who is the greatest chess player in the history???

alpha zero

look at this wird opening by Bobby F

@cuires that wasn't Bobby Fscher. that game was played on ICC ( Internet chess club)  vs Nigel Short and it's 100% someone else using an engine to troll Nigel Short.

The one who quit after his first game.

here is the prove

@cuires dude everyone knows this was a troll and Nigel Short fell for it and believed it. A quick google will come up with thousands of forum discussions about this game. Old news.

I will always have a soft spot for Akiba Rubinstein during his most impressive years from 1907 through to 1912. An absolutely marvellous player.

Jose Raul Capablanca!

"Lasker ... didn't understand positional chess." - another Fischer quote from around the same time as his Morphy comments.

Extended discussions of Morphy have been written in books by GM Franco, GM Beim, GM Ward, GM Marin, GM Bo Hansen, GM McDonald, Garry Kasparov (with Dmitry Plisetsky), and GM Gormally. Anyone see any of them express the view that we should accept Fischer's conclusion about Morphy? There seems to be general agreement that Morphy was, as GM Fine put it, one of the giants of chess history, but that is a long way from saying that he was better than anyone playing today.

@cures you dont understand.  It wasn't Fischer playing Nigel. 

As an aside, an ICC owner told me that while it wasn't Fischer who played Short, Fischer did have an anonymous account on ICC. I'd love it if they were to publish his games. But I suspect he made his joining conditional on complete anonymity forever.

If you would believe no other claims about the ICC opponent of Short, you could always think about two simple reasons to question the whole thing. To begin with, the player started games 1. f3 2. Kf2 etc. And still beat Short 8-0 in a blitz match. Fischer would never play something so strange in the opening, and would certainly never beat Short 8-0 in the early 2000s. Remember that he scored 17.5-12.5 against a Spassky that had fallen out of the top 100 ten years before that. Add another ten years to Fischer, and have him face a much stronger opponent than 1992 Spassky (Short qualified for a title match in 1993), and have him play ridiculous openings, and he would be beaten quite badly.

One of the more obvious signs that the person pretending to be Fischer was a weak player with a strong engine that he started using after 4-5 moves, is that while he won several games after having an in principle lost position in the opening, he also lost some games after playing f4 and g4 in the first moves to be mated with Qh4, like: 1. f4 e5 2. f5 d5 3. g4 Qh4#

Alpha Zero

"his IQ was too good for books"

I know how that feels!

Me too. It's called Dunning Kruger. You will find thousands of accounts on the Interwebs with people who feel their IQ is too good for books and still know everything about something or other. Dunning Kruger. Google it!

Are you retarded?

You probably are retarded. Me too by the way. I'm a real idiot.

says the  man with very low IQ