Truly-wonderful-"outsiders"!

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31st July 2008, 08:47am
#1
by cunctatorg
Athens Greece
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 352

 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!!  

22nd October 2008, 09:17am
#2
by dc1985
Alabama United States
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 735

Go Ivan Sokolov!!!

22nd October 2008, 09:57am
#3
by gabrielconroy
London United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 1528

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.

22nd October 2008, 10:12am
#4
by The_Pitts
Plainfield Vermont (GMT-5) International
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 381

Paul Keres is on that list for sure.

22nd October 2008, 10:21am
#5
by Tycho
Ottawa Canada
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 81

J'adoubovic is forever tainted in my mind for trying to take back moves after blundering.

 

Korchnoi, for sure - 5 decades of quality chess!

22nd October 2008, 11:33am
#6
by gabrielconroy
London United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 1528

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!

23rd October 2008, 04:56am
#7
by cunctatorg
Athens Greece
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 352

 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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