Hello everyone, who was in your opinion best not world champion player in chess?
Thanks so much
Jan
P.S in my opinion it was Nezhmetdinov
Rubinstein. Keres. Korchnoi.
I think in his time David Bronstein was definitely WC material but hampered by, let's say, political issues.
Rubinstein, Nimzovich, Keres
There is a site that extrapolates ratings backwards to give [uncertain] data on questions like this. My opinion is the small group would be Pillsbury, Rubinstein, Keres, Bronstein, Korchnoi. Ordering depends on what one weights. My opinion is that if a tournament of them at their 3 year peaks was held [after letting everyone catch up with theory], Keres would win.