Who is the most overrated world chess champion?
Every name here really did hold the title. The argument is about how much that title was worth on the day it changed hands.
1Anatoly KarpovTook the title in 1975 without playing a game, because Fischer refused the terms.
2Garry KasparovDominant for fifteen years, then lost the title without winning a single game.
3Max EuweHeld the title for two years and lost the rematch decisively.
4Vladimir KramnikWon the crown and spent much of his reign unwell and drawing.
5Mikhail BotvinnikKept the title twice through rematch clauses he had helped write.
6Tigran PetrosianSolid enough to keep the title and quiet enough to empty the press room.
7Boris SpasskyChampion for three years and remembered mainly for how he lost.
8Vasily SmyslovWorld champion for exactly one year before Botvinnik took it straight back.
9Alexander KhalifmanWon the 1999 FIDE knockout while ranked outside the world's top forty.
10Ruslan PonomariovFIDE champion at 18, in a knockout most of the best players skipped.
11Rustam KasimdzhanovWon the 2004 FIDE knockout as a heavy outsider.
12Veselin TopalovFIDE champion in 2005, with later matches overshadowed by arguments off the board.
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