Greatest Attacking Chess Players Of All Time

Yes. I have come to the same conclusion. I don't believe Carlsen would have the same results, if they still did adjournments.

Carlsen tries to draw the game out for 5 hours, then comes out in full force. After his opponent has been exhausted. (Very much like Belgum's Football team, now that I think of it.)

Naka is another one who's good for that. Only he doesn't have Magnus' endgame touch.

Carlsen is the world's best chess player. He can attack when given the opportunity, but he generally wins by outplaying his opponents from equal positions in the late middlegame. 

Some of the great attacking players in the game today include Ivanchuk, Morozevich, Andreikin, Nakamura, Aronian, Shirov, Anish Giri, Liren Deng, and others.

If you don't know where to start studying the great attacking players, start at the beginning.

The Romantics taught us how to attack. If you haven't gone over the games of Morphy, Adolf Anderssen, Rudolph Spielmann, and others, then that's where you should start. It's where all the great attackers since them started. 

Take a look at these two games to see how much modern GMs are influenced by the classics:

And now, one of the candidates for Game of the Year. You'll see that Anand's sacrifice is even deeper than Rubinstein's, but he stated afterwards that he was inspired by the previous game:

And Qxh3 is unstoppable. Nice.

Adolf Anderssen. For beginning players, I would only rarely look at a player who came later than Emanuel Lasker.

Mikhail Tal is the best attacking player who have the record of first two longest winning steaks.... Winning more consecutive games is not an easy job when attacking....

Actually, his record was for longest undefeated streaks, not longest winning streaks (two different things). Steinitz and Fischer held the records for the longest winning streaks. Neither are particularly known for their great attacking chess, but rather for their deft positional skill. Of course, they could both attack when they wanted to.

But yes, Tal should always be remembered as one of the greatest attacking geniuses this game has ever seen. 

Romantic chess is dead among the elite, too many games are won in dull mathematic endgames

Yesterday Nakamura called Topolov the best attacker around today.

Is that because his attacks are not limited to the chessboard?

Could be. idk

Greatest attacking players: MORPHY, ADOLPH ANDERSON, OSSIP BERNSTEIN, RUDOLPH SPIELMAN, PILLSBURY, MARSHALL, ALEKHINE, KERES, TOLUSH, KOTOV, NEZHMETDINOV, TAL, GELLER, SPASSKI,FISCHER, KASPAROV, ANAND,SHIROV, TOPALOV, ......NOT SURE FROM HERE,

CHEERS 

NAKAMURA, is todays hero as an attacking player and I forgot momentarily the attacking/creative genius of IVANCHUK, sorry

Cheers  and blessings to all chess players from patzers to masters! 

I found very creative attacking player lately who might be worth studying. Romanian who plays for Germany today - Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu. I was impressed how he crushed Wesley So yesterday at Dortmund tournament, so I found more of his great attacking games.

Generaly, after watching some strong chess tournaments lately I found there is no ultra attacking chess any more, just like in tennis today there are no serve and voley players any more. It's just because of preperation of all posible openings and all of them are just defending to good. 

Okay, here are some of Nisipeanu games. 

vs. Wesley So http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1795047

2 rooks sacr.!!  http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1452186

great miniature http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1753276

Botvinnik was also a great attacker, but his attacks were based off strategic gains and iron logic.

CreatorID, thanks for mentioning a fresh name! Nisipeanu has played some great attacking games. I first starting paying attention to him when he pulled a huge upset in beating Ivanchuk then Shirov in the FIDE knockout tournament. The Ivanchuk match win wasn't as big an upset as beating Shirov. Even then, Ivanchuk was capable of losing random games. But at that time, Shirov was a monster, and one of the tournament favorites as the official #2 seed. 

Shirov was the attacker in that game, and Nisipeanu defended calmly. Here's the game without notes:

Nisipeanu is a great example of not being an attacking player in that game..no fireworks there, except Shirov's quixotic unruliness.

Tal Was Great!!!!!

Frank Marshall

Tal, Spielmann, Bronstein.  Also, despite the unlikeliness of this choice... Petrosian too, depending on the game.