Best Chess Players (relative to their peers)

I hate he never got to be WC @Sarg0n

Morphy's so called "peers" were 1800 rated idiots such as those in the (in)famous Opera House Game.

Give me 500 points lower rated opponents and I will look like God relative to them.

Up capa down morphy.

Bobby Fischer - 27
Emanuel Lasker - 28
Paul Morphy - 41
Wilhelm Steinitz - 18
Jose Capablanca - 28
Anatoly Karpov - 26
Garry Kasparov - 22
Mikhail Tal - 19
Mikhail Botvinnik - 19
Vishy Anand - 23
Tigran Petrosian - 18
Francois-Andre Philidor - 24
Howard Staunton - 11
Boris Spassky - 14

@jatekos Thats the point how did he get so much better than everyone else by himself ? Plus comparing yourself with morphy is a joke ahahaha. You were able to play blindfolded when at 9 years old ? Bi*** please.

Plus we re not judging who s the best of all time but relative to his peers. Obviously all top players nowadays are better thx to all the theory+engines preparation.

Morphy is not even legitimate on this list, being from a pioneering and suspicious era which had no established institutions for regular competition.

Or we can include Ruy Lopez as well.

Ruy Lopez for president!

Meh.

This ought to be good .

Up capa Down morphy. Morphy was no good, only 2250 ish at best, but his opponents were like 1800 or less. Capa was s o much better

Bobby Fischer - 27
Emanuel Lasker - 28
Paul Morphy - 39
Wilhelm Steinitz - 18
Jose Capablanca - 29
Anatoly Karpov - 26
Garry Kasparov - 22
Mikhail Tal - 19
Mikhail Botvinnik - 19
Vishy Anand - 23
Tigran Petrosian - 18
Francois-Andre Philidor - 24
Howard Staunton - 11
Boris Spassky - 14

Down with Morphy. I wish I could down vote twice for Staunton but morphy was less great. Up capa. He even invented his own variant!

Bobby Fischer - 27
Emanuel Lasker - 28
Paul Morphy - 37
Wilhelm Steinitz - 18
Jose Capablanca - 30
Anatoly Karpov - 26
Garry Kasparov - 22
Mikhail Tal - 19
Mikhail Botvinnik - 19
Vishy Anand - 23
Tigran Petrosian - 18
Francois-Andre Philidor - 24
Howard Staunton - 11
Boris Spassky - 14

Hate morphy. He was a show off unlike modest capa.

Bobby Fischer - 27
Emanuel Lasker - 28
Paul Morphy - 35
Wilhelm Steinitz - 18
Jose Capablanca - 31
Anatoly Karpov - 26
Garry Kasparov - 22
Mikhail Tal - 19
Mikhail Botvinnik - 19
Vishy Anand - 23
Tigran Petrosian - 18
Francois-Andre Philidor - 24
Howard Staunton - 11
Boris Spassky - 14

Morphy was paranoid and had mental problems... Down vote him, up vote Capa

Bobby Fischer - 27
Emanuel Lasker - 28
Paul Morphy - 35
Wilhelm Steinitz - 18
Jose Capablanca - 31
Anatoly Karpov - 26
Garry Kasparov - 22
Mikhail Tal - 19
Mikhail Botvinnik - 19
Vishy Anand - 23
Tigran Petrosian - 18
Francois-Andre Philidor - 24
Howard Staunton - 11
Boris Spassky - 14