whos The Best Chess Player Ever?
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Robert Fischer.
No definitive answer, I'm afraid.
1. Highest rated ever?
2. Lost fewest games?
3. Most dominant over rivals?
It's personal choice of who's best of all the World Champions
Jan 25, 2008
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a kid at my school during the early 40's or 50's called jack king, he apparently won every game he played at our school winning the school and area championship 5 years in a row, he even beat the teacher who runs the chess club, week in week out, who used to play for england. then he dissapeared one day and knowone has herd from him since.
its an old school myth, i would like to think its true, but i find it hard to believe
how strange....
The turk lol
This is not debatable. The answer is, the great:
Mikhail Tal
Pawntor wrote: WILLHEM STEINITZ
kptom wrote: Alexander Alekhine
Good choices guys! Alekhine was a great attacker, but Tal was so unpredictable that he was unplayable!
Hard question to answer.
It based on opinion.
Being objective, The Best Chess Player ever is Kasparov, because he knows all the previous games of any past chessmaster, until now he knows the chess more deeply than any other man, (not if kramnik is the exception).
If the answer is about the most talented chess players ever, i would assume that were Morphy and Capablanca, both descendant from spaniards curiously.
Lenny Bongcloud is my hero. He helps beginners win XD
(I should recommend my newbie pupils to play him a couple of times to boost their confidence!)
Tal and Kasparov a very close second
hard question to answer.
I would have to decline all answers so far and nominate Joop Van Oosterom, twice Correspondence World Champion! The hardest feat in chess to win once but twice is beyond pale and makes all others second place as to who is the best. And to be considered the best I think you need to be alive!
If you need to be alive, how is it the best EVER????
How about a top 5?
1. Kasparov
2. Alekhine
3. Morphy (consider the time!)
4. Tal (for the sheer beauty)
5. Karpov
Like Morphy during his time, Capablanca was the best player of his time. Capa's opening play was certainly not the best. Hence he was eventually beaten by Alekhine, who was excellent in all departments of chess! It is very difficult to suggest who is the best player of all time. Perhaps using a computer would help. Off hand, I would vote for Gary Kasparov followed by Alekhine, a close second and Fischer, third!
paavoboy wrote:
If you need to be alive, how is it the best EVER????
How about a top 5?
1. Kasparov
2. Alekhine
3. Morphy (consider the time!)
4. Tal (for the sheer beauty)
5. Karpov
Any top 5 list of all time that doesnt include Fischer cant be taken seriously.
I think I am, but I have to double-check that.
Yeah for me it is Jan Timman, without a doubt
i ame the best dueds... and maek a note.. it's BONGCLOUD... not bounglcoud... i am king lenny. the mastir of chess dueds.
those coueple of dueds stareting topics using "boungcloud" haev nothing to do wieth me and doetn even know me man... theey can't evein spell..
It's hard to compare chess masters from different eras. Modern masters have tons of highly efficient study materials. I'd venture a guess that Anand and every other top-tier GM has *every* professional chess game ever recorded, computers to analyze positions, and instant communications to talk to far-away advisors. Compare to, say, Lasker. Or Fischer.