Best Blitz player of all time
Some might say Genrikh Chepukaitis.
I had never heard of Genrikh Chepukaitis but i really enjoyed researching about him. Thanks for the post batgirl.
Many people are mentioning Fischer, whom I am sure was an amazing blitz player but I don't believe he would be best and the reason I say that is he is a bit of a perfectionist. Players that are perfectionists tend to get into time pressure. Like another poster stated, players that are more intuitive tend to do better.
Ok here we go. Hater's gonna hate. Magnus Carlsen. Look at 2700chess. com blitz rating of 2948. Don't be telling me I'm a Carlsen fanboy, cos I can't stand that smug arrogant guy, yet he's clearly the best player ever. Holds the world title in slow chess, rapid and in blitz. Anand barely scratched him. Blitz 2948 all I'm sayin'
Ok here we go. Hater's gonna hate. Magnus Carlsen. Look at 2700chess. com blitz rating of 2948. Don't be telling me I'm a Carlsen fanboy, cos I can't stand that smug arrogant guy, yet he's clearly the best player ever. Holds the world title in slow chess, rapid and in blitz. Anand barely scratched him. Blitz 2948 all I'm sayin'
Yep, his blitz rating finally toppled Nakamura after who knows how long Naka held it. Incidentally, Carlsen does not actually have the trifecta. He's ranked #2 in rapid chess behind Caruana.
Really? Did you not notice that BobbyFishmonger spoke of "the world title in slow chess, rapid and in blitz"? What do ratings have to do with that?
This is a hard one but I think Jose Raul Capablanca is the best rapid chess player of all times. Some news paper from the times said that Capa when he won vs Lasker the world match it seemed that he was playing blitz, plus a great chess problem compositor (cant remember his name) use to gage his chess problem by showing it to Capa and measuring if Capa took more than half a minute to solve it!!! Then average GM of the time will spend 3-5min to solve it. This statistical fact proves his ability to solve tactical posicion was way better than the rest at his time. Then after him a top 5 for my taste is as followed:
1- Capablanca
2- Karpov
3- Tal
4- Fisher
5- Morphy
If interested in amazing blitz players, this may be up your alley: Reuben Fine: Speed Demon.
In his hey day short was fasest blitz player. He wss playing 2 and 3 seconds a move and winning on icc. But alas he still got his clock cleaned by mystery guest71. Now I have watched nigel play blitz recently he is not as fast thesr days. He was faster then fischer and gary k I also will surprise you by telling you grandmaster roman was also one of the fastest I ever saw. I saw him playing 3 to 2 min. And 2 to 1 minute. In skittles room at tournaments. The thing I will never forget about him he could take any opening and twist the position all kinds of ways and take it to a rook ending. I also think he was ss good as Fischer any day in rook endings bobby was supposed to be the best at rook endings. So bat girl short gets my vote for blitz even though guest71 put more time on shorts clock an blew his mind. Wonder if nigel ever thinks about that?
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So bat girl short gets my vote for blitz
That's more impressive than Fine playing 4 games simultaneously blindfold, winning all 4 at 10sec/move against opponents like Rbt. Byrne and Artem Fomin?
Capablanca gets my vote.
Alekhine: "His real, incomparable gifts first began to make themselves known at the time of St. Petersburg, 1914, when I too came to know him personally. Neither before nor afterwards have I seen – and I cannot imagine as well – such a flabbergasting quickness of chess comprehension as that possessed by the Capablanca of that epoch. Enough to say that he gave all the St. Petersburg masters the odds of 5–1 in quick games – and won! "
Fine: "I reflected on the fact that I could already beat Alekhine at quick chess while Capablanca, the few times I had played him, beat me mercilessly."
While Capa was the best rapid transit player of his day and possibly of all time, it's necessary to see Fine's comment in the perspective that when Capa beat Fine at blitz at the Marshall cub in the mid 1930s, Fine was just beginning his rapid rise in the chess world. By the time Fine reached his stride in the early 1940s, Capablanca was dead. Capablanca never attempted the types of things Fine exhibited in rapid transit chess.
Hmmmm..... no mention of the 50 in a row guest71
Won against nigel short in 2001. Short at that time was fastest speed chess player in the world! And
Boy did he get his clock cleaned. I dont want to hear conjecture he used a computer because nobody ever proved who he was in order to prove he used a program to cheat. Heres a hint for you the icc knows. They sent him an invitation to the first millionaires tournament in vegas to play in the gm section. Two things you should know. Guest71 was never a member of the icc. Never registered an e mail or anything yet they sent the invite to his anonymous e mail account. He never played as anyone other than an anonymous person. So they
Knew all along who he is. You can bet if they thought he was a cheat they would not invite him
For coffee let alone a a brand new tournament in
Las vegas. So theres some food for thought. Maybe more to follow. .
Genrikh Chepukaitis (1935-2004) had few equals at blitz . Petrosian's wife would not let Tigran (who was the world champ at the time) play in the Moscow blitz tourny because Chepukaitis was playing in it , and if Chepukaitis (a welder and not a proffessional) beat him it wouldn't look very good . she said it wouldn't look so bad if Bronstein , Tal or Korchnoi beat him at blitz but not Chepukaitis . well Chepukaitis came in 2nd in the tournament ahead of Korchnoi . once Roman Dzindzichashvili played blitz with Chepukaitis for 50 hrs straight so the story goes . He played a lot on icc under the handle "smartchip" . as a rule he was rated over 3000 . he was a "hippo" expert .
Yes batgirl . i saw your posts on chepukaitis . just thought i'd add a little more info on this very colorful person . i have the book "smart chip from st.petersburg" , and there are so many storys in it about this guy . even karpov said "if time controls keep getting any faster , chepukaitis will be world champ" !