Hikaru Nakamura ! He's offensive and plays some crazy and uncommon openings and lines and he's the best blitz player of the world actually.
#51 i don't think he's offensive. He's quite a nice guy, humble and polite
Nakamura too because it's very offensive and it is the best player actually
@Furo951
Hikaru has NEVER beaten Carlsen in a blitz match. Hikaru is 13 points ahead of Carlsen in the live world blitz rankings but if he simply can't beat Carlsen, it's hard to declare him number one.
Hikaru has NEVER beaten Carlsen in a blitz match. Hikaru is 13 points ahead of Carlsen in the live world blitz rankings but if he simply can't beat Carlsen, it's hard to declare him number one.
@FM Wittke
I can only repeat the most obvious part of what I said i.e., Morphy and Fischer destroyed opponents in matches and nobody else has. True, neither one of them had any longevity but I think we're talking about raw peak strength here, not how long it was held. By the way, no grandmaster after Morphy even came close to his win percentage, not even Fischer.
Fischer was an anomaly in the Modern Era because it seems like in Candidates matches in the 20th century, virtually all of them were decided by one or two points, not the 6-0 that Fischer inflicted on Taimanov and Larsen. Karpov was a great player but I would even put Kasparov ahead of him/
I can only repeat the most obvious part of what I said i.e., Morphy and Fischer destroyed opponents in matches and nobody else has. True, neither one of them had any longevity but I think we're talking about raw peak strength here, not how long it was held. By the way, no grandmaster after Morphy even came close to his win percentage, not even Fischer.
Fischer was an anomaly in the Modern Era because it seems like in Candidates matches in the 20th century, virtually all of them were decided by one or two points, not the 6-0 that Fischer inflicted on Taimanov and Larsen. Karpov was a great player but I would even put Kasparov ahead of him/
@Eleuthero
I absolutely agree with you on that one. If you are talking purely peak strength (compared to their contemporaries), Morphy and Fischer (and probably one could also include Capablanca) are absolute anomalies. Then again, it is futile to compare 1975 Fischer to 1975 Karpov, as no one can tell whether Fischer was at his peak strength.
I'm not saying Karpov was the greatest player ever, simply that one could make the case.
By the way: I find it utterly inexplicable how Morphy got so good. The literature and opponents he had access to in the US could have only gotten him so far, yet he evaporated everyone when he came to Europe. Purest case of a chess genius.
I absolutely agree with you on that one. If you are talking purely peak strength (compared to their contemporaries), Morphy and Fischer (and probably one could also include Capablanca) are absolute anomalies. Then again, it is futile to compare 1975 Fischer to 1975 Karpov, as no one can tell whether Fischer was at his peak strength.
I'm not saying Karpov was the greatest player ever, simply that one could make the case.
By the way: I find it utterly inexplicable how Morphy got so good. The literature and opponents he had access to in the US could have only gotten him so far, yet he evaporated everyone when he came to Europe. Purest case of a chess genius.
Am I the only one who's favorite player is Capablanca :(
@pn2206 NOOO!!
Yess we got a Capablanca fan here
Alexandra Botez.
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