Akiba Rubinstein
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Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion.
Rubinstein c. 1907/1908
Rubinstein in simultaneous chess exhibition, Tel Aviv, 1931
Carl Schlechter
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Carl Schlechter was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a controversial World Chess Championship match with Emanuel L
Akiba Rubinstein
…to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. In his youth, he defeated top players José Raúl Capablanca and Carl Schlechter. He was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the World Chess Championship in 1914, but it was cancelled due to the outbreak of World War…
Schlechter in 1895