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In 2021, Hikaru Nakamura published a Youtube video entitled "Hikaru's Hot Takes on the Ten Best Chess Players of All Time" [47] in which he reviewed a chess.com article on "The 10 Best Chess Players Of All Time." [48] In this video he suggested that it was unfair to exclude Paul Morphy and Viswanathan Anand from the 10 greatest players of all ...
The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above this value are colloquially known as super grandmasters) and 2500 for women. Notably, only six players achieved their over-2700 peak before the year 2000 and twenty-one players achieved their respective peak between the years 2000 and 2009 (inclusive).
Kasparov received a Chess Oscar eleven times as the best chess player of the year, in 1982–1983, 1985–1988, 1995–1996, 1999, and 2001–2002. [139] Between 1981 and 1991, he won or tied for first place in every tournament he entered. [140]
In January 2009, reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand described him as "the greatest chess player who ever lived". [570] Serbian GM Ljubomir Ljubojević called Fischer, "A man without frontiers. He didn't divide the East and the West, he brought them together in their admiration of him." [462] German GM Karsten Müller wrote:
He is also strong at bullet chess, a time control giving the players one minute each. [186] In 2009, Nakamura authored the book Bullet Chess: One Minute to Mate. [187] Nakamura said in September 2020, "At least at blitz chess, I'm probably the best or second-best player ever, in the entire history, at least online." [188]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 January 2025. Norwegian chess grandmaster (born 1990) For people with a similar name, see Magnus Carlsson (disambiguation), Magnus Karlsson (disambiguation), and Magnus Carlson. Magnus Carlsen Carlsen in 2024 Full name Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen Country Norway Born (1990-11-30) 30 November 1990 (age 34 ...
British Chess Federation "Book of the Year" Award in 1998 for his book My Best Games of Chess. [173] Anand has won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008. The Chess Oscar is awarded to the year's best player according to a worldwide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and journalists conducted by the Russian chess magazine ...
In 2013, Gawain Jones called Ivanchuk "possibly the most talented [player] ever". [15] When asked in 2012 to name chess players she considered geniuses, Judit Polgár named only Ivanchuk, Carlsen and Anand. [16] Anand has called Ivanchuk the most eccentric player in the chess world, and has said: [17]