Name a world chess champion

Last seen Dive #16. 29 accepted answers on the published sheet.

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Hints

Hint 1. 29 accepted answers. A strong pick is a two-or-more-word phrase, about 8 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Ding Liren

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Hou Yifan · 85 pts

Best safe pick

Hou Yifan Deep Cut 85 pts

Ranked by rarity × how easy it is to type in 25 seconds. Too Clever answers are treated as risky.

Best rare answers

Hou Yifan 85 pts · Deep Cut
Xie Jun 85 pts · Deep Cut
Susan Polgar 85 pts · Deep Cut
Vera Menchik 85 pts · Deep Cut
Veselin Topalov 85 pts · Deep Cut
Nona Gaprindashvili 100 pts · One in a Krillion
Alexander Khalifman 85 pts · Deep Cut
Maia Chiburdanidze 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

Ding Liren 60 pts
Max Euwe 60 pts
Mikhail Tal 60 pts
Emanuel Lasker 60 pts
Vasily Smyslov 60 pts
Alexander Alekhine 60 pts
Gukesh Dommaraju 60 pts
Mikhail Botvinnik 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

Everyone else will type these. Ten points is a surface skim.

Magnus Carlsen 10

All accepted answers

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Name a world chess champion

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 9 ● Rare · 11 ● Schooler · 6 ● Too Clever · 1 ● Plankton · 1

One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal

Nona Gaprindashvili +100

Deep Cut +85 9 answers — tap to reveal

Alexander Khalifman +85
Hou Yifan +85
Maia Chiburdanidze +85
Ruslan Ponomariov +85
Rustam Kasimdzhanov +85
Susan Polgar +85
Vera Menchik +85
Veselin Topalov +85
Xie Jun +85

Rare +60 11 answers — tap to reveal

Alexander Alekhine +60
Ding Liren +60
Emanuel Lasker +60
Gukesh Dommaraju +60
Jose Raul Capablanca +60
Max Euwe +60
Mikhail Botvinnik +60
Mikhail Tal +60
Tigran Petrosian +60
Vasily Smyslov +60
Wilhelm Steinitz +60

Schooler +30 6 answers — tap to reveal

Anatoly Karpov +30
Bobby Fischer +30
Boris Spassky +30
Garry Kasparov +30
Viswanathan Anand +30
Vladimir Kramnik +30

Too Clever +15 1 answer — tap to reveal

Paul Morphy +15

Plankton +10 1 answer — tap to reveal

Magnus Carlsen +10