When Joe Montana was asked about Tom Brady being the GOAT, he replied with a mention of Otto Graham who played football ten years and won the championship seven times with the Cleveland Browns. The greatest chess player of an era is a phenomenon in-itself. One can not predict the future too well; all-time includes the future. Is MC the greatest of all-time? No.
Magnus Carlsen certainly lacks playing the King’s Gambit enough in blitz. The King’s Gambit was declared busted by Robert James Fischer, yet that was in classical time controls and not blitz. Most people aren’t as good as Fischer anyway. Electronic blitz chess has brought good prospects for the King’s Gambit.
FIDE has only had a recognized world blitz chess champion since 2006. It seems premature to look for ‘the greatest of all time’. World Blitz Chess Championship - Wikipedia
With computers ubiquitous and chess engines free the actual greatest blitz champion of all times may be lurking out there with a computer in a crib, or as the joke goes; ‘he became a GM in the eighth month of gestation’.
MC is a great player whom has benefited new players learning proper end game method watching his games. Plainly he is the best chess player in the world today. If he plays the King’s Gambit often enough and well enough in blitz so as to always dominate Super Blitz GMs with wild improvisational games recognition may last beyond his time in ranking with great blitz champions; though it would help to win the World Blitz Championship several years consecutively.
Magnus Carlsen certainly lacks playing the King’s Gambit enough in blitz. The King’s Gambit was declared busted by Robert James Fischer, yet that was in classical time controls and not blitz. Most people aren’t as good as Fischer anyway. Electronic blitz chess has brought good prospects for the King’s Gambit.
FIDE has only had a recognized world blitz chess champion since 2006. It seems premature to look for ‘the greatest of all time’. World Blitz Chess Championship - Wikipedia
With computers ubiquitous and chess engines free the actual greatest blitz champion of all times may be lurking out there with a computer in a crib, or as the joke goes; ‘he became a GM in the eighth month of gestation’.
MC is a great player whom has benefited new players learning proper end game method watching his games. Plainly he is the best chess player in the world today. If he plays the King’s Gambit often enough and well enough in blitz so as to always dominate Super Blitz GMs with wild improvisational games recognition may last beyond his time in ranking with great blitz champions; though it would help to win the World Blitz Championship several years consecutively.
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