Beyond the top World Champions, other World Champions and best Grandmasters never-to-be WCC, there are a few top players which I admire for some reasons.

 Among the "ancients" the mature Anderssen! Then Harry Nelson Pillsbury!! Between WW I and WW II, Richard Reti and the legend of Mir Shultan Khan!!... After WW II the late Anthony Miles and his fascinating, imaginative play,Gulko and Alexander Beliavsky, Ivan Sokolov also, Alexey Dreev with his positionally imaginative style. In this context, Zoltan Ribli was very interesting also...

 What are your favorites in the Category?

Anderssen is definitely on the top of my list - I have posted about him in my blog. The thing I appreciate the most is that he maintained his gentlemanly behavior regardless of his wins or losses.

 Yes but -by now- I started again this very topic with better heading!...

How about Hikaru Nakamura? He is a great player and a former child prodigy, but the reason he rules is that he is the only super GM to play 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5!

I like Pillsbury and Bronstein.

Nakamura made "super-GM"?

KillaBeez wrote:

I like Pillsbury and Bronstein.

   Point taken but David Bronstein belongs to "a higher category", he was the 1951 WCC challenger. His style was fascinating though!! The same is true for Robert Huebner's and Jan Timman's games. 

 Seeing reluctance to leave Fischer and Karpov and Kasparov and Kramnik and Anand for some "outsiders", I started another topic about the very same object with the title: "Truly-wonderful-"outsiders"! There I' m giving a more complete list of my favorites but I forgot again Alexander Khalifman!... Where is he now? Anyway these Grandmasters were-are able to create games/masterpieces of an artistic quality!! Amazing ability to me!

 I forgot John Nunn too, an extremely resourceful and inventive player ... but very cool too, not passionate enough! His games remind me of proofs of mathematical theorems!...

 All of you, Chess Fans, you can only consider Morphy, Petrosian, Karpov and Kasparov?!? A collection of masterpieces is legitimate if and only if comes from a ... dominant source?!?

Paul Keres...always Paul Keres...

drd wrote:

Nakamura made "super-GM"?

kind of...

Alejandro Tadeo Ramirez Alvarez. Look him up.

But seriously, I'd probably go for people along the lines of Portisch (even though his style was very different from mine) or J. Polgar, Reshevsky, Byrne... there are lots that resonate with me

 O.K. and thanks a lot! Of course neither Paul Keres nor Lajos Portisch were "simply"-very-interesting-GM, in fact they were participating ... too many times either in the Candidates Tournaments or the Matches!! The same is true for Samuel Reshevsky and ... Judith is just a phemomenon, for the time being at least.

 One could mention Vassily Ivanchuk but ... his play (when he is in a good mood) inspires to me almost ... religious feelings, so let him be a Category of his own!!!

 I forgot J. Hjartarson too!