By the way, you don't have to do 5, you can do less. Just don't do more than 5 please.
Top five best players ever who were never world champion?
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Aug 5, 2011
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It's been agreed over the many years that Paul Keres was the best player ever to have never become World Champion.
-Mark
checkmateibeatu wrote:
By the way, you don't have to do 5, you can do less. Just don't do more than 5 please.
Although it would be better to do 5.
Henry Nelson Pillsbury Quite surprised no one has said his name.
Nimzowitsch
Deep Blue- 5
Shredder-4
Deep Fritz-3
Rybka-2
They were never world champions and they are pretty good players.
Carlsen
duskrevival wrote:
Deep Blue- 5
Shredder-4
Deep Fritz-3
Rybka-2
They were never world champions and they are pretty good players.
I mean among humans.
Korchnoi
Keres
Carlsen
Larsen
Karjakin
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no one says Tal? it' s incredible, the most creative chess player ever, after him goes rubinstein , then alekhine, pillsbury and charousek.
1, Tal
2,Rubinstein
3.Alekhine
4,Pillsbury
5,Charousek
checkmateibeatu wrote:
duskrevival wrote:
Deep Blue- 5
Shredder-4
Deep Fritz-3
Rybka-2
They were never world champions and they are pretty good players.
I mean among humans.
Racist.
AREtyom wrote:
no one says Tal? it' s incredible, the most creative chess player ever, after him goes rubinstein , then alekhine, pillsbury and charousek.
1, Tal
2,Rubinstein
3.Alekhine
4,Pillsbury
5,Charousek
Tal was world champ in 1960.
Aug 5, 2011
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AREtyom wrote:
no one says Tal? it' s incredible, the most creative chess player ever, after him goes rubinstein , then alekhine, pillsbury and charousek.
1, Tal
2,Rubinstein
3.Alekhine
4,Pillsbury
5,Charousek
Alekhine was also a world champ, I believe
duskrevival wrote:
checkmateibeatu wrote:
duskrevival wrote:
Deep Blue- 5
Shredder-4
Deep Fritz-3
Rybka-2
They were never world champions and they are pretty good players.
I mean among humans.
Racist.
If this was including computers, than it would be pretty obvious that the computers would win. Therefore, I did it among humans.
I'm always surprised that Morphy was never WC, despite only being active for a short period of time.
Who do you think are the top five best players never to be world champion? Feel free to vote, and show the games of and why you voted for who you voted for! (As always, make serious votes.)
The scoring system:
#1- 5 points
#2- 4 points
#3- 3 points
...and so on.
Current Poll Leaders as of 8/24/2011 12:53 PM PST (post 87)
Keres 44.5
Korchnoi 29.5
Morphy 29
Rubinstein 28
Bronstein 25
Carlsen 15
Pillsbury 10
Nimzowitsch 10
Polgar 5.5
Mecking 5
Geller 4
Polugaevsky 4
Reshevsky 4
Ivanchuk 3.75
Marozsky 3.75
Tarrasch 3.75
Najdorf 3.75
Larsen 2
Nigel Short 2
Karjakin 1
Charousek 1
Chigorin 1