Who was the all time best

It's between Fischer and Kasparov

Hi pattrik ,I deleted the comment because I had posted what I thought would be a small photo of myself with the comment so that anyone could see who I was.It turned out to look huge on the screen.So anyway I tried to delete the photo & my whole comment vanished haha.Any way I started a topic asking who people thought was the best chess player of all,& I mentioned I like Lasker as he held the world title for nearly 28 yrs  with a brief interuption.Regards

Sadly, it isn't Kasparov, Fisher, Capablanca, Alekhine, Anand, Lasker, Carlsen or any other human. It's probably between Rykba and Stockfish

" Who " indicates a person and not a machine. If someone asked who can lift the most weight would you respond sadly a forklift ?  

Capallblanca

Whatever engine he was using did.... 

Botvinnik would be my choice, several times he managed to come back from being defeated.

It depends on what type of player

Mikhal Tal was the worlds best attacking mind and Kasparov can calculate amazingly fast

But my personal favorite is Tal and Fischer :)

It's nice to be able to get a rematch or 2.  Capablanca.  He is Cuban.

Has anyone beaten shredder at the hard level ? It is the world software computer champion .What a great tool to sharpen ones chess game.I have beat it at medium but the hard level just ruins ones plans every time in my case .haha I found out about the shredder while googling for free computer chess games. It,s all good for chess .Regards to all

You are correct ,I get my head handed to me playing the world computer chess champion soft ware  ( shredder hard level  )

When really looking at everything it is impossible to know who was the greatest champion ever, Euwe was under rated but not the best ever .lasker has to be considered & Alekhine based on his dethroning Capablanca is a strong choice .I respect all of them .

Though I cannot pick a "best" Fischer and Kasparov are my number one and two choices. 

3. Lasker (Great Fighting Spirit)

4. Tal (Brought complications against a scientific chess world)

5. Alekhine

6. Capablanca

7. Morphy

8. Anand

Holy S#%T.

I think that he must have been something of a centaur, since he couldn't have reached that without beating other engine users.

 Well, the last great tournament before  war broke out was St Petersburg 1914 and Rubinstein was playing like Betty White out there. The man had lost his mojo!

No question; it has to be Kasparov.

1.Kasparov - consistant domination for two decades. No one comes even close. (Lasker was a champ for 27 years, but he wasn't dominating, just picking 'right' opponents)

2.Karpov - before Kasparov he was a dominant force for 10 years. And for another 10 he was the only one in the world who could seriously threaten Kasparov.

3.Fischer

4.Capablanca

5.Alekhine

Babe Ruth.

snrf