I saw this in the Chess.com forums. Thought I would try it here at GrayMatter.

Post you top five list here. Can be anything. Chess related or other stuff. Could be favorite books, authors, music, musicians, actors, movies, tv shows, chess players, countries, theme parks, jobs, sports........the list is endless. Which is kinda why I would like to try this. You can post as many as you want. Whenever you want. Maybe your caught up with all your games, come here and post a list or comment on another's list. Could be fun.

Thanks!!

My first top five. Since we are all chess players, my top five favorite chess players of all time.

 1. Bobby Fischer (the player, not the man he would become)

2. Garry Kasporov (I think he may be the greatest of all time)

3. Paul Keres

4. Sammy Reshevsky

5. Boris Spassky

Top 5 chess books (no order):

• The Amateur's Mind & Reassess Your Chess Workbook - Jeremy Silman
• Back to Basics: Tactics - Dan Heisman
• Silman's Complete End-game Course - Jeremy Silman
• Logical Chess Move by Move - Irving Chernev
• The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings - Reuben Fine

(Warning: check out my my rating and you'll note that perhaps they haven't done me much good.  On the other handthink what my rating would be without them!)

Graybeard

A trip to the bookstore for me.

Actually next Saturday my wife and I head to the Twin Cities for a little shopping. I always try to hit a Barnes and Noble when there. See what I can find. B Dalton is all we have here and not much in the way of chess.

My top five sports teams:

1. Minnesota Vikings

2. Iowa Hawkeyes football

3. Minnesota Twins

4. NIACC Trojans ( junior college close to where we live )

5. Juice baseball team ( an amateur baseball team my son pitches for in Colorado)

My five favorite books by books in the Bible with specific chapters:

1.  Psalms 84, 90, 91, 139

2.  Hebrews 1, 10

3.  Romans 1, 3, 8, 9

4.  Acts 2, 17

5.  Ephesians 1, 2, 5

My 5 favorite Football teams (to me)-- or at least in my feeble mind

 Alabama Crimson Tide

LSU Tigers (Geuax Tigers)

That equals five, I think !!!!!!!!

Five of my favorite bible texts (following Calvinist's good lead!):

• I Cor 10:13 (substitute 'testing' for 'temptations'  - same word in Greek)
• Phil 4:11b-12
• Psalm 131
• Jeremiah 29:11
• Psalm 62:11-12a
• Job 2:10b

That's almost five!!

Love the tradition of the Crimson Tide and when they play the Auburn Tigers. Fun game to watch.

I like the bible lists alot.  Will check them out tonight in fact. Am a christian myself and like many christians ( I hope I'm wrong ) ) I need to dust off my bible. The one verse I can remember is John 11:35 as it is the shortest verse in the bible. 

Only one I could remember.