Who is your favorite world champion? (Recent & and Old)

Mine favorite world champion is :-

Old- Bobby Fischer.

Recent- Magnus Carlsun

Old- Fischer Recent- Anand

Mikhail Tal

Vesselin Topalov

I like Carlsen (new), but Tal will always be my favourite (old)

Alekhine is pretty cool.

Philidorr

only one ...Tal .the most talnet player for ever. 

Favorties dosent mean how well the fav Gms played.

Be posting everyone.

I suppose Tal, because he was such a unique talent. On a related issue, it's also interesting to consider who is one's favourite player never to become World Champion. I imagine Korchnoi would get a lot of votes and I like him too. However, I think I've learned quite a bit from the games of Efim Geller. He's one of the few world class grandmasters that a patzer like me can learn something from. Kevin Spraggett wrote an interesting article about him, explaining why, in his opinion, he never became World Champion, despite Botvinnik saying that for a period in the '60s Geller was 'obviously the best player in the world'. Spraggett terms his play 'classical dynamism'; i.e. get hold of the centre, develop the minor pieces quickly, castle as soon as it's safe to do so, etc. In other words, it's all basic stuff, but by looking at his games, weak players (such as myself) can see the ways in which the central principles can be extremely powerful if handled with skill and knowledge. 

Why TAL is liked by everyone?

Because of his fearless style of playing.

Who is your favorite?

Old: Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj

New: Mahendra Singh Dhoni 

Vassily Smyslov and Capablanca

I like many of the world champions. However, I like Tal's playing style the most!

We are not talking about Cricketers! Please comment seriously.

What about Morphy?

Morphy was a very talented player, but he wasn't a world champion. In fact, there were no official world champions in his time.