NPC tier list based on how good I think they'd be at chess

Self-explanatory title. This came about from lurking various fandom subreddits, where extremely specific nonsense/meme tier lists are pretty popular. Ranking characters by chess proficiency became a minor trend so I ended up making....this.

I made this long ago enough that I can't remember the exact reasoning for why characters are placed where they are, but if you wanna fight me about a specific placements I'm game. I might even remember my initial reasoning for putting them there!

A few things I do remember:

Xiera could easily be Masters+, but suffers from a terminal case of second and triple guessing herself and loses a lot of matches she could win.

Omega Varuna is as skilled as Photoner Varuna but he sandbags to keep a low profile. He can't derank too much, though, because then people would wonder if he's qualified to serve the royal family.

Most characters in "destroys the board" tier would do so out of anger/frustration, but Huey and Risa just think that's part of the game. I will not explain further at this time.