Greatest chess player of the univerese

Mine is Magnus Carslen

@Reyansh_5A_AISN said in #5:

Carlsen resigns in next game. there are two games.
carlsen was a kid (teenager) at that time
and carlsen is not the greatest player
robert fischer was the greatest player

@Le_Patzer83 said in #8:

Capablanca.
it could be capablanca but he is only master of endgame

Paul Morphy.

Well, it must be Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen and Garry Kasparov are two Grand Masters who shaped the course of chess in their times. To simply question who is better out of the two will be an indignity to the contribution made by them towards the game of chess. However, as a mentor, Garry has always spoken great things about Carlsen.

With regards to Capablanca. I believe that he is considered to be the greatest 'natural' chess player. So I guess this means that he largely intuited the best moves, before then swapping off and using his endgame skills. So, in the 'what if' scenario of a tournament of the greats, instead of allowing everybody to read up on chess lore after their time, the ideal playing field for Capa would be the opposite: the likes of Kasparov and Carlsen would have to play with their knowledge of the recent past and of computerised analyses excised from their brains, a la retired Men in Black.

Alternatively, JR Capablanca, Paul Morphy and, say, Philidor, play for the Oldies Cup.

Harshin > Magnus

Max Euwe. The only person who has been both World Champion and FIDE president.

@Harshin said in #18:

Harshin > Magnus
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