Created On: 3/28/2024
One of the greatest ways to learn chess is by watching the Grand Masters play, because they can show you some great moves, and teach you an opening more in depth! Therefore, I've compiled a list of the greatest grand masters, and links to a great web page where you access all of their famous games and all of their openings they played the most, also you can download the PGN of those games for later study as well.
The Greatest Grand Masters of Our Time: (2020+)
Magnus Carlsen (Greatest of all times after Garry Kasparov)
Ding Liren / Fabiano Caruana / Hikaru Nakamura / Viswanathan Anand
Levon Aronian / Vladimir Kramnik / Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Alireza Firouzja / Sergey Karjakin / Gata Kamsky / Yi Wei
Hans Niemann / Anish Giri / Ian Nepomniachtchi / Wesley So
The Greatest Grand Masters In History:
(All Former World Champions)
Garry Kasparov (Considered the greatest of all times)
Bobby Fischer / Mikhail Tal / Anatoly Karpov / Mikhail Botvinnik
Jose Raul Capablanca / Alexander Alekhine / Wilhelm Steinitz
Max Euwe / Reuben Fine / Siegbert Tarrasch
Adolf Anderssen / Bent Larsen / Howard Staunton
Boris Spassky / Paul Morphy / Emanuel Lasker
James Mason / Johannes Zukertort / Vasily Smyslov
Tigran Petrosian / Harry Pillsbury / Veselin Topalov
Alexander Khalifman / Ruslan Ponomariov / Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Other Phenomenal Grand Masters of History
Francois-Andre Danaican Philidor / Viktor Korchnoi
Paul Keres / Akiba Rubinstein / David Bronstein
Samuel Reshevsky / Efim Bogoljubov / Sergey Karjakin
White Pieces
#1 - Sicilian
#2 - Ruy Lopez
#3 - Queen's Pawn Game
#4 - French Defense
#5 - Ruy Lopez (Closed)
#7 - Sicilian Najdorf
#8 - Queen's Gambit Declined
#9 - Giuoco Piano (Italian Game)
#10 - Caro-Kann
#11 - Nimzo Indian
#12 - Grunfeld
#13 - Slav
#14 - Four Knights
#15 - Scotch Game
#16 - French Winawer
Black Pieces
#1 - Sicilian
#2 - Ruy Lopez
#3 - Queen's Gambit Declined
#4 - Queen's Pawn Game
#5 - Nimzo Indian
#6 - Sicilian Najdorf
#7 - King's Indian
#8 - English
#9 - Queen's Indian
#10 - Grunfeld
#11 - Caro-Kann
#12 - Ruy Lopez (Closed)
#13 - Semi-Slav
#14 - French Defense
#15 - Giuoco Piano (Italian Game)
#16 - Sicilian Scheveningen
(Now you know which Openings & Defenses to master!)
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