Greatest endgame players?

Crushing Day

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12 Dec 08 23:11

Crushing Day

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12 Dec 08 23:11

Who would you say are the top 5 of all time?

In no particular order:

Rubinstein
Capablanca
Karpov
Smyslov
Petrosian

Nowakowski

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12 Dec 08 23:15

Originally posted by Crushing Day
Who would you say are the top 5 of all time?

In no particular order:

Rubinstein
Capablanca
Karpov
Smyslov
Petrosian

erp... Richard Reti?

~~diskamyl~~

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12 Dec 08 23:19

1 edit

--nevermind--

thadeusman

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12 Dec 08 23:36

Originally posted by Crushing Day
Who would you say are the top 5 of all time?

In no particular order:

Rubinstein
Capablanca
Karpov
Smyslov
Petrosian

Is that te order that you think its in because if so I think Smyslov and Karpov should be the first two.

yosiman

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13 Dec 08 00:04

Originally posted by thadeusman
Is that te order that you think its in because if so I think Smyslov and Karpov should be the first two.

He clearly stated that it was in no particular order.

paulbuchmanfromfics

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13 Dec 08 00:09

What about Salo Flohr? I have heard he was really good at endings.

dzhafner

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13 Dec 08 00:31

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blacula

and of course smyslov (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1125562), capablanca (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1102104), karpov (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1067121), petrosian (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032639)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1004746

Squelchbelch

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13 Dec 08 06:41

Originally posted by Crushing Day
Who would you say are the top 5 of all time?

In no particular order:

Rubinstein
Capablanca
Karpov
Smyslov
Petrosian

Ronald Weyerstrass

najdorfslayer

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13 Dec 08 08:20

If you are to sudy the K-K games then I can't believe you can say Karpov is better end game player than Kasparov I would say they are about on a par with each other!

Just becuase GK was a great attacker doesn't mean he wasn't still one of the best end game players around.

caissad4

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13 Dec 08 10:49

Originally posted by Crushing Day
Who would you say are the top 5 of all time?

In no particular order:

Rubinstein
Capablanca
Karpov
Smyslov
Petrosian

1 Akiba Rubenstein
2 Jose Capablanca
3 Emanuel Lasker
4 Vassily Smyslov
5 Seigbert Tarrasch

wormwood

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13 Dec 08 10:59

nikolai grigoriev probably must be at least mentioned?

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13 Dec 08 11:26

Originally posted by wormwood
nikolai grigoriev probably must be at least mentioned?

recently retired (now correspondence chess player) GM ulf andersson is also known to have a close to perfect endgame technique.

dzhafner

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13 Dec 08 11:48

perhaps mr. carlsen will soon be on this list also

adam warlock

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13 Dec 08 11:53

Originally posted by najdorfslayer
Just becuase GK was a great attacker doesn't mean he wasn't still one of the best end game players around.

Agreed.

scacchipazzo

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13 Dec 08 13:03

in order:
Rubenstein
Smyslov
Capablanca
Nimzovich
Reuben Fine