Chess World Number Ones

Can you name all chess male and female world number ones in history?

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Male world number ones
United States	1971-1974	Bobby Fischer
Soviet Union	1976-1983,1985	Anatoly Karpov
Soviet Union	1984-2006	Garry Kasparov
Russia	1996, 2008	Vladimir Kramnik
Bulgaria	2006,2008-2009	Veselin Topalov
India	2007-2008, 2010-2011	Viswanathan Anand
Norway	2010-present	Magnus Carlsen

Female world number ones
Soviet Union	1971-1979	Nona Gaprindashvili
Soviet Union	1980-1983, 1985-1988	Maia Chiburdanidze
Sweden	1983-1984	Pia Cramling
Hungary/USA	1984, 2005	Susan Polgar
Hungary	1989-2015	Judit Polgar
China	2015-present	Hou Yifan

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