bjazz wrote:
Ron Weasley
That guy plays wizard chess not normal chess. anyways my favorite chess player is me.
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All hail Kasparov!
Jan 23, 2010
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rubygabbi wrote:
The question, I believe, is who is your favorite chess player, not necessarily the best.
I admire both Morphy and Spassky, both for their sportmanship and manners as well as their abilities.
I admire Lasker for having maintained his championship longer than any other World Champion.
And I admire the Polgar sisters - Judit, for being the strongest female player to date, and Szusza (Susan), for beating nearly all of the strongest contemporary players and devoting her life to the popularization and teaching of chess.
I have no problem praising Susan Polgar for her chess related achievements. However, whatever she has done in the realm of popularization and teaching chess has been more than negated by causing and initiating meritless lawsuits against the USCF which have turned the life upside down for many and leave the USCF members at a loss in excess of $600,000. The reason that settlement occured just a few days ago was the fact that the USCF would have run out of funds if the cases would have proceeded to trial.
different players for different reasons from different eras. for enjoyment i like Andersseen, Morphy, Lasker, Alekhine, Nehmetdinov, Tal, Spassky, Korchnoi, Kasparov and Ivanchuck games. For understanding the game i'll take Tarrasch, Nizowitsch, Capablanca, Botvinik, Bronstein, Fine, Fischer, Karpov and Kramnik. Other favorites include Pilsbury, Keres, Rubinstein, Janowski, Bogolujobow, Marshall, Shabalov, Shirov, Anand, Topalov, Petrosian, and Schlecter. Favorite of all time = Spassky...we share a birthday and i love his freeflowing, natural, universal style, he could play any kind of position in many ways and was the only person in '71-'72 that could even dream about stopping Fischer. plus ive heard he is just a fun loving nice guy. he has a reputation for being lazy, ive always wondered what would he have been like if he took chess more seriously...
jpd303 wrote:
Favorite of all time = Spassky...we share a birthday and i love his freeflowing, natural, universal style, he could play any kind of position in many ways and was the only person in '71-'72 that could even dream about stopping Fischer. plus ive heard he is just a fun loving nice guy. he has a reputation for being lazy, ive always wondered what would he have been like if he took chess more seriously...
Maybe a Spassky specialist could be more definitive but my impression of Spassky is that he was a hardworking challenger, and that he was often in chess-mania mode. Not like Fischer though who lived for the game for year after year.
Rapidly becoming my least favorite player: The guy who pries open most any thread and "finds reason" to insert for the 100th time a picture of his immortal stack of pieces.
Please give it a rest. It verges on spamming.
Bobby Fischer
No, no thanks. Do not post them for my sake.
HA HA!!!!!!!! BAG062A!!!!!
David Bronstein.
Alekhine. Of the current players: Nakamura. Of course, Kasparov is the greatest of all time.
Capanblanca.
CAPABLANCA!
After playing through some games between Steinitz and Anderssen recently I'm extremely impressed by their fighting spirit. They are stereotyped as being a great defender and attacker respectively, but in the games I played Steinitz is attacking like a fiend and Anderssen plays unbelievable defence. It's too hard to choose favorites, there's too many great players.
Does anyone know any website I could watch live chess games without paying for a membership???
i dont know about LIVE games but chessgames.com is a great resource for classic games and even up-to-date games from contemporary players.
Bobby Fischer for ending the Russians World Championship rein; and for doing it during the Cold War when Olympic, Space Race and Chess prowless were three huge factors, not only in and of themselves but also as validation of Political Ideals.
Don't forget Alekhine who beat the supposedly invincible Capablanca for the World Championship! Also, his winning percentage in World Championship games is the highest ever. And if you can believe this ( its true ) Alekhine played 26 Simultaneous boards against very strong players......BLINDFOLDED!! and had a score of 16 wins 5 loses and 5 draws, the greatest blindfold exhibition ever.
The question, I believe, is who is your favorite chess player, not necessarily the best.
I admire both Morphy and Spassky, both for their sportmanship and manners as well as their abilities.
I admire Lasker for having maintained his championship longer than any other World Champion.
And I admire the Polgar sisters - Judit, for being the strongest female player to date, and Szusza (Susan), for beating nearly all of the strongest contemporary players and devoting her life to the popularization and teaching of chess.
I don't think Lasker gets enough credit for this. As I've gotten older, I'm more and more impressed by his level of play over so many years.