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Question: Who are the top 10 French Players of all time? (VOTE FOR 5)

Botvinnik

47 (13.7%)

Korchnoi

67 (19.6%)

Nimzovich

17 (5.0%)

Uhlmann

59 (17.3%)

Rubinstein

3 (0.9%)

Khalifman

1 (0.3%)

Short

12 (3.5%)

M. Gurevich

19 (5.6%)

Volkov

10 (2.9%)

Petrosian

26 (7.6%)

Portisch

5 (1.5%)

M. Gurevich

11 (3.2%)

Morozevich

31 (9.1%)

Vaganian

23 (6.7%)

Bareev

11 (3.2%)

Total votes: 342

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FM Dikkie Junior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 75 Location: Veenendaal Joined: 02/20/08 Gender:	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #65 - 07/22/13 at 17:45:27	Post Tools	Print Post
	I voted twice on Gurevich. Not even on purpose I think, sorry. But like someone said, his name is twice on the list.


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saubhikr Senior Member Offline Chess is a cruel game but I still love it Posts: 332 Location: Milwaukee, WI, USA Joined: 10/29/06 Gender:	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #64 - 07/22/13 at 14:42:59	Post Tools	Print Post
	Too bad, not too many people voted for Short. Whenever I go for a must win game where white played exchange variation to make a draw, I remember Short's win over Gurevich and draw inspiration.


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Smyslov_Fan YaBB Moderator Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #63 - 07/03/13 at 06:48:41	Post Tools	Print Post
	I think I noticed that some time ago, but could not fix it because he would lose votes. Not even the moderators can switch votes in the polls. I'll double check it tho.


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TalJechin God Member Offline There is no secret ingredient. Posts: 2892 Location: Malmö Joined: 08/12/04 Gender:	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #62 - 06/30/13 at 07:16:55	Post Tools	Print Post
	There are two M. Gurevich in the list!


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Smyslov_Fan YaBB Moderator Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #61 - 05/28/11 at 14:45:19	Post Tools	Print Post
	That's a strong list, BP! Nimzo taught the world how to play the French!


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BPaulsen God Member Offline I Love Light Squares! Posts: 1702 Location: Anaheim, CA, USA Joined: 11/02/08 Gender:	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #60 - 05/28/11 at 08:15:22	Post Tools	Print Post
	Nimzowitsch, Botvinnik, Korchnoi, Petrosian, Uhlmann. I'm incredibly biased in favor of Nimzowitsch because I chose the French based on studying his games many years ago, so his name reigns supreme for me.

	2288 USCF, 2186 FIDE. FIDE based on just 27 games.
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Keano God Member Offline Money doesn't talk, it swears. Posts: 2922 Location: Toulouse Joined: 05/25/05 Gender:	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #59 - 05/07/11 at 23:58:01	Post Tools	Print Post
	I voted: Botvinnik, Korchnoi, M. Gurevich, Petrosian, Vaganian Purely subjective of course, although how anyone could leave out Botvinnik, Petrosian and Korchnoi I'd find incomprehensible. Makes for a good pub argument though.


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MNb God Member Offline Rudolf Spielmann forever Posts: 10765 Location: Moengo Joined: 01/05/04 Gender:	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #58 - 04/28/11 at 21:32:58	Post Tools	Print Post
	cynima wrote on 04/28/11 at 18:05:54: and "did" something for this beatiful opening Then by no means you should leave out Petrosjan. Without him we might not have known the antipositional idea of ...Bf8 in the Winawer. It's ideas like these that make me realize I'll never understand chess.

	The book had the effect good books usually have: it made the stupids more stupid, the intelligent more intelligent and the other thousands of readers remained unchanged. GC Lichtenberg
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cynima Junior Member Offline Posts: 62 Location: Germany Joined: 12/06/10 Gender:	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #57 - 04/28/11 at 18:05:54	Post Tools	Print Post
	Smyslov_Fan wrote on 04/28/11 at 17:09:29: Watson and Psakhis are great chess authors. But the best players? Ahead of Korchnoi, Petrosian, and so many others? Wow. I also took in account who really loved the French and "did" something for this beatiful opening


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Smyslov_Fan YaBB Moderator Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #56 - 04/28/11 at 17:09:29	Post Tools	Print Post
	Watson and Psakhis are great chess authors. But the best players? Ahead of Korchnoi, Petrosian, and so many others? Wow.


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cynima Junior Member Offline Posts: 62 Location: Germany Joined: 12/06/10 Gender:	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #55 - 04/28/11 at 13:31:49	Post Tools	Print Post
	My top 5: 1. Uhlmann 2. Botvinnik 3. Yusupov 4. Watson 5. Psakhis


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Smyslov_Fan YaBB Moderator Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #54 - 04/26/11 at 21:12:04	Post Tools	Print Post
	I'm really surprised to see Nimzovich doing so poorly in this edition of the poll.


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Smyslov_Fan YaBB Moderator Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #53 - 04/24/11 at 01:00:33	Post Tools	Print Post
	Who are the top 10 French Players of all time (The Black side, Stefan!)


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Smyslov_Fan YaBB Moderator Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #52 - 04/24/11 at 00:41:33	Post Tools	Print Post
	BUMP


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ericmittens Junior Member Offline Molto bene Posts: 86 Location: Ontario, Canada Joined: 06/06/09 Gender:	Re: Top Ten French Players Poll Reply #51 - 06/14/10 at 11:51:38	Post Tools	Print Post
	I'm going with... 5.Rafael Vaganian 4.Alexander Morozevich 3.Tigran Petrosian 2.Mikhail Botvinnik 1.Viktor Korchnoi


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