who do you think is the best chess player in chess history?

OMFG, THIS TYPE OF THREAD AGAIN, HAHA! THIS IS GONNA BE SO FUNnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn..............................................

I am fully entitled to disagree with your absurd & unfounded claims and write my own.

P.S.

Or do you seriously believe Carlsen can play chess better than Philidor?

Paul Morphy.

"Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all... Perhaps the most accurate player who ever lived... I've played over hundreds of his games and am continually surprised and entertained by his ingenuity." - Bobby Fischer 

"To this day Morphy is an unsurpassed master..." - Mikhail Botvinnik

"Morphy was a chess genius in the complete sense of the word." - Max Euwe

"There is no doubt that for Morphy chess was an art, and for chess Morphy was a great artist. His play was captivated by freshness of thought and inexhaustible energy... He played, if one can express it so, 'pure chess'."  - Vasily Smyslov

"The radiant combinations of this chess genius can be compared with the transparent music of Mozart." - Anatoly Karpov

"The magnificent American master had the most extraordinary brain that anybody has ever had for chess." - Jose Capablanca

"What was the secret of Morphy's invincibility?" - Garry Kasparov

"In a set match, Morphy would beat anybody alive today." - Bobby Fischer

"He who plays with Morphy must abandon all hope..." - Adolph Anderssen

Fischer was definately a genius, probaly the same can be said of Magnus nowadays. Keep your eye on Caruana

it weird yesterday i thought the same when i watched a video of an nm, wich ironically also reminded me Carlsen, Christiansen and Nakamura. Maybe the key to chess strength is to ignore openings ;)

The best chess player in history is Paul Morphy. The player that has played the best chess ever is Magnus Carlsen. 

Gioachino Greco was the first master. All modern chess tactics are footnotes to his labors.

LeBron James is the best chess player i have ever seen.

Welcome respite from the unending banality.

WittyBonkers wrote:

LeBron James is the best chess player i have ever seen.

lol

CARLSEN

Fischer and Carlsen

You can't remember Gonnosuke as he hasn't been around since August 2011, can you?

Computer-like accuracy isn't the only factor in human chess, and also not the most important one. Lasker, Marshall, Tal, Bronstein and Larsen were significantly stronger players than Kramnik, though less "accurate".

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