Chucky.
Most underrated player ever?
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Fischer, people think he was 20 years ahead of his time, but he was more like 48,000 years ahead of his time
DC-poc wrote:
Max Euwe, obviously.
Nah, he was only realistically appraised.
Carl Schlechter.
Bronstein
ReasonableDoubt wrote:
This is an easy question. The most underrated chess player would have to be Lenny Bongcloud! Second place goes to pdela.
Don't you know by now that I don't take votes like that?
Salomon Flohr
Jul 30, 2011
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Karl Schlecter, H N Pillsbury, Akiba Rubinstein & Dr Euwe are some obvious candidates. People who think Euwe was a lightwt champion (like I used to) don't know what they're talking about (like I didn't)
Stolich Ilya Chessanova , beat Stalin . Record of the game is deep in the pits of the Kremlin , under rated , and was soon underground . 
froghollow wrote:
Stolich Ilya Chessanova , beat Stalin . Record of the game is deep in the pits of the Kremlin , under rated , and was soon underground .
Googled him and got no results.
checkmateibeatu wrote:
froghollow wrote:
Stolich Ilya Chessanova , beat Stalin . Record of the game is deep in the pits of the Kremlin , under rated , and was soon underground .
Googled him and got no results.
That's because you're supposed to gurgle him.
...well...not "ever"...but IMHO Karpov seems underrated...in that he does not receive many votes in any "best ever" blog...is it because he was in the shadow of Kasparov? Their records are very comparable...also, he was one of the few WCC who never defeated any previous WCC to obtain the crown of WCC...with Fischer, and then later with Kasparov...
...I also believe that the current WCC Anand is underrated...having been the only one ever to win the title of WCC in all formats...yet barely mentioned in any discussion of such...and even though he is the WCC, he seems to be in the shadow of Magnus...ooops...Thor... LOL...
NimzoRoy wrote:
Karl Schlecter, H N Pillsbury, Akiba Rubinstein & Dr Euwe are some obvious candidates. People who think Euwe was a lightwt champion (like I used to) don't know what they're talking about (like I didn't)
Absolutely agree, therefore I would vote for Max Euwe. The greatest chess player we've had in the Netherlands.
Thanks everyone for voting!
Rubinstien.
who is Turdoch ?
I know...