Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: January 1904 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Harry Pillsbury  2771    31y1m   (#9 all-time among players aged 31y1m) 
 #2  Géza Maróczy  2758    33y10m   (#12 all-time among players aged 33y10m) 
 #3  Siegbert Tarrasch  2758    41y10m   (#10 all-time among players aged 41y10m) 
 #4  Mikhail Chigorin  2756    53y2m   (#3 all-time among players aged 53y2m) 
 #5  Dawid Janowsky  2745    35y7m   (#18 all-time among players aged 35y7m) 
 #6  Carl Schlechter  2719    29y10m   (#36 all-time among players aged 29y10m) 
 #7  Richard Teichmann  2703    35y1m   (#54 all-time among players aged 35y1m) 
 #8  Emanuel Lasker  2691    35y1m   (#70 all-time among players aged 35y1m) 
 #9  Georg Marco  2667    40y2m   (#57 all-time among players aged 40y2m) 
 #10  Henry Atkins  2661    31y5m   (#126 all-time among players aged 31y5m) 
 #11  Hans Wolf  2658   
 #12  Frank Marshall  2652    26y5m   (#124 all-time among players aged 26y5m) 
 #13  Jacques Mieses  2650    38y11m   (#92 all-time among players aged 38y11m) 
 #14  Heinrich Wolf  2648    28y3m   (#136 all-time among players aged 28y3m) 
 #15  Rudolf Swiderski  2624    25y6m   (#176 all-time among players aged 25y6m) 
 #16  William Napier  2623    23y0m   (#136 all-time among players aged 23y0m) 
 #17  Adolf Olland  2595    36y9m   (#255 all-time among players aged 36y9m) 
 #18  Jean Taubenhaus  2561    53y1m   (#79 all-time among players aged 53y1m) 
 #19  Jackson Showalter  2559    43y11m   (#243 all-time among players aged 43y11m) 
 #20  Alexander Levin  2558    32y8m   (#490 all-time among players aged 32y8m) 
 #21  Hermann von Gottschall  2558    41y3m   (#298 all-time among players aged 41y3m) 
 #22  James Mason  2557    54y2m   (#69 all-time among players aged 54y2m) 
 #23  Wilhelm Cohn  2552    44y11m   (#237 all-time among players aged 44y11m) 
 #24  Adolf Albin  2538    55y4m   (#74 all-time among players aged 55y4m) 
 #25  Isidor Gunsberg  2530    49y2m   (#185 all-time among players aged 49y2m) 
 #26  Benjamin Leussen  2527    27y9m   (#700 all-time among players aged 27y9m) 
 #27  Hugo Süchting  2527    29y3m   (#703 all-time among players aged 29y3m) 
 #28  Theodor von Scheve  2527    52y7m   (#135 all-time among players aged 52y7m) 
 #29  Ignatz von Popiel  2509    40y6m   (#523 all-time among players aged 40y6m) 
 #30  Curt von Bardeleben  2508    42y10m   (#460 all-time among players aged 42y10m) 
 #31  Johannes Esser  2504    26y3m   (#888 all-time among players aged 26y3m) 
 #32  L Eisenberg  2473   
 #33  Rudolf Loman  2454    42y3m   (#698 all-time among players aged 42y3m) 
 #34  Arturo Reggio  2449    41y0m   (#825 all-time among players aged 41y0m) 
 #35  Jan te Kolsté  2369    29y4m   (#2139 all-time among players aged 29y4m) 
 #36  James Mortimer  2357    70y9m   (#38 all-time among players aged 70y9m) 
 #37  C. Moreau  2303