Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: May 1890 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Wilhelm Steinitz  2724    54y0m   (#3 all-time among players aged 54y0m) 
 #2  Emanuel Lasker  2722    21y5m   (#13 all-time among players aged 21y5m) 
 #3  Miksa Weiss  2714    32y10m   (#44 all-time among players aged 32y10m) 
 #4  Mikhail Chigorin  2714    39y6m   (#31 all-time among players aged 39y6m) 
 #5  Isidor Gunsberg  2710    35y6m   (#43 all-time among players aged 35y6m) 
 #6  Amos Burn  2697    41y5m   (#37 all-time among players aged 41y5m) 
 #7  Joseph Blackburne  2689    48y5m   (#22 all-time among players aged 48y5m) 
 #8  Curt von Bardeleben  2673    29y2m   (#95 all-time among players aged 29y2m) 
 #9  Siegbert Tarrasch  2673    28y2m   (#99 all-time among players aged 28y2m) 
 #10  George Mackenzie  2669    53y2m   (#23 all-time among players aged 53y2m) 
 #11  Johann Bauer  2645    28y11m   (#155 all-time among players aged 28y11m) 
 #12  Jacques Mieses  2640    25y3m   (#138 all-time among players aged 25y3m) 
 #13  Samuel Lipschütz  2630    26y10m   (#180 all-time among players aged 26y10m) 
 #14  James Mason  2626    40y6m   (#124 all-time among players aged 40y6m) 
 #15  Louis Paulsen  2624    57y4m   (#20 all-time among players aged 57y4m) 
 #16  Johann Berger  2601    45y1m   (#124 all-time among players aged 45y1m) 
 #17  Louis van Vliet  2593    22y4m   (#190 all-time among players aged 22y4m) 
 #18  Emil Schallopp  2590    46y9m   (#126 all-time among players aged 46y9m) 
 #19  Theodor von Scheve  2589    38y11m   (#232 all-time among players aged 38y11m) 
 #20  Jackson Showalter  2588    30y3m   (#366 all-time among players aged 30y3m) 
 #21  Bernhard Fleissig  2584    44y6m   (#169 all-time among players aged 44y6m) 
 #22  Berthold Englisch  2581    38y10m   (#268 all-time among players aged 38y10m) 
 #23  Horatio Caro  2575    27y10m   (#413 all-time among players aged 27y10m) 
 #24  Max Judd  2553    38y5m   (#393 all-time among players aged 38y5m) 
 #25  Eugene Delmar  2548    48y8m   (#155 all-time among players aged 48y8m) 
 #26  N Miniati  2547    27y4m   (#573 all-time among players aged 27y4m) 
 #27  Hermann von Gottschall  2544    27y7m   (#583 all-time among players aged 27y7m) 
 #28  Jean Taubenhaus  2540    39y5m   (#409 all-time among players aged 39y5m) 
 #29  Henry Bird  2538    59y10m   (#43 all-time among players aged 59y10m) 
 #30  Josef Noa  2538    33y7m   (#583 all-time among players aged 33y7m) 
 #31  Semyon Alapin  2531    33y6m   (#633 all-time among players aged 33y6m) 
 #32  Johannes Metger  2530    38y5m   (#498 all-time among players aged 38y5m) 
 #33  Emanuel Schiffers  2523    40y0m   (#486 all-time among players aged 40y0m) 
 #34  William Pollock  2523    31y3m   (#749 all-time among players aged 31y3m) 
 #35  Joseph Blake  2523    31y3m   (#750 all-time among players aged 31y3m) 
 #36  Adolf Csánk  2522   
 #37  Celso Golmayo Zupide  2521    70y1m   (#8 all-time among players aged 70y1m) 
 #38  John Owen  2520    63y1m   (#30 all-time among players aged 63y1m) 
 #39  Muller  2518   
 #40  Vicente Carvajal  2517    49y6m   (#216 all-time among players aged 49y6m) 
 #41  Max Harmonist  2516    26y3m   (#774 all-time among players aged 26y3m) 
 #42  Alexander Fritz  2513    33y4m   (#762 all-time among players aged 33y4m) 
 #43  David Baird  2508    35y5m   (#713 all-time among players aged 35y5m) 
 #44  Georg Marco  2502    26y6m   (#929 all-time among players aged 26y6m) 
 #45  Hans von Minckwitz  2498    47y1m   (#339 all-time among players aged 47y1m) 
 #46  John Ryan  2497    41y4m   (#543 all-time among players aged 41y4m) 
 #47  Francis Lee  2486    33y4m   (#957 all-time among players aged 33y4m) 
 #48  J Moore Hanham  2486    50y4m   (#272 all-time among players aged 50y4m) 
 #49  Constant Burille  2485    23y9m   (#848 all-time among players aged 23y9m) 
 #50  Gustave Simonson  2479    25y8m   (#1061 all-time among players aged 25y8m) 
 #51  Edmund Thorold  2473    57y8m   (#108 all-time among players aged 57y8m) 
 #52  Dion Martinez  2473    52y11m   (#234 all-time among players aged 52y11m) 
 #53  Rudolf Loman  2469    28y7m   (#1225 all-time among players aged 28y7m) 
 #54  Lee  2467   
 #55  Jacques Schwarz  2462    34y4m   (#1109 all-time among players aged 34y4m) 
 #56  Charles Moehle  2455    30y6m   (#1353 all-time among players aged 30y6m) 
 #57  Bernhard Hülsen  2453    25y6m   (#1293 all-time among players aged 25y6m) 
 #58  Charles Locock  2451    27y8m   (#1409 all-time among players aged 27y8m) 
 #59  George Wainwright  2447    28y6m   (#1454 all-time among players aged 28y6m) 
 #60  Methner  2440   
 #61  George Gossip  2424    48y5m   (#506 all-time among players aged 48y5m) 
 #62  Andrés Vásquez  2415    45y6m   (#692 all-time among players aged 45y6m) 
 #63  Arnold van Foreest  2413    26y11m   (#1775 all-time among players aged 26y11m) 
 #64  Paul Seuffert  2413    30y1m   (#1774 all-time among players aged 30y1m) 
 #65  James Mortimer  2403    57y1m   (#236 all-time among players aged 57y1m) 
 #66  Alexander Robbins  2400   
 #67  Adolf Albin  2395    41y8m   (#1024 all-time among players aged 41y8m) 
 #68  John Hall  2392    36y9m   (#1451 all-time among players aged 36y9m) 
 #69  Hermann Keidanski  2383    24y6m   (#1850 all-time among players aged 24y6m) 
 #70  Joseph Holzwarth  2382   
 #71  Oskar Cordel  2379    46y5m   (#719 all-time among players aged 46y5m) 
 #72  Alfred Rumboll  2378    53y4m   (#391 all-time among players aged 53y4m) 
 #73  Karl Holländer  2371    21y9m   (#1523 all-time among players aged 21y9m) 
 #74  Carl Ahlhausen  2369    55y4m   (#312 all-time among players aged 55y4m) 
 #75  John Baird  2364    38y3m   (#1446 all-time among players aged 38y3m) 
 #76  A Rembe  2358   
 #77  Nicholas MacLeod  2350    20y3m   (#1344 all-time among players aged 20y3m) 
 #78  I Leather  2347   
 #79  Louis Uedemann  2336    36y4m   (#1758 all-time among players aged 36y4m) 
 #80  A.C. Brown  2336   
 #81  William Haller  2336   
 #82  Albert Heyde  2321    24y2m   (#2182 all-time among players aged 24y2m)