5 Best Players of All Time

1 Ann L Fischer

2 Fisher Cutbate

3 Fisher Hoffman

4 King Fischer

5 Ziggy L Fischer

ann(a) l. fischer

Smell Fishy

I'm not sure you'll want to get too close to that one (or the pun it contains)...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_fissure

A bald guy with weird-faced girlfriends?

"I took your pawn" said Tom in passing.

"Fischer was no good" said Tom, baitingly.

"Your back rank is weak" said Tom peripherally.

"That pawn is poisoned" said Tom venomously.

"I don't like the Fried Liver attack" said Tom distastefully.

I have Karpov's signature.

1 garry kaparov

 2 anatoly karpov

3 emanuel lasker

4 bobby fischer 

5 jose raul capablanca

6 mikhail botvinnik

7 alexander alekhine

8 viswanathan anand

9 wilhelm steinitz

10 paul morphy

So 5 of these guys are on the reserve team?

I LOVE FISCHER

You mean Fissure

1-houdini

2-fritz

3-rybka

4-hiarks

5-stockfish

I'm new to chess. Saw the TV special on Magnus Carlsen, so seems he's the best?  Why is the India guy #1 in the world then?  Are they dodging Carlsen, like Spassky and the Russian dodged Fischer for years?

1.  Fischer
2.  Kasparov
3.  Capablanca
4.  Karpov
5.  Alekhine

I think you have that backwards (who forfeited to who in 1975?).

everyone seems to be forgetting reti

@AndyClifton fischer didnt play because they didnt meet his conditions. Karpov even said himself that he would only have 40% chance of winning and fischer would have a 60 % chance of winning

tal is a boss

1. Kasparov

2. Capablanca

3. Fischer

4. Karpov

5. Lasker

Top 10: Morphy, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Anand, Carlsen.  

Top 5: hmm...  K + K, Bobby, Capa, Morphy