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Our beloved game of chess has had many legends, world champions, challengers, world-class players, and grandmasters. The games of these masters delight, inspire, and teach us the ways of the royal game. It is common to discuss the greatest players of all time in chess circles—but these discussions always...
Who are the greatest chess players of all time? Check out the full list from 1-50! Grandmasters and Carlsen-trainers Peter Heine Nielsen and Jan Gustafsson got together to compile their own list of the 50 best players ever. Neither is a big expert on chess history, so what could go wrong? 50 players, 50 videos! Let us know what they got right.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (also known as “MVL”) is a French super grandmaster who, since 2016, has spent plenty of time rated among the top five chess players in the world. His rating peaked at 2819 in August 2016, making him the seventh-highest rated player in history at the time.
By the time Polgar was 21 years old, New York Times chess columnist GM Robert Byrne declared, “there is no argument about the greatest female player ever." Her position was certainly inarguable by the objective rating: in January 1989, when Polgar was 12, she already ranked 55th in the world at 2555, just shy of Chiburdanidze's peak.
Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com. After periods of biannual, quarterly, and bimonthly releases, the list finally moved to monthly in 2012. Players remain on the graph until permanently falling below top-10 status. Just like in the video about the top women over time, data between lists was interpolated to create an uninterrupted monthly chart.
The basis of the list is the active top 10 FIDE rating list, which has been published at least once a year since 1970. At the time, not every active player had a rating, and Gaprindashvili was the only woman with one. She became world champion in 1962 and was way ahead of other women playing chess at this time.
He deemed it one of the 20 top tournament performances of all time and the best of all time by a teenager. The 18-year-old, 2772-rated Norwegian prodigy boosted his rating by 29 points by winning the Pearl Spring Chess Tournament in spectacular fashion, giving him a new rating of 2801.
Many players played their most accurate chess long after their perceived peaks, sometimes after losing the world championship title. In many cases, chess players played their most accurate chess late in their careers, possibly after they had lost a world championship title or after they were perceived to be one of the top players in the world.
@Lee and @Shaun picked this as their top game of all time. Play through it on Chess.com! "I love the way Garry refuses to take the d5-pawn and makes Karpov play around it. Then he establishes the monster knight on d3. He demonstrates such bold play with Black with so much at stake." — @Lee. 5: Byrne vs. Fischer, New York 1956
On July 4, the day the United States of America celebrates its independence, let's take a look at the best chess players in American history. The United States has long produced top chess talent, with some of the game's finest players, authors and theoreticians calling the U.S. home. In recent years,