{"id":302322,"date":"2026-02-21T05:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/302322\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:17:17","slug":"human-vs-ai-choices-chessbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/302322\/","title":{"rendered":"Human vs AI choices | ChessBase"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question we asked our readers was<\/a>: Who are the most intersting\u00a0chess players in history, focusing on style, rather than just strength?\u00a0Who do you count as your favourites? We listed a number of candidates:\u00a0Paul Morphy,\u00a0Wilhelm Steinitz,\u00a0Emanuel Lasker,\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Ra\u00fal Capablanca,\u00a0Alexander Alekhine,\u00a0Mikhail Botvinnik,\u00a0Mikhail Tal,\u00a0Bobby Fischer,\u00a0Anatoly Karpov,\u00a0Garry Kasparov,\u00a0Vladimir Kramnik,\u00a0Viswanathan Anand,\u00a0Magnus Carlsen,\u00a0Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Gukesh Dommaraju, R Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi,\u00a0Alireza Firouzja.<\/p>\n

This is the list we got from the feedback of our readers:<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n01. Fischer
02. Carlsen
03. Kasparov
04. Aljechine
05. Karpov
06. Tal
07. Capablanca
08. Keres
09. Spassky
10. Polgar
11. Smyslov
\n12. Rubinstein
13. Petrosian
14. Morphy
15. Lasker
16. Kramnik
17. Korchnoi
18. Botvinnik
19. Topalov
20. Shirov
21. Anderssen
22. Anand
\n23. Steinitz
24. Bronstein
25. Timman
26. Nezhmetdinov
27. Ivanchuk
28. Casablanca
29. Zukertort
30. Vachier-Lagrave
31. Tartakower
32. Svidler
33. Rapport
\n34. Planinc
35. Niemann
36. Miles
37. Lasker
38. Hou Yifan
39. Geller
40. Firouzja
41. Euwe
42. Chigorin
43. Boleslavsky
44. Bohatirchuk<\/p>\n

How does that compare with what AI thinks?<\/p>\n

Ed Schr\u00f6der, the Dutch software developer, used his program Best of Chess, which we described in an earlier report<\/a>, to\u00a0extract the most spectacular games from chess history, evaluating them by three features:<\/p>\n


\nKing Attack
\nMaterial Sacrifice
\nLength of the game (the smaller the number of moves in a game the higher the bonus). <\/p>\n

Ed ran his algorithms on the many million of high-quality games contained in Mega Database, and it identified the players it considered most attractive. This is the top 50 list generated by Best of Chess:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n01. Morphy
02. Nimzowitsch
03. Anderssen
04. Reti
05. Zukertort
06. Steinitz
07. Chigorin
08. Lasker
09. Alekhine
10. Euwe\u00a0
11. Tarrasch
12. Rubinstein
13. Tal
\n14. Fischer
15. Shirov
16. Spassky
17. Polgar
18. Capablanca
19. Kasparov
20. Wei\u00a0
21. Bronstein
22. Geller
23. Anand
24. Botvinnik
25. Van Foreest
26. Keres\u00a0
\n27. Erigaisi
28. Reshevsky
29. Kramnik
30. Petrosian
31. Aronian
32. Ding
33. Gukesh
34. Keymer
35. Carlsen
36. Kortschnoj
37. Svidler
38. Topalov
39. Niemann
\n <\/p>\n

40. Adams
41. Praggnanandhaa
42. Giri
43. Firouzja
44. Gelfand
45. So
46. Caruana
47. Smyslov
48. Karpov
49. Nakamura
50. Leko<\/p>\n

Here’s a page<\/a> that lists the results with all the individual factors that contributed to the final evaluation. Here’s an explanation<\/a> on how\u00a0Best of Chess conducts its evaluation. And here you can directly compare the rankings of both groups:<\/p>\n


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\n <\/p>\n

Humans<\/p>\n


\nAI
\n
\n <\/p>\n

01. Fischer<\/p>\n

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02. Carlsen<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

03. Kasparov<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

04. Aljechine<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

05. Karpov<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

06. Tal<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

07. Capablanca<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

08. Keres<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

09. Spassky<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

10. Polgar<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

11. Smyslov <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

12. Rubinstein<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

13. Petrosian<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

14. Morphy<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

15. Lasker<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

16. Kramnik<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

17. Korchnoi<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

18. Botvinnik<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

19. Topalov<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

20. Shirov<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

21. Anderssen<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

22. Anand <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

23. Steinitz<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

24. Bronstein<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

25. Timman<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

26. Nezhmetdinov<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

27. Ivanchuk<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

28. Casablanca<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

29. Zukertort<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

30. Vachier-Lagrave<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

31. Tartakower<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

32. Svidler<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

33. Rapport <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

34. Planinc<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

35. Niemann<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

36. Miles<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

37. Lasker<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

38. Hou Yifan<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

39. Geller<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

40. Firouzja<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

41. Euwe<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

42. Chigorin<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

43. Boleslavsky<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

44. Bohatirchuk<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

01. Morphy<\/p>\n

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02. Nimzowitsch<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

03. Anderssen<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

04. Reti<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

05. Zukertort<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

06. Steinitz<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

07. Chigorin<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

08. Lasker<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

09. Alekhine<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

10. Euwe\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

11. Tarrasch<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

12. Rubinstein<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

13. Tal <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

14. Fischer<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

15. Shirov<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

16. Spassky<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

17. Polgar<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

18. Capablanca<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

19. Kasparov<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

20. Wei\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

21. Bronstein<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

22. Geller<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

23. Anand<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

24. Botvinnik<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

25. Van Foreest<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

26. Keres<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

27. Erigaisi<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

28. Reshevsky<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

29. Kramnik<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

30. Petrosian<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

31. Aronian<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

32. Ding<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

33. Gukesh<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

34. Keymer<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

35. Carlsen<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

36. Kortschnoj<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

37. Svidler<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

38. Topalov<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

39. Niemann <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

40. Adams<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

41. Praggnanandhaa<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

42. Giri<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

43. Firouzja<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

44. Gelfand<\/p>\n

Ed created a page with games of four top scorers<\/a>.\u00a0The values for each of the three criteria are quoted in the games, which you can replay it on the page.\u00a0“BTW, the first Morphy game is hilarious, I did not know it,” Ed writes.<\/p>\n

Finally, here’s an animation of a list, based solely on their ratings, that was independantly generated by Chess.com five years ago:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The question we asked our readers was: Who are the most intersting\u00a0chess players in history, focusing on style,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-302322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}