GMs who rarely lose

Who is the GM with the least amount of losses or lowest percentage rate for losses ? My bet its between Capablanca Lasker Petrosian Fischer Karpov Kasparov Leko Ulf Anderson and Carlson maybe Schletcher (might of spelled it wrong)

Didn't Kasporov lose 1 in every 3 games? I'm not saying that's bad...but isn't that about as good as you can hope for?

Nup

+785 -118 =771

Morphy maybe? Years after his retreat from chess was he still considered the best chess player: +198 -26 =24

Capablanca!
+372 -46 =262


Lasker
+362 -89 =180

Tal
+1117 -298 =1303


Petrosian
+697 -159 =1072


Karpov
+986 -242 =1312

Leko
+329 -182 =830

Ulf
+556 -232 =1438

Carlsen
+385 -167 =423

I think Mikhail Tal takes the cake!

Yes morphs might be the one

Bobby Fisher 415 wins, 248 draws and 85  is the best

So Capalanca wins, second Petrosian, third Karpov.

Some others:

Fischer

+417 -85 =246     losing percentage: 11.36%

Kramnik

+446 -126 =807     losing percentage: 9.14%

Anand

+610 -198 =922     losing percentage: 11.45%

Kasparov

+785 -118 =771     losing percentage: 7.05%

Alekhine:

+1055 -243 =487     losing percentage: 13.61%

So, with these players included, our new top 3 are:

#1 Capablanca, #2 Kasparov, #3 Petrosian

Carlsen in the last few years.

I don't go by that metric because not lose very often can also mean draws a very lot.  Still, these statistics are interesting. 

Can someone explain to me exactly what those numbers mean? I'm sincerely trying to figure it out and even googled it, but I couldn't figure it out. Thankyou.

what about morphies numbers that were posted earlier

Leko is the king of draw-makers IMHO

Kasparov played only super tournaments though, in Capablanca's day most tournaments had a bottom group of 5-10 players that were many classes weaker than the best, so difficult to just compare percentages.

Peter Leko plays draws with >2300 People and

http://ratings.fide.com/chess_statistics.phtml?event=703303 look at his stats

In tal memorial you Can also talk about Andrawkin!

To take an extreme example, look at this tournament, one of the three Capa played during his eight years as undefeated. Great result but not very strong opposition:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=79959

For ex:

Kasparov's record is +785 -118 =771. This means that out of all the serious games that he has played in his career as a chess player, he's won 785, lost 118 and drawn 771.

fabelhaft wrote:

To take an extreme example, look at this tournament, one of the three Capa played during his eight years as undefeated. Great result but not very strong opposition:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=79959

But that's not my question.

andrawkin beat drawnik