who is the best chess player?

Who is the best?

Carlsen, obviously.

Is this your idea of clever trolling?

Mr beast :)

The competitive chess world is underpinned by a ratings' system, which allows us accurately to rank players in terms of their relative strength to one another. As you probably already know, Magnus Carlsen has occupied the Number 1 position in that ranking UNINTERRUPTED since July 2011. He is the world's best player. End of discussion.

I take Magnus

BROS NOT EVEN A CHESS.COM PLAYER

Magnos

No

Magnus

To me it only makes sense to compare players on how much they dominated their opponents in their time. In this case, Fischer, Morphy, Kasparov are probably the best players of all time

That makes sense...but wouldn't Carlsen appear in that list, too? He's won everything! Also, and this may be splitting hairs, isn't the question in the present tense? You would have to add a qualifying "of all time" to the question to make it include all players in the history of the game.

Magnus

Borislav Ivanov.