Who do you consider the greatest chess player in history (GOAT): Kasparov, Carlsen, Fischer or Capab

@NotMagnusCarlsen42 said in #13:

... "Most ahead of his peers", what about Morphy?

Back then, the chess world was so amazingly primitive that they still thought chess tournaments were a pretty neat idea. (With apologies to the late Douglas Adams.)

It was stated that MC has never beaten GK. But the actual encounters are few from what I know, and never in a best match. In the interview below, GK seems to imply that MC would win, since he stands on the shoulders of the past-more chess knowledge. But what if GK in his prime also had that? GK says it would not be GK but a different person.

Here is what GK says:

https://youtu.be/Np1zODg5cqc?si=nE5MZ2wo8giduLsR

Carlsen definitively. Magnus Carlsen is bound to be the greatest player in history. There have never been so many powerful tools to improve at chess, and the density of GMs today is at its highest. Yet, Magnus has remained above all other GMs for more than 10 years.

@kindaspongey said ^

... "Most ahead of his peers", what about Morphy?

Back then, the chess world was so amazingly primitive that they still thought chess tournaments were a pretty neat idea. (With apologies to the late Douglas Adams.)

But I said most ahead of his peers; no one was a super GM back then.

Also wasn't Douglas Adams the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

(A great series by the way)