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In my view this question is frequently answered with a romanticised bias towards players from the distant past, while modern players are often overlooked. I will try to rank the greatest players that never became world champion based on names that usually come up in these discussions in addition to some names I believe deserve to be on the list as well.Note: This turned out to be a lengthy answer. If you just want to read my ranked list, scroll to the bottom.Harry Nelson PillsburyPillsbury's claim to fame is mainly winning the famous Hastings 1895 chess tournament. An extraordinary feat, no doubt, but one could argue that Fabiano Caruana's win at Sinquefield Cup 2014 is stronger. Yet, I've never heard anyone mention Caruana in this category. Pillsbury had huge potential to become one of the all-time greats, but he contracted syphilis at the age of 22 and was never the same again. His foray into the world elite was much too short for me to consider him one of the greatest to never become WC.Siegbert TarraschTarrasch is sometimes mentioned and not without reason. Around 1890 he was probably the strongest player in the world for a few years. He turned down a WC match against Steinitz in 1892 because of his medical studies, a match most experts think he would have won. By the time he got around to challenge the title, the mighty Lasker was already too strong, but Tarrasch definitely belongs on the list.Akiba RubinsteinRubinstein may or may not have been the strongest player in the world in the period around 1910, but it's hard to compare him to Lasker and Capablanca since they faced each other so rarely. At any rate, the three were close in strength at the time. Rubinstein would have surely been a WC challenger under most circumstances, but at the time he simply didn't have the money required. In the latter half of his career he was troubled by bad nerves and mental illness.Paul KeresThis one is pretty clear. Keres won the legendary AVRO 1938 chess tournament and was supposed to challenge Alekhine for the WC, but negotiations stopped during the war. He proceeded to place second in four consecutive candidates tournaments in the 50s and he would have had very good chances to win the title from Botvinnik if he had qualified in either of them. He also won the very strong USSR Championship three times and probably has the best results in chess olympiads of any player ever.Reuben FineYou will seldom hear Reuben Fine's name mentioned and that is mainly due to two reasons. First of all, he was at his strongest during WWII, when there was little international chess being played. Secondly, he declined to play in the World Chess Championship 1948 and in the 1950 Candidates Tournament, for unknown reasons. He did come joint first with Keres in the already mentioned AVRO 1938 chess tournament. After the war, he prioritized his career as a psychology professor first and foremost, but his chess results were stellar whenever he played. He had positive scores against Lasker, Alekhine and Botvinnik and equal scores against Capablanca and Euwe.David BronsteinFew would argue against the fact that Bronstein was a great player, but I have some issues with the reason most people provide for putting him on the list. He came very close to winning the WC title when he drew a match against Botvinnik in 1951. On the way, he finished joint first in the 1950 Candidates tournament with Boleslavsky, proceeded to draw their playoff match and finally won a tiebreak. It could just have easily have been Boleslavsky that qualified for the match against Botvinnik, but does anyone ever mention his name in this category? No. Keep in mind that Botvinnik actually had a negative overall score in his WC matches. He barely managed to hold the title through most of the post-war period when the strongest players in the world were very evenly matched and there wasn't one that really stood out.Efim GellerThis is a name that I've never seen mentioned on any of these lists, but Geller was about as strong as non-World Champions come. He finished second in the 1962 Interzonal behind Fischer and also second in the following Candidates tournament, half a point behind Petrosian who became WC one year later. Geller had a positive lifetime score against players such as Botvinnik, Bronstein, Fischer, Petrosian and Smyslov and an equal score against Tal. His total score against the six WCs he faced over the board was +6.Viktor KorchnoiIt's impossible to look past Korchnoi in this discussion. He was one of the world's strongest chess players over a period of more than 30 years and came about as close to winning the WC as you can possibly get. He lost the 1974 Candidates Tournament (essentialy a WC match since Fischer retired) to Karpov with the smallest of margins and again lost by one game in their 1978 WC match. Remember, this was against Karpov, one of the most dominant world champions of all time. Korchnoi was a notoriously late bloomer and qualified for yet another WC match in 1981 at the age of 50. During his career, he was a ten-time WC Candidate and beat a record nine undisputed world champions in individual encounters. Korchnoi is also by far the greatest senior chess player the world has ever seen. As an example, he beat young hotshot Fabiano Caruana with the black pieces in a tournament game in 2011, shortly before his 80th birthday!Vassily IvanchukIt looks like Ivanchuk is finally falling out of the world's elite, but he was among the best players in the world for about 25 years. Ivanchuk was part of a very strong generation of players, but in the early 90s, he was arguably the world's number three behind Kasparov and Karpov, even reaching as high as second on the FIDE list a couple of times. You could consider him unlucky that this peak coincided with the peaks of those two giants. He has had an illustrious tournament career with many extremely impressive win, but the nerves always got the better of him in critical games in the WC cycles. In the mid-20s he peaked again at second place on the FIDE rating and was even the highest rated player in the world on the live rating for a brief period.Veselin TopalovTopalov did win the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 with a crushing score, but he never won the linear title held by Kramnik in a match, eventually losing their World Chess Championship 2006 match on tie break. Thus, I would consider him in the category of players who never won the undisputed title. Once that is established, there is little doubt that Topalov is one of the strongest never to win the title. He was the best player in the world in 2005-2006 after Kasparov retired. Throughout his career, he has 21 super tournament wins, which ranks him sixth all-time.Levon AronianAronian was consistently ranked second on the FIDE rating list for a period of almost three years. Unfortunately for him, this was at the same time as Magnus Carlsen was breaking every conceivable rating record. Aronian's tournament results have been exceptional, but like Ivanchuk, he has a tendency to stumble in critical games when trying to qualify for a WC match. He did win the Chess World Cup 2005 without losing a single game and proceeded to win two Candidates matches to qualify for the World Chess Championship 2007. Normally this would have been enough to qualify for a WC match, but this was a rare case of the title being decided by a tournament, where Aronian performed poorly. He is a form player, and this has been one of the main reasons why has yet to play a WC match. That may change, though.Based on these assessments, I would rank the players as follows:KorchnoiKeresTopalovTarraschRubinsteinIvanchukBronsteinAronianGellerFineHonorable mentions: Bent Larsen, Carl Schlechter, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Efim Bogoljubov, Boris Gelfand.

Undoubtedly there are numerous moments in the history of cricket which has taught us how life on the cricket field is not different from the life outside it. Everybody has their own moments and viewpoints. According to me I cherish the following one:## Rahul Dravid -2011 India's tour of EnglandLife is about keep moving forward , sooner or later your day will come and that day whole world will respect you.More than 10K runs in both test and ODI is a distinct achievement which till now very few cricketers have achieved and Rahul Dravid is one of them.He has always played under the shadow of Sachin(greatest batsman ever) and Saurav Ganguly (greatest leader ever). He was out of the ODI team after India's disastrous exit from WC 2007 and made ocassional entry in ODI team at 1–2 instances after that. Watershed moment came in 2011 at India's tour of England when whole team India succemmbed against English bowlers and it was Dravid who stood tall against him.He not only made a comeback in the ODI side but also played his first and only 20–20 match of his career.## Yuvraj Singh - comeback after fighting cancerThere is a line in the song 'Jeete hain chal' from the movie 'Neerja'…kheta hain Dil khud se nikal jeete hain chal (Come out from your hard time and start again in your life). This line perfectly fits for Yuvraj Singh. He was chief architect for India's victory in 3 World cups U-19 WC ,2007 20–20 WC and 2011 WC. After 2011 WC he was diagnosed with cancer and made a comeback in 20–20 WC in 2012. He could have sit quietly in his home because frankly he has nothing to prove after all his achievements but still made a comeback just after 1.5 yrs in 20–20 WC 2012 proving everybody wrong.## Brian Charles lara-400 against England375 made by Brian Lara against England was the part of record book as the highest individual test score for nearly 10 yrs .Matthew Hayden broke that record by scoring 380 runs against Zimbabwe.Though it was a record but by breaking the record against Zimbabwe it was injustice to Lara. But then the magic was recreated by Lara by scoring first ever and only quadruple century against England .Indeed somebody has right said…Records are made to be broken only..## South Africa chasing 434No matter what how hard the problem is if you go with proper strategy , discipline and courage nothing is impossible to crack.I still remember I was in 9th class and on the next day of the match I had my Hindi exam. So I slept early but I knew that Australia had scored 434 against South Africa I was thinking how bad can South African team can be .Against India Australia were manged to made 359/2 (2003 WC final) only and with SA they have even surpassed that.But the news came next morning when around 6am in the morning when I revising for the exam my dad came and told me that SA has won the match,I was dumbstruck. Chasing 434 in 2005 was hell of a thing, if somebody do that now it's believable because 350–400 nowadays is a normal thing.Seriously South Africans are really shockers.## Dhoni -Accepting the captaincy for 2007 WCAfter exiting from the WC 2007 all senior players kept them out from the 20–20 WC. No other player who were senior to Dhoni like Yuvraj,Harbhajan etc were ready to lead the team.Then came the shock for everyone a new comer who is just 2 yrs old in International cricket was handed over the big responsibility of leading the team in 20–20 WC and rest is history.Opportunity knocks the door only once better grab it.

It was year 2005 or 2006 I used to be a diehard cricket fan. I used to watch any cricket match on TV for hours together. There was a tournament which featured India red, blue, green teams. There was a cricketer who impressed me during that tournament who played great knocks and he was none other than Robin Uthappa. I wanted to see him in international cricketIn 2006 finally my wish came true. In the absence of one of the openers Robin Uthappa opened the innings for India and scored 86 runs in his debut match. This was the highest score by a debutant for India . Later on this record was broken.Unfortunately India had a legendary batting line-up which included Sehwag, Sachin, Dravid, Gambhir, Yuvraj. There was no place for Robin Uthappa to play. He was given a completely different role as a finisher. He played a wonderful innings against England in the same year as a finisher too. This match is an epic match which many fans still don't forget.He had a great T20 WC 2007 where his performances were overshadowed by others. He was the first Indian batsman to score a fifty in T20I'S.In 2007 -08 CB series he scored consecutive sixes of Brett Lee's bowling . In this match he was given out on a noball and was a bit unlucky.He was clearly not shown the trust that was shown on other players like Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja etc who too played badly in their initial career but went on to become great players in the future for India.Robin Uthappa after the first 10 seasons of IPL was amongst the top 5 leading run scorers in IPL but the irony is he only played 5 T20I'S for India after 2007 T20 WC. His achievements like scoring 11 consecutive 40+ scores in a single IPL season is a once in a life time achievement which very few players can achieve.In one of the IPL matches Commentator Matthew Hayden said that:Robin Uthappa is an underrated T20 player in India. He is a great player and is a delight to watch when he gets going.In 2014 ,15 he performed everywhere he played and was on a beast mode and was not even picked for the 30 man probable squad for the 2015 WC. You cannot completely say that he did not live up to the promise but the fact that he wasn't shown the trust and didn't get enough opportunities also has got to deal with his not living upto the early promise.