The Best Chess Players Over Time 

My favorite player Mikhail Tal 🥰

Karpov being in top 2 till 96 is even more mindboggling , it gets more crazy when you see his performance in the 1994 Linares tournament( most prestigious tournament back then ) where he demolished the best players in the world at that time most if not all of them younger then him .

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Fabiano: Please!!!!

2011 actually

Mid-2014 Magnus closest to 2900 of anyone: Who?

Gandalf said you CANNOT pass duh

Hi, How can the elo for players be so much lower in 1972 than in 2023? Is the answer because the top-players at the time play less vs eachother? Or because there were less top-chess players at the time?

@@scottwarren4998 Inflation of Elo

@@Hunter-eh2ux Lol look at bobby fischer. The guy is 6.2 rows above the rest of the competition. Imagine how good he would be today in chess online where you can point arrows and capturings and stuff to see the variations far into the future

@@Hunter-eh2ux Fischer was 6.8 rows above the rest of the competition If the year 1969 was included. That's is greater than Kasparov's 6.3 rows.

LoL nice

"software person" more like a degenerate gamer

Bobby fischer. The guy is 6.2 rows above the rest of the competition. Imagine how good he would be today in chess online where you can point arrows and capturings and stuff to see the variations far into the future.

Fischer was 6.8 rows above the rest of the competition, (1969). That's is greater than Kasparov's 6.3 rows.

LOL, should have added those coordinates on Africa's west cost somehow.

He isn’t really active though and hasn’t played much the last several years.

@@ItachiUchiha-ns1il Are you living in delusion? Dude he played so mucha actively till 2019 . He was WC Rapid champion in 2017 . After the pandemic he slowed down but he even got 2nd position in GCT 2021 Croatia. He played two classical (big) tournaments this year and more other events. He is not active like he was till 2019 but still playing.

⁠@@soumyajitroy5239oh ur Indian that makes sense why you go so pissed off also vishi isn’t an active player at all use some sense without letting your ego come through like op said he isn’t active nowadays after 2019 and yet people believe im to be the best what a joke 😂😂

Calm tf down insecure indian​@@soumyajitroy5239

​@@Kichuplayz Dawg hes in the top 10 hes still good, enough to beat you without a queen

Isn't that the most accurate tournament performance of all time?

@@jshooa4840 It is certainly the highest performance rating of all time, but I don’t know about the accuracy.

@@lukaswolek7294 it's still crazy to see that run though. Hopefully Fabi wins the candidates this time around and faces Ding, what a match that will be

@@jshooa4840 It’s kinda sad how so many strong players of this generation won’t become world champions even though a lot of them would’ve deserved it. Obviously Fabi deserves it, but Levon, Hikaru and maybe also Nepo all deserve a world championship as well. And it may turn out that the next generation is coming to quickly for many of those to make it. Pragg and Keymer are coming, Maghsoodloo and Arjun are coming and they’re already so strong.

@@lukaswolek7294 with Magnus not seeking to be world champion until a format change, we might see the most diverse time when it comes to it. Maybe a new champ every 2 years, who knows. All I know is that it'll be very interesting to watch. Plus, Naka being world champ might make Magnus come back, who knows

Yeah poor guy, if they didn't discover karpov then he would be WC for 15 years instead

He was strong since the late 1940s!

And siked vladimir kramnik that one time

That's why he's in the goat debate. Second place in the world was nowhere near him at his peak. Who knows how long he could have dominated for. Never had the mentality required to consistently dominate for a decade + like Magnus or Kasparov. There is no genius who doesn't have a touch of madness.

not only that, he pretty much confirmed to a lot of people the 'chess is smart people game" theory because of his IQ of 185

@@monke7566 Hikaru:

​@@thebcwonder4850... Took a free 5 minute unsupervised unofficial test whilst simultaneously talking to chat.

Fischer *might* tested years ago, his score is inflated and due to scoring system changes over the years, it's still really high but it's not 185 today. 185 isn't even a quantifiable IQ score which is why most reputable test only go up to 160. It's not even known whether or not he even tested, just because some journalist wrote an article and gave an arbitrary number doesn't mean it's verifiably true.

Blud said Bobby Fischer stayed in top for long 😂

@@gamma9141 and he is right

@@Yugeshmgr sure pass me the blunt 🚬 that nutjob couldn’t handle the heat and ran away too soon 😔

He's wrong lol, bobby fischer didn't stay at the top for long, he literally left?@@Yugeshmgr

Wasted talent lost to his hate and insanity within

@@gamma9141Actually he had a lot a to be angry about. His upbringing seemed hard and the US did spy on him, as well as there was cheating in chess from the Soviets.

@@caesaremrichfam5057 yeah he let those stuff control and define him unfortunately

Best player of all time

@@LuxuryItIs for people who are absurdly biased and deluded maybe (mostly American boomers)

His end game makes him number 1

Bro no insults but chess is not rlly on pair with science so no way he is upper cap of current human brain

​@@MihajloNasticIn terms of raw memorization, cognitive thinking and reasoning skills, Magnus is definitely above average. You can see him immediately recognize positions from games without being able to see the pieces, immediately spot complicated patterns and ideas, and even outside of chess, he memorized (correct me if I'm wrong) all of the 200+ Norwegian flags by the age of 5. Sure, I'm not claiming he's the epitome of the species, but Magnus' memory, pattern recognition and cognitive abilities are definitely on the higher end of the human scale. This is demonstrated resoundingly by his achievements in the game of chess, but also even outside of chess.

Human evolution always surprises humans, so I am sure Magnus will be surpassed in a couple of centuries 😄

One problem in your argument is that Kasparov also dominated during time that *computers were very much involved*. Chessbase was released in 1985. and by 1995 it was used pretty widely, and towards the end of the 90s, all professional players prepared heavily with database and engines. So Kasparov dominated in both pre-computers and in computers era. Another issue is that dominating with computers isn't necessarily harder than dominating without them. Being a rich chess player (which is very rare), Magnus has more access to super computers, and can pay GMs to do the endless work for him, of finding new ideas in various openings. So that gives him an advantage over other top chess players (not to take anything away from his menacing natural talent of course)

Second to me

to be in no.1 spot i would play king takes king

Jokes on you I play the botez gambit🥱

No, some silly and sexy woman pornstar would be the worst chess player of all time.

Not much longer if he is gonna play the way he played in Qatar masters

no prep in Qatar@@kshitizyadav3174

​@@kshitizyadav3174just having some fun

@@kshitizyadav3174n yet he won the world cup before that.

As long as magnus stays motivated, he will be unstoppable until the day he decides to retire, not when his chess ability fails him. This is what will make Magnus the GOAT.

crazy guy

Because the margins were bigger. What Magnus did is more impressive because the margins are smaller. He was and is way more dominant than Bobby fischer ever was; and to understand this you or someone else needs to give this deep though to really understand it. Needless to say, magnus has his predecessors to thank for. They developed the sport and Magnus absorbed the knowledge from known chess masters and with the help of computers.... just way way way better than anyone else. Magnus truly is the goat. No questions about it.

@@CeRz dude what you talking about magnus and his elo etc knowledge i mean all about future gen thing which people had internet and sh*t, boby literally never lost chest game unless you trigger him like making sound in mid game. as soon as you stop triggering him he again never lost lol if it is not domination you need to learn what is domination or go watch documents about bobby. magnus isn't unbeatable he is consistent thats why he is "one" of the best chest players. bobby isn't about consistency he is about "margin" you talk about he was so much stronger than second place. also he had the highest iq i believe in chess players. look iq isn't make you good player. it makes you learn the game easier and be beter at it. if you have 200iq and spend your whole life 12-15 hours a day on chess believe me nobody ever could beat you so magnus can't beat bobby if they lived same era (to make a fair match either magnus had to go to 70's or he need to come 10's they can't make fair match old vs young or past gen vs new gen they need to be same era chess players. bobby would be first magnus would be that guy in second never could reached him for %100 certeniaty, or again government etc would trigger him and he would quit at top where magnus never beat him just like what happened already.)

@@DeppHead That was completely incoherent

@@StephenMcClenahan carlsen lost the countless of people in his whole career. he consistently stayed at top but lost a lot. we are living in era where computer can analyze your game and give the info in 2 seconds, you would waste your whole month of searching at 70's. bobby literally never lost anybody and reason carlsen would beat him today because of knowledge we have about chess today. 20 years later elos will be upper than carlsen will ever reach. so all those things i said was "incoherent" well then you either dumb or worship carlsen or hate bobby any of those makes you idiot anyways. so i'm getting out of here that's all i can explain rest is depends on your capacity of understanding. but i could never even argue if you said magnus is one of the best i'll say yea he is but you can't come up and say straight up goat if you gonna pick straight up its bobby. if you gonna say bobby is one of the best i still won't argue you just can't come up with magnus is goat when there is clearly one who god of the chess. also don't forget he didn't get trained like carlsen did he literally did it by himself under the candle light just get the hell out if you don't appreciate that guy, you know nothing about chess and that is chess discussion its doesn't involve personality and decision flaws. even if you hate him, you can't hate his chess.

Magnus much less separation from the pack than Garry or Bobby. Overrated by recency bias.

Indeed

Should have had Frank skyrocket to 3000 in 2023 at the end.

@@theekomodojoe yeah, I guess the list might be a little outdated already. They better cook a gourmet meal with the part 2 of this video

Oh please 😂😂😂

@@gamma9141 what do you mean

No he couldnt have because he had other problems to deal with and crazy demands when he would play If you ignore those well then it's not really the same bobby Fischer anymore

he didnt so he couldnt

They got stopped 😷☣️

What an impressively smallminded and shortsighted conclusion. Magnus' dominance is way more impressive than Bobby's. It doesn't take much common sense to understand this. I can guarantee you I have a counterargument for anything you might throw back at me; and I'll even be bold or audacious enough to briefly state it in one sentence and claim it holds.

@@CeRz ? Magnus is not more dominant than Fischer was at all. Fischer was a lot better than everyone else. While Magnus has troubles winning tournaments if other strong players play. Also Fischer played against competition from the Soviet Union that sponsored Chess, and made it so Chess player didn't have to worry about making a living. A situation that has never again repeated in history, and he still came on top.

@@JM-tj5qm first paragraph is false and shows you don't watch or understand chess tournaments, and the second paragraph is irrelevant.

@@JM-tj5qm magnus has trouble winning tournaments with other strong players because quite literally, they are strong too. they're much stronger than the players fischer played with, if fischer was playing in the tournaments magnus played in, forget about magnus' trouble to win, he'd have trouble trying not to lose every game. quite simply, players of this generation are much more knowledgeable and stronger than Fischer's era and fischer himself.

​@@JM-tj5qmYou just don't understand chess. In this computer era,everyone has Resources..Not just magnus..So magnus dominating and gaining highest elo just speak for itself!Fischer may not have win the wc if spaasky Didn't agree to his proposals. You nvr know. But fisher's longevity at top wasn’t that great. So he isnot the GOAT at all! Its just kasparov vs magnus for the GOAT status

There is a separate video by abacaba that covers 1809 to 2016

Due to rating inflation and deflation I think it would be rather misleading If it stayed constant

@@colin7917 Agree, back then a player in the 2500 was one of the best in the world. Nowadays not so much

He was him

It's because they quit playing chess professionally 🤣

​@@se_eikeboom6891not always

Vishy sir : Oh not quite! I am immortal

wow Garry died?

dude karpov, kasparov, kramnik, bill gates all are alive

also Magnus after playing an actual opening and his opponent has the first 20 moves memorized

Morphy let's go

But too short