Capa takes the cake.
Spanish-speaking countries have great names. If you're called Pablo Neruda you're bound to be great at something.
Which Grandmaster has the coolest name?
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Kamran Shirazi
blueemu wrote:
please_let_me_win wrote:
Ivanchuk sounds epic
How many games can Ivanchuk chuck...?
If Ivanchuk would chuck chuk?
I always liked Mikhail Shereshevsky
Bogolyubov, OBVIOUSLY.....
Hrant Melkumyan
I thought Shereshevsky was Reshevsky's wife.
Vladimir Kramnik for sure.
Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
MelvinDoucet wrote:
Hikaru Nakamura, but it's maybe just because I like Japanese names.
Yeah I think the reason I like so many chess player's names is because I live in the US, and am used to hearing boring American names. Russian & Japanese names are probably my favorites.
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Magnus Oen Carlsen
Jon Ludvig Hammer
Julio Emilio Granda Zuniga
Dmitry Andreikin
Richard Rapport
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SicilianSveshnikov wrote:
MelvinDoucet wrote:
Hikaru Nakamura, but it's maybe just because I like Japanese names.
Yeah I think the reason I like so many chess player's names is because I live in the US, and am used to hearing boring American names. Russian & Japanese names are probably my favorites.
maybe thats why I like the name Rashid G. Nezhmetdinov (are there any names that come as close as his to using every letter of the alphabet)
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Roeczak wrote:
Magnus Oen Carlsen
Jon Ludvig Hammer
Julio Emilio Granda Zuniga
Dmitry Andreikin
Richard Rapport
He is "Julio Ernesto Granda Zuñiga".
There is another peruvian GM called Emilio Córdova Daza.
socialista wrote:
Dreev +3 Bologan +1 with 5 Draws.
Ah, cheers mate!
Akiba Rubinstein/Johann Blackburne
The Goode, the bad and the Baadur.