Who is the best "Calculation" player of all time? Why?

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X-rev

(for me, its either...) Bobby Fischer or Adolf Anderson or maybe Garry Kasparov. Why? Because of their crazy games where they play like a Chess Machine Calculater...

learningthemoves

That would be me. As soon as I figured out how the pieces moved, I instantly calculated I'd never become world champion and then decided not to become world champion...just as I calculated from the beginning.

No other player in chess history has correctly made such a World Champion Level Calculation just after learning how the pieces move.

If you need any additional proof, just check out any list of current world champions and you'll see it's Anand and not me. 

So not only did I make the best World Championship Calculation from the very beginning, but also proved it as can be documented by the most authoritative chess powers. If any chess organization FIDE or other says that I am world champion, that would prove my calculation incorrect, but they recognize the fact my calculation was correct so they wouldn't dare say it because it can't be refuted at the highest levels of chess in the world. #

MrDamonSmith

So there! See?

X-rev

I never said "who is a player who Calculated the most ahead in history" I said, "who is the best Calculation player of all time?" ...simple english.

mladigaleb

Korchnoi

MrDamonSmith

Some player named Houdini or something. Some goofy name like that I think.

NimzoRoy
Passionate_Fighter wrote:

(for me, its either...) Bobby Fischer or Adolf Anderson or maybe Garry Kasparov. Why? Because of their crazy games where they play like a Chess Machine Calculater...

OK everyone's entitled to their opinion and yours isn't unreasonable. BUT I think of a "calculation" player as someone who employs "brute force" searches routinely rather than relying more on intuition, which WCHs Capablanca and Smyslov are often said to do. I've read Korchnoi was very "calculating" but in the end all of these labels are stereotypes and rarely accurate all the time. For instance "positional players" such as Smyslov, Petrosian, Rubinstein and Capa were perfectly capable of playing highly tactical (and almost always sound) combinations when the occasion called for it, and famous "hypermodern" GMs such as Nimzovitch and Reti didn't play hypermodern openings exclusively they were also able to play classical openings quite competently as well.

Famous calculators IMHO (which I equate with tacticians and attackers) would include Anderssen, Marshall, Spielmann, Korchnoi, Bronstein and Tal - for starters. Sorry I can't narrow this down to answer your OP.

ThePawnMagician

Most great chess players, current and past believe Capablanca was the most powerful at making calculations

batgirl

Alekhine was surely one of the most superb calculators even and very anti-intuitive.

MrDamonSmith
I agree with Alekhine as being one. Also, I certainly see why tacticians/attackers would be first choice among calculators but didn't someone or a group subject a LOT of games from past legends to computer analysis to see who calculated more accurately?
batgirl
Master_Valek wrote:

For me, would have to be Judit Polgar. Very good calculator in times of stress on the board. 

When I find myself in times of trouble, Judit Polgar comes to me
With a combination or mabye even three.

X-rev

I wish there would be Judgement day so that the world would start all over again and then chess would be popular again :-) Hehehehehe!!

TheBlueKnight9

Bobby Fischer I think, course he did bad on the first game of the world championship with that bishop blunder, but still!

Veritas08

Carlsen! Playing the endgame well requires tons of careful calculation

pdve

i heard that alekhine is the best calculator, so much so that sometimes he would take the complex route to a win just because he calculated so much.

bigpoison
batgirl wrote:
Master_Valek wrote:

For me, would have to be Judit Polgar. Very good calculator in times of stress on the board. 

When I find myself in times of trouble, Judit Polgar comes to me
With a combination or mabye even three.

Let it be.