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Bobby Fischer- unrivaled human abilities to see combinations
Boris Spassky - Worlds best kings gambit player
Maia Chiburdanidze- almost extraterrestrial how well she utilizes posistional sacrifices for counterplay
Tigran Petrosian- Can score a draw with any grandmaster.
Paul Morphy - The most creative chessplayer of alltime
Gerhard VanPerlo- The greatest chesswriter of alltime
Emannual Lasker- The most technical coffeehouse player of alltime
Alexandra Kosteniuk- Almost never loozes as black
Mark Dvoretsky- strongest IM of alltime
Jan Timman- probably the strongest composer of alltime
Yifan Hou - uncanny ability to dream up variations that come true , she did this to Nakamura
Magnus Carlsen- uncanny ability to play accurately out of "bad posistions"
Karsten Muller- Has probably the most difficult chessbooks to read
Anthony Saidy- worlds largest chesslibrary owner = consists of 4000 or more chessbooks
jose capablanca- most technical endgame player of alltime, even his losses had technical endgames
sofia polgar- one of the most powerful IMs out their today
ive misssed alot of honorable mentions. let me know in the comments below.