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Most Dominant Player between 1895 and 1905 See more details    Emanuel Lasker: 8.0 years as #1 (between January 1895 and December 1902) The player who was ranked #1 most often between 1895 and 1905 was Emanuel Lasker, with 96 different months as the top-ranked player (a total of 8.0 years). Next on the list were Harry Pillsbury (1.3 years) and Dawid Janowsky (0.4 years). Highest-Rated Player between 1895 and 1905 Summary only | Top 5 | Top 10 | Top 20 | Top 50 | Top 100    Emanuel Lasker: 2869 (July 1900) The player who achieved the highest peak rating between 1895 and 1905 was Emanuel Lasker, with a rating of 2869 on the July 1900 list. The next-highest peak ratings between 1895 and 1905 were achieved by Siegbert Tarrasch (2824 on the June 1895 list) and Harry Pillsbury (2816 on the July 1901 list).      Player Name       Peak Rating       World Rank (at time of Peak Rating)       Age (at time of Peak Rating)     #1     Emanuel Lasker       2869       #1 on July 1900 rating list       31y7m     #2     Siegbert Tarrasch       2824       #2 on June 1895 rating list       33y3m     #3     Harry Pillsbury       2816       #2 on July 1901 rating list       28y7m     #4     Mikhail Chigorin       2797       #3 on October 1895 rating list       44y11m     #5     Géza Maróczy       2777       #1 on December 1904 rating list       34y9m     #6     Dawid Janowsky       2776       #1 on July 1904 rating list       36y1m     #7     Wilhelm Steinitz       2765       #3 on January 1895 rating list       58y8m     #8     Carl Schlechter       2759       #4 on April 1902 rating list       28y1m     #9     Samuel Lipschütz       2742       #4 on January 1901 rating list       37y6m     #10     Rezsö Charousek       2734       #6 on March 1900 rating list       26y6m     #11     Amos Burn       2728       #6 on October 1900 rating list       51y10m     #12     Paul Lipke       2724       #5 on April 1895 rating list       24y10m     #13     Miksa Weiss       2717       #6 on January 1896 rating list       38y6m     #14     Richard Teichmann       2713       #6 on August 1895 rating list       26y8m     #15     Frank Marshall       2713       #8 on December 1904 rating list       27y4m     #16     Curt von Bardeleben       2710       #7 on March 1897 rating list       36y0m     #17     Henry Atkins       2702       #6 on January 1903 rating list       30y5m     #18     Joseph Blackburne       2701       #8 on July 1895 rating list       53y7m     #19     Carl Walbrodt       2690       #9 on April 1898 rating list       26y5m     #20     Berthold Englisch       2690       #9 on February 1897 rating list       45y7m     #21     Semyon Alapin       2688       #10 on February 1898 rating list       41y3m     #22     Jackson Showalter       2676       #11 on September 1897 rating list       37y7m     #23     Emanuel Schiffers       2672       #13 on November 1896 rating list       46y6m     #24     Georg Marco       2672       #9 on September 1900 rating list       36y10m     #25     Hans Wolf       2671       #10 on January 1903 rating list          -     #26     Theodor von Scheve       2669       #10 on January 1902 rating list       50y7m     #27     Ossip Bernstein       2668       #9 on April 1904 rating list       21y6m     #28     Alfred Jecke       2667       #10 on June 1895 rating list       26y1m     #29     Albert Hodges       2666       #11 on July 1895 rating list       34y0m     #30     Mordecai Morgan       2660       #17 on September 1897 rating list       34y9m     #31     William Napier       2658       #11 on December 1904 rating list       23y11m     #32     Hermann Voigt       2656       #15 on January 1899 rating list       41y6m     #33     W Weiss       2654       #14 on February 1896 rating list          -     #34     Jacques Mieses       2653       #14 on April 1904 rating list       39y2m     #35     Moritz Porges       2651       #13 on January 1895 rating list       36y10m     #36     Szymon Winawer       2651       #14 on January 1895 rating list       56y10m     #37     Gyula Makovets       2650       #17 on January 1895 rating list       34y1m     #38     Heinrich Wolf       2648       #14 on January 1904 rating list       28y3m     #39     Hermann von Gottschall       2648       #18 on January 1895 rating list       32y3m     #40     Wilhelm Cohn       2645       #16 on November 1898 rating list       39y9m     #41     George Bellingham       2644       #16 on July 1898 rating list       23y10m     #42     Adolf Albin       2643       #15 on August 1895 rating list       46y11m     #43     Edward Jones       2641       #18 on March 1896 rating list       35y2m     #44     Emil Kemény       2638       #20 on September 1897 rating list       37y8m     #45     Walter Shipley       2634       #12 on September 1901 rating list       41y3m     #46     Horatio Caro       2634       #21 on February 1895 rating list       32y7m     #47     James Mason       2634       #15 on May 1900 rating list       50y6m     #48     Philip Richardson       2633       #13 on January 1901 rating list       59y2m     #49     Rudolf Swiderski       2629       #16 on April 1904 rating list       25y9m     #50     Charles Newman       2618       #20 on May 1900 rating list       44y1m    Strongest Tournament between 1895 and 1905 See more details    Hastings, 1895: Class 19 (#1, #2, #3, #4, #6, #7, #8, #9) The strongest tournament held between 1895 and 1905 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 Paris 1900 (Class 16). Strongest Match between 1895 and 1905 See more details    Lasker-Steinitz II (World Championship, Moscow), 1896: #1 vs #4 The strongest match held between 1895 and 1905 was Lasker-Steinitz II (World Championship, Moscow), 1896. This was a matchup of #1 vs #4, including #1 Emanuel Lasker (2842) and #4 Wilhelm Steinitz (2754) from the November 1896 rating list. Next on the list were Janowsky-Schlechter II (Karlsbad), 1902 (#4 vs #5) and Chigorin-Lasker Match (Brighton), 1903 (#2 vs #7). Best Individual Event Performance between 1895 and 1905 See more details    Emanuel Lasker: 2882 in Lasker-Steinitz II (World Championship, Moscow), 1896 The best individual event performance between 1895 and 1905 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 (2846 performance) in Vienna, 1898.