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Most Dominant Player between 1890 and 1900 See more details
   Emanuel Lasker: 9.6 years as #1 (between June 1890 and December 1899)
The player who was ranked #1 most often between 1890 and 1900 was Emanuel Lasker, with 115 different months as the top-ranked player (a total of 9.6 years). Next on the list was Wilhelm Steinitz (0.4 years), the only other player to be ranked #1 between 1890 and 1900.
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   Emanuel Lasker: 2878 (May 1894)
The player who achieved the highest peak rating between 1890 and 1900 was Emanuel Lasker, with a rating of 2878 on the May 1894 list. The next-highest peak ratings between 1890 and 1900 were achieved by Siegbert Tarrasch (2824 on the June 1895 list) and Harry Pillsbury (2797 on the December 1899 list).
     Player Name       Peak Rating       World Rank (at time of Peak Rating)       Age (at time of Peak Rating)   
 #1    Emanuel Lasker      2878      #1 on May 1894 rating list      25y5m   
 #2    Siegbert Tarrasch      2824      #2 on June 1895 rating list      33y3m   
 #3    Harry Pillsbury      2797      #3 on December 1899 rating list      27y0m   
 #4    Mikhail Chigorin      2797      #3 on October 1895 rating list      44y11m   
 #5    Wilhelm Steinitz      2765      #3 on December 1894 rating list      58y7m   
 #6    Dawid Janowsky      2763      #4 on August 1898 rating list      30y2m   
 #7    Géza Maróczy      2758      #3 on September 1896 rating list      26y6m   
 #8    Rezsö Charousek      2733      #6 on December 1899 rating list      26y3m   
 #9    Paul Lipke      2725      #5 on October 1894 rating list      24y4m   
 #10    Amos Burn      2722      #8 on March 1899 rating list      50y3m   
 #11    Miksa Weiss      2717      #6 on January 1896 rating list      38y6m   
 #12    Isidor Gunsberg      2715      #3 on January 1890 rating list      35y2m   
 #13    Richard Teichmann      2713      #6 on August 1895 rating list      26y8m   
 #14    Carl Schlechter      2713      #9 on September 1899 rating list      25y6m   
 #15    Curt von Bardeleben      2710      #7 on March 1897 rating list      36y0m   
 #16    Carl Walbrodt      2706      #5 on October 1893 rating list      21y11m   
 #17    Joseph Blackburne      2701      #8 on July 1895 rating list      53y7m   
 #18    Samuel Lipschütz      2700      #10 on December 1899 rating list      36y5m   
 #19    Gyula Makovets      2696      #5 on February 1893 rating list      32y2m   
 #20    Berthold Englisch      2690      #9 on February 1897 rating list      45y7m   
 #21    Semyon Alapin      2688      #10 on February 1898 rating list      41y3m   
 #22    Henry Atkins      2687      #11 on September 1899 rating list      27y1m   
 #23    Berthold Lasker      2683      #8 on June 1891 rating list      30y6m   
 #24    Moritz Porges      2678      #7 on February 1893 rating list      34y11m   
 #25    Jackson Showalter      2676      #11 on September 1897 rating list      37y7m   
 #26    Horatio Caro      2676      #7 on October 1893 rating list      31y3m   
 #27    Emanuel Schiffers      2672      #13 on November 1896 rating list      46y6m   
 #28    George Mackenzie      2671      #8 on January 1890 rating list      52y10m   
 #29    James Mason      2670      #10 on May 1894 rating list      44y6m   
 #30    Szymon Winawer      2667      #11 on May 1894 rating list      56y2m   
 #31    Alfred Jecke      2667      #10 on June 1895 rating list      26y1m   
 #32    Albert Hodges      2667      #11 on January 1894 rating list      32y6m   
 #33    Karl Holländer      2661      #12 on September 1893 rating list      25y1m   
 #34    Mordecai Morgan      2660      #17 on September 1897 rating list      34y9m   
 #35    Theodor von Scheve      2659      #10 on December 1891 rating list      40y6m   
 #36    Georg Marco      2657      #13 on August 1895 rating list      31y9m   
 #37    Jacques Mieses      2657      #11 on January 1890 rating list      24y11m   
 #38    Hermann Voigt      2656      #15 on January 1899 rating list      41y6m   
 #39    W Weiss      2654      #14 on February 1896 rating list         -   
 #40    Hermann von Gottschall      2652      #15 on October 1894 rating list      32y0m   
 #41    Wilhelm Cohn      2645      #16 on November 1898 rating list      39y9m   
 #42    Johann Bauer      2645      #11 on May 1890 rating list      28y11m   
 #43    George Bellingham      2644      #16 on July 1898 rating list      23y10m   
 #44    Adolf Albin      2643      #15 on August 1895 rating list      46y11m   
 #45    Edward Jones      2641      #18 on March 1896 rating list      35y2m   
 #46    Emil Kemény      2638      #20 on September 1897 rating list      37y8m   
 #47    Joseph Blake      2635      #17 on May 1893 rating list      34y3m   
 #48    Louis Paulsen      2630      #13 on January 1890 rating list      57y0m   
 #49    Robert Wehner      2627      #20 on August 1894 rating list      39y8m   
 #50    Johann Berger      2618      #24 on September 1898 rating list      53y5m   
 #51    Celso Golmayo Zupide      2612      #26 on July 1894 rating list      74y3m   
 #52    Stanislaus Sittenfeld      2612      #26 on October 1894 rating list      29y3m   
 #53    Max Judd      2608      #16 on December 1891 rating list      40y0m   
 #54    Hugo Bohlke      2607      #25 on February 1899 rating list         -   
 #55    D Stuart Robinson      2607      #23 on June 1898 rating list      39y4m   
 #56    Emil Schallopp      2605      #19 on August 1890 rating list      47y0m   
 #57    Adolf Zinkl      2605      #22 on April 1893 rating list      21y9m   
 #58    Henry Bird      2604      #18 on August 1891 rating list      61y1m   
 #59    Victor Exner      2604      #26 on February 1895 rating list         -   
 #60    Johannes Metger      2603      #28 on May 1894 rating list      42y5m   
 #61    Samuel Bampton      2602      #26 on September 1897 rating list      34y0m   
 #62    Francis Lee      2598      #25 on February 1898 rating list      41y1m   
 #63    Edward Hymes      2596      #28 on April 1895 rating list      23y7m   
 #64    Bernhard Fleissig      2594      #22 on October 1892 rating list      46y11m   
 #65    Louis van Vliet      2594      #18 on March 1890 rating list      22y2m   
 #66    Jacques Schwarz      2592      #22 on April 1896 rating list      40y3m   
 #67    Samuel Tinsley      2588      #21 on December 1890 rating list      43y11m   
 #68    Arthur Kaufmann      2585      #29 on September 1894 rating list      22y5m   
 #69    Gustav Buchmann      2581      #28 on February 1899 rating list      24y9m   
 #70    Kaufmann      2581      #33 on April 1898 rating list         -   
 #71    H Butler      2580      #28 on September 1892 rating list         -   
 #72    Adolf Csánk      2579      #32 on August 1894 rating list         -   
 #73    Oscar Müller      2579      #33 on January 1898 rating list      38y0m   
 #74    Adolf Schwarz      2579      #34 on September 1897 rating list      60y11m   
 #75    Karl Eisenbach      2578      #33 on August 1894 rating list         -   
 #76    Alexander Halprin      2577      #30 on July 1898 rating list      30y4m   
 #77    Arnold Schottländer      2575      #34 on September 1894 rating list      40y5m   
 #78    Paul Seuffert      2574      #35 on September 1894 rating list      34y5m   
 #79    William Gunston      2573      #24 on July 1890 rating list      33y10m   
 #80    Walter Shipley      2572      #30 on January 1899 rating list      38y7m   
 #81    Rudolf Loman      2570      #21 on April 1892 rating list      30y6m   
 #82    N Miniati      2569      #23 on June 1892 rating list      29y5m   
 #83    G Sherrard      2569      #39 on October 1897 rating list         -   
 #84    Eugene Delmar      2567      #34 on December 1893 rating list      52y3m   
 #85    Miklós Bródy      2567      #30 on August 1898 rating list      21y5m   
 #86    J Moore Hanham      2566      #32 on September 1898 rating list      58y8m   
 #87    Jean Taubenhaus      2562      #27 on January 1891 rating list      40y1m   
 #88    Herbert Trenchard      2560      #38 on January 1894 rating list      36y4m   
 #89    Ignatz von Popiel      2559      #29 on September 1899 rating list      36y2m   
 #90    Norman van Lennep      2557      #38 on September 1894 rating list      22y0m   
 #91    John Owen      2556      #26 on July 1890 rating list      63y3m   
 #92    John Baird      2556      #35 on August 1895 rating list      43y6m   
 #93    G Mayer      2555      #38 on February 1899 rating list         -   
 #94    Wilson      2549      #38 on September 1892 rating list         -   
 #95    Adolf Olland      2549      #35 on September 1899 rating list      32y5m   
 #96    Josef Noa      2548      #41 on May 1895 rating list      38y7m   
 #97    Joan Tresling      2548      #41 on January 1899 rating list      30y6m   
 #98    John McCutcheon      2548      #41 on September 1897 rating list      40y4m   
 #99    Joachim Weiss      2548      #41 on August 1894 rating list         -   
 #100    Vincenz Hrubý      2546      #39 on February 1893 rating list      36y5m   
Strongest Tournament between 1890 and 1900 See more details
   Hastings, 1895: Class 19 (#1, #2, #3, #4, #6, #7, #8, #9)
The strongest tournament held between 1890 and 1900 was Hastings 1895. This was a Class 19 tournament, including eight of the top ten players in the world (from the August 1895 rating list). The next-strongest tournaments were Nurnberg 1896 (Class 17) and Vienna 1898 (Class 16).
Strongest Match between 1890 and 1900 See more details
   Chigorin-Gunsberg Match (Havana), 1890: #2 vs #3
The strongest match held between 1890 and 1900 was Chigorin-Gunsberg Match (Havana), 1890. This was a matchup of #2 vs #3, including #2 Mikhail Chigorin (2715) and #3 Isidor Gunsberg (2715) from the January 1890 rating list. Next on the list were Lasker-Steinitz II (World Championship, Moscow), 1896 (#1 vs #4) and Lasker-Steinitz I (World Championship, USA/CAN), 1894 (#1 vs #4).
Best Individual Event Performance between 1890 and 1900 See more details
   Emanuel Lasker: 2882 in Lasker-Steinitz II (World Championship, Moscow), 1896
The best individual event performance between 1890 and 1900 was achieved by Emanuel Lasker with a Chessmetrics Performance Rating of 2882 in Lasker-Steinitz II (World Championship, Moscow), 1896. The next-best individual event performances were achieved by Emanuel Lasker (2878 performance) in London, 1899, and by Siegbert Tarrasch (2853 performance) in Tarrasch-Walbrodt Match (Nuremberg), 1894.