Who do you think is a chess genius?
Well, not every strong chess player is a chess genius for example Carlsen doesn't consider himself to be a chess genius.
I consider Ivanchuk and Morozovich to be chess geniuses and of course Fischer.
but who also is a chess genius?
Thanks
To quote Lasker- "I have know many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! - Emanuel Lasker.
I think we are all well-trained primates. All those geniuses have trained very hard, most of them since childhood. So nothing spectacular.
Tal can be considered Genius i think
the real chess genius was morphy. at that time was not much teory
I recent times we have Magnus Carlsen and Garry Kasaparov. Both got the champion title in their early twenties and were able to defend it their whole prime.
Overall I think every super-grandmaster has the right to be qualified a chess genius.
Philidor :]
Petrosian.
i think the real genius here is
@dwdfit he just hasn't come into his own genius yet
"Talent hits a target no one else hits. Genius hits a target no one else sees." - Someone very clever whose name I forgot.
In this sense, not any super-GM should be considered a genius. It also does not take into account their incredibly hard work, e.g. in the cases of Carlsen and Kasparov.
The first chess geniuses that come into my head are Morphy, Capablanca, Anand and Ivanchuk. Especially the strength of the first two it is pretty much inexplicable.
