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Who is/was the greatest 1.d4 player w/ white?
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Kasparov.
Kramnik is quite the technician w/ 1.d4...
Reshevsky was a decent 1.d4 only player.
Botvinnik had a fearsome reputation.
Sep 27, 2010
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Pillsbury
Capa/Alekhine get my 2nd vote
Kramnik, but he played 1.Nf3 for years which often transposed.
I remember reading about a devoted 1.e4-hater in Rubinstein. After a tournament he was asked why he only played 1. e4 one time in all his games. He replied:
"I always play the best moves in the opening!"
I'm not sure if he's the best 1.d4 ever but 3 suggestions for the title: Botvinnik, Capa, Alekhine
There have been many excellent d4 players, it's just difficult to find one better than Kasparov
Karpov is the greatest d4 player. Kramnik a close second.
Jan 8, 2014
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Kasparov. He played 1.d4 in ways that most 1.d4 players don't/can't play...highly dynamic and energetic.
Mandy711 wrote:
Karpov is the greatest d4 player. Kramnik a close second.
Maybe I'm off base here, but I think of Karpov as an e4 player, who had a pretty substantial body of work with c4, and maybe dabbled a little bit in d4 in terms of overall body of work.
Jan 8, 2014
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Grindwriter wrote:
Mandy711 wrote:
Karpov is the greatest d4 player. Kramnik a close second.
Maybe I'm off base here, but I think of Karpov as an e4 player, who had a pretty substantial body of work with c4, and maybe dabbled a little bit in d4 in terms of overall body of work.
As of now:
1.d4 996 games, 1.e4 579 games, 1.c4 197 games, 1.Nf3 152 games
source-chessgames.com
Jan 8, 2014
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trigs wrote:
anand definitely deserves to be in this conversation.
Plays e4 too much.
Jan 8, 2014
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#17
Ivan Farago only lost about 105 times out of 1640 games playing d4.
Anatoly Karpov
Garry Kasparov.
Anyone's thoughts are welcome.