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Glyutri
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May 12, 2015
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#261

Great Alexander Alekhine: lonely giant against the whole world, deep chess philosopher, extravagant artist, detailed analysts, unpredictable innovator, chess truth seeker - both classical and hypermodern, mightiest intellect difficult to fully understand, strongest personality in chess ever.

21whiteg
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May 12, 2015
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#262

Magness Carlson

ThrillerFan
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May 12, 2015
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#263

Margot Robbie!

Chicken_Monster
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May 12, 2015
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#264

I keep changing my mind on this. I'll go with Kasparov.

I agree it is premature to give it to Carlsen. Time will tell.

johnny_BACON
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May 12, 2015
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#265

Thrillerfan is awesome !!!!!

troller257
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May 12, 2015
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#266

I say bobby fischer (when he wasn't crazy)

SmyslovFan
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May 12, 2015
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#267

Yeah, Morphy was ahead of his time, but time passed him by around 1890. The best human player, the player with the all-time highest rating, is Magnus Carlsen.

If this were a discussion of who is greatest, then considerations such as how long he held the title would matter. But the best ever is easy to work out.

ptobler
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May 12, 2015
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#268

Carlsen best, Kasparov second best

Chicken_Monster
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May 13, 2015
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#269
johnny_BACON wrote:

Thrillerfan is awesome !!!!!

Yeah, but is choice in sports teams is specious at best.

wolverine96
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May 13, 2015
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#270

Bobby Fischer.

Of today's players, I like Hikaru Nakamura.

And then there's always Deep Blue, which according to Kasparov, was indeed a human player. Wink

schach14
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May 15, 2015
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#271

ALEKHINE!!!!!!!!

SmyslovFan
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May 15, 2015
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#272
Chicken_Monster wrote:
johnny_BACON wrote:

Thrillerfan is awesome !!!!!

Yeah, but is choice in sports teams is specious at best.

Specious... I suppose a Pats fan would know quite a bit about specious. 

Five words:

Tom Brady

Aaron Hernandez

Spygate

 

My apologies about derailing this thread with NFL trash talk. 

wolverine96
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May 16, 2015
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#273

Deflategate!

Rogue_King
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May 16, 2015
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#274

Not surprised the Patriots are cheating to win, not the first time they've done it after all. Same way I wasn't surprised when it turned out Alex Rodriguez never stopped using performance enhancing drugs. Cheaters cheat.

gravitier
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May 16, 2015
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#275

Kasparov!!

Wilbert52
Wilbert52
May 16, 2015
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#276

Garry Kasparov without doubt.

http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PeakList.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S000000000000111000000000000010100

Here is interesting list.

RichColorado
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May 17, 2015
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#277

@Wilbert52

Here is interesting list.

Chessmetrics Player Profile:

Magnus Carlsen

 

   Born:   

1990-Nov

 

   Best World Rank:   

#235 (on the January 2005 rating list)

 

   Highest Rating:   

2556 on the January 2005 rating list, #235 in world, age 14y2m

 

   Best Individual Performance:   

2653 in Dubai op 6th, 2004, scoring 5/7 (71%) vs 2579-rated opposition

 

________________________________________

  Best Performances  

 

        

 

 

Peak Top 100 single year average ratings.

               Player Name               Average Rating           1 year peak range  

 #1          Bobby Fischer            2881                1972-Jan through 1972-Dec  

 #2          Garry Kasparov         2879                1990-Jan through 1990-Dec  

 #3          Mikhail Botvinnik    2871                  1946-Jan through 1946-Dec  

 #4          José Capablanca         2866                1919-Jan through 1919-Dec  

 #5          Emanuel Lasker          2863                1894-Jan through 1894-Dec  

 #6          Alexander Alekhine    2851               1931-Jan through 1931-Dec  

 #7          Anatoly Karpov          2842                1989-Jan through 1989-Dec  

 #8          Viswanathan Anand 2828                  1998-Jan through 1998-Dec  

 #9          Vladimir Kramnik      2822                2002-Jan through 2002-Dec  

 #10        Siegbert Tarrasch      2818                1895-Jan through 1895-Dec  

 #11        Géza Maróczy            2815                1906-Jan through 1906-Dec  

 #12        Harry Pillsbury           2813                1901-Jan through 1901-Dec  

 #13        Viktor Korchnoi         2803                1978-Jan through 1978-Dec  

 #14        Wilhelm Steinitz        2802                1886-Jan through 1886-Dec  

 #15        Vassily Ivanchuk        2799                1992-Jan through 1992-Dec  

 #16        Vassily Smyslov         2794                1956-Jan through 1956-Dec  

 #17        Mikhail Tal                 2793                1960-Jan through 1960-Dec  

 #18        Tigran Petrosian         2791                1963-Jan through 1963-Dec  

 #19        Akiba Rubinstein        2787                1913-Jan through 1913-Dec  

 #20        David Bronstein         2783                1951-Jan through 1951-Dec  

 #21        Miguel Najdorf           2783                1947-Jan through 1947-Dec  

 #22        Johannes Zukertort     2782                1884-Jan through 1884-Dec  

 #23        Samuel Reshevsky     2780                1953-Jan through 1953-Dec  

 #24        Paul Keres                  2779                1956-Jan through 1956-Dec  

 #25        Gata Kamsky              2775                1995-Jan through 1995-Dec  

 #26        Aron Nimzowitsch      2774               1929-Jan through 1929-Dec  

 #27        Boris Spassky             2771                1969-Jan through 1969-Dec  

 #28        Veselin Topalov         2766                1997-Jan through 1997-Dec  

 #29        Dawid Janowsky         2765                1905-Jan through 1905-Dec  

 #30        Mikhail Chigorin        2765                1897-Jan through 1897-Dec  

 #31        Efim Bogoljubow      2763                1926-Jan through 1926-Dec  

 #32        Efim Geller                 2761                1963-Jan through 1963-Dec  

 #33        Alexander Morozevich 2761              2001-Jan through 2001-Dec  

 #34        Frank Marshall           2761                1917-Jan through 1917-Dec  

 #35        Boris Gelfand             2760                1992-Jan through 1992-Dec  

 #36        Peter Leko                  2760                2000-Jan through 2000-Dec  

 #37        Valery Salov               2760                1994-Jan through 1994-Dec  

 #38        Max Euwe                  2759                1936-Jan through 1936-Dec  

 #39        Reuben Fine                2757                1941-Jan through 1941-Dec  

 #40        Alexei Shirov             2757                1999-Jan through 1999-Dec  

 #41        Carl Schlechter           2756                1911-Jan through 1911-Dec  

 #42        Lev Polugaevsky        2754                1977-Jan through 1977-Dec  

 #43        Rafael Vaganian         2754                1985-Jan through 1985-Dec  

 #44        Michael Adams          2753                2002-Jan through 2002-Dec  

 #45        Leonid Stein               2752                1966-Jan through 1966-Dec  

 #46        Alexander Beliavsky  2752                1985-Jan through 1985-Dec  

 #47        Gideon Ståhlberg        2750                1948-Jan through 1948-Dec  

 #48        Lajos Portisch             2750                1980-Jan through 1980-Dec  

 #49        Alexander Kotov        2750                1950-Jan through 1950-Dec  

 #50        Jan Timman                2749                1988-Jan through 1988-Dec  

 #51        Artur Jussupow           2749                1987-Jan through 1987-Dec  

 #52        Ruslan Ponomariov    2747                2002-Jan through 2002-Dec  

 #53        Salo Flohr                  2746                1935-Jan through 1935-Dec  

 #54        Evgeny Bareev           2746                1991-Jan through 1991-Dec  

 #55        Bent Larsen                2746                1971-Jan through 1971-Dec   

 #56        Peter Svidler               2746                2004-Jan through 2004-Dec  

 #57        Nigel Short                 2745                1989-Jan through 1989-Dec  

 #58        Judit Polgar                2743                2004-Jan through 2004-Dec  

 #59        Isaak Boleslavsky      2741                1950-Jan through 1950-Dec  

 #60        Alexander Grischuk    2741               2004-Jan through 2004-Dec  

 #61        Ignatz Kolisch            2741                1868-Jan through 1868-Dec  

 #62        Ulf Andersson            2740                1983-Jan through 1983-Dec  

 #63        Isaac Kashdan             2740                1932-Jan through 1932-Dec  

 #64        Joseph Blackburne      2737               1886-Jan through 1886-Dec  

 #65        Gustav Neumann        2737                1868-Jan through 1868-Dec  

 #66        Paul Morphy              2737                1859-Jan through 1859-Dec  

 #67        Oldrich Duras             2736                1909-Jan through 1909-Dec  

 #68        Svetozar Gligoric      2735                1959-Jan through 1959-Dec  

 #69        Andrey Sokolov          2733                1986-Jan through 1986-Dec  

 #70        Vladimir Makogonov 2732                1944-Jan through 1944-Dec  

 #71        Richard Teichmann    2731                1911-Jan through 1911-Dec  

 #72        Mark Taimanov          2731                1954-Jan through 1954-Dec  

 #73        Ljubomir Ljubojevic   2729               1983-Jan through 1983-Dec  

 #74        Rezsö Charousek        2729                1899-Jan through 1899-Dec  

 #75        Mikhail Gurevich      2728                1990-Jan through 1990-Dec  

 #76        Samuel Lipschütz      2728                1901-Jan through 1901-Dec  

 #77        Isidor Gunsberg          2728                1889-Jan through 1889-Dec  

 #78        Robert Hübner            2728                1973-Jan through 1973-Dec  

 #79        Milan Vidmar Sr        2727                1919-Jan through 1919-Dec  

 #80        Jonathan Speelman     2727                1988-Jan through 1988-Dec  

 #81        Ratmir Kholmov        2727                1961-Jan through 1961-Dec  

 #82        Erich Eliskases           2726                1948-Jan through 1948-Dec  

 #83        Jaan Ehlvest                2726                1990-Jan through 1990-Dec  

 #84        Henrique Mecking      2725                1977-Jan through 1977-Dec  

 #85        Alexander Khalifma   2721                1991-Jan through 1991-Dec  

 #86        Vlastimil Hort            2721                1977-Jan through 1977-Dec  

 #87        Zoltán Ribli                2720                1984-Jan through 1984-Dec  

 #88        Amos Burn                 2719                1900-Jan through 1900-Dec   

 #89        Adolf Anderssen         2718                1870-Jan through 1870-Dec  

 #90        Sergei Rublevsky      2718                1998-Jan through 1998-Dec  

 #91        Leonid Yudasin          2718                1991-Jan through 1991-Dec  

 #92        Alexey Dreev              2717                1996-Jan through 1996-Dec  

 #93        Oleg Romanishin        2717                1977-Jan through 1977-Dec  

 #94        László Szabó              2716                1953-Jan through 1953-Dec  

 #95        Predrag Nikolic          2715                1987-Jan through 1987-Dec  

 #96        Paul Lipke                  2715                1895-Jan through 1895-Dec  

 #97        Berthold Suhle            2714                1866-Jan through 1866-Dec  

 #98        Robert Byrne              2713                1974-Jan through 1974-Dec  

 #99        Georgy Agzamov      2713                1985-Jan through 1985-Dec  

 #100      James Mason              2712                1877-Jan through 1877-Dec
simpleChess007
simpleChess007
May 17, 2015
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#278

I vote for Magnus carlsen.

ponz111
ponz111
May 17, 2015
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#279

Magnus   Kasparov close

simpleChess007
simpleChess007
May 17, 2015
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#280

He is a world champion, isn't that an achievement considering his young age ?