1. Anish Giri
2. Nona Gaprindashvili
3. Jamie Njoku-Goodwin
4. Alireza Firouzja
5. Magnus Carlsen–Hikaru Nakamura
6. 2 Qf4+! gxf4 3 Rb7+ Kc8 4 Rc7+ Kd8 5 Rd7+ etc with a draw. The rook is immune due to stalemate.
7. Abhimanyu Mishra
8. Ian Nepomniachtchi
9. Garry Kasparov
10. Trafalgar Square, London
11. Yuri Averbakh
12. 1 Ra3! and 2 Ra5#, or in case of 1…e3 2 Rxe3 is mate.
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