Who is your favorite chess player?

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Future_IITian

Viswanathan Anand and Akshat Chandra

demian0075

Capablanca

snoozyman

< Mikhail Tal

Bobbyo1867

Nigel Short. A good guy.

anwar-am

Hikaru Nakamura

i_desire_hamburgers

Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi

1c6O-1

Hikaru of course happy.png

Shizuko

I... Don't actually know lol...... I like them ALL i guess?

KineticBarber

My favorite player is MVL :o

uhmrosa
danill dubov for sure
Luigi4011

Alexander Alekhine

Moonwarrior_1

Magnus

1e4c6_O-1

the second tigran

JijoAttumalilJose

Judit Polgár - Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess player.

1. She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time.

2. Judit Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster  at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer.

3. She is the only woman to be a serious candidate for the World Chess Championship, which she did in the  FIDE World Chess Championship 2005; she had previously participated in large, 100+ player knockout tournaments for the world championship.

4. She is the first, and to date only, woman to have surpassed 2700 Elo, reaching a career peak rating of 2735 and peak world ranking of No. 8 in 2005.

5. She is the only woman to be ranked in the top ten of all chess players, first reaching that ranking in 1996.

6. She was the No. 1 rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement on 13 August 2014.

7. Judit Polgár is the only woman to have won a game against a reigning world number one player, and has defeated eleven current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, Rustam Kasimdzhanov. happy.png

cyclonemaster

Wesly so and hikaru and magnus

LushesLucius

GMBenjaminFinegold because he "IS" and says and sees the truth in Morphy. (also I am looking to be active and my last tournament he was there while #3 lighting world wide) Like his show

rooksdrift

Garry Kasparov

gil_berth

Emanuel Lasker.

RichColorado

 



Uninterrupted_Chess

Lol, no doubt its Anish Giri for me..

"draw expert" haha

Amazing mixture of humour and intelligence XD