Who is the best in the world?

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Moon_stone123

Magnus Carlsen,Emanuel Lasker,Paul morphy,Capablanca,Kasparov and Fischer

Scottrf

Most of those are dead.

Kasparov is retired.

So I'd say Carlsen is the best in the world.

OpiningTheoretician

Everybody knows that Volokitin is the best chess player ever, having a 4-0 score vs Mangus the Carlson

Moon_stone123

It's magnus Carlsen not Magnus the Carlsen you know

Moon_stone123

Volokitin is NOT better than Carlsen

eciruam
TylerMTL wrote:

Who is the best in the world

Best what ?

Could you be a bit more vague, please ?

I_Am_Second
TylerMTL wrote:

Who is the best in the world

"In the world"?  Dont know.  On the world"  Carlsen is the world champion right now.

eciruam

Oh, the best chess player ?

Why didn't you say so.

Hmmmm, that's a tough one. Maybe the WORLD CHAMPION !!!???

Or maybe a dead guy's ghost ?

Somebody who is retired ?

varelse1

Well....

Carlsen is the highest rated player in the world, by a fair margin. And is also reigning champion. Any reason I shouldn't consider him the best?

SharkTeam17

best at what? attacking? defending? if you mean overall i aswell as everyone else who follows chess recently may go with the world champion. Hes got that title for a reason, aswell as the highest rating ever

cornbeefhashvili

North Korea is Best Korea!

But seriously, right now I'd have to say Magnus Carlsen - for the moment.

varelse1

If it's best LOOKING, then it's Varelse1!

cornbeefhashvili

Did you get The Precious from Jared's or Kay?

Robert_New_Alekhine

Volokiting...played Carlsen when the latter was much weaker.

Carlsen, by far.

sluck72

Magnus is

Moon_stone123

Well I think Mikhail Tal is the best at tactics

TheGreatOogieBoogie
CL123789 wrote:

If it's attacking then it's Morphy

Oh please Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual and maybe even School of Chess Excellence 2 would really push his limits.  Svidler and Judit Polgar on the other hand could effortlessly breeze through them.

TheOldReb
kiwi-inactive

Mr Tumnus is the best in the world.

Moon_stone123

Not true

kiwi wrote:

Mr Tumnus is the best in the world.