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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: The World's ... Grandmaster? Reply #6 - 05/18/09 at 02:22:30	Post Tools	Print Post
	Not sure about Nezhmetdinov. Certainly he was one of the brightest lights, but what about Igor Ivanov, who boasted draws and victories over Kasparov and Karpov? He would lose silly games, but that was because he would play every week against anybody. Ivanov certainly ranks as one of the world's best non-GMs.


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Holbox Senior Member Offline Saigón Café Posts: 369 Joined: 02/08/05	Re: The World's ... Grandmaster? Reply #5 - 05/17/09 at 23:50:30	Post Tools	Print Post
	The strongest player, not reaching the GM title, was Rashid Nezhmetdinov.

	"Ladran, luego cabalgamos", NN
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Matemax God Member Offline Chesspub gives you strength! Posts: 1302 Joined: 11/04/07	Re: The World's ... Grandmaster? Reply #4 - 05/17/09 at 17:52:30	Post Tools	Print Post
	Quote: The strongest well singing GM must be Smyslov. http://www.rebel.nl/smyslov1.htm Just scroll down a bit and you see a picture - click and listen!


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MNb God Member Offline Rudolf Spielmann forever Posts: 10778 Location: Moengo Joined: 01/05/04 Gender:	Re: The World's ... Grandmaster? Reply #3 - 05/17/09 at 14:07:21	Post Tools	Print Post
	derdudea wrote on 05/17/09 at 10:43:14: Somebody called him "the worlds strongest amateur" if I remember right. The worlds strongest amateur ever of course is Max Euwe. The strongest well singing GM must be Smyslov. I remember vaguely reading that Smyslov and Taimanov (piano) have recorded some classical songs. Does anybody know more about this? The strongest alcohol addict is Alekhine. Who is the GM with the lowest average ELO? Westerinen?

	The book had the effect good books usually have: it made the stupids more stupid, the intelligent more intelligent and the other thousands of readers remained unchanged. GC Lichtenberg
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Matemax God Member Offline Chesspub gives you strength! Posts: 1302 Joined: 11/04/07	Re: The World's ... Grandmaster? Reply #2 - 05/17/09 at 13:42:45	Post Tools	Print Post
	Impressive is the World's oldest Grandmaster (at the moment): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andor_Lilienthal Perhaps the first Grandmaster to reach 100 years - this may yield him 100 additional elo points according to Fide-rule 23.4! On the other hand - at some card games you fall back to zero when reach the number 99 at counting - hmm....


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derdudea Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 176 Location: Germany Joined: 10/03/08 Gender:	Re: The World's ... Grandmaster? Reply #1 - 05/17/09 at 10:43:14	Post Tools	Print Post
	Somebody called him "the worlds strongest amateur" if I remember right. This may be the truth, since Huebner always had an academic life besides chess, despite I don´t know whether he always had a job at an university. But there seem to be lots of things not known about Huebner...


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Matemax God Member Offline Chesspub gives you strength! Posts: 1302 Joined: 11/04/07	The World's ... Grandmaster? 05/17/09 at 08:46:44	Post Tools	Print Post
	Today I read a description of a book from GM Robert Hübner: Robert Hübner probably is the world's most modest chess grandmaster. - Great advertisment! What world record holders among the grandmasters do you see? Is there a most expierenced, smallest, longest, funniest, or whatever Grandmaster? Let's collect them....


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