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[kuculcan]

The Greatest Russian Chess Players

It try to make a list of the most successful chess players from Russia(n Empire)/ Soviet Union:

 1. Dr. Alexander Alekhine (although played later for France)

 2. Gary Kasparow (although born in Azerbaidjan, as Teimur Rajabow)

 3. Anatoly Karpow

 4. Michail Botwinnik

 5. David Bronstein

 6. Wladimir Kramnik

 7. Viktor Kortchnoi

 8. Boris Spassky

 9. Wassili Smyslow

10. Petr Svidler

I don't regard Mikhail Tal (as he came from Latvia), Efim Bogoljubow (born in Kiev), Tigran Petrosyan (as he was Armenian, born in Tiflis) or Paul Keres (he's from Estonia) as Russian.

Mentioned could be Aaron Nimzowitzsch, Salo Flohr, Gata Kamsky (now American citizen), Boris Gelfand (although played for Israel), Efim Celler and Mikhail Chigorin, Sergey Kajakin among others.

[kuculcan]

Greatest chess-players in the 19. Century

I attempt to make a list of the best players in chess from 1801 to 1900:

1. Paul Morphy

2. Wilhelm Steinitz

3. Adolf Andersen

4. Charles-Louis La Bourdonnais

5. Howard Staunton

6. Emanuel Lasker

7. Johannes Hermann Zuckertort

8. William Lewis

9. Alexandre Deschapelles

10. Michail Tschigorin

11. Siegbert Tarrasch

12.John Cochran

13. Alexander McDonnell

14. Pierre Saint Amant

15. Lionel Kieseritzky

There can be listed Louis Paulsen, Elijah Williams, Harry Nelson Pillsburry, Joseph Henry Blackburn, Daniel Harrwitz and Bernhard Horwitz.