Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: December 1889 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Wilhelm Steinitz  2737    53y7m   (#2 all-time among players aged 53y7m) 
 #2  Mikhail Chigorin  2716    39y1m   (#26 all-time among players aged 39y1m) 
 #3  Isidor Gunsberg  2715    35y1m   (#38 all-time among players aged 35y1m) 
 #4  Miksa Weiss  2712    32y5m   (#43 all-time among players aged 32y5m) 
 #5  Joseph Blackburne  2699    48y0m   (#18 all-time among players aged 48y0m) 
 #6  Amos Burn  2696    41y0m   (#38 all-time among players aged 41y0m) 
 #7  Siegbert Tarrasch  2678    27y9m   (#87 all-time among players aged 27y9m) 
 #8  George Mackenzie  2671    52y9m   (#24 all-time among players aged 52y9m) 
 #9  Curt von Bardeleben  2667    28y9m   (#105 all-time among players aged 28y9m) 
 #10  Emanuel Lasker  2664    21y0m   (#45 all-time among players aged 21y0m) 
 #11  Jacques Mieses  2657    24y10m   (#107 all-time among players aged 24y10m) 
 #12  Samuel Lipschütz  2639    26y5m   (#152 all-time among players aged 26y5m) 
 #13  Louis Paulsen  2631    56y11m   (#19 all-time among players aged 56y11m) 
 #14  James Mason  2624    40y1m   (#129 all-time among players aged 40y1m) 
 #15  Johann Bauer  2620    28y6m   (#224 all-time among players aged 28y6m) 
 #16  Johann Berger  2612    44y8m   (#114 all-time among players aged 44y8m) 
 #17  Emil Schallopp  2602    46y4m   (#106 all-time among players aged 46y4m) 
 #18  Berthold Englisch  2598    38y5m   (#219 all-time among players aged 38y5m) 
 #19  Theodor von Scheve  2590    38y6m   (#246 all-time among players aged 38y6m) 
 #20  Horatio Caro  2581    27y5m   (#376 all-time among players aged 27y5m) 
 #21  Louis van Vliet  2565    21y11m   (#256 all-time among players aged 21y11m) 
 #22  Hermann von Gottschall  2562    27y2m   (#476 all-time among players aged 27y2m) 
 #23  Jackson Showalter  2559    29y10m   (#513 all-time among players aged 29y10m) 
 #24  Max Judd  2552    38y0m   (#402 all-time among players aged 38y0m) 
 #25  Eugene Delmar  2549    48y3m   (#173 all-time among players aged 48y3m) 
 #26  Josef Noa  2546    33y2m   (#547 all-time among players aged 33y2m) 
 #27  Jean Taubenhaus  2543    39y0m   (#403 all-time among players aged 39y0m) 
 #28  N Miniati  2542    26y11m   (#610 all-time among players aged 26y11m) 
 #29  Henry Bird  2538    59y5m   (#44 all-time among players aged 59y5m) 
 #30  Semyon Alapin  2537    33y1m   (#614 all-time among players aged 33y1m) 
 #31  Johannes Metger  2533    38y0m   (#495 all-time among players aged 38y0m) 
 #32  Joseph Blake  2532    30y10m   (#694 all-time among players aged 30y10m) 
 #33  Celso Golmayo Zupide  2530    69y8m   (#7 all-time among players aged 69y8m) 
 #34  Emanuel Schiffers  2530    39y7m   (#465 all-time among players aged 39y7m) 
 #35  William Pollock  2529    30y10m   (#725 all-time among players aged 30y10m) 
 #36  Max Harmonist  2524    25y10m   (#681 all-time among players aged 25y10m) 
 #37  John Owen  2521    62y8m   (#29 all-time among players aged 62y8m) 
 #38  Muller  2517   
 #39  Alexander Fritz  2513    32y11m   (#777 all-time among players aged 32y11m) 
 #40  John Ryan  2513    40y11m   (#493 all-time among players aged 40y11m) 
 #41  David Baird  2502    35y0m   (#772 all-time among players aged 35y0m) 
 #42  Daniel Mills  2498    40y4m   (#599 all-time among players aged 40y4m) 
 #43  Hans von Minckwitz  2498    46y8m   (#355 all-time among players aged 46y8m) 
 #44  Antony Guest  2487    33y11m   (#927 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #45  Gustave Simonson  2484    25y3m   (#1000 all-time among players aged 25y3m) 
 #46  Constant Burille  2483    23y4m   (#834 all-time among players aged 23y4m) 
 #47  J Moore Hanham  2483    49y11m   (#288 all-time among players aged 49y11m) 
 #48  Vicente Carvajal  2478    49y1m   (#327 all-time among players aged 49y1m) 
 #49  Rudolf Loman  2472    28y2m   (#1190 all-time among players aged 28y2m) 
 #50  S Alexi  2472   
 #51  Edmund Thorold  2471    57y3m   (#123 all-time among players aged 57y3m) 
 #52  Dion Martinez  2470    52y6m   (#244 all-time among players aged 52y6m) 
 #53  Lee  2465   
 #54  Heinrich Ranneforth  2464    25y9m   (#1201 all-time among players aged 25y9m) 
 #55  Bernhard Hülsen  2458    25y1m   (#1207 all-time among players aged 25y1m) 
 #56  Francis Lee  2456    32y11m   (#1253 all-time among players aged 32y11m) 
 #57  Charles Locock  2447    27y3m   (#1421 all-time among players aged 27y3m) 
 #58  George Wainwright  2445    28y1m   (#1458 all-time among players aged 28y1m) 
 #59  Methner  2441   
 #60  Hermann Specht  2441   
 #61  Paul Seuffert  2437    29y8m   (#1541 all-time among players aged 29y8m) 
 #62  George Gossip  2423    48y0m   (#510 all-time among players aged 48y0m) 
 #63  Arnold van Foreest  2406    26y6m   (#1779 all-time among players aged 26y6m) 
 #64  Andrés Vásquez  2405    45y1m   (#728 all-time among players aged 45y1m) 
 #65  James Mortimer  2401    56y8m   (#249 all-time among players aged 56y8m) 
 #66  Hermann Keidanski  2387    24y1m   (#1776 all-time among players aged 24y1m) 
 #67  John Hall  2386    36y4m   (#1518 all-time among players aged 36y4m) 
 #68  Carl Ahlhausen  2385    54y11m   (#318 all-time among players aged 54y11m) 
 #69  Alfred Rumboll  2370    52y11m   (#421 all-time among players aged 52y11m) 
 #70  Karl Holländer  2366    21y4m   (#1465 all-time among players aged 21y4m) 
 #71  Oskar Cordel  2363    46y0m   (#796 all-time among players aged 46y0m) 
 #72  A Rembe  2361   
 #73  John Baird  2360    37y10m   (#1550 all-time among players aged 37y10m) 
 #74  Nicholas MacLeod  2345    19y10m   (#1236 all-time among players aged 19y10m) 
 #75  I Leather  2330   
 #76  Albert Heyde  2316    23y9m   (#2123 all-time among players aged 23y9m) 
 #77  Leopold Landau  2312    41y5m   (#1304 all-time among players aged 41y5m) 
 #78  Lochte  2304   
 #79  John Chambers  2303    47y11m   (#765 all-time among players aged 47y11m)