{"id":2640,"date":"2023-07-15T11:16:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T11:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2023-11-20T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T14:46:13","slug":"the-greatest-chess-players-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forwardchess.com\/blog\/the-greatest-chess-players-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Chess Players"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A look at some of the greatest chess players who never became World Champions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Paul Morphy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Adolf Anderssen<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Akiva Rubinstein<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Samuel Reshevsky<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. David Bronstein<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Viktor Korchnoi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Paul Morphy<\/h2>\n\n\n
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    Paul Morphy’s (1837 – 1884) chess career was brief, but his legacy will last a lifetime. As a chess prodigy, he showed exceptional skill from a young age. Eventually, he cemented his position as one of the greatest players by winning tournaments in the US and internationally. In 1957, at the age of 20, he won the First American Chess Congress<\/a> in 1857, beating his opponents by large<\/em> margins. Following this, he took his talent to Europe and played matches against some of the world’s strongest players, and once again, he proved his brilliance by winning all of his matches (despite even falling ill with intestinal influenza). One of these matches was played in Paris against the great Adolf Anderssen, who Morphy beat 8-3 in their 11-match game. Anderssen would go on to say that Morphy was the strongest player ever to play the game. Here is the brilliant game 9 from their match:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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