Question by : Who is the best (human) chess player in the world?
Is it still Vladimir Kramnik?
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Answer by Kyle
The person who developed Chess on the Mac computers
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What do you think?
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Alecg2 says
It’s Viswanthan Anand until someone takes away his world title and becomes world champion he is the best.
Denise says
Vladimir Kramnik might say yes.
Ratings, titles, recent tournament and match results: might be more objective.
Keep up to date with the ratings lists at this link:
FIDE Top players and Statistics (several lists)
http://Ratings.FIDE.com/toplist.phtml
Rank Rating Name
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1 2821 Carlsen, Magnus
2 2817 Anand, Viswanathan
3 2805 Aronian, Levon
4 2788 Karjakin, Sergey
5 2781 Kramnik, Vladimir
6 2770 Nakamura, Hikaru
7 2768 Ivanchuk, Vassily
8 2768 Topalov, Veselin
Chris Ancor says
The current world champion is V.Anand. The highest rated at the present is M.Carlsson. Kramnik is rated number 4 at the moment.