Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: August 1909 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Emanuel Lasker  2821    40y8m   (#1 all-time among players aged 40y8m) 
 #2  Akiba Rubinstein  2774    26y10m   (#11 all-time among players aged 26y10m) 
 #3  José Capablanca  2766    20y9m   (#4 all-time among players aged 20y9m) 
 #4  Oldrich Duras  2743    26y10m   (#22 all-time among players aged 26y10m) 
 #5  Géza Maróczy  2742    39y5m   (#16 all-time among players aged 39y5m) 
 #6  Carl Schlechter  2734    35y5m   (#27 all-time among players aged 35y5m) 
 #7  Richard Teichmann  2703    40y8m   (#39 all-time among players aged 40y8m) 
 #8  Siegbert Tarrasch  2691    47y5m   (#23 all-time among players aged 47y5m) 
 #9  Aron Nimzowitsch  2686    22y9m   (#44 all-time among players aged 22y9m) 
 #10  Frank Marshall  2683    32y0m   (#86 all-time among players aged 32y0m) 
 #11  Milan Vidmar Sr  2677    24y2m   (#62 all-time among players aged 24y2m) 
 #12  Ossip Bernstein  2674    26y10m   (#90 all-time among players aged 26y10m) 
 #13  Dawid Janowsky  2658    41y2m   (#74 all-time among players aged 41y2m) 
 #14  Saviely Tartakower  2646    22y6m   (#91 all-time among players aged 22y6m) 
 #15  Georg Salwe  2641    46y10m   (#59 all-time among players aged 46y10m) 
 #16  Léo Forgács  2641    27y10m   (#156 all-time among players aged 27y10m) 
 #17  Jacques Mieses  2637    44y6m   (#73 all-time among players aged 44y6m) 
 #18  Paul Leonhardt  2636    31y9m   (#170 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #19  Rudolf Spielmann  2631    26y3m   (#170 all-time among players aged 26y3m) 
 #20  Julius Perlis  2623    29y7m   (#221 all-time among players aged 29y7m) 
 #21  Fedor Dus-Chotimirsky  2613    29y11m   (#259 all-time among players aged 29y11m) 
 #22  Georg Marco  2608    45y9m   (#107 all-time among players aged 45y9m) 
 #23  Charles Jaffe  2607    30y7m   (#285 all-time among players aged 30y7m) 
 #24  Walter John  2602    30y7m   (#301 all-time among players aged 30y7m) 
 #25  Amos Burn  2599    60y8m   (#17 all-time among players aged 60y8m) 
 #26  Heinrich Wolf  2587    33y10m   (#323 all-time among players aged 33y10m) 
 #27  Joseph Blackburne  2567    67y8m   (#8 all-time among players aged 67y8m) 
 #28  Semyon Alapin  2561    52y9m   (#82 all-time among players aged 52y9m) 
 #29  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky  2556    25y0m   (#431 all-time among players aged 25y0m) 
 #30  Rudolf Swiderski  2545    31y1m   (#599 all-time among players aged 31y1m) 
 #31  Giovanni Martinolich Jr  2545    25y2m   (#514 all-time among players aged 25y2m) 
 #32  Erich Cohn  2542    25y5m   (#530 all-time among players aged 25y5m) 
 #33  Miklós Bródy  2542    32y5m   (#604 all-time among players aged 32y5m) 
 #34  Johann Berger  2541    64y4m   (#22 all-time among players aged 64y4m) 
 #35  Abraham Speijer  2537    35y9m   (#534 all-time among players aged 35y9m) 
 #36  Hugo Süchting  2537    34y10m   (#570 all-time among players aged 34y10m) 
 #37  Jackson Showalter  2528    49y6m   (#185 all-time among players aged 49y6m) 
 #38  Ehrhardt Post  2527    27y11m   (#706 all-time among players aged 27y11m) 
 #39  Adolf Olland  2525    42y4m   (#394 all-time among players aged 42y4m) 
 #40  Georg Schories  2520   
 #41  Sergey Freiman  2508    27y7m   (#859 all-time among players aged 27y7m) 
 #42  Wilhelm Cohn  2504    50y6m   (#221 all-time among players aged 50y6m) 
 #43  Karel Treybal  2504    24y6m   (#769 all-time among players aged 24y6m) 
 #44  Moritz Billecard  2501    33y7m   (#836 all-time among players aged 33y7m) 
 #45  Paul Johner  2500    21y11m   (#569 all-time among players aged 21y11m) 
 #46  Theodor von Scheve  2495    58y2m   (#81 all-time among players aged 58y2m) 
 #47  Curt von Bardeleben  2493    48y5m   (#301 all-time among players aged 48y5m) 
 #48  Arpád Jakab  2492   
 #49  Johannes Metger  2491    57y8m   (#91 all-time among players aged 57y8m) 
 #50  Benjamin Leussen  2484    33y4m   (#973 all-time among players aged 33y4m) 
 #51  Dawid Przepiórka  2483    28y8m   (#1091 all-time among players aged 28y8m) 
 #52  Jan Kvícala  2470    41y7m   (#670 all-time among players aged 41y7m) 
 #53  Leopold Löwy  2467    38y0m   (#869 all-time among players aged 38y0m) 
 #54  Ladislav Prokeš  2463    25y2m   (#1174 all-time among players aged 25y2m) 
 #55  Francis Lee  2463    52y7m   (#257 all-time among players aged 52y7m) 
 #56  Hector Shoosmith  2462    32y7m   (#1226 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #57  Hermann von Gottschall  2458    46y10m   (#463 all-time among players aged 46y10m) 
 #58  Abram Rabinovich  2456    31y7m   (#1317 all-time among players aged 31y7m) 
 #59  Adolf Albin  2455    60y11m   (#88 all-time among players aged 60y11m) 
 #60  Franz Jacob  2443   
 #61  Louis van Vliet  2442    41y7m   (#820 all-time among players aged 41y7m) 
 #62  Alexander Fritz  2442    52y7m   (#298 all-time among players aged 52y7m) 
 #63  František Treybal  2441    26y8m   (#1472 all-time among players aged 26y8m) 
 #64  James Mortimer  2376    76y4m   (#9 all-time among players aged 76y4m) 
 #65  Richard Réti  2358    20y3m   (#1292 all-time among players aged 20y3m)