Who is the best chess player?

I think Magnus Carlsen is the best.

magnus

yea 1v1 me... im totally not bad... maybe

The best chess player is either Hans Moke Niemann or Praggnanandhaa R. Also possibly Viswanathan

I see why you might think that Viswanathan is the best, but Praggnanandhaa is definitely not. Nor is Hans.

I’m definitely winning against anyone .

Right...

All time? Garry Kasparov. Currently? Me.

Yeah.

Nope, still Magnus. 190 iq and grandmaster at 14.

My dad when I started playing

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1. Wilhelm Steinitz
2. Emanuel Lasker
3. Jose Raul Capablanca
4. Alexander Alekhine
5. Max Euwe
6. Mikhail Botvinnik
7. Vasily Smyslov
8. Mikhail Tal
9. Tigran V. Petrosian
10. Boris Spassky
11. Bobby Fischer
12. Anatoly Karpov
13. Garry Kasparov
14. Vladimir Kramnik
15. Viswanathan Anand
16. Magnus Carlsen
17. Ding Liren

Above are simply the best players because they were world chess champions. That's in historical order, Steinitz was the first world chess champion ever, in 1886.

Lasker held the title for 27 years (world record), Kasparov for 15 years, so these two players are special.

Other way to look at things is the peak rating:

1. Magnus Carlsen, 2882
2. Garry Kasparov, 2851
3. Fabiano Caruana, 2844
4. Levon Aronian, 2830
5. Wesley So, 2822
6. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, 2820
7. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 2819
8. Viswanathan Anand, 2817 and Vladimir Kramnik, 2817
9. Veselin Topalov, 2816 and Hikaru Nakamura, 2816
10. Ding Liren, 2816
11. Alexander Grischuk, 2810
12. Alireza Firouzja, 2804
13. Anish Giri, 2798
14. Arjun Erigaisi, 2797
15. Ian Nepomniachtchi, 2795
16. Dommaraju Gukesh, 2794
17. Teimour Radjabov, 2793
18. Alexander Morozevich, 2788 and Sergey Karjakin, 2788
19. Vasyl Ivanchuk, 2787
20. Bobby Fischer, 2785 and Nodirbek Abdusattorov, 2785
21. Anatoly Karpov, 2780

I'd say 2800+ is an achievement only 14 people on Earth got so far and right now only 2 people hold 2800+ rating (Carlsen and Nakamura).

No Lasker in this list, although some researches compare calculate his peak rating as something close to Kasparov's.

For currently best rated, here's October 2024 top:

1. Carlsen, Magnus 2831
2.  Nakamura, Hikaru 2802
3.  Erigaisi Arjun 2797
4.  Caruana, Fabiano 2796
5.  Gukesh D 2794
6.  Abdusattorov, Nodirbek 2783
7.  Firouzja, Alireza 2767
8.  Wei, Yi 2763
9.  Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2755
10.  So, Wesley 2751
11.  Anand, Viswanathan 2751
12.  Praggnanandhaa R 2746
13.  Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2741
14.  Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 2740
15.  Le, Quang Liem 2739
16.  Aronian, Levon 2738
17.  Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2735
18.  Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2733
19.  Niemann, Hans Moke 2733
20.  Giri, Anish 2728
21.  Ding, Liren 2728
22.  Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi 2726
23.  Rapport, Richard 2721
24.  Keymer, Vincent 2721
25.  Maghsoodloo, Parham 2719

why am i not on there

I'd go with the second or third, but, in my opinion, the first is off.

meanies

hey! im best!

Ohhh, sorry. I forgot about the number one player. You.