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Most Dominant Player between 1855 and 1875 See more details
   Wilhelm Steinitz: 4.8 years as #1 (between September 1866 and December 1874)
The player who was ranked #1 most often between 1855 and 1875 was Wilhelm Steinitz, with 57 different months as the top-ranked player (a total of 4.8 years). Next on the list were Paul Morphy (3.3 years) and Louis Paulsen (3.2 years).

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   Wilhelm Steinitz: 2796 (September 1873)
The player who achieved the highest peak rating between 1855 and 1875 was Wilhelm Steinitz, with a rating of 2796 on the September 1873 list. The next-highest peak ratings between 1855 and 1875 were achieved by Ignatz Kolisch (2755 on the August 1867 list) and Adolf Anderssen (2744 on the August 1870 list).
     Player Name       Peak Rating       World Rank (at time of Peak Rating)       Age (at time of Peak Rating)   
 #1    Wilhelm Steinitz      2796      #1 on September 1873 rating list      37y4m   
 #2    Ignatz Kolisch      2755      #1 on August 1867 rating list      30y4m   
 #3    Adolf Anderssen      2744      #1 on August 1870 rating list      52y1m   
 #4    Paul Morphy      2743      #1 on June 1859 rating list      22y0m   
 #5    Gustav Neumann      2742      #2 on October 1867 rating list      28y10m   

 #6    Berthold Suhle      2731      #1 on January 1866 rating list      29y0m   
 #7    Louis Paulsen      2710      #1 on October 1862 rating list      29y9m   
 #8    Cecil de Vere      2697      #2 on October 1866 rating list      21y8m   
 #9    Szymon Winawer      2691      #3 on July 1867 rating list      29y4m   
 #10    Joseph Blackburne      2673      #4 on September 1870 rating list      28y9m   

 #11    Serafino Dubois      2642      #1 on January 1857 rating list      39y3m   
 #12    Johannes Zukertort      2641      #5 on June 1872 rating list      29y9m   
 #13    Samuel Rosenthal      2634      #4 on September 1873 rating list      36y0m   
 #14    Henry Bird      2633      #3 on December 1874 rating list      44y5m   
 #15    George MacDonnell      2624      #5 on January 1874 rating list      43y5m   

 #16    Daniel Harrwitz      2620      #1 on April 1855 rating list      32y0m   
 #17    John Wisker      2620      #6 on December 1874 rating list      28y7m   
 #18    Johann Löwenthal      2616      #3 on June 1859 rating list      48y11m   
 #19    Philipp Hirschfeld      2600      #6 on October 1864 rating list      24y0m   
 #20    Amos Burn      2597      #7 on November 1870 rating list      21y11m   

 #21    Tassilo von der Lasa      2574      #2 on January 1855 rating list      36y3m   
 #22    Howard Staunton      2572      #2 on August 1855 rating list      45y7m   
 #23    Jules de Rivičre      2563      #6 on July 1860 rating list      30y2m   
 #24    Sergey Urusov      2561      #5 on April 1866 rating list      38y8m   
 #25    Edward Pindar      2556      #6 on July 1862 rating list      32y6m   

 #26    Joseph Campbell      2556      #4 on January 1860 rating list      29y8m   
 #27    Hans von Minckwitz      2555      #11 on March 1873 rating list      29y11m   
 #28    John Owen      2550      #7 on September 1862 rating list      35y5m   
 #29    J Gocher      2549      #8 on January 1861 rating list         -   
 #30    Franciscus Janssens      2546      #4 on October 1858 rating list      36y9m   

 #31    Max Lange      2540      #9 on April 1865 rating list      32y8m   
 #32    George Mackenzie      2536      #8 on May 1863 rating list      26y2m   
 #33    J Budzinsky      2531      #3 on November 1857 rating list         -   
 #34    Ernst Falkbeer      2524      #5 on January 1856 rating list      36y7m   
 #35    George Fraser      2520      #11 on August 1869 rating list      38y7m   

 #36    Samuel Mieses      2517      #13 on August 1872 rating list      30y9m   
 #37    Carstanjen      2503      #7 on February 1860 rating list         -   
 #38    Robert Brien      2501      #8 on October 1858 rating list      31y9m   
 #39    Robert Wormald      2500      #7 on December 1859 rating list      25y11m   
 #40    Maximilian Fleissig      2498      #14 on August 1873 rating list      27y9m   

 #41    Adolf Zytogorski      2497      #9 on September 1858 rating list      51y8m   
 #42    Hieronim Czarnowski      2493      #13 on May 1870 rating list      36y4m   
 #43    Samuel Boden      2492      #12 on October 1860 rating list      34y6m   
 #44    Thomas Barnes      2490      #11 on December 1859 rating list      34y11m   
 #45    Ilia Shumov      2489      #11 on October 1863 rating list      44y4m   

 #46    Philipp Meitner      2486      #13 on December 1874 rating list      36y11m   
 #47    Carl Göring      2484      #12 on September 1871 rating list      30y5m   
 #48    Adolf Stern      2483      #14 on August 1872 rating list      24y7m   
 #49    ósef Szén      2481      #6 on January 1855 rating list      49y6m   
 #50    Josef Heral      2478      #14 on December 1874 rating list         -   

 #51    Celso Golmayo Zupide      2478      #14 on May 1870 rating list      50y1m   
 #52    Thomas Wiegelmann      2477      #6 on January 1857 rating list         -   
 #53    Adolf Schwarz      2477      #15 on August 1873 rating list      36y10m   
 #54    Augustus Mongrédien      2471      #11 on January 1860 rating list      52y10m   
 #55    Paul Journoud      2468      #15 on October 1861 rating list      40y9m   

 #56    Jean Dufresne      2465      #7 on January 1855 rating list      25y11m   
 #57    James Fraser      2463      #16 on October 1867 rating list      40y9m   
 #58    Minchin      2462      #9 on June 1867 rating list         -   
 #59    Emil Schallopp      2459      #15 on July 1870 rating list      26y11m   
 #60    James Hannah      2458      #17 on January 1863 rating list      37y0m   

 #61    John Schulten      2457      #9 on February 1856 rating list         -   
 #62    Theodor Lichtenhein      2455      #15 on March 1859 rating list      30y2m   
 #63    James Robey      2454      #8 on March 1866 rating list      40y2m   
 #64    Frederic Deacon      2449      #12 on December 1865 rating list      36y11m   
 #65    Czaikowsky      2448      #7 on May 1858 rating list         -   

 #66    Oscar Gelbfuhs      2447      #17 on December 1874 rating list      22y1m   
 #67    Sam Loyd      2445      #16 on July 1870 rating list      29y6m   
 #68    Carl Mayet      2441      #17 on February 1862 rating list      51y6m   
 #69    György Szabó      2437      #15 on October 1858 rating list      18y9m   
 #70    Bernhard Horwitz      2436      #16 on April 1861 rating list      53y11m   

 #71    William Robertson      2436      #18 on May 1868 rating list      36y4m   
 #72    Valentine Green      2435      #10 on May 1866 rating list      34y5m   
 #73    William Kenny      2432      #16 on October 1858 rating list      70y9m   
 #74    Carlo Bonetti      2432      #18 on July 1862 rating list         -   
 #75    Wilfried Paulsen      2428      #17 on June 1870 rating list      41y11m   

 #76    Martin From      2427      #18 on July 1870 rating list      42y3m   
 #77    M Seguin      2424      #13 on March 1856 rating list         -   
 #78    Andrey Mingrelia      2420      #19 on July 1870 rating list      19y9m   
 #79    James Kipping      2412      #19 on September 1861 rating list      38y10m   
 #80    Karl Pitschel      2407      #15 on June 1872 rating list      43y5m   

 #81    Eugčne Rousseau      2406      #20 on July 1870 rating list      60y6m   
 #82    Bernhard von Guretzky-Cornitz      2397      #20 on July 1862 rating list      24y5m   
 #83    Sigismund Hamel      2376      #21 on May 1868 rating list      45y4m   
 #84    Walter Spens      2376      #22 on May 1868 rating list      26y3m   
 #85    George Gossip      2373      #21 on November 1873 rating list      31y11m   

 #86    Gustavus Reichhelm      2363      #21 on August 1869 rating list      29y9m   
 #87    James Mortimer      2361      #19 on April 1869 rating list      36y0m   
 #88    S Solomons      2357      #18 on November 1864 rating list         -   
 #89    William Martin      2351      #22 on September 1873 rating list      65y9m   
 #90    Charles Stanley      2334      #24 on February 1862 rating list      42y5m   

 #91    Richard Hein      2299      #23 on February 1870 rating list         -   

Strongest Tournament between 1855 and 1875 Summary only | Top 5 | Top 10 | Top 20 | Top 50 | Top 100
   Baden-Baden, 1870: Class 18 (#1, #2, #3, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9)
The strongest tournament held between 1855 and 1875 was Baden-Baden 1870. This was a Class 18 tournament, including eight of the top ten players in the world (from the July 1870 rating list). The next-strongest tournaments were Vienna 1873 (Class 14) and London 1862 (Class 9).
     Event       Class       Top Ten Participation    Specific participants from top ten on rating list
 #1    Baden-Baden, 1870      18      #1, #2, #3, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9    #1 Adolf Anderssen (2714), #2 Gustav Neumann (2703), #3 Wilhelm Steinitz (2696), #5 Louis Paulsen (2638), #6 Szymon Winawer (2614), #7 Cecil de Vere (2601), #8 Joseph Blackburne (2578), #9 Samuel Rosenthal (2544) from July 1870 rating list

 #2    Vienna, 1873      14      #1, #2, #3, #6, #9    #1 Wilhelm Steinitz (2768), #2 Adolf Anderssen (2648), #3 Louis Paulsen (2624), #6 Henry Bird (2589), #9 Joseph Blackburne (2578) from July 1873 rating list

 #3    London, 1862      9      #1, #2, #7    #1 Louis Paulsen (2663), #2 Adolf Anderssen (2660), #7 John Owen (2540) from June 1862 rating list

 #4    London, 1872      7      #1, #5, #10    #1 Wilhelm Steinitz (2729), #5 Johannes Zukertort (2641), #6 Joseph Blackburne (2610), #9 John Wisker (2560), #10 Cecil de Vere (2551) from June 1872 rating list

NOTE: "Class" is a Chessmetrics formula used to rank the strength of a tournament, by using the participation of top-10 players from the rating list (rather than just using the average rating of all participants). For more details, go here.

Strongest Match between 1855 and 1875 See more details
   Anderssen-Paulsen I (London), 1862: #1 vs #2
The strongest match held between 1855 and 1875 was Anderssen-Paulsen I (London), 1862. This was a matchup of #1 vs #2, including #1 Louis Paulsen (2677) and #2 Adolf Anderssen (2655) from the July 1862 rating list. Next on the list were Anderssen-Morphy Match (Paris), 1858 (#1 vs #3) and Anderssen-Kolisch II (London), 1861 (#2 vs #3).

Best Individual Event Performance between 1855 and 1875 See more details
   Johannes Zukertort: 2774 in Anderssen-Zukertort II (Berlin), 1871
The best individual event performance between 1855 and 1875 was achieved by Johannes Zukertort with a Chessmetrics Performance Rating of 2774 in Anderssen-Zukertort II (Berlin), 1871. The next-best individual event performances were achieved by Berthold Suhle (2772 performance) in Hirschfeld-Suhle Match (Berlin), 1865, and by Wilhelm Steinitz (2763 performance) in Vienna, 1873.