Who's your most favorite chess player?

lasker.........didn't he hold the championship for a million years? or so it seemed.........

Larsen. Especially because my favorite game ever Larsen-Spassky interzonal 1964 was his dazzling win with a bird-orangutan hybrid.

Magnus Carlsen, of course, he is my favorite. 

I'm the big fan of Magnus Carlsen  🙌

Fabiano Caruana!

ALL HAIL TO MAGNUS CARLSEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bronstien, Kasparov, Tal

I always really admired players who played very original and creative. And with creative I don't mean sacrificing all your pieces like it got tradition of all the underaged Tal-wannabes. I mean players who produce games that can teach you complete new schemes of positional or tactical play. Take the game Petrosian vs Unzicker 1960 for example. In my opnion there is more creativity needed to calmly march your King to the safe "pawn-knight-fortress" which you created 20 moves earlier, so you can start an attack, because the opposite king cannot copy your maneuver due to the open file domination you established, than for sacrificing another time with your knight on f7 (don't get me wrong: Players like Tal, Nezhmetdinov or Bronstein were absolute genuises, but i don't primarly admire them for their creativity (except Bronstein maybe) ). Another example would be many games of Nimzowitsch where he entombs his opponent, until the poor victim can't even move anymore. Long story short

-Petrosian (everybody who says he plays boring chess has no clue of the game)

-Nimzowitsch (eccentric and original)

-Ivanchuk (his brilliancy over Kasparov still stuns me)

by the ivanchuk one, you mean that french defense win vs kasparov? i love that game!

 I have four favorite players. The absolute favorite among them changes from time to time. In no particular order:

Tigran Petrosian -- underappreciated world champion, with an incredible depth and beauty of play

Samuel Reshevsky -- underappreciated past master who could have been world champion. A close study of his crisp and clear play would benefit any chess player.

Albin Planinc -- one of the most creative players ever, he won the 1969 Vidmar Memorial as an untitled player, ahead of 10 GMs and 3 IMs, while continuing to work throughout the tournament at his day job in a bicycle factory. His career was tragically cut short by mental illness that led to his being institutionalized.

Svetozar Gligorich -- unable to afford a chess set as a child, he carved pieces out of cork. He spent his most formative chess years as an officer in the Yugoslav resistance during WWII. And he still managed to be one of the top players in the world for many years.

Anish Giri. His style is solid and can adapt to the situation. I also can understand his play better than others

My favorite is only one Magnus. No matter what he is the best as I know. Carlsen is great

I love carlsen every move. He tricks opponent :/

Magnus Carlsen

donald trump. 

brett "i like beer" kavanaugh.  he plays a fantastic budapest gambit