Why is Nezhetdinov not so famous?

He even beat Mikhail Tal and I checked some of his games and liked his play very much.Did he write a chess book or something? Because I couldn't find on İnternet.

Well you are spelling his name incorrectly, it's Nezhmetdinov.

Here is another quote: 'Players die, tournaments are forgotten, but the works of great artists are left behind them to live in for ever in memory of their creators.' Mikhail Tal on Nezhmetdinov in Learn from the Grandmasters.

that's what he wrote

Step 1. Place spectacles on head.

Step 2. Look again.

How about Lasker. Or Euwe. Or Kramnik (i think). Or Anand. Or Carlesen. Everybody knows Carlesen!

Well, Rashid Nezhmetdinov wasn't a GM. That's probably one of the reasons people outside of Russia don't know him but inside the country he is rather well-known in chess circles. I personally know him from his outstanding queen sacrifices. And all the same there're lots of chess players who deserve to be famous but many people know nothing about them or know very little. One of them for instance is Genrikh Chepukaitis. Chip, as they often called him, wasn't very strong on classical chess (NM), but blitz was what he was extremely good at. He was considered dangerous even for Tal, Petrosian and Korchnoi but nowadays very few people know Chip. Sad but true.

People remember Harrymetsally but not nezhmetdinov.  Sometimes a name changes everything.  Shallow but true.  Like nobody cares for anyone named ponnupazoozu.

Another is the Slovenian GM Albin Planinc. He burst into the world of big time chess at age 25 when, as an untitled player, he won a major tournament in Ljubljana ahead of 10 GMs and 2 IMs. Unlike the other players, he couldn't prepare between rounds: he had to work his shift at the bicycle factory where he was employed.

Planinc was a highly inventive and imaginative player. He was, however, beset by mental illness and tragically spent the last years of his life in a mental institution. Like Fischer, Steinitz, and Staunton, he died at the age of 64.

Minić - Planinc, Zagreb 1975 0-1

Considering Nezhmetdinov never even earned a GM title, was not allowed to leave the country, and never won any major titles, he's remembered pretty well. 

In fact, his reputation as a world class attacking player may be overhyped. When modern GMs look at his losses, they often wonder if there was something wrong. He created some true masterpieces, but when solid players such as Averbakh limited his play, he would sac pieces in ridiculous fashion and lose like a fish. 

Yes Nezhmetdinov was a genius, but he never rose to the highest levels in the Soviet Union in part because he lacked the discipline to avoid sacking when sacking just led to a lost position. 

Here's what Averbakh said of Nezhmetdinov:

Averbakh himself said, in an interview in "The Day Kasparov Quit" by Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam:

"For example, we had a player, Nezhmetdinov, who if he had the attack, could kill anybody, including Tal. But my score against him was something like 8½–0½ because I did not give him any possibility for an active game. In such cases he would immediately start to spoil his position because he was looking for complications."

(Source: Jonathan Sarfarti in chess games.com: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1102226)

This is the sort of game I'm talking about:

Good call on Planinc! Fuderer was another great attacking player who isn't well remembered. A GM who really knew how to attack who should be remembered better is Lutikov. He was able to create some amazing games. 

That was an incredible game. You don’t see a positional queen sac every day.

We could also add László Szabó, one of the players at Zurich 1953 and a fierce attacking player. Although he probably blundered more than the typical GM, that doesn’t erase the many gems he produced.

Then there is Lajos Portisch. He wasn’t a great attacker, but he produced many instructive positional masterpieces and should be better remembered.

@OldPatzerMike, if people don't remember Szabo or Portisch it's cos they don't know their chess history. Both of those were World Championship Candidates. 

Nezh has his share of glory for an IM.

There were many reasons for Nezhmetdinov not becoming a grandmaster. He didn't exclusively focus on chess - he was a strong checkers player, too. He served in the armed forces during World War II in his late 20s and early 30s (demobbed aged 33), virtually not playing any serious chess for four to five years at an important age in a chess players career (compare that to Botvinnik who at the same age as him worked in war industry in the Urals, but also had time to study and play chess), which stifled his further development. Furthermore, he was very poor, orphaned at the age of four and brought up by his elder brother.

All this said and done, he's career record is not at all a bad one, especially when we consider that he had to contend with the entire up and coming generation of players who would come to dominate the world of chess for 30 years: Bronstein, Smyslov, Geller, Petrosian, Korchnoi, Averbakh, Taimanov, Polugaevsky, Spassky, Tal and so on, when he himself was already (well) past a chess player's normal prime (he turned 40 in 1952). He placed second at Bucharest in 1954, behind Viktor Korchnoi, but 1½ points ahead of Kholmov and Filip (World Championship Candidate in 1956), and even further ahead of Pachman, O'Kelly and Ståhlberg (World Championship Candidate in 1950 and 1953). He won the Russian (RFSFR) championship five times between 1950 and 1958, a tournament which often included grandmasters in the field. He participated in the Soviet Championship final several times - we have to remember that this was a time when even grandmasters had to play in the semi-finals to qualify for the final (for instance, Nezhmetdinov shared 1st to 3rd place in one of the 1956 semifinals with Isaac Boleslavsky who lost the the World Championship Candidates playoff against Bronstein in 1950) - often putting up highly creditable showings. In his last appearance in the Soviet Championship, the 126-player Swiss in 1967, he scored 7½ out of 13, aged 55. That same year he scored 8 out of 14 at Varna, sharing 5th place with among others GMs Padevsky and IM Ciocaltea, half a point behind Popov (Bulgarian champion in 1970), while the above-mentioned GM Minic shared first place with GM Kavalek and Sergeiev on 9½. Even at that age, he was perfectly capable of holding his own against players who where top 100 in the world at the time.

Finally, I think it's highly unfair to quote only his dismal score against Averbakh (a very fine positional player and brilliant endgame player) or his poor score against Korchnoi (Tal also had a poor score against 'Viktor the Terrible' - one of the best defenders the chess world has ever seen). In the 20 games he played against World Champions, Nezhmetdinov achieved a plus score. You don't do that if you self-destruct at the earliest opportunity by sacrificing your entire army. Had Nezhmetdinov not been a citizen of the Soviet Union, he would, without a doubt been awarded the GM title in the 1950s. His autobiography, Nezhmetdinov's Best Games of Chess', is well worth reading, there are many fine games in there, not only his fabulous sacrificial games, but also some fine positional achievements and hard-fought endgame battles. For what it's worth, Jeff Sonas' Chessmetrics has Nezhmetdinov with a historical Elo rating above 2550 from 1951 to his death in 1974, with a peak performance of 2706 at Bucharest 1954, and 2660 on the 1954 September list as his highest rating.

mentions of him on here:  

https://www.chess.com/article/view/learning-openings-with-rashid-nezhmetdinov

https://www.chess.com/blog/kamalakanta/rashid-gibiatovich-nezhmetinov-a-hero-and-artist-of-the-chessboard

https://www.chess.com/article/view/rashid-nezhmetdinov-s-best-game-prizes

https://www.chess.com/chessopedia/view/nezhmetdinov-rashid

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-players/nezhmetdinov

https://www.chess.com/blog/kamalakanta/nezhmetdinov-tal-conncetion-queen-sacrifice2

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/rashid-gibiatovich-nezhmetdinov

https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-fantastic-tartar

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/maybe-the-most-crazy-game-i-have-ever-seen

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/positional-analogue-to-nezhmetdinov

https://www.chess.com/blog/CraiggoryC/my-favorite-chessplayer-super-nezh

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-players/rashid-nezhmetdinov

https://www.chess.com/video/player/how-to-attack-polugaevsky-vs-nezhmetdinov

https://www.chess.com/blog/zhrmk/nezhmetdinov-rashid-vs-chernikov-oleg-l-1962

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-players/rashid-nezhmetdinov-tactical-genius

https://www.chess.com/blog/jessicafischerqueen/rashid-nezhmetdinov-documentary-film

https://www.chess.com/blog/kamalakanta/geller-and-mezhmetdinov-apply-the-deadly-pin

https://www.chess.com/article/view/nezhmetdinovs-immortal

https://www.chess.com/blog/ChessNetwork/lev-polugaevsky-vs-rashid-nezhmetdinov-1958---nezhmetdinovs-immortal

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-players/rashid-nezhmetdinov-documentary-film

https://www.chess.com/video/player/you-pick-em-tal-vs-nezhmetdinov?_locale=es&page=3

https://www.chess.com/article/view/learn-to-attack-part-two

https://www.chess.com/games/view/46181

https://www.chess.com/club/rashid-nezhmetdinov

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/nezhmetdinov-or-bronstein

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/najdorf-the-nezhmetdinov-way

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/the-best-player-never-to-become-a-grandmaster

https://www.chess.com/blog/Mr_BigShot/the-best-attacking-player-of-all-time-quotrashid-nezhmetdinovquot-rait-necmettinov

https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-chess-terminator-part-two

and more

i almost never hear about euwe, maybe because he was also a president max.

Perhaps because despite his name containing only 4 letters nobody knows how to pronounce it.