Mikael Taimanov
Which Grandmaster has the coolest name?
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Alberic O'Kelly de Galway
There is a Norwegian player called Odd Lie and a Danish player with the surname Sloth.
Frank Marshall, he sure took no prisoners.
Basman is a gasman.
Yes, it even was Count Alberic O'Kelly de Galway !
The Persian Champion Shatranj from 940 to 970 was named "The Stammerer" for short, because his real name was Abu'l Faraj bin al-Muzaffar bin Sa'-id al-Lajlaj.
You want a few more ? Don Scipione del Grotto, Baron Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Alexander Feodorovivh Iljin-Genevsky, Mikhail Alexandrovich Bonch-Osmolovsky !
English is not my mother language, so I can copy the following names without feeling any shame or reserve...
Wellington Pulling, an Austrian called Titz, a dutchman Messemaker, a Pole called Fux, Yugoslavs called Manic and Planic, a german Karl Willy, two Russians Frog and Basin and Sick of Germany.
I repeat : no kidding about names...
In another forum here on chess.com games were published from a Shatranj Champion in Tukey/Persia around 905-940, named as-Suli ; his full name was Abu-Bakr Muhammed Ben Yahya as-Suli.
Senator-Blutarsky wrote:
Ian Nepomniachoo
Bless you!
My favourite name is Kramnik.
Other favourites are Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen(yes, the full name), Aronian,Capablanca, Radjabov, Topalov, Ponomarov, Hikaru Nakamura(I like this japanese full name), Fabiono Caruana(full name).
Well, the names I enjoy reading the most are
-Viktor Bologan
-Alexey Dreev
May be a couple of others I'm forgetting, but it gives me great pleasure to pronounce their last names with particular intonation whenever come across their games. Yes, it's most likely weird (also I wonder if they ever played each other before).
Apr 10, 2014
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Eugene Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky
Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritsky
Arpad Emrick Elo
Flash
Apr 10, 2014
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please_let_me_win wrote:
Ivanchuk sounds epic
How many games can Ivanchuk chuck...?
Apr 10, 2014
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edikg wrote:
Well, the names I enjoy reading the most are
-Viktor Bologan
-Alexey Dreev
May be a couple of others I'm forgetting, but it gives me great pleasure to pronounce their last names with particular intonation whenever come across their games. Yes, it's most likely weird (also I wonder if they ever played each other before).
Dreev +3 Bologan +1 with 5 Draws.
Ljubomir Ljubojevic is a catchy name, while Bent Larsen may have been straight enough not to need any lube.
Jobava Baadur
Stuart Conquest . It sounds extremely cool if connected with the Hastings Tournament because of the association with William the Conqueror.