Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: October 1969 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Bobby Fischer  2791    26y7m   (#8 all-time among players aged 26y7m) 
 #2  Viktor Korchnoi  2774    38y7m   (#8 all-time among players aged 38y7m) 
 #3  Boris Spassky  2770    32y9m   (#11 all-time among players aged 32y9m) 
 #4  Vassily Smyslov  2759    48y7m   (#4 all-time among players aged 48y7m) 
 #5  Bent Larsen  2750    34y7m   (#17 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #6  Tigran Petrosian  2749    40y4m   (#14 all-time among players aged 40y4m) 
 #7  Lev Polugaevsky  2748    34y11m   (#17 all-time among players aged 34y11m) 
 #8  Leonid Stein  2736    34y11m   (#24 all-time among players aged 34y11m) 
 #9  Mikhail Botvinnik  2731    58y2m   (#3 all-time among players aged 58y2m) 
 #10  Lajos Portisch  2730    32y6m   (#28 all-time among players aged 32y6m) 
 #11  Efim Geller  2729    44y7m   (#16 all-time among players aged 44y7m) 
 #12  Ratmir Kholmov  2704    44y5m   (#27 all-time among players aged 44y5m) 
 #13  Vlastimil Hort  2702    25y9m   (#45 all-time among players aged 25y9m) 
 #14  Paul Keres  2701    53y9m   (#8 all-time among players aged 53y9m) 
 #15  Svetozar Gligoric  2690    46y8m   (#29 all-time among players aged 46y8m) 
 #16  Mikhail Tal  2689    32y11m   (#72 all-time among players aged 32y11m) 
 #17  Alexey Suetin  2688    42y11m   (#37 all-time among players aged 42y11m) 
 #18  Mark Taimanov  2683    43y8m   (#38 all-time among players aged 43y8m) 
 #19  David Bronstein  2678    45y8m   (#35 all-time among players aged 45y8m) 
 #20  Vladimir Savon  2673    29y1m   (#95 all-time among players aged 29y1m) 
 #21  Samuel Reshevsky  2672    57y11m   (#10 all-time among players aged 57y11m) 
 #22  Milan Matulovic  2671    34y4m   (#90 all-time among players aged 34y4m) 
 #23  Nikolay Krogius  2664    39y3m   (#68 all-time among players aged 39y3m) 
 #24  Aivars Gipslis  2663    32y8m   (#110 all-time among players aged 32y8m) 
 #25  Wolfgang Uhlmann  2662    34y7m   (#106 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #26  Viacheslav Osnos  2656    34y3m   (#117 all-time among players aged 34y3m) 
 #27  Klaus Darga  2652    35y8m   (#113 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #28  Miguel Najdorf  2651    59y6m   (#7 all-time among players aged 59y6m) 
 #29  Vladimir Liberzon  2651    32y7m   (#142 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #30  Alexander Zaitsev  2645    34y4m   (#139 all-time among players aged 34y4m) 
 #31  Pal Benko  2642    41y3m   (#101 all-time among players aged 41y3m) 
 #32  Borislav Ivkov  2639    35y11m   (#138 all-time among players aged 35y11m) 
 #33  Anatoly Lutikov  2638    36y8m   (#131 all-time among players aged 36y8m) 
 #34  Florin Gheorghiu  2638    25y6m   (#143 all-time among players aged 25y6m) 
 #35  Eduard Gufeld  2637    33y7m   (#162 all-time among players aged 33y7m) 
 #36  Fridrik Olafsson  2636    34y9m   (#159 all-time among players aged 34y9m) 
 #37  Orest Averkin  2635    25y8m   (#150 all-time among players aged 25y8m) 
 #38  Evgeny Vasiukov  2632    36y7m   (#148 all-time among players aged 36y7m) 
 #39  Robert Hübner  2631    20y11m   (#69 all-time among players aged 20y11m) 
 #40  Lothar Schmid  2631    41y5m   (#120 all-time among players aged 41y5m) 
 #41  Lubomir Kavalek  2631    26y2m   (#163 all-time among players aged 26y2m) 
 #42  Anatoly Lein  2628    38y7m   (#132 all-time among players aged 38y7m) 
 #43  Abram Khasin  2622    46y8m   (#72 all-time among players aged 46y8m) 
 #44  Dragoljub Ciric  2622    33y11m   (#194 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #45  Bruno Parma  2621    27y10m   (#202 all-time among players aged 27y10m) 
 #46  Yury Balashov  2621    20y7m   (#72 all-time among players aged 20y7m) 
 #47  Wolfgang Unzicker  2620    44y4m   (#105 all-time among players aged 44y4m) 
 #48  Henrique Mecking  2620    17y9m   (#27 all-time among players aged 17y9m) 
 #49  Oscar Panno  2620    34y7m   (#207 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #50  Vladimir Antoshin  2618    40y5m   (#145 all-time among players aged 40y5m) 
 #51  Georgy Tringov  2618    32y7m   (#231 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #52  Aleksandar Matanovic  2617    39y5m   (#158 all-time among players aged 39y5m) 
 #53  Mikhail Podgaets  2616    22y3m   (#137 all-time among players aged 22y3m) 
 #54  Bojan Kurajica  2615    21y11m   (#126 all-time among players aged 21y11m) 
 #55  Larry Evans  2615    37y7m   (#178 all-time among players aged 37y7m) 
 #56  Janis Klovans  2615    34y6m   (#216 all-time among players aged 34y6m) 
 #57  Yury Averbakh  2612    47y8m   (#73 all-time among players aged 47y8m) 
 #58  Yury Sakharov  2607    47y1m   (#91 all-time among players aged 47y1m) 
 #59  Semen Furman  2604    48y10m   (#77 all-time among players aged 48y10m) 
 #60  Milko Bobotsov  2602    38y1m   (#205 all-time among players aged 38y1m) 
 #61  Igor Zaitsev  2601    31y5m   (#303 all-time among players aged 31y5m) 
 #62  Raúl Sanguinetti  2600    36y8m   (#230 all-time among players aged 36y8m) 
 #63  Robert Byrne  2599    41y6m   (#184 all-time among players aged 41y6m) 
 #64  Jan Smejkal  2598    23y7m   (#224 all-time among players aged 23y7m) 
 #65  Duncan Suttles  2597    23y10m   (#228 all-time among players aged 23y10m) 
 #66  Leonid Shamkovich  2594    46y4m   (#118 all-time among players aged 46y4m) 
 #67  Helmut Pfleger  2593    26y2m   (#297 all-time among players aged 26y2m) 
 #68  Gedeon Barcza  2593    58y2m   (#27 all-time among players aged 58y2m) 
 #69  Samuil Zhukhovitsky  2589    52y10m   (#61 all-time among players aged 52y10m) 
 #70  William Lombardy  2587    31y10m   (#353 all-time among players aged 31y10m) 
 #71  Vladimir Tukmakov  2587    23y7m   (#260 all-time among players aged 23y7m) 
 #72  Juergen Dueball  2586    24y7m   (#294 all-time among players aged 24y7m) 
 #73  Jonathan Penrose  2586    36y0m   (#293 all-time among players aged 36y0m) 
 #74  Gyözö Forintos  2586    34y3m   (#322 all-time among players aged 34y3m) 
 #75  Ludek Pachmann  2585    45y5m   (#147 all-time among players aged 45y5m) 
 #76  Levente Lengyel  2585    36y4m   (#287 all-time among players aged 36y4m) 
 #77  Enver Bukic  2585    31y10m   (#369 all-time among players aged 31y10m) 
 #78  Gennady Ageichenko  2581    28y4m   (#386 all-time among players aged 28y4m) 
 #79  Miroslav Filip  2580    41y0m   (#246 all-time among players aged 41y0m) 
 #80  Vitaly Tseshkovsky  2580    25y1m   (#328 all-time among players aged 25y1m) 
 #81  Bukhuti Gurgenidze  2580    35y11m   (#318 all-time among players aged 35y11m) 
 #82  Arturo Pomar Salamanca  2580    38y1m   (#280 all-time among players aged 38y1m) 
 #83  Isaak Boleslavsky  2580    50y4m   (#93 all-time among players aged 50y4m) 
 #84  Ivan Radulov  2580    30y9m   (#397 all-time among players aged 30y9m) 
 #85  Laszlo Barczay  2575    33y8m   (#382 all-time among players aged 33y8m) 
 #86  Iivo Nei  2572    38y0m   (#312 all-time among players aged 38y0m) 
 #87  Igor Platonov  2572    35y9m   (#360 all-time among players aged 35y9m) 
 #88  Nikola Padevsky  2571    36y5m   (#342 all-time among players aged 36y5m) 
 #89  Anatoly Karpov  2570    18y5m   (#70 all-time among players aged 18y5m) 
 #90  Gennady Kuzmin  2570    23y9m   (#318 all-time among players aged 23y9m) 
 #91  Victor Zheliandinov  2569    34y7m   (#397 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #92  Hans-Joachim Hecht  2569    30y9m   (#450 all-time among players aged 30y9m) 
 #93  Peter Dely  2569    35y3m   (#367 all-time among players aged 35y3m) 
 #94  Alexander Kotov  2568    56y2m   (#50 all-time among players aged 56y2m) 
 #95  Albin Planinc  2568    25y6m   (#396 all-time among players aged 25y6m) 
 #96  Vladimir Bagirov  2567    33y2m   (#430 all-time among players aged 33y2m) 
 #97  László Szabó  2567    52y7m   (#78 all-time among players aged 52y7m) 
 #98  Rafael Vaganian  2566    18y0m   (#64 all-time among players aged 18y0m) 
 #99  Johannes Donner  2566    42y3m   (#243 all-time among players aged 42y3m) 
 #100  Ervin Haag  2565    36y9m   (#366 all-time among players aged 36y9m)