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| Jan-31-20 | | Petrosianic: Well, Rubinstein, of course. |
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Feb-03-20
 | | Eggman: Yes, well there are lots of names from the pre-FIDE era: Rubinstein, of course, and Maroczy and Pillsbury and Flohr, and Fine and even Reshevsky. |
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| Sep-30-20 | | SymphonicKnight: Since Reshevsky participated in the 1948 Match Tournament for the World Championship against Botvinnik (who became world champion by winning it), I don't think we can include him in the list of best players never to have played for the title. |
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Sep-30-20
 | | perfidious: Reshevsky was also facing Smyslov, Euwe and Keres; tournament and match play are not quite the same. |
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| Aug-31-21 | | tonsillolith: <Speaking of look-alikes, I always thought Robert Vaughn looked like Efim Geller:> I've always thunk Geller looked like Jim Belushi. |
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| Nov-13-21 | | Albertan: Geller’s “Magister Ludi “ moment:
https://www.chess.com/blog/kamalaka... |
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Nov-14-21
 | | Ron: <Eggman: It's often debated who was the greatest chess player never to become world champion, but here's another question: who was the greatest never to participate in a world championship? Geller, Stein, Ivanchuk, and Aronian immediately spring to mind. Others?> In the FIDE era, I submit Bent Larsen. This website claims that at Larsen's peak he was #3 in the world, behind Fischer and Spassky:
https://www.chess.com/players/bent-... |
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Nov-15-21
 | | Benzol: You could probably make a case for Akiba Rubinstein and Paul Keres too |
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Nov-15-21
| | Benzol: Correction Keres did play in the 1948 event didn't he. |
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Nov-15-21
| | perfidious: <Paul>, indeed he did, with losses to Botvinnik in the first four cycles before booking a win after Botvinnik had already wrapped up matters. |
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Nov-15-21
 | | Honza Cervenka: <Eggman: It's often debated who was the greatest chess player never to become world champion, but here's another question: who was the greatest never to participate in a world championship? Geller, Stein, Ivanchuk, and Aronian immediately spring to mind. Others?> <In the FIDE era, I submit Bent Larsen.> Well, Larsen, Geller, Stein and other greats of FIDE era participated in zonal, interzonal and candidate tournaments and matches regularly, and so it is not correct to say that they never participated in a world championship. |
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Nov-15-21
| | Honza Cervenka: I think that Rubinstein had solid chance to become world champion, if he would have played match against Lasker in 1912. |
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| Nov-15-21 | | Nosnibor: <Honza Cervenka> I agree with you point concerning Rubinstein, but I believe raising the stakes to play was the problem why such a match never happened. Also after this time with the advent of the great war approaching his strength dipped ,witness his poor result in St Petersburg 1914. Another player who briefly shone and could have had a genuine chance before 1898 was Charousek who had beaten Lasker in the last round of the 1896 Nuremberg Congress. However ill health and money prevented such a match taking part. |
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| Nov-15-21 | | Olavi: The Lasker - Rubinstein match was agreed on and scheduled for autumn 1914. |
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Nov-15-21
| | Benzol: The Chess World is poorer for a Rubinstein - Lasker match not haven't taken place. The same could be said of a Capablanca - Alyekhin rematch and a Fischer - Karpov clash. One can only lament on what could have been. |
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Nov-15-21
| | Benzol: Speculating. If Botvinnik had actually lost to Bronstein in 1951 and then exercised his rematch rights what would the result of the second Botvinnik - Bronstein clash have been ? |
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Nov-16-21
 | | keypusher: <Benzol: Speculating. If Botvinnik had actually lost to Bronstein in 1951 and then exercised his rematch rights what would the result of the second Botvinnik - Bronstein clash have been ?> Not clear Botvinnik had a rematch right then. The world may have been treated to a three-way competition among Botvinnik, Bronstein, and Smyslov in 1954. See here. Vladimir Kramnik (kibitz #28860) But of course if there <had> been a rematch, Botvinnik would have won. :-) |
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| Mar-11-22 | | Albertan: Born in Odessa:Efim Geller:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/born-... |
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| Feb-29-24 | | Gottschalk: "Players who are devoted to certain opening systems know how unpleasant it can be to play against oneself in the purely psychological sense." I think Geller was talking about Fischer . |
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| Jun-22-24 | | kingfu: Gottschalk - You bet he was! And the Opening System was THE SICILIAN. Geller was the only player to have a plus score with Fischer! Geller never got to play a match with Fischer because he couldn't beat Spassky! |
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| Jun-22-24 | | Olavi: <kingfu> Well Tal also had a plus score vs. Fischer - admittedly his wins were scored when Fischer was 16. But Spassky was plus too... |
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| Sep-19-24 | | Gottschalk: I recognize the lion by his paw.
— Jacob (Jacques) Bernoulli (Swiss mathematician and discoverer of e, 1654 – 1705) [After reading Newton’s anonymous solution to a problem] |
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Oct-06-24
 | | ketchuplover: Hall of Famer!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Jun-03-25
| | perfidious: Botvinnik:
<Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.> One should not underestimate the contributions of fellow Ukrainians Boleslavsky and Bronstein to the theory of this defence. |
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| Jun-03-25 | | ewan14: Botvinnik was not always thinking clearly when it came to Geller.
Once described him as player of the sixties |
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