What player in history probably has the best win to lose ratio?

What player in history probably has the best win to lose ratio?  and one who didnt draw much? or who had an unstoppable reign? 

Also who was probably the best white player and who was the best black player. like who as black always played for a win

Best W/L ratio has gotta be Morphy.

Guy walked into chess at #1, and walked out at #1

Even titans like Kasparov and Fischer needed 10 years or so to learn.

Consecutive games without a loss

Between October 23, 1973, when he lost a game in a Soviet championship, and October 16, 1974, when he lost to Kirov at the Novi Sad tournament, Mikhail Tal had a string of 95 tournament games without a loss (46 wins and 49 draws) (Soltis 2002, p. 44) (Tal 1976, p. 500). Tal also has the second-longest unbeaten run in top-level competition. He went unbeaten in 86 games from July 1972, when he lost to Uusi in the tenth round at Viljandi, until April 1973, when he lost to Balashov in round two of the USSR Team Championship in Moscow. This streak included 47 wins and 39 draws (Tal 1976).

José Raúl Capablanca famously went eight years without a loss (1916 to 1924, including his World Chess Championship 1921 victory over Emanuel Lasker), but this was "only" 63 games.

Capablanca only lost 5% of all serious games  played ie international tnmts and matches. Karpov matched this record as WCH but I don't know if he still does or not.

Bobby Fischer holds the record for most consecutive wins vs GMs: 20 total, 7 of his last games in the 1971 IZ, 6-0 vs Taimanov (Candidates quarter final match), 6-0 (Candidates semi final match) vs Larsen and he won the first Candidates Final Match vs. Petrosian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_chess#Most_wins_against_World_Champions

www.cln.org/searching_faqs.html

I couldn't find anything definitive in my quick search, but I'm going to guess Paul Morphy:

+197 -26 =24 (84.6%)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=16002

I myself had the highest winning percentage in the world after my first ever OTB tournament game. :)

Houdini (Si version)...someday...?

I may have as when I was younger I won over 4000 games in a row without a loss or a draw!

CHESS games???

But in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament Steinitz unveiled a new "positional" style of play which was to become the basis of modern chess.^[6] Steinitz made a shaky start but won his last 14 games in the main tournament (including 2–0 results over Paulsen, Anderssen, and Blackburne^[6]) plus the 2 play-off games – this was the start of a 25-game winning streak in serious competition.^[12]

This beats even Fischer's streak.

Morphy was definitely the first person to come to mind.

This is an interesting question and i hope it doesn't go completely unnoticed (there are even more questions except the one in the thread title)

I certainly don't know, but Bobby Fischer has said that at one time he realised he should be playing with Black to win (not draw) and that was a major point in his chess career (or something similar)

Yes, and really, and no lie when I was age 15-16 I won over 4,000 games in a row without a loss or draw. It is kinda an interesting story. For those 4,000 plus games I had maybe 400 or more opponents.

I also claim to have been the best correspondence player with the black pieces in the United States. When I played [and won] the 7th United States Corrspondence Championship I won all my games with Black  7 out of 7 and it is a record that will very probably never be broken.

I always played for a win as Black.

I played through a couple of your games just now. You're very, very good! You make chess look pretty easy

I never heard of Claude before but I think Stan Vaughan is a likely candidate, a real legend in his own mind.  For more hilarious (or sad, depending on your mood) info see this

http://anusha.com/niemi.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bloodgood

I need to be rated 2600 by the end of today

I need 740 more rating points

Gioachino Greco

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=72111 has 78 wins, no draws or losses.

People are such jerks! I didn't even know people did stuff like that. Poor kids being taught by weasels

Oh, wow, that's almost unbelievable. From that article, for people too lazy to click the link and read the whole thing:

In his letter, Weeramantry pointed out that 7 year old Candice Lonardo - USCF ID #21000636, had achieved a rating of 1552 almost entirely by losing games to Stan Vaughan. Her last 10 USCF rated games had been against Stan Vaughan, who was rated 2265. The key is that when playing with a provisional rating, the loser gets a performance rating of 400 points less than the opponent. Thus, every time Candice Lonardo lost to Stan Vaughan, she was given a performance rating of 1865 for that one game. As a result of losing 12 games in a row, 11 to Stan Vaughan and one to Gergory Niemi (2065), the rating of Candice Lonardo had risen from 926 to 1552, making her the highest rated 7-year-old in the United States, all without winning or drawing a single game.

You have found a weakness in the rating system.  However, few of us aspire to a high rating based on losing every game!