Who is your favourite chess player?

@LeChuchel said in #7:

GM @penguingim1 because he is the best Bullet player.

He is the quickest GM but certainly not the best player.

Recently I like the games of Giri and Niemann.

Vishvanatan Anand.
Super strong player and a super nice person. Plus he basicly put India on the chess globe and look what it become.

Maybe Tal Fischer or Gasparov

@ColossusChess said in #11:

He is the quickest GM but certainly not the best player.

GM Ediz Gurel is one of the fastest clicker (on lichess)

For me personally no question, Robert James "Bobby" Fischer. Just to be clear, I am just talking about chess right now, not about politics and not about an academically poor treatment of written "pseudo-sources" for certain things that just want to transport a "political agenda" (that may even severely challenge basic human rights). About poor treatment of "pseudo-sources with an agenda" see the press conference footage of Fischer and Jeremy Schaap from Iceland. I am talking about that Fischer is the man behind Chess960 which is the one and only formally recognized chess variation besides "normal chess" in the FIDE Laws of Chess but can still be played with the normal chess board and the normal chessmen and which provides lots of new insights into chess.

I like Bobby Fischer. I also like Bobby Fischer 2.0 aka Hans Moke Niemann

Without mentioning the obvious players that everybody likes, I like Bent Larsen. He was very creative and really thought "outside the box", trying to build his own plans with unorthodox openings and lines.

magnus

it's hard to choose.

Maybe because.....