who the best chess player of all time?

who the best chess player of all time? Please!

We need another thread on this fascinating subject!

No one really knows, but if every great player of all time had today's training tools, I think it would be Bobby Fischer. There are two arguments in favor of him.

1. Counting just the games at his peak, he played at the highest rating level of all time.  No one else has played in any period as high as Fischer did.

2. No one has dominated the top players in the world during his time as Fischer did at his peak. In the 1970 Palma Interzonal Fischer had 15 wins, 7 draws, and 1 loss.  In the candidates matches he won 6 wins 0 losses, 6 wins 0 losses, and 5 wins, 3 draws, 1 loss - the last against previous World Champion Tigran Petrosian.  He toyed with Spassky in the World Championship match, several times using Queen's Pawn openings he never used before in his life.

Of course, Fischer knew much, much more about chess than me and Bobby believed that Paul Morphy was the greatest chess player of all time.

Carlsen-2961 Kramnik-2868 Kasparov-2816 Fischer-2775 Anand-2759 Karpov-2698 Capablanca-2664 Tal-2636 Spassky-2619 Smyslov-2618 Botvinnik-2602 Euwe-2547 Alekhine-2547 Petrosian-2543 Lasker-2498 Morphy-2409 Steinitz-2323

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