Who is the greatest chess player of all time? :)

@pawnedge You are right bro

Huschenbeth and Carlsen.

Magnus! Greatest rating of all time, no.1 at 19 years old, Wch at 22, 125 games undefeated streak at the top level just recently. For someone like me who is fairly young, he is the only number one who I remember, and he is only 30 years old, he still has 10+ good years in him. He has proven he can play any style , and if you just consider Carlsen a positional/grinder player, please have a look at his 2019 games in which he made a conscious effort to play sharp and dynamic chess at every turn, and it was one of the best years of his career. He played one of the best tournament performances in history when he was only 18 years old (Nanjing 2009, probably the second best tournament performance in history, right after Caruana's 2014 Sinquefield Cup), he defeated the older generation (guys like Kramnik, Anand, Topalov, Shirov...), he is the best of his contemporaries (Caruana, Ding, Karjakin...) and he is still beating the guys who are one (Giri, Duda, Wei Yi) or even two generations younger than him (Firouzja etc.) and the list of reasons goes on and on.

For me, he is already proven to be the greatest in history, but if he continues being the world's best chess player for another 4-6 years or more, I think nobody will be able to make a good, objective argument against it.

Magnus Carlsen of course. Who better?

ME!!

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Mikhail Botvinnik one of the greatest, according to his long and magnificent career

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#23 interesting lists - intuitively I'd have said that Morphy, Lasker, Capablanca, Fischer, Kasparov and Carlsen were the players with a reasonable shout. Based on those numbers I wasn't far off - Morphy is too early to be on the chessmetrics list, I think, and Carlsen too recent, and I guess I'd forgotten quite how long Botvinnik was at or near the top for.

Out of those six or seven, though, it feels hard to pick any one, though...