If you can pick any 10 chess players in history (from any generation) for your fantasy tournament of a lifetime, what combination of players would you pick?
Would legends like Fischer, Kasparov, Capablanca, Alekhine, Karpov, Morphy, Lasker, Steinitz or Tal make your list?
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Paul Morphy
Wilhelm Steintz
Lasker
Capablanca
Alekhine
Tal
Botvinnik
Fischer
Kasparov
Anand
Paul Morphy
Bobby Fischer
Capablanca
Steinitz
Tal
Geller
Keres
Benko
I cant think of any other.
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Capablanca
Rubinstein
Tal
Bronstein
Keres
Fischer
Kasparov
Kramnik
Morozevich
Carlsen
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Alekhine
Capablanca
Tal
Keres
Karpov
Kasparov
Fischer
Korchnoi
Larsen
Lasker
Morphy
Lasker
Capablanca
Alekhine
Botvinnik
Tal
Fischer
Karpov
Kasparov
Carlsen
Petrosian, Tal, Kasparov, Karpov, Anand, Bronstein, Smyslov, Fischer, Alekhine, and Spassky
with
everyone at the top of their game and everyone playing their best to win and noone walking out of the tournament.
Kasparov, Fischer, Morphy, Karpov, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Anand, Kramnik, Tal and the winner plays a 24 game match with Rybka.
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the Kosintseva sisters
Eva Repkova
Irina Krush
Sanja Dedijer
Sofia Polgar
Elisabeth Paetz
Morphy
Lasker
Capablanca
Alekhine
Botvinnik
Tal
Fischer
Korchnoi
Karpov
Kasparov
But it’s impossible to sort them !
didou-i like your list, but each needs a ‘computer assisted training period’, per his historical handicap.
Morphy 2 yrs.
Lasker 1 1/2
Capablanca 1 1/2
Alekhine etc.
Botvinnik
Tal-with Tal being the cutoff
Fischer
Korchnoi
Karpov
Kasparov
1. Morphy or Nimzowitsch
2. Lasker
3. Capablanca
4. Alekhine
5. Tal
6. Fischer
7. Karpov
8. Kasparov
9. Anand
10. Topalov
if all had equel knowledge of opening theroy,and each were at there peak strength,wow! it would be one heck of a tourny. and make it quadruple round robin first prize 10 million euro.
Fischer
Kasparov
Botvinnik
Lasker
Bronstein
Tal
Capablanca
Steinitz
Rubinstein
Nimzowitsch
Also, Petrosian, Spassky, Smyslov, Ivanchuk and Judit Polgar 😉
1. Tal
2. Fischer
3. Kasparov
4. Capablanca
5. Morphy
6. Karpov
7. Morozevich
8. Aronian
9. Carlsen
10.Topalov
My list would is biased toward players from earlier eras, since I came back to chess only a couple of years ago, and I’m still getting familiar with the current generation. That said, in no particular order:
1) Morphy
2) Lasker
3) Pillsbury
4) Capablanca
5) Alekhine
6) Botvinnik
7) Tal
8) Petrosian
9) Fischer
10) Karpov
…and I could easily toss in five more.
THE HARD-FIGHTERS:
Nezhmetdinov
Larsen
Tal
Fischer
Bronstein
Kasparov
Alekhine
Topalov
Ljubojevic
Reshevsky
1. Kasparov (and I bet he would win….BEST PLAYER EVER!!!!)
2. Alekhine
3. Fischer
4. Tal
5. Capablanca
6. Rubenstein
7. Nimzowitsch
8. Lasker
9. Steinitz
10. Tarrasch
Kasparov
Fischer
Morphy
Capablanca
Lasker
Pillsbury
Botvinnik
Alekhine
Karpov
Anand
In order of Invite:
Fischer (’72 version)
Botvinnik
Keres
Kasparov
Capablanca
Alekhine
Nimzovitch
Anand
Kramnik
Topalov
I left out Tal because if his generally speculative play. I included Keres and Nimzovitch because they are the best players to never win the WCC.
Karpov as an alternate…
Rubinstein
Fischer
Morphy
Capablanca
Kortchnoi
Kasparov
Tarrasch
Steinitz
Alekhine
Lasker
Capablanca
Rubinstein
Tal
Bronstein
David Sagunsky
Fischer
Kasparov
Kramnik
Morozevich
Carlsen
I would select the top 8 from chessmetrics.com and add Pillsbury and Morphy. Pillsbury is best to never be world champ but he died at age 34 before reaching a higher spot. Actually, let me replace number 8 all-time ( Kramnik) with number 9 alltime( Anand), because I have more trust in Anand, but we will know soon which of these two is better.
Anand’s goal in any of these lists will be to draw with all his opponents. That’s why I didn’t include Anand (Mr Draw) in my list.
Pillsbury is best to never be world champ
I put Pillsbury on the list, too, but I think Keres qualifies as the best never to be champ.
(In fact, I should have put him on the list, probably instead of Petrosian.)
1) Fischer
2) Keres
3) Tal
4) Shirov
5) Kasparov
6) Judit Polgar
7) Carlsen
8) Morphy
9) Bronstein
10) Lasker
Capablanca
Fischer
Morphy
Kasparov
Alekhine
Lasker
Karpov
Rubenstein
Keres
Botvinnik
These are my picks as of now.
My fantasy tournament will be named “World championship of champions” and all players are in their prime…
1. Bobby Fischer
2. Capablanca
3. Paul Murphy
4. Garry Kasparov
5. Anatoly Karpov
6. Susan Polgar
7. Mikhail Tal
8. Botvinnik
9. Alekhine
10.Lasker
Morphy, Capablanca, Alekhine, Nimzowitsch, Sultan Khan, Tal, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Anand.
In order:
1.Kasparov
2.Fischer
3.Capablanca
4.Lasker
5.Karpov
6.Alekhine
7.Morphy
8.Botvinnik
9.Tal
10.Spassky
Hon. mention: Smyslov, Keres, Petrosian, Pillsbury, Rubinstein, Steinitz, Euwe, Kramnik, Anand, Korchnoi, Reshevsky.
1. Kasparov
2. Alekhine
3. Fischer
4. Topalov
5. Capablanca
6. Rubenstein
7. Nimzowitsch
8. Lasker
9. Steinitz
10. Judith Polgar
Unfortunately, we probably need about 5 or six more places (let’s go for an even 10 to get a nice even round-robin tournament) to list others that should be here, including: Morphy, Tal, Keres, Karpov, Carlsen, Reshevsky, Aronian, Pillsbury, Anand, Shirov, Kamsky, Kramnik, Morozevich, Mamedyarov, Ivanchuk, Adams, (oops! went over 20!). If FIDE can have 128 player knock-out tournaments, then surely we can imagine one with 20.
1. Kasparov
2. Fischer
3. Petrossian
4. Tal
5. Keres
6. Capablanca
7. Morphy
8. Topalov
9. Steinitz
10.Karpov