Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: August 1926 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Emanuel Lasker  2774    57y8m   (#1 all-time among players aged 57y8m) 
 #2  Efim Bogoljubow  2761    37y4m   (#13 all-time among players aged 37y4m) 
 #3  José Capablanca  2756    37y9m   (#14 all-time among players aged 37y9m) 
 #4  Alexander Alekhine  2750    33y10m   (#15 all-time among players aged 33y10m) 
 #5  Aron Nimzowitsch  2727    39y9m   (#25 all-time among players aged 39y9m) 
 #6  Akiba Rubinstein  2680    43y10m   (#37 all-time among players aged 43y10m) 
 #7  Frank Marshall  2679    49y0m   (#23 all-time among players aged 49y0m) 
 #8  Carlos Torre Repetto  2668    20y9m   (#36 all-time among players aged 20y9m) 
 #9  Saviely Tartakower  2659    39y6m   (#79 all-time among players aged 39y6m) 
 #10  Max Euwe  2657    25y3m   (#107 all-time among players aged 25y3m) 
 #11  Ernst Grünfeld  2655    32y9m   (#131 all-time among players aged 32y9m) 
 #12  Richard Réti  2652    37y3m   (#95 all-time among players aged 37y3m) 
 #13  Milan Vidmar Sr  2645    41y2m   (#97 all-time among players aged 41y2m) 
 #14  Abraham Kupchik  2641    34y5m   (#157 all-time among players aged 34y5m) 
 #15  Peter Romanovsky  2639    34y1m   (#161 all-time among players aged 34y1m) 
 #16  Géza Maróczy  2639    56y5m   (#20 all-time among players aged 56y5m) 
 #17  Rudolf Spielmann  2636    43y3m   (#88 all-time among players aged 43y3m) 
 #18  Boris Verlinsky  2620    38y7m   (#148 all-time among players aged 38y7m) 
 #19  Mario Monticelli  2618    24y5m   (#173 all-time among players aged 24y5m) 
 #20  Paul Johner  2600    38y11m   (#202 all-time among players aged 38y11m) 
 #21  Sándor Takács  2600    33y6m   (#290 all-time among players aged 33y6m) 
 #22  Fedor Bohatirchuk  2598    33y9m   (#276 all-time among players aged 33y9m) 
 #23  Karel Treybal  2586    41y6m   (#218 all-time among players aged 41y6m) 
 #24  Hans Kmoch  2585    32y1m   (#367 all-time among players aged 32y1m) 
 #25  Albert Becker  2583    29y11m   (#381 all-time among players aged 29y11m) 
 #26  Arvid Kubbel  2580    36y11m   (#295 all-time among players aged 36y11m) 
 #27  Grigory Levenfish  2576    37y5m   (#303 all-time among players aged 37y5m) 
 #28  Hermanis Matisons  2568    31y8m   (#461 all-time among players aged 31y8m) 
 #29  Géza Nagy  2568    33y8m   (#417 all-time among players aged 33y8m) 
 #30  Ilya Rabinovich  2566    35y7m   (#377 all-time among players aged 35y7m) 
 #31  Boris Kostic  2563    39y6m   (#306 all-time among players aged 39y6m) 
 #32  Dawid Przepiórka  2562    45y8m   (#201 all-time among players aged 45y8m) 
 #33  Vladimir Vukovic  2559    28y0m   (#493 all-time among players aged 28y0m) 
 #34  Heinrich Wagner  2557    38y0m   (#369 all-time among players aged 38y0m) 
 #35  Edgar Colle  2553    29y3m   (#533 all-time among players aged 29y3m) 
 #36  Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky  2549    31y9m   (#571 all-time among players aged 31y9m) 
 #37  Friedrich Sämisch  2548    29y11m   (#582 all-time among players aged 29y11m) 
 #38  Alexey Selezniev  2546    38y7m   (#427 all-time among players aged 38y7m) 
 #39  Frederick Yates  2544    42y7m   (#318 all-time among players aged 42y7m) 
 #40  Karel Opocenský  2542    34y6m   (#544 all-time among players aged 34y6m) 
 #41  Carl Carls  2541    45y11m   (#239 all-time among players aged 45y11m) 
 #42  Arpád Vajda  2536    30y3m   (#650 all-time among players aged 30y3m) 
 #43  Abram Rabinovich  2535    48y7m   (#194 all-time among players aged 48y7m) 
 #44  Siegbert Tarrasch  2535    64y5m   (#24 all-time among players aged 64y5m) 
 #45  Lajos Asztalos  2532    37y1m   (#534 all-time among players aged 37y1m) 
 #46  Edward Lasker  2527    40y8m   (#436 all-time among players aged 40y8m) 
 #47  Esteban Canal  2524    30y4m   (#752 all-time among players aged 30y4m) 
 #48  Dawid Janowsky  2523    58y2m   (#62 all-time among players aged 58y2m) 
 #49  Karl Gilg  2512    25y7m   (#762 all-time among players aged 25y7m) 
 #50  Jacques Davidson  2511    35y9m   (#681 all-time among players aged 35y9m) 
 #51  George Thomas  2506    45y2m   (#376 all-time among players aged 45y2m) 
 #52  Kornél Havasi  2505    34y7m   (#774 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #53  Wilhelm Hilse  2501    48y2m   (#285 all-time among players aged 48y2m) 
 #54  Hans Müller  2500    29y8m   (#940 all-time among players aged 29y8m) 
 #55  Sándor Takács  2499    33y6m   (#859 all-time among players aged 33y6m) 
 #56  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky  2487    42y0m   (#582 all-time among players aged 42y0m) 
 #57  Jan Sr Schulz  2485    27y3m   (#1056 all-time among players aged 27y3m) 
 #58  Fedor Dus-Chotimirsky  2481    46y11m   (#386 all-time among players aged 46y11m) 
 #59  Yakov Vilner  2480    27y7m   (#1107 all-time among players aged 27y7m) 
 #60  Nikolay Grigoriev  2479    31y0m   (#1121 all-time among players aged 31y0m) 
 #61  Lajos Steiner  2478    23y2m   (#827 all-time among players aged 23y2m) 
 #62  Veniamin Sozin  2478   
 #63  Amos Pokorný  2476    36y5m   (#904 all-time among players aged 36y5m) 
 #64  Walter Michel  2476    37y9m   (#835 all-time among players aged 37y9m) 
 #65  Oscar Chajes  2476    52y8m   (#224 all-time among players aged 52y8m) 
 #66  Jacques Mieses  2475    61y6m   (#66 all-time among players aged 61y6m) 
 #67  Solomon Gothilf  2475    23y7m   (#913 all-time among players aged 23y7m) 
 #68  Endre Steiner  2474    25y2m   (#1080 all-time among players aged 25y2m) 
 #69  Jakob Seitz  2473    28y6m   (#1181 all-time among players aged 28y6m) 
 #70  Walther von Holzhausen  2472    50y3m   (#311 all-time among players aged 50y3m) 
 #71  Arthur Duenmann  2463   
 #72  Josef Lokvenc  2461    27y3m   (#1292 all-time among players aged 27y3m) 
 #73  Reginald Michell  2459    53y4m   (#249 all-time among players aged 53y4m) 
 #74  Ladislav Prokeš  2456    42y2m   (#696 all-time among players aged 42y2m) 
 #75  Carlos Skalicka  2455    29y9m   (#1373 all-time among players aged 29y9m) 
 #76  Karel Hromádka  2447    39y4m   (#946 all-time among players aged 39y4m) 
 #77  Ehrhardt Post  2446    44y11m   (#590 all-time among players aged 44y11m) 
 #78  Max Walter  2445    30y6m   (#1456 all-time among players aged 30y6m) 
 #79  Imre König  2437    25y6m   (#1452 all-time among players aged 25y6m) 
 #80  Robert Crépeaux  2436    25y10m   (#1472 all-time among players aged 25y10m) 
 #81  János Balogh  2435    33y11m   (#1362 all-time among players aged 33y11m) 
 #82  George Koltanowski  2435    22y11m   (#1169 all-time among players aged 22y11m) 
 #83  Paul Leonhardt  2434    48y9m   (#467 all-time among players aged 48y9m) 
 #84  Hermann von Gottschall  2433    63y10m   (#78 all-time among players aged 63y10m) 
 #85  Nikolay Zubarev  2427    32y7m   (#1556 all-time among players aged 32y7m) 
 #86  B. Patay  2427   
 #87  R Max Blümich  2425    39y9m   (#1022 all-time among players aged 39y9m) 
 #88  Maurice Goldstein  2424    25y4m   (#1543 all-time among players aged 25y4m) 
 #89  Theodor Gruber  2423   
 #90  Henri Weenink  2418    33y10m   (#1522 all-time among players aged 33y10m) 
 #91  Károly Sterk  2417    44y11m   (#699 all-time among players aged 44y11m) 
 #92  Stefano Rosselli del Turco  2410    49y1m   (#492 all-time among players aged 49y1m) 
 #93  Vladimir Nenarokov  2408   
 #94  Siegfried Wolf  2404    58y8m   (#172 all-time among players aged 58y8m) 
 #95  Edmund Spencer  2402    50y2m   (#480 all-time among players aged 50y2m) 
 #96  August Haida  2396    39y1m   (#1220 all-time among players aged 39y1m) 
 #97  Baldur Hönlinger  2396    21y1m   (#1213 all-time among players aged 21y1m) 
 #98  John Arthur Drewitt  2379   
 #99  Harold Saunders  2371   
 #100  George Norman  2370    46y6m   (#725 all-time among players aged 46y6m)