Take a journey through the history of chess and see the best chess players over time. The X-axis represents the year and Y-axis represents Elo estimated by accuracy as calculated by Chess.com/analysis.
This visual representation allows you to see when players like Bobby Fisher, Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen, and Jose Capablanca performed across history.
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Flawed list . No Agadmator.
As already said,maybe the biggest surprise is Polugaevsky's level after 1975,among very interesting other facts.
All this shows is how accuracy is a poor metric for strength.
Fischer, Carlsen, Kasparov.
This visualization does NOT use FIDE Elo ratings which only came into use in 1970. This visualization is created from calculating accuracy (computed in chess.com/analysis) for each player's classical games and converting each player's accuracy to an estimated Elo rating. Our method is described in full here: https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-chess-players-over-time
Abacaba has a beautiful video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2DHpW79w0Y) which shows Elo, CMR, and Edo, three different systems which are not comparable across time. By comparing all players to the same standard (computer accuracy), our method provides more comparable estimates of performance for players who played in different eras.