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* Kaname from the ''[[Vampire Knight]]'' manga.
* In ''[[Kaichou wa Maid-sama]]'', Hirofumi Koganei challenges several Seika Academy students to a game of chess to prove his superior intelligence, noting that he is the fourth best player in Japan. Takumi Usui [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomps]] him handily.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' zigzaggs this -- [[The Smart Guy|Seto]] [[Jerkass Woobie|Kaiba]] - who few would argue is a prodigy - got him and his brother adopted by beating Gozaburo in a chess game. Gozaburo, on the other hand, was a Grandmaster, and [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|not all-too smart at all]]. When he later confronts Kaiba at Duel Monsters, few fans would deny that his deck strategy was very poor.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]'', there's [[Arc Villain| Jean-Michel Roget]], the Director of Sector Security in ARC-V's version of Neo Domino City, in the Synchro Dimension. A man who fancies himself [[The Chessmaster]] Roget seems fond of actual chess. He always has a chessboard with him, and is able to represent a Duel's progress through the board by moving the pieces accordingly to the situation as if he was the one dueling, going he was playing it, speaking in monologues of how he is "ahead" of "his" opponent. However, in reality, this is a [[Downplayed]] example, as most of his plans and actions so far were foreseen by Declan (a far better Chessmaster), thus making Roget not so smart at all. of course, he's a great deal smarter than a lot of his moronic henchmen, one of which ignores Roget's orders due to his own ego; Roget is also smart enough to ''fire'' him for it.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', a heated match ended in 1 win for Mustang, 97 losses to Grumman, and 15 draws. Breda and Falman also have signs of this.
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