My second and final attempt for justice!
Beyond the mightiest among the World Champions, the "weaker World Champs" and the strongest Grandmasters never-to-be WCC, there are a few GM which are wonderful to me!
Among the "stone-agers" the mature Anderssen!
Then Harry Nelson Pillsbury... Between WW I and WW II the well-balanced Richard Reti and the unbelievable legend of Mir Sultan Khan!!
After WW II the (late) Anthony Miles (I was very ... young when Leonid Stein was playing and saw nothing) with his brave, imaginative play "together" with Gulko and and Alexander Beliavsky. Then Ivan Sokolov (!!!) and Alexey Dreev and his own deep positional play... In this context Zoltan Ribli was very interesting also...
WHAT your favorites in this "Category"?
P. S. I almost forgot Matulovic, Velimirovic, Iceland's F. Olaffson ... and Brasil's Sunye Neto!!
Go Ivan Sokolov!!!
All of David Bronstein's games I've seen have been very interesting - he seemed to have had an unusual approach to positions, and scored a lot of very nice wins.
Paul Keres is on that list for sure.
J'adoubovic is forever tainted in my mind for trying to take back moves after blundering.
Korchnoi, for sure - 5 decades of quality chess!
How about posting a good game or two from your picks? Here's a very sharp and open game from David Bronstein against Ljubojevic. Enjoy!
Alexander Khalifman too...
Keres and Bronstein are members of a more ... respectable category, that of the strongest grandmasters-never-to-be-WCC...
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