Greatest Chess Players in World History

[MagnusTal]

Honourable Mentions : Viswanathan Anand, Paul Morphy & Tigran Petrosian.

But this list is considered a bit inaccurate by many, especially by *GM Hikaru Nakamura*.
Such as - *Vishwanathan Anand* deserves in Top 6th Position by most sources.

But it is very difficult to rank Top 10 Chess players of all time considering all statistics, time period etc...
I would suggest to read the analysis done by *Wikipedia*. (Considering all statistics, time period, etc...)

[realxay]

Me: wanting to enjoy some chess
My opponents:

[RivithOi]

Garry look like he is from a Godfather movie 💀

[jefftaylor]

“I’ll hide in 9th place and checkmate in 17 moves” - Tal

[milke]

Magnus is the goat, while kasparov is like pele magnus is like messi.. he deserves to be called the goat, dude revolutionized what was thought to be highest level of chess

[generalgrievous]

Vishi, Spassky, Morphy...
The list could go one, we shouls just appreciate each of them for their play.

[Guynextdoor]

Vishy single handily inspired the whole nation of India to pick up chess and strive to achieve GMs. Unlike the Soviet Union where resources are everywhere, Vishy had to struggle and work his way up on his own.

He is also the only player who won the world championship in 3 different formats. How can anyone dispute his credentials and not put him in the top 5 list!

[imgnryvansh]

Vishwanathan Anand deserves the place of Vladimir Kramnik for sure

[zirome]

What I think a lot of people fail to realize about Fischer was the fact that he was over 120 rating points above the second place (Boris Spassky) alone. His peak rating of 2785 would STILL leave him tied for 4th place today. There is also the debate of whether or not the chess ratings back then were lower than they should've been, but even ignoring that, he was the most dominant player ever in my personal opinion.

[nebuchadnezzar]

No way bro put in Kramnik but left out Vishy

[maryleon]

Robert james looks like he's mewing back in the golden days🗿🗿🗿

[magxz]

Overall great list tho Vishy should probably be there as well

[GodlikeOcean]

Tal sacrificed the first place here, to beat Kasparov in 18 moves 1 month before his death!

[harshvarma]

Meanwhile Vishy, a 5 time World champion, has been top 10 in the world since 1990-91, even right now when he is beyond 50 plays top level chess and still defeats young bloods, the man who popularized the use of the engine for opening preparations, also directly responsible for influencing a no. of youngsters into chess who now are competing at top level, laughing in the corner

[amulsarkar]

The style of mikhail tal playing chess is defferent from all, he is a sigma, brilliant, awesome 😎 ❤❤player😈👿🧠

[Gafnner]

First 4 look so intimidating as if they were members of the chess mafia or some shit well not counting Magnus who's just laughing 😂

[rankingresearchdata]

Fact : this best chess ♟️ player was mama sakuni 😅

[arandomuser]

Brain says magnus carlsen.

Heart says frank and orbital.

[pawazz]

Magnus won so many titles that he didn’t feel like winning. I think that guarantees first place.

[cheese]

Kasparov reached that level without the era of the internet… We’ll never see a man quite like him ever again. If he was born in our era he would be an engine.