What chess player would you like to meet?

Ill say Anad

please say no homo

Botvinnik 🤔

I met Spassky and Euwe. Thats it as far as world champions. 

Korchnoi.  Would love to sit down and listen to his stories.  Would love to know how he dealt with all that was going on during his WC matches.

I saw Karpov in real life once in New York. He was very humble and friendly.

Wow you guys are lucky. All I ever met was Joel Benjamin an American GM who was socially awkward 😔

I met the son of a Canadian GM Peter Biyiasis (forgive me Theo for butchering your dads last name).  Heard a lot of nice stories about Fischer. 

@fearnoevil12 , thats whom I wanna meet 

I've always thought Peter svidler would be a cool dude to chat with. I like his commentary. 

Alive?... Ivanchuk would be cool to meet. Dead?... Botvinnik for sure 🤔

For those who may not know, Peter Biyiasas was married to the later Ruth (Orton) Haring, who was USCF president for 4 years.  
Frank Brady had this to say (in "Endgame"):
"[In 1981-batgirl] Living not too far from his sister was Bobby’s friend, grandmaster Peter Biyiasas [at that time rated 2490- batgirl] and his wife Ruth, so Bobby stayed there for weeks on end. Over a period of four months Fischer and Biyiasas played seventeen five-minute games and Bobby won them all, with Biyiasis claiming that he never got into an endgame once: Bobby would just wipe him off the board in short order every time."

So, no doubt there are some stories to be told.

Ruth was a very nice and sweet woman.

id like to meet ian nepo, magnus, hikaru, bobby, karpov, lasker, and giri

That wasn't the 1988 World Open in Saint John, New Brunswick, was it?

and a decent player. 
For anyone who might be vaguely interested, she's mentioned  in 1974-1982 US Women's Championships:
https://www.chess.com/article/view/american-woman-part-vi 
https://www.chess.com/article/view/american-woman-part-vii 

The second link also covered Ruth Haring, Diane Savereide, Rachel Crotto and Diana Lanni at the 1982 Olympiads.

I saw GM liem quang liem at world open!

I played her husband Peter in a simul when i was in high school.  Fast forward about 10 years ago.  Im at a tournament and im paired with a Theo Biyiasis.  That is not a common name so i asked him if his dad was Peter Biyiasis?  It was and that led to some really good stories.  I know Theo is around 2150 now, but at least i can say im 1-1 against him.

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