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It's so hard to compare players of a previous era to today's players because they didn't have the same resources that players do now. Super GMs are brilliant players, but they have access to very advanced computer analysis that Morphy and Fischer did not. Earlier players such as Morphy also did not have nearly the same competition that we see today. In his time, there might have been a handful of players in the entire world capable of playing a serious game with Morphy, so it's not easy to assess his absolute skill level.

If I had to guess, I would say that Morphy would probably be a weak GM with flashes of brilliance. Fischer almost surely would be a top-10 player if he were still in his prime, but he was so mentally unstable, his career could have easily played out the same way. He surely would have made a huge scene if he ever had to play Boris Gelfand. (Gelfand is a very strong Israeli GM, and Fischer well-known for his anti-antisemitism.)