If you can challenge any titled player (living or dead) in a chess match, who would it be?

It's just like saying people from other countries are overrated even though you don't live there either🤓

Bent Larsen

Hikaru Nakamura

I see a lot of great choices here.

Kramnik, Steinitz, and Chigorin are great players against whom I would like to challenge.

Also, @ChimpCh and @chesssblackbelt, please remember that this is a forum for discussing titled players, not reasons why American chess players are overrated. I don't know why @chesssblackbelt doesn't like Americans, but at least stick to the topic of the discussion. Thanks.

Yes, thank you @Armatise for reminding everyone.

Carl Schlecter

David Bronstein

Vasily Smyslov

Wolfgang Uhlmann

@springerarchie Those are some great options you have there.

@chesssblackbelt It's okay if you dislike American chess players or think they're overrated, but just be mindful that there would be other people with their opinions as well. I wouldn't want this forum to be about Americans, so you should understand my point.

Also, I haven't seen anyone who wanted to challenge any titled player women like Kosteniuk or Polgar. Only one person wanted to challenge the Botez Sisters.

Polgar would also be a great match, for sure. She was a ferocious player at her peak.

@MaetsNori I agree with you. Her strong and aggressive tactical play often punished her opponents. She was one of the best and strongest women grandmasters to ever dominate the game of chess.

Yes, @Armatise, I think personally another player I'd like to challenge would be Hou Yifan.

Not a Danish...

... are you a Muffin?

An Oatmeal Muffin, perhaps?

@chesssblackbelt I don't really care whether you think Americans are overrated or not, to be honest. You could continue debating about American-titled players being overrated, as long as it's related to the topic.

Hou Yifan is also a strong titled-player women as well, I can agree with you on that @ChimpCh.

Also, I would like to challenge Dubov as well. He was one of those chess players who would sacrifice everything they had just to gain an advantage over their opponent. Similiar to Tal.

gothamchess

Yes, I guess most people would like to play against popular chess players.