Top 10 Chess Players ever

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Cleep tight!

Nice area, yes.

when one of my keys didn't work I'd have to copy and paste the letter which got tiresome ...

I doubt it. E.g. I bet Timman in 23 moves 3 years ago and he had his eyes open, and Timman is 18-40 against Kasparov.

i believe anand comes third in the list...

he can't be 6th...

he is better than carlsen.....

1.levon aronian

2.vladimir akopian

3.karik kacparov

4.carlsen

5.fischer

only

Well, I consider Lasker to be the most impressive chess player we have ever had.  Not only did he hold the championship for 27 years, play competitively in his later years (placing 3rd against all the top masters at the age of 79) and write an excellent manual on chess, but he also wrote a book on mathematics and another on philosophy.  I don't know what criteria others use to determine "best" but that list of accomplishments puts him head and shoulders above anyone else I can think of.

Kasparov is also a very dominating player and a fascinating person as well and has contributed both to the chess world and the greater world around him so he definitely deserves a place.

Morphy is one of the tragedies of the chess world and the first to intuit that chess was more than mere calculation and that position was critical too.  We definitely owe him a debt of gratitude.

Capablanca showed us that a chess player can be at the top of his game and also be classy.  That is a lesson that was not learned very well.  Plus he had that incredible unbeaten streak that was quite an amazing feat and I don't believe has ever been beaten.

It is also hard to ignore masters like Karpov, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Fischer, Spassky and Steinitz as they all have contributed significantly to our understanding of the game and are all very powerful players.  I salute them all.  Another category might be the most important chess masters who never became champion and why they are important.  That would make a very interesting list indeed.

ok u said u had 's' key not working but u typed s so u do have it.

Ok ill add for fun list (and Steinitz would survive) so

1.Steinitz

2.Onatopp

3.Kasparov (Norris dyed fighting Onatopp)

Has everyone forgotten Paul Keres? He was at least as good as Bronstein and Botvinnik.

And he's on money!

Bent Larsen

Kasparov                      1st                  10

Capablanca                   2nd                 8

Lasker                          2nd                 8

Alekhine                       3rd                 7

Fischer                         3rd                 8

Carlsen                         3rd                 5

Karpov                         3rd                 7

Morphy                        3rd                 5

Anand                          4th                 3

Botvinnik                     4th                 4

Steinitz                       5th                3

Spassky                        5th                3

Topalov                       6th                 2

Tal                              7th                 2 

Larsen                        8th                  1

Kramnik                      9th                 1

Anderccen                   10th               1

Chirov                         11th                1

Ivanchuck                     12th                1

Short                           13th                 1 

Bronstein                     14th                1

Korchnoi                      15th               1

Rubensein                   16th                1 

Smyslov                     17th                 1

He didn't know how to play chess.... he just kidnapped his opponents

yes

no, Steinitz tazed her

 Bent? I thought it was completely broken.

exactly

alekhine comes 4th behind kasparov, fischer, carlsen