Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: January 1917 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Emanuel Lasker  2860    48y1m   (#1 all-time among players aged 48y1m) 
 #2  José Capablanca  2822    28y2m   (#6 all-time among players aged 28y2m) 
 #3  Frank Marshall  2759    39y5m   (#7 all-time among players aged 39y5m) 
 #4  Carl Schlechter  2704    42y10m   (#28 all-time among players aged 42y10m) 
 #5  Siegbert Tarrasch  2696    54y10m   (#7 all-time among players aged 54y10m) 
 #6  Milan Vidmar Sr  2687    31y7m   (#78 all-time among players aged 31y7m) 
 #7  Dawid Janowsky  2653    48y7m   (#33 all-time among players aged 48y7m) 
 #8  Arthur Kaufmann  2637    44y9m   (#68 all-time among players aged 44y9m) 
 #9  Richard Réti  2589    27y8m   (#336 all-time among players aged 27y8m) 
 #10  Albert Fox  2574    35y9m   (#348 all-time among players aged 35y9m) 
 #11  Charles Jaffe  2574    38y0m   (#303 all-time among players aged 38y0m) 
 #12  Oscar Chajes  2572    43y1m   (#214 all-time among players aged 43y1m) 
 #13  Efim Bogoljubow  2562    27y9m   (#485 all-time among players aged 27y9m) 
 #14  Abraham Kupchik  2547    24y10m   (#470 all-time among players aged 24y10m) 
 #15  Georg Marco  2546    53y2m   (#103 all-time among players aged 53y2m) 
 #16  Paul Johner  2546    29y4m   (#582 all-time among players aged 29y4m) 
 #17  Boris Kostic  2533    29y11m   (#685 all-time among players aged 29y11m) 
 #18  Jackson Showalter  2533    56y11m   (#68 all-time among players aged 56y11m) 
 #19  Edward Lasker  2518    31y1m   (#797 all-time among players aged 31y1m) 
 #20  Hans Fahrni  2510    42y3m   (#459 all-time among players aged 42y3m) 
 #21  Jacques Mieses  2505    51y11m   (#193 all-time among players aged 51y11m) 
 #22  Jacob Rosenthal  2503    35y3m   (#754 all-time among players aged 35y3m) 
 #23  Ilya Rabinovich  2500    26y0m   (#908 all-time among players aged 26y0m) 
 #24  Jacob Bernstein  2498   
 #25  G van Gelder  2489   
 #26  A Schroeder  2459   
 #27  František Schubert  2452    22y9m   (#996 all-time among players aged 22y9m) 
 #28  Roy Black  2435    28y11m   (#1557 all-time among players aged 28y11m) 
 #29  Gustaf Nyholm  2434    37y0m   (#1172 all-time among players aged 37y0m) 
 #30  Norman Whitaker  2380    26y9m   (#2055 all-time among players aged 26y9m) 
 #31  C Perkins  2364   
 #32  Einar Michelsen  2364    32y0m   (#2057 all-time among players aged 32y0m) 
 #33  Albert Hodges  2359    55y6m   (#329 all-time among players aged 55y6m) 
 #34  Edward Tennenwurzel  2354    38y0m   (#1528 all-time among players aged 38y0m) 
 #35  Newell Banks  2317    29y3m   (#2428 all-time among players aged 29y3m)