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Famous Chess Faces

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  • Which Norwegian chess genius became the World Chess Champion at 22 and is one of the highest rated players ever?
    Jose Raul Capablanca
    Magnus Carlsen
    Gukesh Dommaraju
    Johannes Zukertort
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  • Which chess champion had memorized all the world’s capitals and flags by age 5 thanks to his amazing memory?
    Vladimir Kramnik
    Magnus Carlsen
    MrBeast
    Hikaru Nakamura
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  • Which World Champion once beat Bill Gates in a chess game in just 9 moves on TV?
    Gukesh Dommaraju
    Sponge Bob
    Ding Liren
    Magnus Carlsen
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  • Who made history in 2023 as the first Chinese player to become the World Chess Champion?
    Ding Liren
    Ju Wenjun
    Magnus Carlsen
    Gukesh Dommaraju
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  • Which American chess legend won the 1972 “Match of the Century” against Boris Spassky?
    Max Euwe
    Bobby Fischer
    Bruno Mars
    Jose Raul Capablanca
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  • Which Cuban World Champion was so good he didn’t lose a single game for 8 years?
    Jose Raul Capablanca
    Gukesh Dommaraju
    Hikaru Nakamura
    Vladimir Kramnik
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  • Which chess legend and World Champion lost a famous match against IBM’s Deep Blue computer in 1997?
    Ding Liren
    Garry Kasparov
    Magnus Carlsen
    Vladimir Kramnik
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  • Which Indian chess grandmaster and five-time World Champion is nicknamed the “Tiger of Madras”?
    Viswanathan Anand
    Jose Raul Capablanca
    Vladimir Kramnik
    Gukesh Dommaraju
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  • Which Soviet chess champion had an epic rivalry with Garry Kasparov facing him in five World Championship matches?
    Anatoly Karpov
    Vladimir Kramnik
    Magnus Carlsen
    Gukesh Dommaraju
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  • Which attacking genius from Latvia became World Champion and was nicknamed the “Magician of Riga”?
    Tigran Petrosian
    Mikhail Tal
    Mikhail Botvinnik
    Viswanathan Anand
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  • Which former World Champion famously owned a cat named Chess?
    Alexander Alekhine
    Ding Liren
    Mikhail Tal
    Max Euwe
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  • Who was the first official World Chess Champion way back in 1886?
    Wilhelm Steinitz
    Tigran Petrosian
    Emanuel Lasker
    Albert Einstein
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  • Which chess Grandmaster streamer is a five-time U.S. Champion known for his lightning-fast blitz skills?
    Hikaru Nakamura
    Eric Hansen
    Eric Rosen
    Levy Rozman
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  • Which chess Grandmaster  streamer is British and known for popularizing "Harry the h-pawn?"
    Levy Rozman
    Eric Rosen
    Simon Williams
    Hikaru Nakamura
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  • Which chess streamer often features her Grandmaster mom Pia in her videos and shares a last name with her?
    Susan Polgar
    Andrea Botez
    Alexandra Botez
    Anna Cramling
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  • Jimmy Donaldson played in a chess event called PogChamps—by what name is he better known on YouTube?
    Logic
    Ludwig
    xQc
    MrBeast
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