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Originally posted by deeploser
I haven't been into chess until late last year. So far my favorite players are Josh Waitzkin because he started young and I'm trying to get my 7 year old interested in chess and that he and I are around the same age. My other favorite is Paul Morphy because he also started young and is from the same state I'm from.
Waitzkin!? He never even made GM...

Anyhow, my favorite is Tal, followed by Fischer.

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Originally posted by cmsMaster
Waitzkin!? He never even made GM...

Anyhow, my favorite is Tal, followed by Fischer.
its favorite, not best.

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my favourite is...let's see...aha! myself!

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Morphy

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Originally posted by cmsMaster


Anyhow, my favorite is Tal, followed by Fischer.
This is probably how I stand. But I probably don't have the sophistication to really pick a favorite player yet. I like Tal's crazy combos and Fischer really rode the lightning in a lot of games.

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Originally posted by briancron
I think it's a compliment to Morphy that someone would say he only beat up on weak players...

their arms were too short to box with god
A very nice way of putting it. It's very difficult to say how good Morphy was because no-one in his day good push him to his limits. I'm not interested in how many amateurs a master can beat, blindfold or otherwise.

Alekhine managed to wrest the title away from a supremely talented player and Fischer proved himself to be in a different class to the finest Soviet player of the 1960s, surely these achievments are more impressive than beating up a duke and a count in an opera box?

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I'd like to beat up a duke and a count in an opera box.

Not at chess, just beat up. 😉

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Yes it's unfortunate Morphy lived in a time when chess was seen as a parlor game not meant to be taken seriously. He himself gave up on the game after thinking it was pointless hobby.

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Samuel Reshevsky. Nothing fancy in his play. Just grind 'em down. His notes (if they were his & not ghost written) are straight forward.

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Lasker, Smyslov, Kramnik (among world champions)

Pillsbury, Gligoric, Seirawan, Anand, Rublevsky (among contenders)

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Svidler. In interviews and reports he comes across as a decent, pleasant, down-to-earth guy. Most other chess players come across a bit weird.

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steve davis

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Originally posted by onyx2006
steve davis
lol

Who's your favourite snooker player?

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seriously, steve was an avid player. He played the giuoco piano, ask him.

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Originally posted by onyx2006
seriously, steve was an avid player. He played the giuoco piano, ask him.
Yes I know he was - he was also meant to be very good - & a natural at 'Go' too - just an all-round games guy, I guess. I think he was once on the front cover of 'Chess Magazine' and maybe also had some role within an official chess organization to boot?

Peter Svidler's my favourite snooker player, btw.