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what is the rarest passport on chess.com?

Baguetteagain

Apr 19, 2026, 9:55 AM | 1

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so lately i have been wondering what the rarest passport on chess.com is

if you dont know if you go to your award tap and scroll down you will se passport you get passports from playing people from different countries

https://www.chess.com/member/baguetteagain/awards

now of course some are going to be more rare than others like north korea is clearly more rare than india

to find out what the rarest passport i decided to look at a lot of top players profile to see what passports are missing more often

you might think this is an easy question because "its just gonna be the least populated country in the world" but its not that easy since anyone can just change their country to something else

and therefore passports like north korea is easy because of all the trolls who just set their nation to north korea

after looking at 10 different profiles with alot of passports this is what i found

this is how often each passport was missing from an account

so the higher number means more rare

northern mariana islands: 10

paraolympic: 9

Equatorial Guinea: 6
new caledonia: 6

central africa: 5
guyana: 5
mayotte: 5
Montserrat: 5
sint maarten: 5
south sudan: 5
tonga: 5

Anguilla: 4
benin: 4
comoros: 4
gabon: 4
guinea: 4
mali: 4
south georgia: 4

belize: 3
bruniei: 3
burkino faso: 3
cameroon: 3
chinese taipei: 3
congo: 3
dominica: 3
guinea bissau: 3
lesotho: 3
malawi: 3
niue: 3
palau: 3
reunion: 3
rwanda: 3
senegal: 3
the gambia: 3

american samoa: 2
british virgin islands: 2
chad: 2
eswatini: 2
Ethiopia: 2
Falkland Islands: 2
guernsey: 2
liberia: 2
martinique: 2
mauritania: 2
Mauritius: 2
Namibia: 2
naurau: 2
nicaragua: 2
niger: 2
olympic: 2
saint vincent and the grenadies: 2
samoa: 2
solomon islands: 2
turks and caicos islands: 2

Angola: 1
bahrain: 1
bhutan: 1
burundi: 1
djiboauti: 1
DR Congo: 1
eritria: 1
french guinea: 1
french polynesia: 1
ghana: 1
grenada: 1
guam: 1
honduras: 1
iraq: 1
kenya: 1
kiribati: 1
kosovo: 1
kuwait: 1
liechenstein: 1
maldieves: 1
marshall islands: 1
micronesia: 1
Mozambique: 1
saint kitts/nevis: 1
sao tome/principe: 1
sierra leone: 1
sudan: 1
timor leste: 1
togo: 1
western sahara: 1