top 5 endgame players?

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Here I'm just wondering who you think are the top 5 endgame players of all time. You can vote less than 5 but please not more than 5. 1st place gets 5 points, 2nd gets 4 and so on.

There have been 16 out of 30 votes.

Current results as of post 34 by chessmaster102

Capablanca 43

Rubinstein 23.5

Lasker 22.5

Botvinnik 17.5

Smyslov 13

Fischer 11.5

Karpov 9.5

Kasparov 4.5

Benko 2.5

Maroczy 2.5

Levenfish 1

Reshevsky 1

Fine 1

Averbakh 1

U. Andersson 0.5

Korchnoi 0.5

Reti 0.5

Alekhine 0.5

Petrosian 0.5

Nimzovitch 0.5

And I DON'T include engines

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Sillman made a list on his Endgame Course book.

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Lenny Bongcloud Laughing

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uh, I don't really know what the thing is with Lenny Bongcloud but I've seen other polls and almost no one allows him so I won't either.

and checkmateibeatu if you fully agree with that list then you can post it.

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JMB2010 wrote:

Here I'm just wondering who you think are the top 5 endgame players of all time. You can vote less than 5 but please not more than 5. 1st place gets 5 points, 2nd gets 4 and so on.


Did you get that from me or did you come up with it yourself?

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on the serious note: I'll say Botvinnik.

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checkmateibeatu wrote:
JMB2010 wrote:

Here I'm just wondering who you think are the top 5 endgame players of all time. You can vote less than 5 but please not more than 5. 1st place gets 5 points, 2nd gets 4 and so on.


Did you get that from me or did you come up with it yourself?


 cmibu you come up with threads that belong to others like the hurt/heal thing, really you need to take the chill pill.

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checkmateibeatu wrote:
JMB2010 wrote:

Here I'm just wondering who you think are the top 5 endgame players of all time. You can vote less than 5 but please not more than 5. 1st place gets 5 points, 2nd gets 4 and so on.


Did you get that from me or did you come up with it yourself?


 I got it from you. Sealed

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kco wrote:
checkmateibeatu wrote:
JMB2010 wrote:

Here I'm just wondering who you think are the top 5 endgame players of all time. You can vote less than 5 but please not more than 5. 1st place gets 5 points, 2nd gets 4 and so on.


Did you get that from me or did you come up with it yourself?


 cmibu you come up with threads that belong to others like the hurt/heal thing, really you need to take the chill pill.


That wasn't anger, I was just wondering.

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so just relaxed then for christ sake. Peoples get ideas from other peoples all the time even you do it.

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Obviously Bloodgood. He has the highest rating ever

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any more votes?...

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Botvinnik has 7, not 5 and then his twin having 2.

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checkmateibeatu wrote:

Botvinnik has 7, not 5 and then his twin having 2.


 oh yeah Laughing obviously I'm a newbee at this

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My top 5 players for this topic, not in order:

Bobby Fischer

Anatoly Karpov

Ulf Andersson

Jose Capablanca

Akiba Rubinstein

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My vote goes to Fischer, Botvinnik, Karpov,Pal Benko

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Rubinstein

Lasker

Korchnoi

Capablanca

Smyslov

I don't have these ranked, but I do think Lasker was the greatest endgame player of all time.

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Capablanca #1  by a long way

Reubinstien #2

Botvinik #3

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LOL Easy top three:

#1. Capablanca

#2. Rubenstien

#3. Lasker

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me

Cool