The Best Chess Players Over Time (Estimated By Accuracy)
23.09.2023
Take a journey through the history of chess and see the best chess players over time. The X-axis represents the year and Y-axis represents Elo estimated by accuracy as calculated by Chess.com/analysis.
This visual representation allows you to see when players like Bobby Fisher, Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen, and Jose Capablanca performed across history.
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where is Henrique Meking ? number 3° in world
When I saw Bobby appear at the bottom I was prepared.
At 3:33 Bobby Fischer has rating 2900+ but i guess not played reached 2900+ . Am I right?
Vishy Anand is like top 5 in terms of accuracy for 3 decades! Incredible longetivity
it's kinda depressing watching the champions get overtaken before they die and never taking the lead back
This shows absolute dominance of legendary players of the past. Wow!
my goat is Lasker he was chess champion almost 3 decades
shoutout to Emanuel Lasker for being world champion for 27 years
Y'all did Svidler dirty.
Nice
Bobby Fischer is the GOAT
Morphy, Capablanca, Fischer and Kasparov; they were way ahead of their time and their rivals. The highlights of the story!
Felt bad when they got left behind !!😔
This video has such low FPS.
There is like…one female in this interesting video, not dpprotesting any stupid shit but I really want to know the reason why
The amazing thing about Fischer, Capablanca and Kasparov was that they came up before the internet and engines were really available.
They had to literally just read old chess books and play others to figure it out. It was sort of the Wild West and there was no objectively “correct” move.
In my mind that puts them leagues above top players today who possess high tech training aids.
Just looking at dominance, Fischer is the goat in my opinion
Me at some points while watching this video “aww man he’s hardstuck”
Joke btw, I’m ass at chess
Alpha Zero be like – Keep talking kids 💪
Wow
Only way to gage how a player back then would perform today would be to look at their IQ vs the IQ of those playing today.
Just because they would have access doesn't mean they'd be better, it just means they'd get good faster.
I find it very hard to believe morphy was 2500 in 1850
fischer is genius become crazy, the best ever
Fischer is the best on his time because his competitors are not trained by engines.
Carlsen is on another level because all his competitors are trained with engines and still he reached 2900 Elo.
it is pathetic how the commenters here try to undermine magnus!
2988 was the highest ELO on this listing achieved by Magnus Carlson in late 2015
I don’t know a lot about chess but I was waiting for a woman to appear in the graph and was very much cheering for her line. Also I’ll go read up on her wikipedia now 😊
0:23 paul murphy literally went off the chart
Interessante que embora seja um esporte da mente, só a Judite Polgar de mulher em mais de um século, da pra ver como xadrez profissional foi um universo muito restrito para elas no passado.
stockfish is the goat
Respect to Fischer. Dude literally got too good at chess. RIP Bobby
Bobby was still the best in the world after 1972.. IDGAF who they are..
Carlsen isn't nearly as dominant as Fischer or Kasparov
Where's Hikaru
Lasker was world champion for almost 30 years. Amazing.
Bobby Fischer stated that chess engines ruined the game and made it so whoever had the better memory would win, not the better player. Maybe if he was a millennial he’d have a different viewpoint, but my gut tells me if he grew up with technology and chess engines he’d have been rated closer to 4000…same with Morphy.
Top 4 from that list with today's knowledge, who wins?
What should we do if our account gets disabled for no reason
One and only tal 🔥
Awesome, What background music did you use?
Amazing how some people up Morphy and Fischer so much, when, in the end they were at best also rans. ie. Anand far superior to Fischer.
Bobby Fischer is the GOAT
wasnt topalov also world champion at some point
i checked how many elo points they were above the second best at their peak, yes ik its not a perfect metric because there could just be another legend at the same time, but yeah
morphy: 500
fischer: 250
kasparov: 200
steinitz: 200
lasker: 200
capablance: almost 200
kramnik: almost 150
smyslov: 100
Per se Carlsen would be the GOAT, but if Fischer was in this time he might've been the GOAT, who knows tbh.
Magnus Carlsen competed in an era where everyone has access to chess engines. Thats way a harder competition.
I come here for Hans Niemann, so disappointed.
My respect to Nakamura and So.
Hans Norman has 100% accuracy
Bobby Fischer surfed the chart way above everyone else for the long time . He was still at the throne when he stopped playing. What a legend. .. imo he has played some of the best unexpected moves ever.