Top 5 Players of All Time

"You're seriously ranking Judit Polgar and Nigel Short over Kramink and Topalov???"

What about Khalifman ahead of Carlsen? :-) Or Nunn 30 places ahead? :-)

1) Who is Kramink? Oh, perhaps you mean Kramnik, right? The guy, who lost match to Shirov.

2) Topalov has never been that strong to bear comparison with true legends. He will be remebered in history as "cannon fodder" for his losses vs Kasparov, Anand and Carlsen. Like Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard. 

3) Believe or not, Nunn's play is much richer and more brilliant than Carlsen's. He truly deserves that spot.

4) Those 21.-50. are more or less equals. I don't consider Khalifman above Carlsen, but roughly equal to him. Khalifman is mentioned first, because he is older.

Kasparov Carlsen Fischer Steinitz Botvinnik in no particular order Im not choosing this based on skill (strongest) but based on their influence over the game.

1) Carlsen 2) Kasparov 3) Botvinnik 4) Capablanca 5) Morphy

Spassky

Euwe

So

Short

Giri

What's all the hype on Fischer? He's dead

Don't like seeing dead people? They tend to arise in a top-players-of-all-time discussion.

Well you tend to annoy the s*** out of everyone

I also don't just see people... I stick it right in the bum

tal is my #1

On this thread if I counted right tried to catch same person voting more than once its 1.Carlsen 2.Kasparov 3.Fischer  Morphy,Tal,Karpov,Capablanca,tied .

1 Bobby Fisher

2 Kasparov

3 Carlsen

4 Spassky

5 Polgar

#1 Hikaru

#2 Magnus carlsen 

#3 Bobby fisher 

#4 Wesly so 

#5 Gary kasparov 

I may have typed 1 or 2 names wrong 

I presume you mean Judit Polgar.   If the question was top 5 futtbuckers of the United States Chess Federation then Susan Polgar would own all 5 spots imo.

Tal

Alekhine

Ficsher

Capablanca

Carlsen

Karpov

Kasparov

Kramnic

Chigorin

Anand

carlsen carlsen carlsen carlsen carlsen

Carlsen

Fischer

Alekine

Casablanca

Morphy