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Who was best not WC best player?

Hello everyone, who was in your opinion best not world champion player in chess?
Thanks so much
Jan
P.S in my opinion it was Nezhmetdinov
I think in his time David Bronstein was definitely WC material but hampered by, let's say, political issues.
Rubinstein, Nimzovich, Keres
There is a site that extrapolates ratings backwards to give [uncertain] data on questions like this. My opinion is the small group would be Pillsbury, Rubinstein, Keres, Bronstein, Korchnoi. Ordering depends on what one weights. My opinion is that if a tournament of them at their 3 year peaks was held [after letting everyone catch up with theory], Keres would win.

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