Most Underrated Chess Player of All Time

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NewArdweaden

It must be me.

classof1970

euwe

dpnorman

Me when I was 1200 last year.

One year later = 1811 :) I have definitelty improved a ton since then, but I was also way better than 1200, too.

AlexS2005

one of my friends friend, is 400-500

batgirl
linuxblue1 wrote:

What about the Rev John Owen?

Maybe because Morphy killed him in a match at P&move?

NinjaInPijama

Maikelele

Senior-Lazarus_Long

No one knows. You don't here much about underated players.

dashkee94

BG, I'm surprised that you didn't provide a link to Prince Dadian--you made a good case for him.

batgirl

Rob, people here tend not to follow links, but, anyway, here are some on various pages of mine concerning Prince Andrei Dadian of Mingrelia.

Andrei Dadian

Lesser Known Games of Prince Dadian (in Seven Parts)

The Prince of Mingrelia, Part I

The Prince of Mingrelia, Part II

The Prince of Mingrelia, Part III

Dadiani

Dadiani II

Basileus15

David Janovsky, one of the best players of 1890s-1920s. He has a terrible statistics against Lasker and Marshall due to psychological reasons, but was played a hundreds of the brilliant games against all of the great masters of his epoch from Steinits, Blackburn and Chigorin to Alekhine.

I can't find his games in chess.com database and this means he's really underrated.

fabelhaft

"He has a terrible statistics against Lasker and Marshall due to psychological reasons"

I think he had terrible statistics against Lasker and Capablanca due to chess playing strength reasons, but he didn't do too badly against Marshall, 28 wins and 34 losses.