Botvinnik. The only player to win the world championship and then lose it...but win it back...but then lose it and then win it back. Nobody has ever done that but Botvinnik. He also trained Karpov... Kasparov and Kramnik
Who is the strongest player ever in the history of chess
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I asked it because learning from their games and book makes me boost my chess skill
Jun 30, 2021
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#5
Most world champions lose and quit. Botvinnik lost but decided to learn and come back and win....twice.
I don't know any chess players that have massive muscles, but i'd say someone who became a GM really early on like Bobby Fischer
Jun 30, 2021
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#7
Booby Fisherman ran away from Karpov! Pahleese! He was scared! Botvinnik is the King of seeing his mistakes and conquering them. 🤔
Pahleese remember chess is a sport. On that note 📝
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Most world champions lose and quit. Botvinnik lost but decided to learn and come back and win....twice.
I have enormous respect for Mikhail Moiseyevich, who was also a prominent and successful electrical engineer and a pioneer of computer chess -- the latter in the 1950s! He surely had one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century.
I want to point out that the WC system was different in his day. When he lost the championship to Smyslov in 1957 and Tal in 1960, he automatically got a rematch the following year. To his great credit, he studied his opponents and applied his incredibly deep chess knowledge to defeat both of them and regain the crown. FIDE then changed the rules to eliminate the automatic rematch. Thus, when Petrosian defeated Botvinnik in 1963, Mikhail Moiseyevich would have had to go through the zonal, interzonal, and candidates phases to get a rematch.
I'm not convinced that he was the strongest player in history, but I consider him the most underrated world champion.
Jun 30, 2021
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#14
Please bare with me... The champion deserves the right to a rematch. When the "Botvinnik rules" were in place chess was godlike. Since then it has been nothing but a mess.
Jun 30, 2021
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#17
Carlsen is the strongest chess player ever. Kasparov still has the edge over Carlsen in length, but if Carlsen remains at the top a couple more years he’ll seal himself as the GOAT for at least the next decade or two.
Jun 30, 2021
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#18
Ya maybe 🤔 Does he have it in him to reclaim the title? Like Botvinnik did?...Twice!
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