I vote Capablanca. His talent was absolutely natural.
who is the best chess player of all time?
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Definately the 1419 champion, he was amazing!
Antonius Block
sbooder wrote:
Antonius Block
Didn't he lost in Block - Death 1213 ?
Irontiger wrote:
sbooder wrote:
Antonius Block
Didn't he lost in Block - Death 1213 ?
To win was not the aim, but to buy time.
My favorites are Susan (Zsuzsa) Polgar and Bobby Fisher!
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meu voto vai para kasparov.mas acredito que tenha sim uma discursão me tremos de suas épocas.kasparov x capablanca.
kasparov!
Mar 9, 2013
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Past I like Capablanca, and Kasparov.
Modern day, Carlsen, Moroz, and Naka.
Not saying everyone I listed is "best" per say. Just favorites.
Definitely Emmanuel Lasker, the greatest chess psychologist and quite a hypnotizer. He was the single world champion who constantly used the fact that winning or losing in chess was based not only on knowledge of chess principles, but also on human mind's particularities. He could accept quite lost positions if he knew that his opponent would have been proud to "beat the Great Lasker" in such case, and consciently used such self-delusion of opponents to make traps and to win when opponents already thought to ring the bell. You can find such games, the most often called "Em.Lasker vs. NN", in chess bases today. The most incredible fact is that all this was used consciently, according to Capablanca. Lasker was even said to mesmerize opponents. I guess that this was not far from reality. All other world champions were genious; Lasker was the single who could be called incredible.
Mar 9, 2013
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Yereslov wrote:
alec840 wrote:
Emmanuel Lasker
Lasker was not dominating the chess scene like Capablanca or Alekhine. He almost lost his title to Schlechter and never bothered to challenge Pillsbury (his greatest rival).
LOL
I spent many road trips with my friend having this same Lasker/ Capablanca debate.
He was always quick to point out, even though lasker lost horribly in his match with Capa in Havana in 1921 during a bout of illness, he still came back and won the New York tounament of 1924, well ahead of the rest of the field. Which included all the top players of his day. (Despite losing to Capa in that tourney as well.)
Today's blitz players often don't resign when a weaker opponent wins the queen or the rook against them, knowing that the taste of victory can hinder a weaker player from realizing the advantage. I think that Em.Lasker was a pioneer in such psychological tactics. Certainly, he rarely used this one, but he was the first to use opponents' psychology to win.
dubina333 wrote:
Today's blitz players often don't resign when a weaker opponent wins the queen or the rook against them, knowing that the taste of victory can hinder a weaker player from realizing the advantage. I think that Em.Lasker was a pioneer in such psychological tactics. Certainly, he rarely used this one, but he was the first to use opponents' psychology to win.
i always found it tougher to win losing positions
but Botvinnik was a very smart person of course and we should believe in his words if he said so
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer! :D
To Em. Lasker he was the longest time WCC and was not only World Champion but also a well known mathematican and philosopher! What a career!
Anand
PIRATCH wrote:
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer! :D
To Em. Lasker he was the longest time WCC and was not only World Champion but also a well known mathematican and philosopher! What a career!
Fischer would disagree. He regarded Morphy and Capablanca as the best players in history. He was impressed by the natural talent of both.
Yereslov wrote:
PIRATCH wrote:
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer! :D
To Em. Lasker he was the longest time WCC and was not only World Champion but also a well known mathematican and philosopher! What a career!
Fischer would disagree. He regarded Morphy and Capablanca as the best players in history. He was impressed by the natural talent of both.
before or after he reached his peak?
Bobby Fischer