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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Jan-Krzysztof Duda of which country won the 2021 FIDE World Cup?
A
Poland
B
Hungary
C
Algeria
D
USA
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -His personal best rating of 2760 makes him the highest ranked Polish player of all time. Duda won the Polish Championship in 2018 and the Chess World Cup in 2021. He is a bronze medallist at the European Team Chess Championship in 2021 and he also competed in the Candidates Tournament 2022 finishing seventh.

Detailed explanation-2: -GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship on Friday after beating GM Ian Nepomniachtchi with the black pieces. The challenger made another big blunder and lost his fourth game in the match. The final score is 7.5-3.5 in favor of Carlsen, who won 1.2 million euros; the challenger won 800, 000 euros.

Detailed explanation-3: -GM Magnus Carlsen earned the 2022 FIDE World Blitz Championship title on Friday with a score of 16/21, one point ahead of silver medalist GM Hikaru Nakamura and bronze medalist on tiebreak, GM Haik Martirosyan.

Detailed explanation-4: -Viswanathan Anand, (born December 11, 1969, Madras [now Chennai], India), Indian chess master who won the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE; international chess federation) world championship in 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012. Anand learned to play chess from his mother when he was 6 years old.

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