The Best Player Who Never Became WC?

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RoaringPawn

Here's just few suggestions sorted out alphabetically. 

CURRENT STANDINGS (19 people, incl. Twitter, voted so far)

1. Bronstein, Korchnoi 3.5

2. Keres 2.5

3. Schlechter 2

4. Chucky 1.5

5. Rubinstein, Stein, Dr. Tarrasch, Caruana, Blackburne, Short 1

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Here are the contenders for the Almost-WC crown without their names. That way it's a sort of quiz for you folksgrin.png

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The players contenders in our Best Who Never Become a WC are:

Blackburn, Bogo and Rubinstein, Bronstein, Caruana, Chigorin, Fine & Reshevsky, Geller, Gligorić, Ivanchuk, Keres, Korchnoi, Maroczy, Pillsbury, Schlechter, Short, Stein, Dr Tarrasch, Zukertort

simaginfan

Love all those guys!! No one ever mentions Maroczy - Number one in the World 1905/06. His record against the champions was poor though. On the retrospective ratings sites Tarrasch was the highest rated up to 1975, from memory. For me Rubinstein or Chucky, but there are a lot to choose from!

AlexanderMatlak

Wow! I recognized all of them! The greatest untitled champions...thumbup.png

Vezekmin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Morphy

RoaringPawn
simaginfan wrote:

Love all those guys!! No one ever mentions Maroczy - Number one in the World 1905/06. His record against the champions was poor though. On the retrospective ratings sites Tarrasch was the highest rated up to 1975, from memory. For me Rubinstein or Chucky, but there are a lot to choose from!

Yo mate, Maroczy added.

Should I give Akiva and Chucky half point each then?happy.png

RoaringPawn
MiddlegamerUmesh wrote:

Wait, 1 for Bronstein too!

Of course

RoaringPawn
AlexanderMatlak wrote:

Wow! I recognized all of them! The greatest untitled champions...

You vote for Chucky, of course?

AlexanderMatlak

My vote for David Bronstein!

RoaringPawn

Yes, we consider Morphy as unofficial WC of his time. Steinitz was the first WC.

Thanks for stopping by!

zborg

You forgot someone --

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/keres-why-didn-t-he-make-it

gingerninja2003

Leonid Stein.

RoaringPawn
gingerninja2003 wrote:

Leonid Stein.

Absolutely. Stein belongs to this group. Thank you!

gingerninja2003

Korchnoi was also a great player. If his WCC matches against Karpov were fair then who knows what could've happened?

RoaringPawn
gingerninja2003 wrote:

Korchnoi was also a great player. If his WCC matches against Karpov were fair then who knows what could've happened?

Yes, should I then give Stein and Korchnoi 0.5 each from you?

For the same reason you mentioned, I give my vote to Bronstein as he was a victim of the Soviet System, I think he was blackmailed

RoaringPawn
AlexanderMatlak wrote:

My vote for David Bronstein!

Yes, added. Devik was my choice too!

Всего лучшего!

RoaringPawn
MiddlegamerUmesh wrote:

Yep, Keres and Bronstein are my favorite writers

Ок, they split your vote and get 0.5 each

RoaringPawn

@zborg please tell me who I should add to the list?

RoaringPawn
MiddlegamerUmesh wrote:

Keres, of course

No more changing your mind.

You're a chess player, aren't you? It's Pièce touchée, pièce jouée

kindaspongey
simaginfan wrote:

... On the retrospective ratings sites Tarrasch was the highest rated up to 1975, from memory. ...

From memory: I don't think he was invited to that famous 1948 tournament.

zborg
zborg wrote:

You forgot someone --

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/keres-why-didn-t-he-make-it

@zborg please tell me who I should add to the list?

Keres is the only one I could think of, and that really strained my memory banks.  Ha!