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Who is the best chess player?
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May 1, 2023
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Ding Liren is the current world champion, Magnus Carlsen was a long running previous champ, Hikaru is rated highest in the world at blitz, Ian Nepomniachtchi is the runner up to the FIDE title, take your pick.
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May 1, 2023
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#5
Bobby Fischer was not the best of all time but he did have the biggest lead over all of his opponents so the a lead of over 150 Eli
May 1, 2023
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ch3ssplayaaa wrote:
Bobby Fischer was not the best of all time but he did have the biggest lead over all of his opponents so the a lead of over 150 Eli
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May 1, 2023
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uhm_sir wrote:
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Hikaru is the best chess youtuber... err... well, Levy has more subs and Carlsen has fewer subs but is the better player...
Hikaru is... one of the best youtubers for chess... (lol I just realized he's not even the best at that.)
thhen who is
what about magnus
here is a chess tip to get to 2000:
I love offering encouragement, but I'm not going to lie and some people give off misleading ideas (usually without meaning to). I don't think most realize how "good" a 2000 player actually is. Granted, bullet and blitz might be easier to reach if they are your primary focus, but playing speed chess is not ideal for long-term improvement (chess ability from longer time controls tends to be transferable to speed chess, but speed chess ability doesn't always mean that person is good at longer time controls). The "average" chess rating (50 percentile) is between 800-1200 (depending on the rating pool and time control). Experienced players may realize how odd this sounds because "beginner-advice" tends to be geared towards players roughly 1200 and lower rated.
I may make a YouTube video, or wrote a blog post, on this topic. In short, 1500 rating is something like 90 percentile. This means, this player is higher rated than roughly 90 of ALL chess players...beginners and titled players included (of course skewed because there are many more beginners than titled players in the world).
It took me roughly 1 year to reach 1500 chess.com rating (and this is faster than most, although not unheard of pace) and it took me roughly 5 years to cross 2000 chess.com rapid rating for my first time. Of course, I've lost it and regained that rating at least half a dozen times since then, but that is the reality of chess variance and the ups and downs of the rating system and improvement process.
Is 2000 possible? Of course! Likely? No, statistically it isn't at all. Possible in 1 year? Very doubtful. I'm not saying it is impossible, but if you can reach 2000 in 1 year, then you probably have potential to become a titled player one day.
Regardless if you think you can reach 2000 rating or not (nevermind the one year), it happens one step at a time. Try to reach 1000 chess.com rating, then 1100, then 1200 and you get the idea as goals (typically in intervals of 100 points) can keep being set, but it all begins with this first step, so working towards this goal first is the key and eventually you'll climb rating as you learn more and improve more.
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May 9, 2023
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#15
Dewa Kipas - In 1 month went from 1000 to 2300+ including scalping Gotham Chess on his legendary ascent.
May 10, 2023
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The best human player in the world right now is, of course, Magnus (Sorry Ding!). A more interesting question is who is the greatest of them all? I have a top 5 which I've shared here, and people have interesting views!
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uhm_sir wrote:
Who is the best chess player?
It is Bobby Fischer
Who is the best chess player?