Prompt 6 of 7
Name a world chess champion
29 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Nona Gaprindashvili— The first woman to be awarded the Grandmaster title. Not Women's Grandmaster, but Grandmaster outright. World Women's Chess Champion for 16 years. One of the greatest players of any era.
85 ptsDeep Cut9 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Alexander Khalifman
- Hou Yifan
- Maia Chiburdanidze
- Ruslan Ponomariov
- Rustam Kasimdzhanov
- Susan Polgar
- Vera Menchik— The first Women's World Champion. Men who scoffed at her entry into open events and then lost to her were inducted into the 'Vera Menchik Club.' It grew embarrassingly large.
- Veselin Topalov
- Xie Jun
60 ptsRare11 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Alexander Alekhine
- Ding Liren
- Emanuel Lasker
- Gukesh Dommaraju
- Jose Raul Capablanca
- Max Euwe
- Mikhail Botvinnik
- Mikhail Tal
- Tigran Petrosian
- Vasily Smyslov
- Wilhelm Steinitz
30 ptsSchooler6 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Anatoly Karpov
- Bobby Fischer
- Boris Spassky
- Garry Kasparov
- Viswanathan Anand
- Vladimir Kramnik
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Paul Morphy— The 'greatest player never to be champion' argument. Unofficial king of chess in the 1850s, before the title formally existed. A popular answer from those who've read one chess book.
10 ptsPlankton1 answer
The most common answer on the board.
- Magnus Carlsen