THE BEST PLAYER NEVER TO BECOME A GRANDMASTER?

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HeNNaRoZe

In your opinion, who might be the best player of all time who never become a grandmaster?

IMHO

Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov.

RaleighRaine
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waffllemaster

Yeah, I would guess Nezhmetdinov.

Oraoradeki

A great attacker, wins games against grandmasters, and looks for tactics...

I'd say Emory Tate of America. 

Doc_who_loves_chess

The best chess player to date, in the history of the game, who never became and may well never become a Grandmaster, is currently rated at over 3300 Elo. However, due to the current universally-applied biocentric exclusionary rules, this chess player may never achieve their well-deserved Grandmaster title.  Perhaps one day, like their namesake, this chess player will escape these contemporary culturally-imposed chains and exist in a truly meritocratose world were the ultimate prestige, the Grandmaster title, is solely conferred due to raw chess talent, regardless of its source...

sheershobanerjee

Sultan Khan of India

 

sndeww

Nezhmetdinov

assgatito

Levy rozman

Pulpofeira

Vitolins was really good.

BlackKaweah

Just think, Benjamin Finegold is a grandmaster, but Capablanca is not.

Pulpofeira

Finegold is a FIDE grandmaster, Capablanca was a Russian tsar grandmaster.