Unofficial Top Players for July 1, 2005
Kasparov 2812 (retired)
Anand 2788
Topalov 2788
Leko 2763
Ivanchuk 2752
Kramnik 2744
Svidler 2738
Polgar 2735
Bacrot 2729
Gelfand 2724
Aronian 2724
Grischuk 2720
Adams 2719
Morozevich 2707
Shirov 2705
Akopian 2705
Ponomariov 2704
Bologan 2700
Kamsky 2700
Who do you think is the best player in the world today after Kasparov?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I vote for Anand, escially rapid chess. But Topalov is very close.
Jovan
I think Topalov because he’s on a hot streak. Anand is of course also very strong. Leko is not that far behind either.
Joseph
I don’t mean to be flippant here, but it looks like the toughest match opponent in the world may be Hydra. =(
Yes, Hydra is VERY VERY GOOD! But it is not invincible. Adams was not a good fit to play against computers. I predicted a total blow out before the match took place.
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Wow, Susan P, a fellow blogger, maybe you can give me a lesson or two. Do you know of anyone else of your esteem that is a blogger as well?
I think Anand is the best in the world after Kasparov. Topalov is a close second. Leko is the third best.
Miguel
I think the correct answer to Susan’s question should be a question also: absent a bona fide world championship match of the top ten players on the rating list, HOW DO WE KNOW WHO THE BEST PLAYER IS??
We simply don’t know! They are ALL excellent players, and they all could beat each other in tournament games. I agree that Anand, Topalov and Leko and Judit are VERY great players (to name a few), but until these guys all play for a REAL world chess champion crown, we just won’t know the answer to this very good question.
I’m with most others in saying it’s Anand, with Topalov and Leko close behind. Most in the top ten are so strong that it’s hard to leave any of them out.
I actually learn the most from studying the games of Mickey Adams.
Anand, definitely.
I agree with Chris, Mickey is one of the best player in Chess history English School.His last book deserve to be the book of the year,with the Matthew Sadler book Ginger Tony Williams, and Pallister about Gambit! Up the Irons!
And, Singh is the best golfer (ok, so I changed subjects).
Careerwise it would be Anand.And without question Anand still is the top at rapid chess. But in classical play right now Topalov is still at the top of his game but Anand and Kramnik I believe are slipping a little. Right not Topalov is the hottest.
Topalov and Anand. Then just a little behind is Leko.
Rob
The World Chess Champion is
Rustam Kasimdzhanov. He is the guy I just saw last week in TimeS SquaRE PLAYING A MATCH
vs.
Accoona’s Artificial Intelligence Toolbar,anyway. That is how he was billed. It was actually a very enjoyable experience. Great food and refreshments. Jen Shahade was one of the commentators doing a good job of analysis in the outer room. Rustom would have won with more time but he decided to prudently take the draw. I’m seriously considering putting their toolbar on my computer. I wish I could be certain it had no spyware . It has a great search engine and it will play chess against you as well!
Hard TO BELIEVE THAT THE SO CALLED “OFFICIAL” wORLD cHAMP IS NOT EVEN ON your list Susan.
I would love to see a KNockout tournament of the top 8.
Topolov has certainly been playing exciting chess lately. Kramnick hasn’t been defending his “world Championship” that aggressively.
So WHAT is the deal. How valid is Kazimdzanhov’s title?
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I have found the vast majority of people feel the Title Kasparov lost to Kramnik is much more valid than Kasim’s fide title. The FIDE title now goes to a “tournament champion” and is often decided based on rapid and or blitz chess. Some players like Kasim do much better at shorter time controls than standard time controls, so it doesn’t make sense to mix the two. But anyway FIDEs champs Ponomariov and Kasim etc. never had the prestige of the Classical World Champions Kasparov and Kramnik.
Of course we can easilly find out who is the best player. We should do the same thing you woudl do if you ahd a dispute with your neighbor as to who was better at chess. Simply have the players play matches against eachother. Play the game against eachother until there is one person left to play a match against the champ in the World championship. This is how it used to be done. And the World championship used to draw millions in sponsorship and celebrities (see even as late as 1990s. the last match before the split.)
Unfortunately FIDE is more interested in control than a real and valid world championship cycle. So they scrapped the match system for thier ridiculous “tournament champions”
BTW ELO doesn’t alwasy tell you who is best. Kramnik was 70 points lower than Kasparov when he played him in 2000. Even Kasparov conceded that at that time Kramnik was better.
thank you Joe
It amazes me that so much of what FIDE and USCF does is only supported by a minority of its members.
I wonder how much it would cost for Kasparov to come out of retirement for a 7 match game against Hydra.
He had only lost once to computers and that I think was due to exhaustion.
(Last game was total crap)
They should play this over a month with a 3 day gap between each game.
Maybe we should write to Bill Gates and have him sponsor it 🙂 5 million is a drop in the ocean for him anyway 🙂