What is the strongest era of chess players ever?

This is something that I believe to be an interesting subject, and something without a thread devoted to it as of yet.

This one.

Obviously.

now, with an added "Duh" when else have we had 4 players rated 2800

The scary part about that is that in the future there will be players who are able to score more than 50% against these four 2800+ players. So the show towards 2900 goes on.

Romantic Era:

Please keep off-topic stuff out of my threads.

Welcome back! For how long have you been away?

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 The Romantic Era was the greatest era in chess in many player's opinon. That period layed the foundation for the super GM's of our day who still play the lines of those great Masters !!  

I think Botvinniks era was strongest for having the most known masters then. Fischer,Petrosian,Botvinnik,Tal,Spassky just to name a few.

The future beckons:

I think that the strongest era was at the start of the modern era,from the start of Steinitz`s reign as world champion to the end of Lasker`s reign as world champion. We all have to remember that chess really didn`t start to make a lot of forward progress entail defence and the importance of the pawns were emploied!!!!

Clearly it was the Botvinnik era

 You got that right amigo---Botvinnik, Keres, Petrosian, Bronstein, Smyslov were not only good but they cheated as well. It wasn't enough to know they would probably win when playing Western masters---They want that little edge to be assured of bringing victory back to the fatherland. Also they wanted to eat regularly which they didnt if they suffered ignominious defeat at the hands of someone like Fischer. Look at what happened to Taimanov.