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What is your favorite grandmaster ?

mine are Aman Hambleton
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
Michael Adams
Ben Finegold
Eric Hansen
Evgeny Alekseev
Zoltan Almasi
Viswanathan Anand
Ulf Andersson
Levon Aronian
Etienne Bacrot
Evgeny Bareev
Magnus Carlsen
Fabiano Caruana
Maia Chiburdanidze
Pavel Eljanov
Jaan Ehlvest
Laurent Fressinek
Nona Gaprindashvili
Boris Gelfand
Alexander Grischuk
Hou Yifan
Robert Huebner
Vassily Ivanchuk
Dmitry Jakovenko
Baadur Jobova
Gata Kamsky
Sergey Karjakin
Anatoly Karpov
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Garry Kasparov
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Vladimir Kramnik
Peter Leko
Ding Liren
Vladimir Malakhov
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Luke McShane
Alexander Morozevich
Alexander Motylev
Sergei Movsesian
Henrique Mecking
Hikaru Nakamura
David Navara
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Illya Nyzhnyk
Fridrik Olafsson
Judit Polgar
Susan Polgar
Ruslan Ponomariov
Lajos Portisch
Teimour Radjabov
Yasser Seirawan
Alexei Shirov
Nigel Short
Sanan Sjugirov
Wesley So
Boris Spassky
Jonathan Speelman
Peter Svidler
Jan Timman
Evgeny Tomashevsky
Veselin Topalov
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Francisco Vallejo Pons
Nikita Vitiugov
Hao Wang
Yue Wang
Radoslaw Wojtaszek
Jun Xie
Ethan Evans Damani
Vidit Gujhrati
Akiko Sato
Arnold Tadeus and Paul Morphy First Unofficial Champion
Adolf Anderssen Second Unofficial Champion
Johannes Zukertort Third Unofficial Champion
Pal Benko
Efim Bogolyubov
Mikhail Botvinnik
David Bronstein
José Raúl Capablanca
Max Euwe
Bobby Fischer
Vugar Gashimov
Svetozar Gligoric
Paul Keres
Viktor Korchnoi
Bent Larsen
Tony Miles
Aaron Nimzovich
Lembit Oll
Tigran Petrosian
Samuel Reshevsky
Akiba Rubinstein
Vasily Smyslov
Howard Staunton
Mikhail Tal
including mungus culsen visy anad and andew tng
Manuel Aaron
Imed Abdelnabbi
Zhansaya Abdumalik
Jan Adamski
William Addison (chess player)
Yochanan Afek
Assem Afifi
Mikael Agopov
Carl Ahues
Odion Aikhoje
Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander
Olga Alexandrova
Alfonso Almeida
Vladimir Alterman
Jan Ambrož
Bruce Amos
Børge Andersen (chess player)
Frank Anderson (chess player)
Gilles Andruet
Guntars Antoms
Daniel Anwuli
Meri Arabidze
Mehrdad Ardeshi
Ennio Arlandi
Dagur Arngrímsson
Lev Aronin
Lajos Asztalos
Ekaterina Atalik
Henry Ernest Atkins
Josef Augustin
Aung Myo Hlaing
B
Arovah Bachtiar
Jorge Gómez Baillo
Johnatan Bakalchuk
Ion Bălănel
Oluwafemi Balogun
Olaf Barda
Johan Barendregt
Michael Basman
Batchimeg Tuvshintugs
Albert Becker (chess player)
Jacek Bednarski
Miklós Bély
Alfred Beni
Kiprian Berbatov
Salvijus Bercys
Irina Berezina
Carel van den Berg
Béla Berger
Ivar Bern
Mario Bertok
Rolands Bērziņš
Edwin Bhend
Carlos Bielicki
Nathan Birnboim
Igor Bjelobrk
Max Blau
Yaacov Bleiman
Calvin Blocker
Anastasia Bodnaruk
Jozef Boey
Željko Bogut
Fedir Bohatyrchuk
Sarkis Bohosjan
Nataša Bojković
Jay Bonin
Otto Borik
Angela Borsuk
Borya Ider
George Botterill
Hans Bouwmeester
Daan Brandenburg
Ilja Brener
Egon Brestian
Bjørn Brinck-Claussen
Alfred Brinckmann
Luis Marcos Bronstein
Marina Brunello
Irina Bulmaga
Gillan Bwalya
Elisaveta Bykova
C
Ricardo Calvo
Roberto Martín del Campo
Rodolfo Tan Cardoso
Carl Carls
Vincenzo Castaldi
Jose Antonio Gutierrez Castillo
Oscar Castro (chess player)
Daniel Cawdery
Chan Peng Kong
Vitaly Chekhover
Alexander Cherepkov
Martin Christoffel
Stanley Chumfwa
Dagnė Čiukšytė
Eldis Cobo Arteaga
Silvia Collas
Sam Collins (chess player)
Kim Commons
John Grantley Cooper
Deimantė Cornette
Nicolaas Cortlever
John Cox (chess player)
Carlos Cuartas
Miguel Cuéllar
Karina Cyfka
Moshe Czerniak
D
Silvio Danailov
Carlos Dávila (chess player)
Lawrence Day
Roberto Luis Debarnot
Yelena Dembo
Dorsa Derakhshani
Divya Deshmukh
Diego Di Berardino
Joaquin Carlos Diaz
Mark Diesen
Russell Dive
Zbigniew Doda
William John Donaldson
Rudy Douven
Dolfi Drimer
Kacper Drozdowski
Andreas Dückstein
Jürgen Dueball
Arthur Dunkelblum
Angus Dunnington
Joaquim Durão
Božidar Đurašević
Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky
Mark Dvoretsky
Joanna Dworakowska
E
Javier Ochoa de Echagüen
Folke Ekström
Vladimir Eljanov
Frode Elsness
Jens Enevoldsen
Bertus Enklaar
Stefan Erdélyi
Mark Erwich
Marc Esserman
Guillermo Estévez Morales
F
William Fairhurst
Ali Farahat
István Fazekas
Vladimir Feldman
Florin Felecan
Fernando Fernández Sánchez
Jiří Fichtl
Martha Fierro
Andrzej Filipowicz
Tibor Flórián (chess player)
Alberto Foguelman
Cristina Adela Foișor
Jan Foltys
Edward W. Formanek
Reinhart Fuchs
Géza Füster
Roy Fyllingen
G
Abdulla Gadimbayli
Alisa Galliamova
Lilit Galojan
Anibal Gamboa
Inna Gaponenko
Anita Gara
Paul Garbett
Marta Garcia Martin
Raimundo García
Viktor Gažík
Jose Daniel Gemy
Ernő Gereben
Eugênio German
Leonid Gerzhoy
Nicolai Getz
Mihail-Viorel Ghindǎ
Dumitru Ghizdavu
Giam Choo Kwee
Karl Gilg
Alberto Mario Giustolisi
Mikhail Gluzman
Fernand Gobet
Rusudan Goletiani
David S. Goodman
Romuald Grabczewski
Vladimir Grabinsky
John Grefe
Karen Grigorian
Henri Grob
Mihai-Lucian Grünberg
Guo Qi
Sopiko Guramishvili
Nino Gurieli
Marina Guseva
Ricardo de Guzman
Robert Gwaze
H
Aldo Haïk
Imad Hakki
Svend Hamann
Ahmed Ibrahim Hamed
Khosro Harandi
Robert Hartoch
William Hartston
Juan Carlos Hase
Haukur Angantýsson
Marek Hawełko
John Hawksworth (economist)
Jean Hébert
Herbert Heinicke
Knut Jøran Helmers
Artur Hennings
Deen Hergott
Greg Hjorth
Slaheddine Hmadi
Franz Hölzl
Israel Albert Horowitz
Jovanka Houska
Hsu Li Yang
Werner Hug
Harriet Hunt
Satea Husari
Andreas Huss
I
Georgy Ilivitsky
Evgenios Ioannidis
Nana Ioseliani
J
Jana Jacková
Ole Jakobsen
Robert Jamieson (chess player)
Lela Javakhishvili
Püreviin Jigjidsüren
Eleazar Jiménez
Svein Johannessen
Ingi Randver Jóhannsson
Hans Johner
Richard Jones (chess player)
Carlos Armando Juárez Flores
K
Mejdi Kaabi
Ketino Kachiani
Shimon Kagan
Osmo Kaila
Konstanty Kaiszauri
Arjun Kalyan
Ilya Kan
Oğulcan Kanmazalp
Albert Kapengut
Julio Kaplan
Vladimir Karasev
Eesha Karavade
Hillar Kärner
Tibor Károlyi (chess player)
Mika Karttunen
Alina Kashlinskaya
Genrikh Kasparyan
Boris Katalymov
Dieter Keller
Brian Kelly (chess player)
Anthony Ker
Hans Günther Kestler
Sarasadat Khademalsharieh
Abram Khasin
Sopiko Khukhashvili
Nino Khurtsidze
Georg Kieninger
Kalle Kiik
Erik Kislik
Masha Klinova
Gyula Kluger
Klaus Klundt
Hans Kmoch
Watu Kobese
Berthold Koch
Imre König
Boris Kogan
Atanas Kolarov
Tatiana Kononenko
Danny Kopec
Ekaterina Korbut
Jerzy Kostro
Čeněk Kottnauer
Stamatis Kourkoulos Arditis
Ekaterina Kovalevskaya
Július Kozma
Haije Kramer
Stanislav Kriventsov
Oleg Krivonosov
Marinus Kuijf
Franciscus Kuijpers
Klaudia Kulon
Alexander Kundin
Josef Kupper
L
Alina l'Ami
Susan Lalic
Frank Lamprecht
Tea Lanchava
Gary Lane (chess player)
Christian Langeweg
Antonio Palacios Lanza
Edward Lasker
Tomas Laurušas
René Letelier
David Levy (chess player)
Li Ruofan
Li Wenliang (chess player)
Li Zunian
Espen Lie
Heinz Liebert
Gert Ligterink
Lim Seng Hoo
Lin Ta
Lin Weiguo
Georgy Lisitsin
Liu Wenzhe
Sergei Lobanov (chess player)
Mahmood Lodhi
Josef Lokvenc
André Lombard
Maia Lomineishvili
Carolina Luján
Andrey Lukin
M
Johannes Mabusela
Ildikó Mádl
Karl Mah
Kazimierz Makarczyk
Rodwell Makoto
Gulnar Mammadova
Gunay Mammadzada
Alisa Marić
Ángel Martín González (chess player)
Benjamin Martin (chess player)
William Martz
Rico Mascariñas
Ana Matnadze
Svetlana Matveeva
Viktor Matviishen
Antonio Medina García
Nóra Medvegy
Salome Melia
Paul Michel (chess player)
Zdravko Milev
Sophie Milliet
Rade Milovanović
Nikolay Minev
Lilit Mkrtchian
Eduard Mnatsakanian
Nisha Mohota
Günther Möhring
Dieter Mohrlok
Prathamesh Mokal
Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul
Eva Moser
Fatos Muço
André Muffang
Willem Mühring
Andrew Muir (chess player)
Mikhail Mukhin
Hans Müller (chess player)
Michael A. Mulyar
Piotr Murdzia
Volodar Murzin
Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren
Myint Han
Myo Naing
N
Ashot Nadanian
Géza Nagy
Renato Naranja
Nay Oo Kyaw Tun
Iivo Nei
Oleg Neikirch
Vladimir Nenarokov
Rashid Nezhmetdinov
Bryon Nickoloff
Gaioz Nigalidze
Nebojša Nikolić
Konstantin Nikologorskiy
Davaadembereliin Nomin-Erdene
Nikolay Noritsyn
Nikolay Novotelnov
O
Kaarle Ojanen
Sergey Okrugin
Karel Opočenský
Axel Ornstein
Iulija Osmak
Vyacheslav Osnos
Peter Ostermeyer
Julio Ostos
Evgenija Ovod
P
Victor Frias Pablaza
Elisabeth Pähtz
Nazí Paikidze
Luis Argentino Palau
Richard Palliser
Vasily Panov
Carol Partoş
Mircea Pavlov
Sergey Pavlov (chess player)
Peicho Peev
Malcolm Pein
Jiří Pelikán (chess player)
Corina Peptan
Rúben Pereira
Béla Perényi
Francisco José Pérez
John Peters (chess player)
Svetlana Petrenko
Gerhard Pfeiffer
Leon David Piasetski
Kazimierz Plater
Isaías Pleci
Stefan Pogosyan
Sofia Polgar
Luben Popov
Yosef Porat
Giorgio Porreca
Pertti Poutiainen
Nigel Povah
Eduard Prandstetter
Devaki Prasad
Josef Přibyl (chess player)
Craig Pritchett
Jan Przewoźnik
Cecil Purdy
Maka Purtseladze
Krzysztof Pytel
Q
Qi Jingxuan
Basheer Al Qudaimi
Oscar Quiñones (chess player)
R
Eero Raaste
Braslav Rabar
Stuart Rachels
Corvin Radovici
Iweta Rajlich
Vasik Rajlich
Fy Antenaina Rakotomaharo
Olita Rause
Igors Rausis
Josef Rejfíř
Ludwig Rellstab (chess player)
Thomas Rendle
Daniel Rensch
Eva Repková
Emil Richter
Kurt Richter
Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk
Ruben Rodríguez (chess player)
Peter Romanovsky
Daniël Roos
Louis Roos
Bernardo Roselli
Padmini Rout
Levy Rozman
Jorge Rubinetti
Olga Rubtsova
Lyudmila Rudenko
Anna Rudolf
Josip Rukavina
S
Tania Sachdev
Dinara Saduakassova
Saeed Ahmed Saeed
Anthony Saidy
Vaidas Sakalauskas
Nurgyul Salimova
Vitālijs Samoļins
Sarai Sanchez Castillo
Luis Augusto Sánchez
Béla Sándor
Luís Santos (chess player)
Francisco Javier Sanz Alonso
Nderim Saraçi
Ortvin Sarapu
Vishal Sareen
Anastasia Savina
Francesco Scafarelli
Theo van Scheltinga
Zoya Schleining
Paul Felix Schmidt
Lars-Åke Schneider
Samuel Schweber
Elena Sedina
Christian Seel
Tarvo Seeman
Ilir Seitaj
Olav Sepp
Jean-Luc Seret
Greg Shahade
Terrey Ian Shaw
Shen Yang (chess player)
James Sherwin
Kamran Shirazi
Kirill Shubin
Yuliya Shvayger
Triantafyllos Siaperas
Deivy Vera Sigueñas
Jeremy Silman
Fernando Silva (chess player)
Ilja Sirosh
Dmitry V. Sklyarov
Almira Skripchenko
Ryszard Skrobek
Vernon Small
Andrei Sokolov (Latvian chess player)
Stephen Solomon
Francesco Sonis
Bela Soos
Arthur Ssegwanyi
Henry Robert Steel
Herman Steiner
Lajos Steiner
Zuzana Štočková
Bharath Subramaniyam
Irene Kharisma Sukandar
Aydin Suleymanli
Khvicha Supatashvili
Vladimir Sveshnikov
Andrzej Sydor
Eugenio Szabados
György Szilágyi
József Szily
Jorge Szmetan
Aleksander Sznapik
Zbigniew Szymczak
T
Fouad El Taher
Elena Tairova
Hiong Liong Tan
Tan Lian Ann
Stefano Tatai
Emory Tate
Harshana Thilakarathne
Björn Thorfinnsson
Karl Thorsteins
Jesper Søndergaard Thybo
Bjørn Tiller
Dmytro Tishyn
Terry Toh
Tong Yuanming
Román Torán Albero
Bela Tóth (chess player)
Jindřich Trapl
Lawrence Trent
Octav Troianescu
Francisco Trois
Artiom Tsepotan
Stavroula Tsolakidou
Alexander Tsvetkov
Irina Turova (chess player)
U
Maximilian Ujtelky
Tüdeviin Üitümen
Emil Ungureanu
Laura Unuk
Klaudiusz Urban
V
Povilas Vaitonis
Árpád Vajda
Szidonia Vajda
Lisandra Teresa Ordaz Valdés
Michael Valvo
Donovan van den Heever
Irina Vasilevich
Tatjana Vasilevich
Sabrina Vega (chess player)
Aleksander Veingold
Gavriil Veresov
Boris Verlinsky
Iva Videnova
Milan Vidmar Jr.
Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi
José Félix Villarreal
Arne Vinje
Arjun Vishnuvardhan
Alvis Vītoliņš
Lazaros Vizantiadis
Zvonko Vranesic
Vladimir Vuković
W
Robert Wade (chess player)
Heinrich Wagner
Joshua Waitzkin
John-Paul Wallace
Puchen Wang
Wang Yu (chess player)
John L. Watson
Simon Webb (chess player)
Romesh Weerawardane
Raymond Weinstein
Guy West
Bernardo Wexler
Norman T. Whitaker
Andrew John Whiteley
Terje Wibe
Michael Wiedenkeller
Leighton Williams
Heinz Wirthensohn
Stefan Witkowski
Laszlo Witt
Klaus Wockenfuss
Aleksandar Wohl
Max Arie Wotulo
Wynn Zaw Htun
X
George Xie
Y
Yang Kaiqi
Kim Steven Yap
Yeoh Li Tian
Olavo Yépez
Yin Hao (chess player)
Carissa Yip
Christopher Yoo (chess player)
Mikhail Yudovich
Z
Anna Zatonskih
Patrick Zelbel
Viktor Zheliandinov
Valerij Zhuravliov
Nastassia Ziaziulkina
Alvise Zichichi
Lothar Zinn
František Zíta
Sergei Zjukin
Bernard Zuckerman
Arno Zude
Igor Zugic
Arne Zwaig

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