Who are the best non-World Champion chess players? GM Jesse Kraai, IM Kostya Kavutskiy, and IM David Pruess discuss and rate great chess players of yesterday and today who have never been world champions, but have an outstanding legacy.

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0:00 Intro
3:40 Chigorin
12:24 Tarrasch
16:12 Schlechter
22:14 Nimzowitsch
25:29 Rubinstein
30:05 Fine
37:12 Keres
43:51 Bronstein
45:12 Larsen
47:49 Korchnoi
52:04 Andersson
55:55 Timman
59:07 Ivanchuk
1:02:59 Aronian
1:07:23 Topalov
1:15:10 Nakamura
1:18:55 Caruana
1:24:00 Nepomniachtchi

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EP 86 | The Best Chess Players Who Never Became World Champion