Who's Greatest Player to Never Win World Championship?

[Quicksilvre]

Rubenstein
Keres
Reshevsky
Larsen
Korchnoi

[Montrealcorp]

why not morphy...
i think pilsbury at 1 time as awesome as well

[Nezh]

I think because Morphy simply lived at a time when the World Championship was not yet officially or privately regulated. Many do consider him the ´First´ world champion, or the first player to clearly be the strongest in an era where the game was already fairly competitive, unlike for example in times of As Suli, Ruy Lopez or Philidor. Pillsbury is definitely a candidate yeah, he played some fn awesome games and had fantastic results before syfillis (probably) kinda ruined his brain.

Originally Posted by Montrealcorp

why not morphy...
i think pilsbury at 1 time as awesome as well

[perfidious]

Originally Posted by Nezh

Pillsbury is definitely a candidate yeah, he played some fn awesome games and had fantastic results before syfillis (probably) kinda ruined his brain.

Many years ago, I read that the Russians banned blindfold chess because they believed that Pillsbury's premature death was due to all the displays he gave. If my memory doesn't fail me, Fine (I think) wrote that Pillsbury was believed to have contracted syphilis during his visit to St Petersburg for the great event of 1895-96. Of course, I've also seen it bandied about that the reason Capablanca lost the penultimate round to Tarrasch at St Petersburg 1914 was due to his having gone straight to the board from the bed of the mistress of a Grand Duke. Lots of temptations in St Petersburg!

[couriermike]

Carlsen

[Montrealcorp]

how can u put carlsen
he wont even play lol...

[couriermike]

Sorry, I didn't see Carlsen was already mentioned. He'll play for the WC sooner or later.

I guess Korchnoi and Keres are the top choices. Pillsbury is my sentimental pick for his awesome tactical vision.

[perfidious]

Here's a survey I spotted elsewhere:

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