Favorite chess player?

My favorites are:-
Kasparov
Karpov
Tal
Anand
Fischer
and Carlsen

Definitely Tal.

Tal and Bent Larsen.

#3 so you mean I can outprrp him?
:)

prep

The chess style of Kasparov is definitely my favorite, then Tal, Spassky, and of course Carlsen ...

@nobody22 LOL. Not exactly :D :P

Carlsen is very boring. No risks and only endings, but he is an amazing endgame player turning dead draws into wins.

No @blackzombie if you blunder Carlsen will sack all his material for mate I guarantee it. Also he instructively creates winning opportunity and gets winning positions more often than not against super GM's.

[Event "Bilbao"]
[Site "Bilbao ESP"]
[Date "2016.07.16"]
[EventDate "2016.07.13"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Magnus Carlsen"]
[Black "Wesley So"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "2855"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[PlyCount "51"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. Qe2
Qe7 7. Nbd2 Bg4 8. h3 Bh5 9. a3 Nd7 10. b4 Bd6 11. Nc4 f6
12. Ne3 a5 13. Nf5 Qf8 14. bxa5 Rxa5 15. O-O Qf7 16. a4 Nc5
17. Qe1 b6 18. Nd2 Rxa4 19. Nc4 Bf8 20. Be3 Kd7 21. Qc3 Nxe4
22. Nxb6+ cxb6 23. dxe4 Qc4 24. Qd2+ Kc7 25. g4 Bg6 26. Rfd1
1-0

[Event "Salongernas IM-tournament"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2003.06.14"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Magnus Carlsen"]
[Black "Dennis Rylander"]
[ECO "A89"]
[WhiteElo "2356"]
[BlackElo "2348"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. c4 d6
7. Nc3 Nc6 8. d5 Ne5 9. Nxe5 dxe5 10. e4 f4 11. gxf4 exf4
12. e5 Ng4 13. e6 Ne5 14. c5 f3 15. Bh3 g5 16. Kh1 g4 17. Qd4
gxh3 18. Bh6 Bxh6 19. Qxe5 Rf6 20. Rg1+ Rg6 21. Qh5 Kg7
22. Rxg6+ hxg6 23. Rg1 Qe8 24. Ne4 c6 25. Qe5+ Kg8 26. Ng5
Bxg5 27. Qxg5 Kg7 28. Rg4 Bxe6 29. Qe5+ Kg8 30. Rh4 Bxd5
31. Rh8+ Kf7 32. Rh7+ Kf8 33. Qg7# 1-0

[Event "Corus Group C"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2004.01.24"]
[EventDate "2004.01.10"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Magnus Carlsen"]
[Black "Sipke Ernst"]
[ECO "B19"]
[WhiteElo "2484"]
[BlackElo "2474"]
[PlyCount "57"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6
7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5 Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 e6 11. Bf4 Ngf6
12. O-O-O Be7 13. Ne4 Qa5 14. Kb1 O-O 15. Nxf6+ Nxf6 16. Ne5
Rad8 17. Qe2 c5 18. Ng6 fxg6 19. Qxe6+ Kh8 20. hxg6 Ng8
21. Bxh6 gxh6 22. Rxh6+ Nxh6 23. Qxe7 Nf7 24. gxf7 Kg7 25. Rd3
Rd6 26. Rg3+ Rg6 27. Qe5+ Kxf7 28. Qf5+ Rf6 29. Qd7# 1-0

But if you don't blunder he is very boring. I wanted to see more such things against Anand in the WC