Who is the best chess player from the 20th century

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UltiNoxCreator

Who do you think is the best chess player in the 20th century.  I think Emanual Lasker 

FJP3

Most will say Kasparov. Personally, I think it's Fischer

El-Pinto

I did some calculations (like Chessmetrics) where I calculated the peak of elo's best players like it was This year. For example in 1972, 2785 elo's Fisher now could be 2901.

They are the best 10.

  1. Fisher          2901
  2. Kasparov      2892
  3. Carlsen         2882
  4. Capablanca   2854
  5. Lasker          2849
  6. Kramnik        2845
  7. Anand           2839
  8. Karpov         2835
  9. Topalov        2835
  10. Aronian        2830
UltiNoxCreator

wow

UltiNoxCreator

how did you do that

trotters64

Surely Tal is in the top 10 .

UltiNoxCreator

never mind not emanuel lasker. now pillsbury

HopelessRoyale90

Fischer was the best!! 

Alec289

Capablanca special player.

Rizwan99

Carol_Jean wrote:

Fischer was the best!! 

hi carol jean

Rizwan99

Carol_Jean wrote:

Fischer was the best!! 

hi carol jean

Rizwan99

Carol_Jean wrote:

Fischer was the best!! 

hi carol jean

Rizwan99

Carol_Jean wrote:

Fischer was the best!! 

hi carol jean

kindaspongey
El-Pinto wrote:

I did some calculations (like Chessmetrics) where I calculated the peak of elo's best players like it was This year. …

Elo ratings did not exist for most of the 20th century. I am not aware of any generally accepted method for assigning 2018 ratings to non-2018 players.