Who is the better chess player, Kasparov or Carlsen?

they are close in ratings but kasparov is a lot better than 2700, he's 2851 and carlsen's 2882

Kasparov was great. Probably the GoAT for many years… Got to give credit where it s due. Magnus is the best player of all time. I d say no matter which era you put him he s going to be at the top.

mittens

both are the goats of their times

for comparing two goats we have to compare their dominance in the periods of their peaks respectively

If we see kasparov was more dominant in his peak

but on other sight he was in the non-computer era of chess so the game of the players in that period was different and a little weak

after the arrival of computers lot of changes are happened in opening literatures and some positional things like in that period players use to give lot value to pawn structures but now in computer era the importance is different because of this the competition has increased drastically in 2000's.

so in my opinion magnus the goat of chess

there are some comments that magnus is quite arrogant but I dont think like it I think what we think his arrogance is actually his high-level confidence of his skills.

If Kasparov grew in the same conditions as Magnus he would be the Number one chess player. Magnus Carlsen is best but in the modern days, everything is different. People never had this much elo because there is the internet and everyone can learn chess professionally with money nowadays in the old times learning chess was not easy because there were only books.

Carlsen is better

carlsen is better

but kasparov has a better legacy

Both

Carlsen.As CARLSEN has access to todays theories.Also Carlsen regularly plays.Kasparov rarely plays in main tournaments.So Carlsen!

Magnus