Okay, this time around I'll go with Duncan Suttles. I remember back when he was playing (and getting his GM norms) me and my friends thought that he was either 1) insane or 2) a practical joker. I mean, he couldn't possibly be serious about some (okay, most) of the openings he played...now he looks pretty much like a visionary.
We would hunt out his games (back in the days when you still had to hunt for games), and play them over, alternately laughing and enthralled. "Duncan the Subtle" a friend of mine would say, every time Suttles came up with one of his more peculiar...er, trademark moves.
We had a hard time believing that he ever got to be a GM, the way he played. Of course, had we really been thinking about it, we might've been even more impressed that he was able to meet the norms (and score big at San Antonio 1972) with the trouble he might be said to have caused for himself with his quixotic debuts. But then again, I guess we weren't really thinking.
Sounds like an incredibly interesting character, do you perhaps have a favorite or more memorable Suttle game with some of his "trademark" moves?
Who is your favorite GM?