-time among players aged 35y11m) 
 #37  Ilia Kan  2594    36y5m   (#253 all-time among players aged 36y5m) 
 #38  Evgeny Zagoriansky  2593    35y2m   (#281 all-time among players aged 35y2m) 
 #39  Vladimir Alatortsev  2591    36y5m   (#262 all-time among players aged 36y5m) 
 #40  Vasily Panov  2590    38y11m   (#226 all-time among players aged 38y11m) 
 #41  Emil Richter  2589    51y9m   (#72 all-time among players aged 51y9m) 
 #42  Jácobo Bolbochán  2588    38y10m   (#245 all-time among players aged 38y10m) 
 #43  Vladimir Simagin  2586    26y4m   (#336 all-time among players aged 26y4m) 
 #44  Peter Romanovsky  2584    53y3m   (#61 all-time among players aged 53y3m) 
 #45  Carlos Maderna  2583    35y2m   (#321 all-time among players aged 35y2m) 
 #46  Gösta Stoltz  2573    41y5m   (#254 all-time among players aged 41y5m) 
 #47  Isaac Kashdan  2570    39y11m   (#275 all-time among players aged 39y11m) 
 #48  Aleksandrs Koblencs  2566    29y1m   (#444 all-time among players aged 29y1m) 
 #49  Karel Opocenský  2560    53y8m   (#65 all-time among players aged 53y8m) 
 #50  Ludek Pachmann  2558    21y5m   (#247 all-time among players aged 21y5m) 
 #51  Jaroslav Šajtar  2557    23y10m   (#372 all-time among players aged 23y10m) 
 #52  Weaver Adams  2552    44y6m   (#263 all-time among players aged 44y6m) 
 #53  Jose Maria Cristia  2550   
 #54  Moshe Czerniak  2548    35y8m   (#472 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #55  Herman Steiner  2541    40y6m   (#373 all-time among players aged 40y6m) 
 #56  Abram Poliak  2539    43y4m   (#308 all-time among players aged 43y4m) 
 #57  Anatoly Ufimtsev  2535    31y5m   (#681 all-time among players aged 31y5m) 
 #58  Grigory Ravinsky  2531    36y0m   (#555 all-time among players aged 36y0m) 
 #59  Boris Ratner  2531    36y9m   (#551 all-time among players aged 36y9m) 
 #60  Cenek Kottnauer  2530    35y8m   (#569 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #61  Friedrich Sämisch  2528    49y1m   (#190 all-time among players aged 49y1m) 
 #62  Karel Urbanec  2526   
 #63  Walter Cruz  2523    35y9m   (#605 all-time among players aged 35y9m) 
 #64  Josef Lokvenc  2523    46y5m   (#290 all-time among players aged 46y5m) 
 #65  Albert Pinkus  2520    42y7m   (#413 all-time among players aged 42y7m) 
 #66  José Araiza Munoz  2519    45y7m   (#316 all-time among players aged 45y7m) 
 #67  Lev Aronin  2519    25y3m   (#678 all-time among players aged 25y3m) 
 #68  A. Budo  2518   
 #69  Karel Hromádka  2516    58y6m   (#63 all-time among players aged 58y6m) 
 #70  Marcos Luckis  2513    40y9m   (#497 all-time among players aged 40y9m) 
 #71  Jaromír Florián  2494    34y2m   (#859 all-time among players aged 34y2m) 
 #72  Carlos Hounié Fleurquin  2494    38y11m   (#675 all-time among players aged 38y11m) 
 #73  German Fridstein  2490    33y11m   (#912 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #74  George Shainswit  2488    27y9m   (#1053 all-time among players aged 27y9m) 
 #75  Vladimir Saigin  2487    28y3m   (#1045 all-time among players aged 28y3m) 
 #76  Bedrich Thelen  2481    40y5m   (#686 all-time among players aged 40y5m) 
 #77  Romeo García Vera  2481   
 #78  Rodrigo Flores Alvarez  2480    32y2m   (#1059 all-time among players aged 32y2m) 
 #79  Milan Bartošek  2480    32y7m   (#1054 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #80  Oldrich Novotny  2480   
 #81  Grigory Goldberg  2479    37y3m   (#853 all-time among players aged 37y3m) 
 #82  Victor Liublinsky  2476    27y6m   (#1152 all-time among players aged 27y6m) 
 #83  Francisco Benkö  2475    35y4m   (#956 all-time among players aged 35y4m) 
 #84  Jirí Fichtl  2473    24y8m   (#1055 all-time among players aged 24y8m) 
 #85  René Letelier Martner  2472    30y1m   (#1196 all-time among players aged 30y1m) 
 #86  Mikhail Yudovich  2471    34y4m   (#1025 all-time among players aged 34y4m) 
 #87  Jacob Levin  2470    41y8m   (#673 all-time among players aged 41y8m) 
 #88  Meir Rauch  2469    36y0m   (#986 all-time among players aged 36y0m) 
 #89  Augustin Tikovský  2469    33y9m   (#1076 all-time among players aged 33y9m) 
 #90  Josef Dobiáš  2468    58y10m   (#99 all-time among players aged 58y10m) 
 #91  Mikhail Kamishov  2466    36y9m   (#968 all-time among players aged 36y9m) 
 #92  Karel Prucha  2464    44y9m   (#559 all-time among players aged 44y9m) 
 #93  Guillermo Puiggrós  2464    33y7m   (#1148 all-time among players aged 33y7m) 
 #94  Virgilio Fenoglio  2462    43y8m   (#604 all-time among players aged 43y8m) 
 #95  Fedor Dus-Chotimirsky  2462    66y1m   (#47 all-time among players aged 66y1m) 
 #96  I Aramanovich  2454   
 #97  Juan Iliesco  2453    47y6m   (#455 all-time among players aged 47y6m) 
 #98  Anthony Santasiere  2449    40y10m   (#830 all-time among players aged 40y10m) 
 #99  Renato Sanguinetti  2446    29y6m   (#1454 all-time among players aged 29y6m) 
 #100  Cayetano Rebizzo  2445    37y2m   (#1061 all-time among players aged 37y2m)