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Loek van Wely, a Common card
Loek van Wely is a Dutch chess player and politician.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 45
- DEF
- 21
- Power
- 66
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,500
Power 66 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
Loek van Wely quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Loek van Wely card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1993, and was rated among the world's top ten in 2001 with a ______ of 2714.
Answer
rating. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1993, and was rated among the world's top ten in 2001 with a rating of 2714. From the Loek van Wely article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Siege of Pirna. Siege of Pirna 52 · Fabio Balaso 49 · Loek van Wely 45 · Abdullah bin Sultan bin Mohammed Al-Sultan 42 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1993, and was rated among the world's top ten in 2001 with a rating of 2714.
- In March 2019, he was elected to the Dutch Senate for the right-wing Forum for Democracy, however, on 8 December 2020 he switched his party allegiance to the van Pareren group, which is now affiliated with the right-wing JA21 party.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Loek van Wely article was read about 6,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 45 and blocks with 21: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Loek van Wely
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Loek van Wely (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Frans Peeters from Roosendaal, The Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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