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Hall of Fame | The 50 Greatest Chess Players of All Time

GM Jan Gustafsson

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Who are the greatest chess players of all time?

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Grandmasters and Carlsen-trainers Peter Heine Nielsen and Jan Gustafsson got together to compile their own list of the 50 best players ever. Neither is a big expert on chess history, so what could go wrong? 50 players, 50 videos! Let us know what they got right. Who did they miss?

50: Aron Nimzowitsch

Aron Nimzowitsch is best known for his book 'My System'. But does he belong here as a player?

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49: Sergey Karjakin

Sergey Karjakin held Magnus Carlsen to a 6-6 tie in classical games in their World Championship match.

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48: Lajos Portisch

Hungary's Lajos Portisch had a long and distinguished career.

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47: Lev Polugaevsky

Lev Polugaevsky is a representative of an incredibly strong generation of Soviet players. Never in a title match, but very much a top player for 20+ years.

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46: Gata Kamsky

Gata Kamsky emerges as a prodigy in the 1990s, takes time off from chess from 1996-2004, but returns in 2004 and goes on to win the 2007 World Cup.

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45: Geza Maroczy

Maroczy was born in 1870 and was one of the leading players of his time. Enough?

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44: Peter Leko

After becoming the youngest grandmaster in the world in 1994, Peter Leko played a World Championship match against Vladimir Kramnik in 2004, coming as close to the title as it gets.

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43: Szymon Winawer

Winawer is one of the premier players a looong time ago. Where does that rank him?

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42: Miguel Najdorf

Miguel Najdorf was one of the world's best players in the 1940s and 1950s.

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41 Jan Timman

The Dutch legend was considered "Best in the West" and was an absolute top player throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

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40: Mikhail Chigorin

"The Founder of the Soviet School of Chess"

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39: Boris Gelfand

Gelfand came close to the World Championship title in 2012, when he lost to Vishy Anand by the smallest of margins.

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38: Efim Geller

An amazing tournamemnt player, Geller never got to a World Championship match, but had + scores against the likes of Fischer, Botvinnik and Petrosian.

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37: Harry Pillsbury

Harry Nelson Pillsbury only had a brief career, but his highs were incredibly high.

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36: Carl Schlechter

Schlechter was the first player to seriously challenge Lasker in a World Championship match.

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35: Vasyl Ivanchuk

Widely considered a chess genius, Ivanchuk enters the list.

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34: Siegbert Tarrasch

Dr. Tarrasch was maybe the world's best player in the 1890s.

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33: Levon Aronian

The Armenian Superstar requires no introduction

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32: Reuben Fine

He did just fine in 1938.

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31: Efim Bogoljubov

Another veteran, who played two World Championship matches.

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30: Samuel Reshevsky

Reshevsky was a contender for the World Championship from the mid-1930s to the mid-60s.

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29: Bent Larsen

The Great Dane makes the Top 30. Another Great Dane explains why.

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28: Louis Charles Mahe de la Bourdonnais

The French master was considered to be the strongest player in the world in the early 1800s.

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27: Johannes Zukertort

Zukertort lost to Steinitz in the first World Championship match in 1886, but was a dominant player in the 1870s and 1880s.

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26: Adolf Anderssen

Anderssen won two big tournaments in 1851 and 1862, as well as giving the world the "Immortal Game".

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25: David Bronstein

David Bronstein is best known for tying the 1951 World Championship match against Botvinnik, while also giving the chess world some highly influential books.

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