Who was or is the best chess player in the history of the game?

Question

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Answer 1

I'd say Emmanuel Lasker, but that is just me.:)

Answer 2

I thought it was bobby fisher?

Answer 3

Wikipedia has a good article about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_ch...

It`s hard to choose one person to name as the world`s best player, because there`s so many things to take into account. A lot of the chess Greats are no longer alive, and we only have their game records to judge by. Most of the great players haven`t played against eachother, which would be the only way to judge fairly (and even then, it wouldn`t be definitive). And if you take into account the gradual change of the game since its creation, it`s next to impossible to judge the skills levels of players from different eras.

Plus, how do you judge who is the best? By the number of tournaments they`ve won? How much they win? The cleverness and ingenuity of their moves?

It`s all arbitrary, and there`s no real answer to your question. But the Wikipedia article WILL give you a general idea.