Who has the best endgame technique in chess history?
The part of the game where the crowd leaves and the position looks dead. These are the players who kept finding something in it anyway.
1José Raúl CapablancaThe name most endgame manuals open with.1000pts
2Anatoly KarpovTurned tiny advantages into wins with no visible effort at all.850pts
3Mikhail BotvinnikAdjournment analysis so thorough it became a Soviet discipline of its own.485pts
4Emanuel LaskerPractical, stubborn and very hard to grind down.485pts
5Bobby FischerBishop endings that look simple until you have to hold one.485pts
6Vladimir KramnikTechnique precise enough to beat Kasparov without losing a game.397pts
7Garry KasparovFeared in the middlegame, and better in endings than his reputation suggests.397pts
8Akiba RubinsteinThe rook-and-pawn specialist a century of players learned from.291pts
9Ulf AnderssonBuilt a career on squeezing endings everyone else agreed were drawn.291pts
10Viswanathan AnandFast and accurate once the pieces come off.291pts
11Viktor KorchnoiDefended endings nobody else believed could be held.291pts
12Magnus CarlsenWins positions that engines call dead level.291pts
13Vasily SmyslovHis rook endings are still taught move by move.0pts
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