The Greatest Player?

There was a guy who compiled this lifetime record against the champions:

He beat Euwe with 2 wins, 1 loss, and 0 draws
He beat Botvinnik 5-1-7
He beat Smyslov 11-9-40
He tied Tal 6-6-29
He beat Petrosian 5-2-40
He lost to Spassky 7-10-31
He beat Fischer 5-3-2
He tied Karpov 2-2-8
Lost to Kasparov 0-1-3 (but he was getting old)

Doesn't he deserve to be considered one of the greatest players - maybe the greatest - of all time?

Is the player Efim Geller?

Has to be victor kroichnoi all the way 😉

Originally posted by ketchuplover
Is the player Efim Geller?

Geller is not so great. He had a lot of troubled in title contender matches. Guess the stress was too much for him.

Originally posted by gambit3
Geller is not so great. He had a lot of troubled in title contender matches. Guess the stress was too much for him.

Those links don't work. I only knew the name because I saw the record v. Fischer.

Originally posted by ketchuplover
Those links don't work. I only knew the name because I saw the record v. Fischer.

albert einstien

Einstein was Lasker's roommate for awhile...he didn't like chess though, because it "grips its exponent, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom and independence of even the strongest character cannot remain unaffected."

I know it's true because I read it on the Internet:
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/einstein.htm

🙄

Originally posted by lloydk
Einstein was Lasker's roommate for awhile...he didn't like chess though, because it "grips its exponent, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom and independence of even the strongest character cannot remain unaffected."

I know it's true because I read it on the Internet:
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/einstein.htm

🙄

my guess is Paul Keres

Originally posted by lloydk
Dang, great call ketchuplover... It is, indeed, Geller. Here is some information on the man Botvinnik thought (in the 60's) was the best player in the world:
http://www.kevinspraggett.com/Geller1.htm
http://www.kevinspraggett.com/Geller2.htm

Not Korchnoi (not enough games vs. Karpov).

I think the best chess player was Bobby Fischer

Geller the best player, you gotta be kidding me, all we know best player was Robert J. Fischer