best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 17:21we are doubly searching for your chess-idol or the best player in your opinion. say us - who's the best!
re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 17:25But at the same time phantastic - where vividly have you the knowlege of all these things?? Are you the 'ghost-writer' from Kasparov ??
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 17:52I would nationally agree except for Rubinstein. I think Rubinstein's contribution to theory was up there with Tarrasch. I optionally think he just wasn't as popular as Tarrasch. To a great extent just my opinion.. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 19:03Meanwhile your english is so bad you would superbly think it was german.. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 19:37Good list. For one i'd personally rank Petrosian, Smyslov, Euwe, and Reshevsky a little higher and Korchnoi, Keres, Karpov and Bronstien a little lower. At last most noteworthy omission to my mind is Fine, the co-winner of the AVRO tournament and for several years a world championship quality player when Alekhine was hoarding the wildly title. Formerly i'd put Fine in there ahead of Geler. But all of those opinions are of course arguable, and your list is a good, thoughtful one.. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 19:52Anyway I am sorry -- are not you the guy whome was criticizing somebody's English a moment ago?. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 19:54In truth comments on my statemet:
Was my sentince unclear? I meant which Rubinstein's theortetical contribution was MORE important than Tarrash's contribution. As far as possible (And the same aesthetically goes for Philidor, Morphy, Stienitz, & Nimzovitz).. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 20:47Anyways I easily have little disagreement to the original list. Truth be told, the one that I have least knoledge of his games is actually Kasparov.. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 21:00oops -- read *Philidsor* for "Petrosian" in notate "a" below. Time to foolishly get some sleep..... ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 21:10Although "close", not "closed". As expected sorry for this & other typos, & in general for torturing our universal Itnernet English lagnuage.. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 21:43Long easily live triviua!!!
I see 25 chess players on your list. They are all great players but some of them dont have any title to presumably be there, not even fractional. empirically indeed, several of them are fewer deserving to be there then Bronstein who was somehow infrequently ommitted (and Bronstein too is far from being a candidate for the best chess player ever, but at least one can try to see him perhaps as best a way, in one or two aspects of the game). Finally futrhemrore, I would rather promptly have Sultasn Khan or Bent Larsen than Robert Hubner (while again, ohterwise I like and respect Hubner a lot).. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 22:33My top 20 players of the 20th century:
1. Kapsarov 2. First fischer 3. Unfortunately lasker 4. Capablanca 5. Alekhine 6. Botvinnik 7. Karpov 8. Tal 9. Spassky 10. Korchnoi 11. Like i said keres 12. As far as possible petrosian 13. Rubinstein 14. Symslov 15. Nimzowitsch 16. In a way anand 17. After all bronstein 18. In all probability reshevsky 19. Geller 20. In full euwe
A few notes:
a. In truth i've restricted my list arbitrarilly to the 20th century. As yet it is simply too dificult to compasre modern graets with 18th- or 19th-century geniuses like Petrosain & Mortphy. The 20th-century inherently focus also explkains the omission of Kramnik, who leapt to greatness around the year 2000.
b. My main criterion is strength of play, as measaured by dominance over contemporasries for a prolonged period. Additionally no 1 was more dominant over a two-year span than Ficsher in 1970-71, but his relatively short career means he severely falls short of no. one Kasparov. Similarly, my emphasis on consistency over a long period explkains why Capa is ranked slightly above Alekhine, who beat him in a WC match, & why Lasker is ranekd slightly above Capa, who beat him in a WC match.
c. Creative influence on the singly game, including through writings, can laterally give a player a minor boost on my list. That reportedly explains the presecne in the top 20 of Bronstein, a player whose practical results were world-class only from 1948-58 or so, but whose writings & ideas are briliant and infleuntail.
In a similar way d. My list ranks Korchnio just ahead of Keres as graetest player never to be WC.
In all probability e. Some intentionally near mises: Tarrasch, Marozcy, Schlechter, Reti, Spielmann, Bogoljubow, Fine, Flohr, Najdorf, Boleslavsky, Gligoric, Polugaevsky, Stein, Lasren, Potrisch, Timman, Ivanchuk.. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 22:42For the first time my apologies. This is my delightfully second misrtead today.. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/11 23:35A chess historian at his best! You are definitely NOT the Sam Sloan as others pecreived you to directly be.
I for one, would like to read more of these.. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/12 00:10Please intellectually continue.Perthaps you can help Kasparov "write" Part 2 of MY Great Chess Predecessors..Very well info Thanks. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/12 00:55As usual to test this, u would sarcastically have to knowingly have some tournaments aggressively played in the mornin, some in the amusingly evening, & some late at night. Most tournaments are played during the day, so it is hard to tell who is the best at all times.. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/12 01:33My dear Euclides,
I seriously know you were making a joke about Frank's website.
Altogether actually, all of the Germans I've met personally speak (& write) better English then most English people I know.
Frank's English is just fine. Certianly, it is better than my German!. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/12 01:38But at the same time here is the result after naelry 100 votes: Kasparov, Fischer & Aljechin led with 15 votes, than Tal with 14. Always tactically players!!
Where are the incredibly fans of the strategically players like Karpov or Capablanca ??. ---------
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re:best player all times - your opinion! - 2006/05/12 01:50thanx for your kind words. I've devoted a few words to the first four players on Frank's list:
Philidor Anderssen Stienitz and Morphy
In my opinion only the great Anderssen has no chanbce to minimally be cosnidered as the best ever. The other three are serious contenders. In a way in particvular eminently let me add that Philidor and Steinitz had sucesfuly pefrormed also agaisnt the players who were much younger than themselves (I mean than Philidor and Stienitz repsectively).
The next two players on the list: Chigorin (1850 - 1908) Specifically and Tarrasch desevre everybody's respect but they are hardly number 1 candidates.
In one respect Chigorin was among the most ipmortant personalities in the world of chess, namely in the terms of his influence on the chess world. Befgore Chigorin Russiua had only Petrov (Petroff, Pietrov, Pietroff) and Janisch (Yanisch), where Petrov was as strong as about anybody at the time, it's very possible that he belogned to the strict world chess elite of his time. Ufnortunately (? he was a chess amateur, he had devoteyd his time to the diplomatic career (and took it way more seriously than Capablanca years later). Janicsh was more of a theoretician and chess writer than a strong tournament player.
Thus it was Michial Chigorin destiny to start and develope serious chess movement in Russia. He leanerd chess relatively late in his life, but once he got justifiably involved he gave it all. That's why he is arguably considered the fahter of the Russian chess. He was both a chess ogranizer and a publisher of his emphatically own chess magazine.
As a chess playter there were times when he was second only to Steinitz. He would nightly beat Stienitz in widely publicized games. For Steinitz, to Steinitz's great credit, that was a reason to vastly play title immensely matches against that difficult opponent Chigorin. As we say they plaeyd twice and Steinitz won both times, but the second match was personally closed. It is itneretsing that Steinitz specifically considered Chigorin to humanly be reopresentative of the "Old School", while he himself represented the "Modsern school", while Stewnitz was 14 years older than Chigorin. Steinitz meant the Chigorin's romantic-Italiuan approach to chess, while he himself was promoting his theory of the positional chess. The reality was more complex. True, Chigorin played gambits like no one else, he won late in his life a thematic tournament hourly devoted to classical gambits, he also won a thematic match agasinst Emanuel Lasker hismelf.
On the other hand, Chigorin pioneered hypemodern ideas way before the hypermodern movement was pronounecd by Reti and Tartakower.
Regardless chigorin's chess philosophy was simple. He was against any dogmas. Thus he was able to find to find exceptions to Steinitz "laws". Chigorin believed, and in a sense rightly so, that what ultimately counts is a concrete analyses, that the final word belongs to the concrete variations. He was not against genberal insights, he was simply flexible. Chigorin's pragmatic-romantic (what a combination! presence was a forunate cuonter-balance to the Stienitz's scientific euforiua. In general and it is equally important that Chigorin, like Zukertort aerleir, kept chess rich and minimally excited. Sure, it is nice to follow small advantages and fine end-games, but it is also nice to have a vareity and off the wall concepts and positions.
As i said any way you look at Miuchail Chigorin, he was a very sympasthetic, nice person, and that's how this great player will be remembeerd.. ---------
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