Highest-Rated Players of All Time

Highest-rated chess players of all time

Highest-rated female chess players of all time

Please keep in mind that ratings depend on the pool of players and the time period. However, with some approximation, we can say that these players were the strongest ever (in terms of actual chess skill, not necessarily talent).

thanks for sharing ate natalia

*(ate means older women-a sign of respect)

Polgar Judit is the best female chess player all the time! Once in my lifetime I have played against her a draw! - (naturally it was a simultaneous game)

nice!

hi....& how r u i want to play online with u...if i am lucky man...

Hi Natalia.

I'm surprised to see, at no. 9, Fischer ranked as low as he is. I understand he had the highest ever one-year rating... If this is not necessarily a ranking of the "most talented" players, as you mentioned, who among them do you believe would be rated higher if the list reflected talent alone?

Good to see you there on the women's list and, I'm sure, working hard to move up the ladder. I suspect the two Polgars are related, no? They certainly look alike.

Thank you for the post and take care,/Greg

I wonder why we have a world female chess champion & then a world man champion ?Why not have just a world chess champion man or woman ?

When you notice that Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Petrosian, Keres, Spassky and Korchnoi are not on the list, you realise the list's true value.......nothing!

I think women can compete equally with men in chess ,Us men dominate everything else but chess everyone can play .I see no need to seperate the sexes in chess.Don,t you agree?

The gap on the Female list between Judit Polgar and her nearest rival is more than 100 points...On the overall list she is in the 29th spot which is an extrordinary achivement for anyone. That woman is truly a monster.

There are 71 names on her list.  Maybe a dozen of them could have played against my nine without embarrasing themselves.  Todays FIDE ratings are so inflated as to be useless.

Who is my nine?

See message #9.

i guess you are wrong because today we have computers

As to talent: we never know. There may have been people who were talented more than any of the world champions, but they never started playing. Therefore, it is not very interesting to discuss daydreaming ("if this, this and this had been so, he would have been better than Kasparov"). People judge each other by what has been done, not what could have been done.

There are three Polgar sisters, all of them on the list: Judit, Zhuzha (Susan) and Sophia.

Yes, they are marvellous - Judit, Zsuzsa and Zsófia!

good topic ,I like the clean debates here being presented.

Hi Natalia....hang on a sec please, there must be something wrong here!!!!!!!!!!.... I'm not on the list of the male top 40 are you sureeeeeee?  :-) he,he,he

Natalia as your fan and supporter from Italy I appreciate your position but really I want to see you on top of that list lets say..........next week? ok maybe that's too much,.....next month maybe?.....................................

Ok as soon as you can Natalia :-)

Manuel

Dont forget the notorious Grandmaster of the Universe....