Who do you think is the greatest chess player of all time ?

Adolf Anderssen and Paul Morphy on a par. They were simply naturals, and they rarely found any good sparring.

Kasparov

Bobby Fischer

The villain from one of the Bond's movies.

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I'd second Sultan Khan. To be unaware of the international rules of the game (he played chess according to Indian rules which are vastly different), not literate, and the best hope of getting any information was from people who would be his opponents - and as yet, a grandmaster-strength player who even bested Capa once! Such a phenomenon has never been seen before, or since.

Of course, my other choice would be Paul Morphy. If it took the great Steinitz 15 years of effort to unravel the ideas behind Morphy's games - that ought to be sufficient indication of how far advanced a player Morphy was.

 It was "From Russia with love".

PrawneatsPrawn

Pfffft, that coolie?

Bobby Fischer

Mikhael Tal

philidor (Duncan)

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Karpov

Hey, that's my avatar kindred spirit!

I'm having a deja vu of some sort. I thought we discussed this earlier... Hmm. Well, I vote for HAL-9000 (a bit of a cheater, but aren't they all)