Is paul murphy the greatest chess player ever?

Question

I have been going to chessgames.com for quite a while and it seems to me that paul murphy won 90% of all his games.

Answer 1

Bobby Fisher. Crazy genius.

Answer 2

Only if you think Mesmer was the best psychologist.  OK, to be fair Mesmer was a contemporary of Phildor.

Freud was a contemporary of Lasker, but use him if you want.

The best Doctor of 1855 versus the worst doctor today.  Hmm, the other guy prescribed leeches but he was the best.:)

Morphy was great in an open game.  Since Bottnivik (sp?) all is closed games.  Andersen gave him a few problems with real bad closed games, a middling IM would take him down 20 moves of know analysis in the QGD.

Given time to "book up" perhaps.  Still my bet is on Lasker.  A few years ago Chess Master tried that, and Lasker oddly enough was camelian enough to be the player that took advantage of everyone's weaknesses.

Answer 3

No, Bobby Fisher, he was the highest rated chess player ever and beat the Soviet Chess Machine during the cold war.  He revolutionized chess theology.

Answer 4

Never heard of him so he can't be