who is the best chess player of all time?

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sjimenezbo100

Magnus Carlsen is the best chess player of all time.


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chyss

I wasn't saying that those ten or eleven players were in order, just that the best of all time pretty much has to come from that list. Basically, I was hoping to stop people from suggesting random names like Morphy and Fischer as there are plenty of players who obviously have a stronger claim to be the greatest.

Apotek

Fischer and Morphy.

Americu

Morphy and Fischer.

iMacChess

Paul and Bobby 🐾

iMacChess

Bobby and Paul🐾

varelse1
johndoelol123 wrote:

Best chess player is STOCKFISH. 

I think Stockfish cheats.

Plays suspiciously similar to Borislav Ivanov.

chyss

lol. You guys are actually very funny. :)

adumbrate

okeller

gari kasparov

sjimenezbo100

I wish people could actually stick to the topic

Apotek
Fiveofswords wrote:

napoleon bonaparte. besides putting the bourbons in their place...i love his dialogues with laplace. truly a great man. oh also he did play chess

Napoleon playing chess with Madame De Remusat..

sjimenezbo100

ya It is Magnus Carlsen.

ilikecapablanca

sjimenezbo100 wrote:

INAPROPIET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's spelled inappropriate.

sjimenezbo100

what?????????????

ChontichaAtnavijit

Tal

frododoggins
Magnus Carlsen is the best of all time; google CAPS world champions. CAPS(computer aggregated precision score) is the engine’s scoring of any chess player, and as you can see clearly, Magnus Carlsen is at the top of the list. This answer is based, however, on the idea that if you got all of the greatest chess players and put them as they are into a tournament, that Magnus would win, rather than if all of them learned with the technology and available materials we have now. Therefore, with the differences in where they fell on the timeline of chess, this question is technically impossible to answer correctly.
magipi

I wonder how people find these topics from 2015.

blueemu
magipi wrote:

I wonder how people find these topics from 2015.

Forensic threadology.

frododoggins
I just found it by searching “who was the best chess player of all time?” By the way, here’s the link from the article I mentioned.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/who-was-the-best-world-chess-champion-in-history