Who was the greatest chess player of all time?

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Alexander Alekhine
% (19 votes)
Viswanathan Anand
% (42 votes)
Adolf Anderssen
% (3 votes)
Levon Aronian
% (3 votes)
Efim Bogoljubov
% (1 votes)
Mikhail Botvinnik
% (3 votes)
Louis de La Bourdonnais
% (5 votes)
David Bronstein
% (0 votes)
José Raúl Capablanca
% (57 votes)
Magnus Carlsen
% (468 votes)
Fabiano Caruana
% (3 votes)
Mikhail Chigorin
% (2 votes)
Max Euwe
% (3 votes)
Bobby Fischer
% (361 votes)
Boris Gelfand
% (2 votes)
Efim Geller
% (1 votes)
Isidor Gunsberg
% (0 votes)
Bernhard Horwitz
% (1 votes)
Vassily Ivanchuk
% (7 votes)
Dawid Janowski
% (0 votes)
Gata Kamsky
% (0 votes)
Anatoly Karpov
% (17 votes)
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
% (1 votes)
Garry Kasparov
% (343 votes)
Paul Keres
% (8 votes)
Viktor Korchnoi
% (3 votes)
Vladimir Kramnik
% (2 votes)
Emanuel Lasker
% (10 votes)
Peter Leko
% (3 votes)
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
% (1 votes)
Frank Marshall
% (0 votes)
Paul Morphy
% (98 votes)
Hikaru Nakamura
% (24 votes)
Aron Nimzowitsch
% (3 votes)
Tigran Petrosian
% (3 votes)
André Danican Philidor
% (1 votes)
Ilya Rabinovich
% (2 votes)
Samuel Reshevsky
% (1 votes)
Peter Romanovsky
% (1 votes)
Pierre Saint-Amant
% (2 votes)
Carl Schlechter
% (1 votes)
Alexei Shirov
% (1 votes)
Vasily Smyslov
% (0 votes)
Andrei Sokolov
% (0 votes)
Boris Spassky
% (5 votes)
Howard Staunton
% (0 votes)
Leonid Stein
% (0 votes)
Wilhelm Steinitz
% (1 votes)
Mark Taimanov
% (1 votes)
Mikhail Tal
% (77 votes)
Siegbert Tarrasch
% (1 votes)
Jan Timman
% (2 votes)
Veselin Topalov
% (8 votes)
Alexander Zaitsev
% (2 votes)
Johannes Zukertort
% (16 votes)
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