Botvinnik - Champion

[nataschmidtt]

1. Kasparov

2. Alekhine

3. loser

4. loser

5. loser

etc

[KnightOnE5Square]

All chess players and grandmasters agree that 1.Kasparov 2.Karpov and the others are arguable

[PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD]

Wow nice job showing us you don't know shit. Tal only had a 2-game lead lifetime against Fischer, and no wins against Fischer after 1959. There is nothing to suggest Fischer was "less skilled" than ANY of those players. He was the youngest player to qualify for the Candidates, the youngest to become GM, and one of youngest WC ever at age 29.

Also, If Capablanca thought Lasker as superior it certainly didn't prevent him from winning the WC from him in 1921. You fail.

[AntiUmah]

no... botvinnik is the  best ever

[TRUEMAN8919]

1 fischer 2 alekhine 3 capablanca 4 spasski 5 petrossian 6 morphy 7 anatoly karpov 8 gary kasparov 9 tal 10 botvinnik

[schusterlehrling]

@TRUEMAN8919

Lasker dominated them all.

Botwinnik, Alekhine and Capablanca all regarded him as superior to themselves.

Fischer was far less skilled then Kasparov, Karpov or Tal. Tal crushed him multipe times even with health problems.

Petrosian defeated an aged and unambitous Botvinnik. Smyslow also was better then Petrosjan or Botwinnik.

[FDGOD74]

@schusterlehrling agree Lasker is the best!

[ronoman88]

@TRUEMAN8919 agreed on all except Morphy higher than Spassky at 4 then the rest is accurate to me. Fischer is still the best all rounder.

[Hektorxxx]

What is the year?

[youvebeenthunderstru]

...did somebody just try to rush up to the board and attack one of the players in the Botvinnik-Petrosian clip?!

[GlorifiedTruth]

The greatest of them all.

[ChessChat]

Great British player Alexander said once Botvinnik wrote 1. c2-c4 on his scoresheet he(Alexander) felt like resigning ! The Patriarch was so powerful.

Though Alexander did beat him once in a GB-USSR match.

[jeffwads]

nice to see the young smyslov and tal.

[regoralo]

He's a man in the history of chess...

[YTM021807]

Historico y valioso!