Is Judit Polgar the best chess player ever?

You no Clever O a k nifeful of scalps don't make her the best.

Pretty sure she never beat Kasparov in a classical game.

Carlsen either.

So

Compared to what? A tree?

A clever oak tree!

So I'm a candidate for the best player ever? I don't even have a title.

I tried to get a discount title, but they said I didn't qualify because I didn't have boobs.

Maybe Judit will have better luck than me when she applies for a discount to the "best player ever" award.

At least they were up front about it.

... up front... *nudge*nudge*wink*wink*

Easy and elementary.

She sometimes beat them in games. But she lost to them more often than she won them. She never won them in a multigame world championship challenge.

In 2005, she got to a world championship tournament, among 8 candidates. She finished last of 8, with 4,5 points of 1 win (over Kasimdzhanov), 6 losses and 7 draws, behind Kasimdzhanov and Adams who shared 6-7 position with 5,5 points.

The tournament was won by Topalov, who got 10 points, undefeated, 6 wins 8 draws, ahead of Anand and Svidler who shared position 2-3 with 8,5 points, That made Topalov Champion.

Had Polgar Judit won the tournament, it would have made her the first woman World Chess Champion. But would not have made her the best chess player ever, any more than Topalov was, or Euwe or Tal had been.

What happend to people thinking Fischer was the goat?

he still is.

Ok thank you. I was just confused and this thread has informed me about stuff that I didn’t know before!

Yes, since Elo came out, unofficial worldwide lists begin in 1969.

Before that... Who was better, Fischer or Morphy?

The rating qualifications for Women's titles (WGM, WIM, etc) are lower than for the corresponding Men's titles (GM, IM, etc). Add to that the known fact that women have boobs, and the correlation becomes clear.

No!

i taught i taw a puddy tat!

Polgar defeated 15 people simul blindfold when she was a kid, and is considered one of the best female players to have ever lived. Potential was something she had plenty of. Sadly she only defeated Kasparov once I believe and Kaspy got her good the other dozen games so yeah not much of a good score for Polgar. Kasparov was practically winning all the tournaments he attended to in the 90s and had to hold against Kramnik, Anand, Ivanchuk, etc. He was a machine and he also had almost incredible memory, there was even some documentary explaining he could remember every single number and sequence put to him since he was a child, so he was prodigious mentally and there's claims of high IQ on him.

He's also one of the few chess world champions that actually can speak articulate in interviews, all the other ones have been a bit awkward and introverted (or psycothic with prejudice against jews)

Yes Kasparov is amazing. Magnus is out of this world.

Also Polgar’s IQ is 170. 

I agree, Magnus is better. but does not have the passion his predecessors (Fischer and Kasparov) had. I am of the idea that if Magnus had that raging fire like them - that INSANE obsession of spending sleepless nights analysing and analysing, and studying and studying and STUDYING even more like Kaspy and Fischer did psychotically back then; Magnus would be winning every single tournament he touched like Kaspy in the 90s but in today's age. Sadly Magnus has not truly awaken. This is all my opinion though. Magnus was born in the era of "comfortable" of Instagram, of travel the world and watch Netflix and play football with his norwegian friends instead of being obsessed about chess variations. That is why, he will never be like them. It's not his fault... really. It was easier to make chess your biggest raging passion back in the earlier decades than it is now in the 21st century.

You must include capablanca in order for your comment to be taken seriously.

A nice article about Judit Polgar's chess career...

Judit Polgar: the greatest prodigy ever

http://en.chessbase.com/post/judit-polgar-the-greatest-prodigy-ever