Which Grandmaster has the coolest name?

The Goode, the bad and the Baadur.

Capa takes the cake.

Spanish-speaking countries have great names. If you're called Pablo Neruda you're bound to be great at something.

Kamran Shirazi

if WGM's count,  my vote goes to Humpy.

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.

Michael Adams sounds like a rock star.

Vladimir Kramnik for sure.

 Jon Ludvig Hammer, Magnus' second during the WC match..

Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

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.

Magnus Oen Carlsen
Jon Ludvig Hammer
Julio Emilio Granda Zuniga
Dmitry Andreikin
Richard Rapport

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)

He is "Julio Ernesto Granda Zuñiga".

There is another peruvian GM called Emilio Córdova Daza.

Ah, cheers mate! 

Akiba Rubinstein/Johann Blackburne

Viswanathan Anand.

Among other reasons, because his name reminds me of Ananda, one of Buddha Śākyamuni's most know disciples.

(I suspect his family is Hinduist and I don't have any idea of his actual religious beliefs, but that is not the point).