There always seems to be a "best in the world" in chess

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Magnus Carlsen is the best and most versatile chess player of all time. Its actually his versatility that makes him the best player ever, but in terms of raw talent the best player was probably José Raúl Capablanca, Paul Morphy, or Mir Sultan Khan. Mikhail Tal and Bobby Fischer were probably the best Human chess players ever, that is: Chess players from the era before computers. Gary Kasparov is most certainly the greatest living player though.