Monthly top-five lists       
Monthly List: June 1881 rating list   
   Player Name  Rating    Age 
 #1  Johannes Zukertort  2721    38y9m   (#26 all-time among players aged 38y9m) 
 #2  Joseph Blackburne  2668    39y6m   (#60 all-time among players aged 39y6m) 
 #3  Berthold Englisch  2661    29y11m   (#119 all-time among players aged 29y11m) 
 #4  George Mackenzie  2660    44y3m   (#49 all-time among players aged 44y3m) 
 #5  Louis Paulsen  2651    48y5m   (#33 all-time among players aged 48y5m) 

 #6  Adolf Schwarz  2650    44y8m   (#58 all-time among players aged 44y8m) 
 #7  William Potter  2611    40y10m   (#164 all-time among players aged 40y10m) 
 #8  James Mason  2604    31y7m   (#285 all-time among players aged 31y7m) 
 #9  Samuel Rosenthal  2602    43y9m   (#140 all-time among players aged 43y9m) 
 #10  Max Judd  2599    29y6m   (#307 all-time among players aged 29y6m) 

 #11  Szymon Winawer  2598    43y3m   (#152 all-time among players aged 43y3m) 
 #12  Henry Bird  2591    50y11m   (#75 all-time among players aged 50y11m) 
 #13  Isidor Gunsberg  2583    26y7m   (#353 all-time among players aged 26y7m) 
 #14  James Grundy  2552    26y4m   (#515 all-time among players aged 26y4m) 
 #15  Charles Moehle  2547    21y7m   (#305 all-time among players aged 21y7m) 

 #16  Jules de Rivière  2543    51y1m   (#146 all-time among players aged 51y1m) 
 #17  Hans von Minckwitz  2537    38y2m   (#469 all-time among players aged 38y2m) 
 #18  Fritz Riemann  2531    22y5m   (#441 all-time among players aged 22y5m) 
 #19  Emil Schallopp  2503    37y10m   (#666 all-time among players aged 37y10m) 
 #20  Arnold Schottländer  2493    27y2m   (#994 all-time among players aged 27y2m) 

 #21  Miksa Weiss  2490    23y11m   (#843 all-time among players aged 23y11m) 
 #22  Max Bier  2483    27y2m   (#1091 all-time among players aged 27y2m) 
 #23  Wilfried Paulsen  2481    52y11m   (#215 all-time among players aged 52y11m) 
 #24  Albert Clerc  2478    51y5m   (#256 all-time among players aged 51y5m) 
 #25  Alexander Sellman  2478    25y5m   (#1071 all-time among players aged 25y5m) 

 #26  Carl Wemmers  2472    36y5m   (#944 all-time among players aged 36y5m) 
 #27  Ernst Flechsig  2453    28y8m   (#1381 all-time among players aged 28y8m) 
 #28  H Gifford  2426   
 #29  James Congdon  2409    46y5m   (#635 all-time among players aged 46y5m) 
 #30  Alexander Fritz  2401    24y5m   (#1701 all-time among players aged 24y5m) 

 #31  John Ryan  2386    32y5m   (#1882 all-time among players aged 32y5m) 
 #32  Karl Pitschel  2382    52y5m   (#419 all-time among players aged 52y5m) 
 #33  Constantin Schwede  2382    26y8m   (#2007 all-time among players aged 26y8m) 
 #34  Charles-Emile Chasery  2358    52y5m   (#447 all-time among players aged 52y5m) 
 #35  de Boistertre  2330   

 #36  August Franke  2327    49y5m   (#632 all-time among players aged 49y5m) 
 #37  Albert Cohnfeld  2317   
 #38  Victor Knorre  2315    40y8m   (#1388 all-time among players aged 40y8m) 
 #39  Carl Schmid  2315    41y2m   (#1326 all-time among players aged 41y2m) 
 #40  Robert Barnes  2262