The Strongest Chess players of all time

@infestationpit number one bullshit

Wait... why is Lasker so high?

In my opinion, Karpov is #2 with Kasparov #1, Carlsen #3 and Fischer disqualified for being an antisemite who cheered on in response to the 9/11 attacks. He was and is a severe shame to the Chess community who caused big international hassle and almost had entire Chess tournaments postponed due to his conduct as an ambassador of the sport.

Why is Morphy so low? If you ask me I would have put him in at least top 10. He was the  best chess player in 1850s. 

Lasker held championship for longest period of time and was a great personal individual who helped other players with financial aid. Fischer and Morphy were probably most innovative players that expanded game with traps and gambits while most others stuck to conventional game. Unfortunately both had severe mental issues and careers were shortened. Karpov and Kasparov were great also and cannot argue about that. Carlsen is becoming a legend as we speak and could conquer all.

Hi im a noob at chess

programmers of A 0 and Stockfish

they are the stongest!

performance over time =/= playing strength. otherwise, players like tal and spassky, who were inconsistent, would be really low, even though spassky himself was better than every single other player on the planet for like, some 6 years or so? 

    A few players get undervalued in your calculations. Capablanca and Botvinnik were at their peak during world wars, when there was very little chess being played. (Botvinnik dominated any makeshift tournaments he played in during the war and cruised to an EASY world championship victory in 1948, and Capablanca was so dominant 25-30 years earlier that Lasker offered to resign the world championship to him without playing a match.) Tarrasch had a much more prestigious career in academia that often kept him from active play--expert opinion at the time considered that Steinitz and Lasker were playin to determine who was the world's second-best player. Morphy had no real competition so it is impossible to judge how far he outranked his contemporaries. Tal suffered debilitating illness when he was at his best so couldn't play enough for a while to have his true peak strength evaluated with your methodology. I'm sure there are other similar examples on the list. And of course players such as Greco, Philidor, Ruy Lopez and others are known to us only for being the greatest players of their day so there is no way to make any comparisons.

For me, I am the strongest player of all times!

And the second strongest player is Judit Polgar.

All great players and much better than all of us combined. 

Yes!