Who's Better?: Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, or Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen is the default answer for this kind of threads.

According to you. Of course that's according to you. I'd expect you to be according to yourself whenever you post your onions.

3 for Fischer, 3 for Kasparov and 3 for Carlsen! The current results are surprising!

obviously carlsen is best as he defeated garry kasparov before kasparovs retirement

Carlsen is making a comeback! 3 for Fischer, 3 for Kasparov and 4 for Carlsen!

3 for fischer,3 for kasparov and 4 for magnus carlsen including me

3 for fischer,3 for kasparov and 4 for carlsen including me

i defeated 1691 in 90+30 and i am 1149 fide rated

I vote for Fischer again, and again, and again, and again, and again.

Hey... you already voted before!

And i'll vote until Bobby wins!!!

new name who is better anand viahwanathan,caruana fabiano,judit polgar,magnus carlsen

4 for Fischer, 3 for Kasparov and 4 for Carlsen!

It's not pointless. You just don't get the point of this.

I want your opinions ok? Not negative comments looking at everything too logicaly.

Please leave if you're doing these stuff.

In, my opinion, Kasparov is an aggressive London System player, Carlsen plays a wide variety of openings like grob ( Do not ask me why) and Fischer mostly plays Ruy Lopez

i think carlsen is better because he had the highest human rating ever in blitz and classical

he has also been world champion for about 7 years. he almost never loses in classical chess

ok

Good question.

Fischer is a tricky one. He was streaky. On the plus side, when he was on a hot streak, he was unstoppable. Beating his contemporaries by margins you never see from Kasparov or Carlsen. But he wasn't always on such streaks, of course.

On the negative side, he had a bad habit of running away from a challenge. And he never played a single game, while World Champion.

Which kinda sucks.

Kasparov was a super hard worker. (As was Fischer, to be fair.) He dominated for 15 years. During the late 80's, early 90's, there was only one player in the world, could hold a candle to him. Karpov. (Who was a beast in his own right.) As for the rest of the world, Kasparov towered over them all.

So as far as Kasparov/Fischer, I will give it to Garry for being #1 for so long, and for never running away from a fight.

But did Kasparov ever win a Candidates match 6-0? Or sweep a Russian Championship?

And is the above question even fair to ask?

Also, Bobby curb-stomped Spassky. But Garry did the same thing to Short, and Anand.

True, Kasparov only squeaked by in his many matches with Karpov. But that was Karpov after all. And (unlike Fischer), at least Kasparov was willing to play him.

Then we come to Magnus.

Carlsen is a natural genius. As a champion, he has dominated chess scene in a way, that hasn't been seen since 2000.

He has held the #1 ranking spot every month since 2010.

He plays many tournaments. And wins quite a few of them. I may be mistaken, but I do not believe he has ever finished a tournament with a minus or equal score, since becoming champion in 2013.

And I notice he has just this month tied his peak rating record of 2882, which he first set way back in 2014.

On the minus side, he is not really as much a fighter as Fischer or Kasparov. At least not in the openings. 

With the white pieces, Carsen often allows black easy equality, rather than risk going into sharper, more complicated lines. He then tries to squeeze an advantage out of the middlegame or endgame. And if it doesn't work? No problem. Agree to a draw, go onto the next round.

And his championship match victories versus Anand, Karjakin, and Caruana were less-than-stellar.

So if you are reading this Magnus, big fan, love you. But I am not declaring as "best ever."

So that leaves Fischer, or Kasparov.

Tough call. I can make an excellent argument for Bobby. Larsen 6-0. Tianamov 6-0. US Championship 13-0. These cannot swept under the rug.

But I gotta give it to Kasparov as best ever. That guy was just a beast.

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