Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Eight Greatest Players Of All Time

According to ChessMetrics historical rankings over 1-15 year periods...


Player            1 yr 2 yr 3 yr 4 yr 5 yr 10 yr 15 yr
Garry Kasparov     2    1    1    1    1     1     1
Emanuel Lasker     5    3    4    2    2     2     3
José Capablanca    4    5    3    3    3     4     4
Bobby Fischer      1    2    2    4    5     5     7
Mikhail Botvinnik  3    4    5    5    4     6     6
Anatoly Karpov     7    7    7    7    6     3     2
Alexander Alekhine 6    6    6    6    7     8     5
Viswanathan Anand  8    8    8    8    8     7     8


(It's only fitting that something historic like this be the subject of my 500th post in this blog.)

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