Puzzle

[Ian Thompson]

A new puzzle for today:

1. Who is the only player to have "capture[d] all 6 of the most prestigious chess crowns"?

2. What are the "6 most prestigious chess crowns"?

I suspect Q1 will not be difficult to answer, but Q2 will be more challenging, so I'll give a clue - the World Championship is not amongst them.

[Ian Thompson]

A new puzzle for today:

1. Who is the only player to have "capture[d] all 6 of the most prestigious chess crowns"?

2. What are the "6 most prestigious chess crowns"?

I suspect Q1 will not be difficult to answer, but Q2 will be more challenging, so I'll give a clue - the World Championship is not amongst them.

The answer to Q1, which I thought would be fairly easy to guess, is Susan Polgar.

What the 6 most prestigious chess crowns might be, I have no idea.

[Roger de Coverly]

The answer to Q1, which I thought would be fairly easy to guess, is Susan Polgar.

That did seem quite likely. There might have been another couple of candidates, but "prestigious chess crowns" haven't been amongst their claims which have concentrated on British titles and "Opens" won.

[Joey Stewart]

I have a feeling the chess crowns are one of these "what am I thinking" type of question - if it is tournaments, the prestige waxes and wanes over time (for example, Hastings was long considered a premier world tournament, but right now I would say the London chess classic or isle of man are the considered more prestigious in the UK) .

Unless the answer is something really obtuse, like a saudi crown prince who owns the 6 rarest chess sets in the world.

[Mick Norris]

She refers to the triple crown (first either male or female to achieve this) as the World Champs in Blitz, Rapid & Classical, also won the world u16, and the Olympiad (team and individual gold I think), so that's the 6 I guess, but she likes listing her achievements, which are indeed many, so who knows or cares

[Kevin Thurlow]

"she likes listing her achievements"

She always included Olympiad victories as "her" world titles.