Originally posted by tomtom232 I would say Pillsbury but he died too soon. So I'm goin' to have to say Akiba Rubenstein the master of Rook and Pawn endgames.
Harry Nelson Pillsbury and I share the same birthday. (He was a tad older than me. And a little bit better player.)
Originally posted by IDAVID Although some will say that this is a "point-of-view" type of a question, there is an answer that is universally considered correct by most chess experts. (including myself teehee:>😉
Ok, here we go:
Who was (no longer alive) the greatest player never to win the World Championship?
Who will win Davy Jones chess Challenge part 1!?
I'd say Morphy. Ignore his "odds" games or games against weak players in the opera house.
Go straight to the quality stuff:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1019059
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1027917
Originally posted by DawgHaus Based on the info at http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2409, the top four candidates for best-non-world-champion are
Korchnoi, Tarrasch, Keres, Rubinstein
Of the other possibles, my votes would go to Bronstein, Geller, and Ivanchuk.
A few months ago I would have said Anand. 🙂
This has to be a dead person. Korchnoi may be one hundred and twenty twelve but he aint dead yet. I don't think Anand is dead either.
Originally posted by Squelchbelch I'd say Morphy. Ignore his "odds" games or games against weak players in the opera house.
Go straight to the quality stuff:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1019059
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1027917
And without Morphy modern theory might not be so modern.
Originally posted by IDAVID Although some will say that this is a "point-of-view" type of a question, there is an answer that is universally considered correct by most chess experts. (including myself teehee:>😉
Ok, here we go:
Who was (no longer alive) the greatest player never to win the World Championship?
I was going to keep saying it and when you gave the answer I would say it again and then say I was the best but then I realized Im not dead yet! 😳 🙄