Best 10 Player Of All time

1. Bobby Fischer

2. Garry Kasparov

3. Karpov

4. Viswanathan Anand

5. Mikhail Tal

Rubinstein doesn't get enough credit that's for sure...i am to understand that he was schizophrenic or highly neurotic, either way it was VERY difficult for him to concentrate on his games...and he was still at the very top of the ratings charts during his prime (long before Elo ratings but you know what i  mean).  his endgame was impeccable, his mid game was superb, he could play positionally or get very tactical if he had to.  and he left us with a few opening variations...all in all one of the best ever...Keres was just awesome, but i think he gets most of the accolades that he deserves...Rubinstein gets forgotten about sometimes... 

What are you all doing here? Until I start the "Best 3 players of all time" thread, the place to be is "Best 5 players of all time."

Hehe, Kasparov played all the worlds GMs in vote chess one time and won, that was something.

Karpov is always best.

 2.Kasparov, 3.Fischer, 4-5.Capa-Tal

 I surprised ,that nobody wrote about Philidore?! I don't understand why?

Some girls say: the first time is an amazing! I mean sex ,no chess:) The first time is unusual because, the one time it happenes.

I mean, that Philidore was the first. He has bacome man most earlier.

Philidore fertilized chess in positional way. I know. I use strange metaphores,but it's late:)

This man is the father of positional play. He understood ,how much important is the center of chessboard. His style of  play is modern, and He was living many,many yers ago.

In my opinion he was the first positional discoverer. I think he was one of the best chessplayers in the chess history.

In the park in my city chessplayers, even today ,play philidor's opening in closed way.

 At the end I have a question. Who was a bigger genius: the discoverer of circle,or discoverer of mobile?

in my opinion Philidore had harder task ,than today's chessplayers. He had to discover the secrets of positional play.

1. Kasparov

2. Fischer

3. Capablanca

4. Botvitnik

5. Karpov

6. Tal

7. Carlsen

8. Alekhine

9. Kramnik

10. Lasker

1. Bobby Fischer - Simply the best.

2. Garry Kasparov -The Great Garry 

3. Anatoly Karpov - Positional Perfection

4. Jose Raul Capablanca - Smooth Criminal

5. Mikhail Tal - Look into my eyes, into the eyes, not around the eyes! 

6. Alexander Alekhine - Attacking Genius

7. Mikhail Botvinnik - Scientist. 'nuff said.

8. Tigran Petrosian- Beat him - I dare you.

9. Boris Spassky - He did beat him.

10. Emanuel Lasker - For the old guys.

1. José Raúl Capablanca

2. Emanuel Lasker

3. Judit Polgar

4. Bobby Fischer

5. Viswanathan Anand

6. Garry Kasparov

7. Ruy López de Segura

8. Sa'id bin Jubair

9. Paul Morphy

10. Wilhelm Steinitz

For my version of the Top 10 all-time, I use the following factors:

• 1. Brute strength of the player (as determined by ratings, best performances)
• 2. Number of years as World Champion (if any)
• 3. Significance of the player to the history of chess (or one of the predecessors of the current game)
• 4. Significance of the player to the promotion of the sport/game and the image of chess

See my complete article on this here:

http://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=Top_10_Chess_players_of_all_time

1. Kasparov

2. Karpov

3. Fischer

4. Anand

5. Kramnik

6. Korchnoi

7. Petrosian

8. Capablanca

9. Gelfand

10. Topalov

1.Paul Morphy : a genius both as a chess player and academically

2.Bobby Fischer : 

3.Garry Kasparov :

4.Anatoly Karpov :

5.Jose Capablanca:

6.Alexander Alekheine

7.Emmanual Lasker

8.Mikhail Botvinnik.

9.Mikhail Tal.

10.Tigran Petrosian

1.Kasparov

2.Fischer

3.Karpov

4.Capablanca

5.Lasker

6.Morphy

7.Alekhine

8.Steinitz

9.Tal

10.Carlsen

check out wiki as really profound:

/wiki/Comparison_of_top_chess_players_throughout_history

Updated since last WCC:

https://dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=Top_10_Chess_players_of_all_time

Comparing chess players across different eras is difficult.  Would Kasparov's ability to work and study so hard, be diminished 100 years ago, when there was so much less to study and so few resources availabel to a top player?  Or would Capablanca, "The Natural,"  not possess the work ethic to take advantage of all the materials available to the modern GM?  Because of these uncertainties, the only criteria I can use is how much a player dominated his era.

1. Kasparov

2. Fischer

3. Capablanca

4. Morphy

5. Alehkine

6. Lasker

7. Carlsen

8. Steinitz

9. Karpov

10. Smyslov

All World Champions, and while Smyslov was only World Champion for one year, he won two candidaes tournaments, and in 3 matches vs Botvinnik had the slightest of edges (12-12 in 1954, 12.5-9.5 in 1957, 10.5-12.5 in 1958)

Tal is the best!

Mostly my Top 10 is really similar as those presented, but Czech Věra Menčíková can't miss on mine, she inspired me to play and was quite brilliant. 

Kasparov. Lasker. Carlsen. Karpov. Fischer. Capablanca. botvinnik. Steinitz. Kramnik. Smyslov.