Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: April 1979 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Anatoly Karpov  2818    27y11m   (#6 all-time among players aged 27y11m) 
 #2  Viktor Korchnoi  2800    48y1m   (#2 all-time among players aged 48y1m) 
 #3  Lev Polugaevsky  2747    44y5m   (#9 all-time among players aged 44y5m) 
 #4  Mikhail Tal  2747    42y5m   (#15 all-time among players aged 42y5m) 
 #5  Lajos Portisch  2744    42y0m   (#14 all-time among players aged 42y0m) 
 #6  Boris Spassky  2742    42y3m   (#14 all-time among players aged 42y3m) 
 #7  Tigran Petrosian  2740    49y10m   (#6 all-time among players aged 49y10m) 
 #8  Bent Larsen  2723    44y1m   (#19 all-time among players aged 44y1m) 
 #9  Jan Timman  2719    27y4m   (#46 all-time among players aged 27y4m) 
 #10  Rafael Vaganian  2715    27y6m   (#48 all-time among players aged 27y6m) 
 #11  Vitaly Tseshkovsky  2710    34y7m   (#45 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #12  Vlastimil Hort  2705    35y3m   (#43 all-time among players aged 35y3m) 
 #13  Garry Kasparov  2701    16y0m   (#1 all-time among players aged 16y0m) 
 #14  Alexander Beliavsky  2700    25y4m   (#45 all-time among players aged 25y4m) 
 #15  Yury Balashov  2699    30y1m   (#63 all-time among players aged 30y1m) 
 #16  Oleg Romanishin  2698    27y3m   (#64 all-time among players aged 27y3m) 
 #17  Robert Hübner  2698    30y5m   (#64 all-time among players aged 30y5m) 
 #18  Zoltán Ribli  2697    27y7m   (#67 all-time among players aged 27y7m) 
 #19  Vladimir Tukmakov  2693    33y1m   (#63 all-time among players aged 33y1m) 
 #20  Boris Gulko  2692    32y2m   (#77 all-time among players aged 32y2m) 
 #21  Ljubomir Ljubojevic  2691    28y5m   (#68 all-time among players aged 28y5m) 
 #22  Vassily Smyslov  2689    58y1m   (#6 all-time among players aged 58y1m) 
 #23  Ulf Andersson  2679    27y10m   (#88 all-time among players aged 27y10m) 
 #24  Efim Geller  2677    54y1m   (#15 all-time among players aged 54y1m) 
 #25  Gyula Sax  2676    27y10m   (#92 all-time among players aged 27y10m) 
 #26  Iosif Dorfman  2673    26y11m   (#93 all-time among players aged 26y11m) 
 #27  Anthony Miles  2673    24y0m   (#68 all-time among players aged 24y0m) 
 #28  Svetozar Gligoric  2671    56y2m   (#11 all-time among players aged 56y2m) 
 #29  Roman Dzindzichashvili  2670    34y11m   (#93 all-time among players aged 34y11m) 
 #30  Vladimir Bagirov  2667    42y8m   (#57 all-time among players aged 42y8m) 
 #31  Lubomir Kavalek  2665    35y8m   (#88 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #32  Gennady Kuzmin  2665    33y3m   (#101 all-time among players aged 33y3m) 
 #33  Henrique Mecking  2665    27y3m   (#104 all-time among players aged 27y3m) 
 #34  Sergey Makarichev  2664    25y5m   (#99 all-time among players aged 25y5m) 
 #35  David Bronstein  2662    55y2m   (#16 all-time among players aged 55y2m) 
 #36  Evgeny Sveshnikov  2661    29y2m   (#115 all-time among players aged 29y2m) 
 #37  Jan Smejkal  2660    33y1m   (#117 all-time among players aged 33y1m) 
 #38  Vladimir Savon  2659    38y7m   (#85 all-time among players aged 38y7m) 
 #39  Bojan Kurajica  2658    31y5m   (#131 all-time among players aged 31y5m) 
 #40  Michael Stean  2656    25y7m   (#118 all-time among players aged 25y7m) 
 #41  Florin Gheorghiu  2655    35y0m   (#119 all-time among players aged 35y0m) 
 #42  Gennadi Sosonko  2655    35y11m   (#107 all-time among players aged 35y11m) 
 #43  Yury Razuvaev  2651    33y6m   (#127 all-time among players aged 33y6m) 
 #44  Walter Browne  2646    30y3m   (#150 all-time among players aged 30y3m) 
 #45  Alexander Kochiev  2646    23y1m   (#95 all-time among players aged 23y1m) 
 #46  Evgeny Vasiukov  2644    46y1m   (#53 all-time among players aged 46y1m) 
 #47  Ratmir Kholmov  2643    53y11m   (#26 all-time among players aged 53y11m) 
 #48  Viktor Kupreichik  2643    29y9m   (#162 all-time among players aged 29y9m) 
 #49  Rainer Knaak  2640    26y1m   (#142 all-time among players aged 26y1m) 
 #50  Adrian Mikhalchishin  2639    24y5m   (#128 all-time among players aged 24y5m) 
 #51  Gennady Timoshchenko  2637    30y0m   (#171 all-time among players aged 30y0m) 
 #52  Wolfgang Uhlmann  2637    44y1m   (#80 all-time among players aged 44y1m) 
 #53  Lothar Vogt  2636    27y3m   (#162 all-time among players aged 27y3m) 
 #54  Konstantin Lerner  2634    29y2m   (#185 all-time among players aged 29y2m) 
 #55  Mikhail Tseitlin  2633    31y10m   (#183 all-time among players aged 31y10m) 
 #56  Semen Palatnik  2632    29y1m   (#183 all-time among players aged 29y1m) 
 #57  Sergey Dolmatov  2632    20y2m   (#53 all-time among players aged 20y2m) 
 #58  Alexey Kosikov  2631    30y2m   (#189 all-time among players aged 30y2m) 
 #59  Helmut Pfleger  2631    35y8m   (#162 all-time among players aged 35y8m) 
 #60  Mark Taimanov  2630    53y2m   (#35 all-time among players aged 53y2m) 
 #61  Fridrik Olafsson  2627    44y3m   (#95 all-time among players aged 44y3m) 
 #62  Georgy Tringov  2625    42y1m   (#126 all-time among players aged 42y1m) 
 #63  Nukhim Rashkovsky  2625    33y0m   (#201 all-time among players aged 33y0m) 
 #64  Borislav Ivkov  2624    45y5m   (#80 all-time among players aged 45y5m) 
 #65  Tamaz Georgadze  2624   
 #66  Oscar Panno  2623    44y1m   (#107 all-time among players aged 44y1m) 
 #67  Artur Jussupow  2623    19y2m   (#46 all-time among players aged 19y2m) 
 #68  Vladimir Liberzon  2623    42y1m   (#129 all-time among players aged 42y1m) 
 #69  Aivars Gipslis  2620    42y2m   (#132 all-time among players aged 42y2m) 
 #70  Bruno Parma  2620    37y4m   (#168 all-time among players aged 37y4m) 
 #71  Robert Byrne  2620    51y0m   (#52 all-time among players aged 51y0m) 
 #72  András Adorján  2619    29y1m   (#231 all-time among players aged 29y1m) 
 #73  István Csom  2619    38y10m   (#151 all-time among players aged 38y10m) 
 #74  Aleksander Veingold  2617    25y6m   (#200 all-time among players aged 25y6m) 
 #75  Anatoly Lein  2616    48y1m   (#64 all-time among players aged 48y1m) 
 #76  Lev Alburt  2613    33y8m   (#215 all-time among players aged 33y8m) 
 #77  Igor Ivanov  2613    32y3m   (#254 all-time among players aged 32y3m) 
 #78  Yehuda Gruenfeld  2612    23y2m   (#159 all-time among players aged 23y2m) 
 #79  James Tarjan  2611    27y2m   (#241 all-time among players aged 27y2m) 
 #80  Karen Grigorian  2610    31y7m   (#265 all-time among players aged 31y7m) 
 #81  Iván Faragó  2610    33y0m   (#255 all-time among players aged 33y0m) 
 #82  Silvino Garcia Martinez  2608    34y9m   (#239 all-time among players aged 34y9m) 
 #83  Alexander Panchenko  2605    25y6m   (#242 all-time among players aged 25y6m) 
 #84  Alexey Suetin  2605    52y5m   (#49 all-time among players aged 52y5m) 
 #85  Ivan Nemet  2605    36y0m   (#229 all-time among players aged 36y0m) 
 #86  Ludek Pachmann  2605    54y11m   (#37 all-time among players aged 54y11m) 
 #87  Nikolay Krogius  2604    48y9m   (#81 all-time among players aged 48y9m) 
 #88  Raúl Sanguinetti  2602    46y2m   (#107 all-time among players aged 46y2m) 
 #89  William Lombardy  2602    41y4m   (#178 all-time among players aged 41y4m) 
 #90  Hans Ree  2602    34y7m   (#259 all-time among players aged 34y7m) 
 #91  Wolfgang Unzicker  2601    53y10m   (#41 all-time among players aged 53y10m) 
 #92  Kenneth Rogoff  2600    26y1m   (#269 all-time among players aged 26y1m) 
 #93  Eduard Gufeld  2599    43y1m   (#150 all-time among players aged 43y1m) 
 #94  Eduard Prandstetter  2598    30y4m   (#321 all-time among players aged 30y4m) 
 #95  Gudmundur Sigurjónsson  2598    31y7m   (#314 all-time among players aged 31y7m) 
 #96  Mihail Viorel Ghinda  2596    29y9m   (#324 all-time among players aged 29y9m) 
 #97  József Pintér  2596    25y5m   (#269 all-time among players aged 25y5m) 
 #98  Julio Kaplan  2595    28y9m   (#315 all-time among players aged 28y9m) 
 #99  Alexander Zakharov  2595    35y6m   (#266 all-time among players aged 35y6m) 
 #100  Alexander Ivanov  2595    22y11m   (#200 all-time among players aged 22y11m)