Best chess player ever

Everybody can nominate or vote for 1 player. PLEASE DONT SAY YOURSELF!!! its rude, and i will lose respect for you. well, mabye i wont...but just dont be funny and troll the forum.

I nominate Jose Raul Capablanca.

If you say like first fisher, second capa, ill take both votes. Itll be nice if you can explain why, if you submit multiple votes.

I also don't necessarily mean best, just favorite.

Jose Raul Capablanca +30

 Robert James Fischer +30

Garry Kasparov +29

Paul Morphy +13                                 

Mikhail Tal +10

Alexander Alekhine +6

Magnus Carlsen +4

François-André Danican Philidor +3

Emanuel Lasker +3

Anatoly Karpov +3

Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian +2  

Samuel Herman Reshevsky +2

Rashid Nezhmetdinov +2

Mikhail Botvinnik +2  

Willhelm Steinitz +2

Mir Sultan Khan +2

Vladmir Kramnik +2    

Rueben Fine +1   

Bent Larsen +1  

(note to self) tallied to comment 155

Well, i hate to say it, but im guessing fishy is gonna win this one. kasparov and capa are right behind hime, but fishys votes are coming too fast and show no signs of stopping. GUYS!!!! BOBBY FISHER WAS A NUTCASE!!!! hes rude, impolite, incredibly good at chess, and rude. did i mention impolite?

I'm having a hard time deciding between Fischer and yeres30

I fear that if I put out that you'll lose respect for me anyway.

Fischer

Magnus Carlsen

Paul Morphy!

I second Jose Raul Capablanca!!!

its an impossible question to answer, perhaps ask favourite chess player ever

Fischer was the shooting star, Kasparov and Lasker were better over a longer period

pick one from the three FullmetalAlchemist

>:)

Fischer's games were and are still some of the most creative and brilliant in history. They were human in ever way. He was testing himself and the game with every move. He produced more famous games than many other famous GM's combined. He was Bobby Fischer.

Then I pick Kasparov.  But then 2Capablanca,   3Fischer,    4Tal

Capablanca gets my vote....not sure the best but I enjoy his games the most. I've vote this way in each of the previous 17 threads I've encountered that posed this question.

Bobby Fischer

Fischer

MyCowsCanFly: About Capablanca, I know.  I feel the same way.  There's just some little bit of magic hidden in his chess that I can't quite put into words.  I said it before to Gambitking, and I'll say it again, if perfection exists in chess, Capablanca is where you'll find it.

Kasparov

morphy! then capa

On average, over the course of many, many years, Sammy Reshevsky.  As for who hit the greatest ever heights, Fischer.  Was it Taimonov he ripped apart 6-0?  I can never remember.

If we're going over a very long period of time, I'd probably pick Steinitz or Lasker before Reshevsky.  Come to think of it, Botvinnik had a very, very long run as well.

And Lasker would have peaked the highest.

The trouble I have is that I'm in no way qualified to judge what is great chess.  I can go by reputation, results and games that I've particularly enjoyed, but nothing more objective or absolute.