Originally posted by Enyalus
Thanos vs Darkseid - This ends in a stalemate. Both are extremely intelligent, both extremely manipulative, both can be charming when they want to be. Makes for a good chess player.
Reed Richards vs Lex Luthor - Lex takes this. Reed is smarter, but come on, Lex is the quintessential manipulator. And good business practices were born on chess principles.
Tony Stark vs Brainiac - Brainiac. No contest.
Grandmaster vs Metron - Metron, no contest. Just flat out more intelligent. The most intelligent New God. And he enjoys playing games and messing with people, too.
Batman vs T'Challa - Batman. Again, a virtual no contest. Bats has got everything T'Challa has and then some.
Doom vs Majestic - Majestic takes this. Dude was outsmarting a Kheran supercomputer capable of processing trillions of pieces of info per second for over three straight weeks, while dying of chronal poisoning. No way Doom out thinks him in a chess match, where seeing multiple steps ahead makes a lot of difference. most of these would end in stalemates