Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: January 1890 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Wilhelm Steinitz  2735    53y8m   (#2 all-time among players aged 53y8m) 
 #2  Mikhail Chigorin  2715    39y2m   (#26 all-time among players aged 39y2m) 
 #3  Isidor Gunsberg  2715    35y2m   (#39 all-time among players aged 35y2m) 
 #4  Miksa Weiss  2712    32y6m   (#48 all-time among players aged 32y6m) 
 #5  Joseph Blackburne  2698    48y1m   (#17 all-time among players aged 48y1m) 
 #6  Amos Burn  2697    41y1m   (#40 all-time among players aged 41y1m) 
 #7  Siegbert Tarrasch  2678    27y10m   (#90 all-time among players aged 27y10m) 
 #8  George Mackenzie  2671    52y10m   (#24 all-time among players aged 52y10m) 
 #9  Curt von Bardeleben  2666    28y10m   (#107 all-time among players aged 28y10m) 
 #10  Emanuel Lasker  2666    21y1m   (#48 all-time among players aged 21y1m) 
 #11  Jacques Mieses  2657    24y11m   (#106 all-time among players aged 24y11m) 
 #12  Samuel Lipschütz  2638    26y6m   (#155 all-time among players aged 26y6m) 
 #13  Louis Paulsen  2630    57y0m   (#18 all-time among players aged 57y0m) 
 #14  James Mason  2624    40y2m   (#128 all-time among players aged 40y2m) 
 #15  Johann Bauer  2619    28y7m   (#225 all-time among players aged 28y7m) 
 #16  Johann Berger  2611    44y9m   (#115 all-time among players aged 44y9m) 
 #17  Emil Schallopp  2602    46y5m   (#107 all-time among players aged 46y5m) 
 #18  Berthold Englisch  2596    38y6m   (#223 all-time among players aged 38y6m) 
 #19  Theodor von Scheve  2594    38y7m   (#227 all-time among players aged 38y7m) 
 #20  Horatio Caro  2581    27y6m   (#373 all-time among players aged 27y6m) 
 #21  Louis van Vliet  2567    22y0m   (#247 all-time among players aged 22y0m) 
 #22  Hermann von Gottschall  2562    27y3m   (#479 all-time among players aged 27y3m) 
 #23  Jackson Showalter  2559    29y11m   (#507 all-time among players aged 29y11m) 
 #24  Max Judd  2552    38y1m   (#395 all-time among players aged 38y1m) 
 #25  Eugene Delmar  2550    48y4m   (#171 all-time among players aged 48y4m) 
 #26  N Miniati  2547    27y0m   (#567 all-time among players aged 27y0m) 
 #27  Josef Noa  2546    33y3m   (#550 all-time among players aged 33y3m) 
 #28  Jean Taubenhaus  2542    39y1m   (#405 all-time among players aged 39y1m) 
 #29  Henry Bird  2538    59y6m   (#44 all-time among players aged 59y6m) 
 #30  Semyon Alapin  2536    33y2m   (#613 all-time among players aged 33y2m) 
 #31  Johannes Metger  2534    38y1m   (#489 all-time among players aged 38y1m) 
 #32  Joseph Blake  2532    30y11m   (#686 all-time among players aged 30y11m) 
 #33  Celso Golmayo Zupide  2530    69y9m   (#6 all-time among players aged 69y9m) 
 #34  William Pollock  2529    30y11m   (#709 all-time among players aged 30y11m) 
 #35  Emanuel Schiffers  2529    39y8m   (#463 all-time among players aged 39y8m) 
 #36  Max Harmonist  2524    25y11m   (#678 all-time among players aged 25y11m) 
 #37  John Owen  2521    62y9m   (#28 all-time among players aged 62y9m) 
 #38  Muller  2520   
 #39  Alexander Fritz  2513    33y0m   (#776 all-time among players aged 33y0m) 
 #40  John Ryan  2510    41y0m   (#488 all-time among players aged 41y0m) 
 #41  David Baird  2503    35y1m   (#772 all-time among players aged 35y1m) 
 #42  Hans von Minckwitz  2498    46y9m   (#352 all-time among players aged 46y9m) 
 #43  Daniel Mills  2497    40y5m   (#594 all-time among players aged 40y5m) 
 #44  Vicente Carvajal  2488    49y2m   (#292 all-time among players aged 49y2m) 
 #45  Antony Guest  2488    34y0m   (#919 all-time among players aged 34y0m) 
 #46  Constant Burille  2483    23y5m   (#829 all-time among players aged 23y5m) 
 #47  J Moore Hanham  2483    50y0m   (#291 all-time among players aged 50y0m) 
 #48  Gustave Simonson  2483    25y4m   (#1014 all-time among players aged 25y4m) 
 #49  Edmund Thorold  2472    57y4m   (#121 all-time among players aged 57y4m) 
 #50  Rudolf Loman  2471    28y3m   (#1195 all-time among players aged 28y3m) 
 #51  Dion Martinez  2471    52y7m   (#241 all-time among players aged 52y7m) 
 #52  Lee  2467   
 #53  Heinrich Ranneforth  2463    25y10m   (#1207 all-time among players aged 25y10m) 
 #54  Bernhard Hülsen  2459    25y2m   (#1214 all-time among players aged 25y2m) 
 #55  Francis Lee  2457    33y0m   (#1241 all-time among players aged 33y0m) 
 #56  Charles Locock  2449    27y4m   (#1419 all-time among players aged 27y4m) 
 #57  George Wainwright  2446    28y2m   (#1463 all-time among players aged 28y2m) 
 #58  Hermann Specht  2441   
 #59  Methner  2441   
 #60  Paul Seuffert  2429    29y9m   (#1617 all-time among players aged 29y9m) 
 #61  George Gossip  2422    48y1m   (#510 all-time among players aged 48y1m) 
 #62  Andrés Vásquez  2408    45y2m   (#712 all-time among players aged 45y2m) 
 #63  Arnold van Foreest  2408    26y7m   (#1785 all-time among players aged 26y7m) 
 #64  James Mortimer  2401    56y9m   (#246 all-time among players aged 56y9m) 
 #65  John Hall  2387    36y5m   (#1504 all-time among players aged 36y5m) 
 #66  Hermann Keidanski  2386    24y2m   (#1801 all-time among players aged 24y2m) 
 #67  Carl Ahlhausen  2380    55y0m   (#319 all-time among players aged 55y0m) 
 #68  Alfred Rumboll  2372    53y0m   (#411 all-time among players aged 53y0m) 
 #69  Karl Holländer  2371    21y5m   (#1456 all-time among players aged 21y5m) 
 #70  Oskar Cordel  2365    46y1m   (#792 all-time among players aged 46y1m) 
 #71  John Baird  2361    37y11m   (#1525 all-time among players aged 37y11m) 
 #72  A Rembe  2360   
 #73  Nicholas MacLeod  2346    19y11m   (#1274 all-time among players aged 19y11m) 
 #74  I Leather  2332   
 #75  Albert Heyde  2318    23y10m   (#2137 all-time among players aged 23y10m) 
 #76  Lochte  2307