This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as

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* Jacob Aagaard (Denmark, Scotland, born 1973) *

Manuel Aaron Manuel Aaron (born 30 December 1935) is the first Indian chess master in the second half of the 20th century. He dominated chess in India in the 1960s to the 1980s, was the national champion of India nine times between 1959 and 1981. He is I ...

(India, born 1935) * Nijat Abasov (Azerbaijan, born 1995) *

István Abonyi István Abonyi (18 August 1886 – 5 June 1942) was a Hungarian chess master, who was born and died in Budapest. In 1912, Abonyi played the Abonyi Gambit (1.Nf3 d5 2.e4) for the first time. István Abonyi with Zsigmond Barász and Gyula Breye ...

(Hungary, 1886–1942) *

Gerald Abrahams Gerald Abrahams (15 April 1907 – 15 March 1980) was an English chess player, author, and barrister. Chess career He is best known for the Abrahams Defence of the Semi-Slav, also known as the Abrahams– Noteboom Variation, or the Noteboom ...

(England, 1907–1980) * Tatev Abrahamyan (Armenia, US, born 1988) *

Hasan Abbasifar Hasan Abbasifar (born 1972) is an international Chess Grandmaster titled in 2013. He was born in Shiraz, Iran. He played the game from 1994 to 2019. Hasan is a member of the national chess team, Islamic Republic of Iran. Awards Hassan Abbassif ...

(Iran, born 1972) * Farid Abbasov (Azerbaijan, born 1979) * Jude Acers (US, born 1944) * Péter Ács (Hungary, born 1981) * Weaver Adams (US, 1901–1963) * Tanitoluwa Adewumi (Nigeria, US, born 2010) * Utut Adianto (Indonesia, born 1965) * András Adorján (Hungary, born 1950) * Vladimir Afromeev (Russia, born 1954) *

Simen Agdestein Simen Agdestein (born 15 May 1967) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, chess coach, author, and former professional footballer as a striker for the Norway national football team. Agdestein won eight Norwegian Chess Championships between 1982 ...

(Norway, born 1967) * Evgeny Agrest (Belarus, Sweden, born 1966) * Georgy Agzamov (Uzbekistan, 1954–1986) *

Carl Ahues Carl Oscar Ahues (26 December 1883, Bremen – 31 December 1968, Hamburg) was a German chess International Master. Chess career He was Berlin champion in 1910 and shared 3rd place at the strong Berlin tournament of 1926 (Efim Bogoljubow won ...

(Germany, 1883–1968) *

James Macrae Aitken James Macrae Aitken (27 October 1908 – 3 December 1983) was a Scottish chess player. Aitken was born in Calderbank, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1938 he received a PhD from Edinburgh University on the topic of 'The Trial of George Buchanan B ...

(Scotland, 1908–1983) * Ralf Åkesson (Sweden, born 1961) * Anna Akhsharumova (Russia, US, born 1957) *

Varuzhan Akobian Varuzhan Akobian ( hy, Վարուժան Հակոբյան, born 19 November 1983 in Yerevan, Soviet Union) is an Armenian-born American chess Grandmaster. Originally from Armenia, he now resides in St. Louis. He played on the bronze-medal-winn ...

(Armenia, US, born 1983) * Vladimir Akopian (Armenia, born 1971) * Mohammed Al-Modiahki (Qatar, born 1974) * Simon Alapin (Lithuania, 1856–1923) * Vladimir Alatortsev (Russia, 1909–1987) * Adolf Albin (Romania, 1848–1920) *

Lev Alburt Lev Osipovich Alburt (born August 21, 1945) is a chess Grandmaster, writer and coach. He was born in Orenburg, Russia, and became three-time Ukrainian Champion. After defecting to the United States in 1979, he became three-time U.S. Champion ...

(Russia, US, born 1945) *

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine, ''Aleksándr Aleksándrovich Alékhin''; (March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already a ...

(Russia, France 1892–1946) * Alexei Alekhine (Russia, 1888–1939) * Grace Alekhine (US, England, France 1876–1956) *

Aleksej Aleksandrov Aleksej Aleksandrov (born 11 May 1973) is a Belarusian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1997. Aleksandrov is a five-time Belarusian champion and played on the Belarusian national team at the Chess Olympiad, the Worl ...

(Belarus, born 1973) * Kirill Alekseenko (Russia, born 1997) * Evgeny Alekseev (Russia, born 1985) * Hugh Alexander (England, 1899–1974) * Aaron Alexandre (Germany, France, England 1765–1850) *

Nana Alexandria Nana Alexandria ( ka, ნანა გიორგის ასული ალექსანდრია, ''Nana Giorgis asuli Aleksandria''; born 13 October 1949) is a Georgian chess player. A three-time Soviet women's champion, she was the c ...

(Georgia, born 1949) * Johann Baptist Allgaier (Germany, Austria, 1763–1823) * Zoltán Almási (Hungary, born 1976) *

Izak Aloni Izak (Izhak, Itzchak) Aloni (Schächter) ( he, יצחק אלוני; born 5 April 1905 – died 2 June 1985) was an Israeli chess master. Biography Aloni, born Schächter in Buchach, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary), was twice Lvov (Lemberg, L ...

(Poland, Israel, 1905–1985) *

Yoel Aloni Yoel Aloni ( he, יואל אלוני; September 30, 1937 – September 9, 2019) was an Israeli chess master and problemist. He was the twin brother of Hillel Aloni (1937-2017). He played twice for Israel in Chess Olympiads. * In 1964, at fourth ...

(Israel, 1937–2019) *

Boris Alterman Boris Alterman ( he, בוריס אלתרמן, russian: Борис Альтерман; born May 4, 1970) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster, FIDE Senior Trainer (2010), advisor of the Junior chess program. He started playing chess at the age of 7. ...

(Israel, born 1970) * Friedrich Amelung (Estonia, Latvia, 1842–1909) *

Bassem Amin Bassem Amin (; born 9 September 1988) is an Egyptian chess player and medical doctor. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Amin is the highest rated Egyptian and African player and the only medical doctor to have a FIDE peak ra ...

(Egypt, born 1988) * Farrukh Amonatov (Tajikistan, born 1978) * Bruce Amos (Canada, born 1946) *

An Yangfeng An Yangfeng (; born 1 September 1963) is a Chinese chess player, who holds the title Woman International Master. She competed in two Women's Interzonal tournaments, at Women's World Chess Championship 1986#1985 Interzonals, Havana in 1985 and a ...

(China, born 1963) *

Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating ...

(India, born 1969) * Erik Andersen (Denmark, 1904–1938) * Frank Anderson (Canada, 1928–1980) *

Hope Arthurine Anderson Hope Arthurine Anderson (June 2, 1950, in Port Antonio – March 24, 2016 ) was a Jamaican chess champion. Biography Anderson was the sixth of eight children born to a policeman, Arthur, and a seamstress, Iris. She attended Titchfield High Sch ...

(Jamaica, 1950–2016) *

Adolf Anderssen Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 – March 13, 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in '' The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 385. was a German chess master. He won the great interna ...

(Germany, 1818–1879) * Ulf Andersson (Sweden, born 1951) *

Dmitry Andreikin Dmitry Vladimirovich Andreikin (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Андрейкин, born 5 February 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster, World Junior Chess Champion in 2010 and two-time Russian Chess Champion (2012 and 2018 ...

(Russia, born 1990) *

Zaven Andriasian Zaven Andriasian (sometimes transliterated as Andriasyan; hy, Զավեն Անդրիասյան; born March 11, 1989, in Yerevan) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster and former World Junior Chess Champion. Chess career He won the 2005 Europe ...

(Armenia, born 1989) * Dejan Antić (Serbia, born 1968) * Rogelio Antonio Jr. (Philippines, born 1962) *

Vladimir Antoshin Vladimir Sergeyevich Antoshin (; 14 May 1929 in Moscow – 13 May 1994) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, a theoretician and a national champion of correspondence chess. Student Olympiad performances As a young man, he was a high achiever, princip ...

(Russia, 1929–1994) *

Oskar Antze Oskar (Oscar) Hans Antze (24 October 1878 – 23 April 1962 ) was a German chess player. Antze was born in Cologne, the son of a physician. After his Abitur he had a Medical education at the University of Marburg, the University of Kiel and t ...

(Germany, 1878–1962) *

Manuel Apicella Manuel Apicella (born 19 April 1970 in Longjumeau, France) is a French chess grandmaster. Apicella was awarded the title International Master in 1989 and the GM title in 1995. In 1990 he won the Paris City Chess Championship. He won the Fre ...

(France, born 1970) *

Izaak Appel Izaak (Isaak) Appel (1905–1941) was a Polish chess master. Biography In 1926, he took 12th place in the Warsaw (1st POL-ch) competition, which was won by Dawid Przepiórka. In 1929, he took 2nd place, behind Teodor Regedziński, in the C ...

(Poland, 1905–1941) *

Fricis Apšenieks Fricis Apšenieks ( Old orthography: ''Fritzis Apscheneek''; 7 April 1894 in Tetele, Courland Governorate – 25 April 1941 in Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian chess master. Biography In 1924, Apšenieks finished 2nd, behind Hermanis Matisons, a ...

(Latvia, 1894–1941) * Lev Aptekar (Ukraine, New Zealand, born 1936) * José Joaquín Araiza (Mexico, 1900–1971) *

Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (née Arakhamia) is a Georgian (former Soviet Union)-born Scottish Grandmaster of chess. Chess career In 1985, she won the World Junior Chess Championship for Girls, held in Dobrna (and taking silver in Adelaide th ...

(Georgia, born 1968) * Mehrdad Ardeshi (Iran, born 1978) * Walter Arencibia (Cuba, born 1967) *

Alexander Areshchenko Alexander Areshchenko ( uk, Олександр Арещенко, Oleksandr Areshchenko; born June 15, 1986) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 2002. He has competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2009, 201 ...

(Ukraine, born 1986) * Keith Arkell (England, born 1961) * Romanas Arlauskas (Lithuania, Australia, 1917–2009) * Jon Arnason (Iceland, born 1960) *

Dagur Arngrímsson Dagur Arngrímsson (born ) is an Icelandic chess International Master. He played for Iceland in the European Team Chess Championship of 2009. On the November 2009 FIDE rating list he has an Elo rating The Elo rating system is a method for calcu ...

(Iceland, born 1987) *

Levon Aronian Levon Grigori Aronian ( hy, Լևոն Գրիգորի Արոնյան, Levon Grigori Aronyan; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian chess grandmaster, who currently plays for the United States Chess Federation. A chess prodigy, he earned the title ...

(Armenia, born 1982) *

Lev Aronin Lev Solomonovich Aronin (russian: Лев Соломонович Аронин; 20 July 1920, Kuibyshev – 4 October 1982, Moscow) was a Soviet International Master of chess. He was a meteorologist by profession. Early years Lev Solomonovich ...

(Russia, 1920–1983) *

Vladislav Artemiev Vladislav Mikhailovich Artemiev (russian: Владисла́в Миха́йлович Арте́мьев; born 5 March 1998) is a Russian chess player and former chess prodigy. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 2014. Artemiev is the ...

(Russia, born 1998) *

Andreas Ascharin Andreas Ascharin (russian: Андрей Александрович Ашарин, ''Andrey Aleksandrovich Asharin''; in Pärnu – in Riga) was a Baltic German-Russian chess master. Ascharin's father was Russian, his mother was from a Baltic G ...

(Estonia, Latvia, 1843–1896) * Jacob Ascher (England, Canada, 1841–1912) *

Konstantin Aseev Konstantin Aseev (October 20, 1960 – August 22, 2004) was a Russian chess Grandmaster and trainer. Among his tournament successes were first at Leningrad 1989 with 9/13 (beating Leonid Yudasin and Alexander Khalifman among others) and second ...

(Russia, 1960–2004) * Maurice Ashley (Jamaica, US, born 1966) *

Karen Asrian Karen Asrian ( hy, Կարեն Ասրյան; 24 April 1980 – 9 June 2008) was an Armenian chess player. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1998, he was a three-time Armenian champion. Asrian was a member of the gold medal-winning Arme ...

(Armenia, 1980–2008) * Bibisara Assaubayeva (Kazakhstan, Russia, born 2004) *

Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-‘Abbās al-Ṣūlī (Arabic: ), (born c. 870 Gorgan – died between 941 and 948 Basra) was a Turkic scholar and a court companion of three Abbāsid caliphs: al-Muktafī, his successor al-Muqtadir, a ...

(Abbasid Caliphate, c.880–946) *

Lajos Asztalos Lajos Asztalos (Ljudevit Astaloš) (29 July 1889, Pécs – 1 November 1956, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess International Master, professor, and teacher of languages. At the beginning of his career, he tied for sixth-eighth at Budapest 1911 ...

(Austria-Hungary, Yugoslavia, Hungary, 1889–1956) *

Ekaterina Atalik Ekaterina Atalik (née Polovnikova; born 14 November 1982 in Kirov) is a Russian-Turkish chess player, who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won the European Youth Chess Championship in the under ...

(Russia, Turkey, born 1982) * Suat Atalık (Turkey, born 1964) * Henry Atkins (England, 1872–1955) * Arnold Aurbach (Poland, France, c.1888–1952) *

Yuri Averbakh Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (russian: Ю́рий Льво́вич Аверба́х; 8 February 1922 – 7 May 2022) was a Russian chess grandmaster and author. He was chairman of the USSR Chess Federation from 1973 to 1978. He was the first centenari ...

(Russia, c.1922–2022) * Valeriy Aveskulov (Ukraine, born 1986) *

Herbert Avram Herbert Avram (24 January 1913 – 15 January 2006) was an American chess player, and a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was born in New York City. During and after World War II, he worked at the National Security Agency and the Cen ...

(US, 1913–2006) * Boris Avrukh (Israel, born 1978)

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Alexander Baburin Alexander Evgenyevich Baburin (, ''Aleksandr Yevgen'yevich Baburin''; born 19 February 1967) is a Russian-Irish grandmaster of chess. He was born in Gorky, and has been living in Dublin, Ireland since 1993. He is editor-in-chief of the e-mail ...

(Russia, Ireland, born 1967) *

Étienne Bacrot Étienne Bacrot (; born 22 January 1983) is a French chess grandmaster, and as a child, a chess prodigy. He competed at the Candidates Matches in 2007 and won the Aeroflot Open in 2009. He passed 2700 FIDE rating in 2004 and in January 200 ...

(France, born 1983) * Paul Baender (Germany, Bolivia, 1906–1985) * Giorgi Bagaturov (Georgia, born 1964) *

Amir Bagheri Amir Bagheri (born September 20, 1978) is an Iranian chess grandmaster. He was the second Iranian to achieve the grandmaster title. He qualified for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 but did not play due to visa problems. He was knocked ...

(Iran, born 1978) *

Camilla Baginskaite Camilla Baginskaite ( lt, Kamilė Baginskaitė; born 24 April 1967) is a Lithuanian and American chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 2002. Baginskate was born in Vilnius. Her mother is the painter Ginta ...

(Soviet Union, Lithuania, US, born 1967) *

Vladimir Bagirov Vladimir Konstantinovich Bagirov ( rus, Влади́мир Константи́нович Баги́ров; lv, Vladimirs Bagirovs; August 16, 1936 – July 21, 2000) was a Soviet- Latvian chess player, author, and trainer. He played in ten U ...

(USSR, Latvia, 1936–2000) * Mary Bain (US, 1904–1972) * David Graham Baird (US, 1854–1913) * Vladimir Baklan (Ukraine, born 1978) * Yuri Balashov (Russia, born 1949) *

Rosendo Balinas Jr. Rosendo Carreon Balinas Jr. (September 10, 1941 – September 24, 1998) was a chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster from the Philippines. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1975 and the International Grandmaster title in 1976. He w ...

(Philippines, 1941–1998) *

Zoltán von Balla Zoltán von Balla (31 August 1883, Budapest – 1 April 1945, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess champion. In 1904, Balla took 11th place in Coburg (14 DSB Congress, B tournament). In 1905, he took 10th place in Vienna. In 1906, he won the first ...

(Hungary, 1883–1945) * Csaba Balogh (Hungary, born 1987) * János Balogh (Romania, Hungary, 1892–1980) * Julio Balparda (Uruguay, ?–1942) * Amikam Balshan (Israel, born 1948) *

Hristos Banikas Hristodoulos Banikas ( gr, Χριστόδουλος Μπανίκας; born 20 May 1978) is a Greek chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster from Salonica. Chess career Banikas won the 1990 Greek U-12 championship, the 1993 Greek U-16 championshi ...

(Greece, born 1978) *

Anatoly Bannik Anatoly Alexandrovich Bannik (December 1921, in Kyiv – 19 January 2013) was a Ukrainian chess Master. He was a five-time Ukrainian champion, and qualified for the Soviet Chess Championship final seven times. He was among the top half-dozen Ukrai ...

(Ukraine, 1921–2013) * David Baramidze (Georgia, Germany, born 1988) *

Zsigmond Barász Zsigmond Barász (January 1878 – 28 May 1935, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess master. He took 2nd, behind Zoltán von Balla, at Győr in 1906 (the first Hungarian Championship) losing one match to him (0.5 : 2.5) there; took 9th at Budapest in ...

(Hungary, 1878–1935) * Abraham Baratz (Romania, France, 1895–1975) *

Gerardo Barbero Gerardo Fabián Barbero (21 August 1961 – 4 March 2001) was an Argentine chess grandmaster. He was born in Lanús, Buenos Aires, and raised in Rosario, Santa Fe. Barbero came fifth in the World Junior Chess Championship of 1978. He was Ar ...

(Argentina, Hungary, 1961–2001) * Gedeon Barcza (Hungary, 1911–1986) * Olaf Barda (Norway, 1909–1971) *

Curt von Bardeleben Curt Carl Alfred von Bardeleben (4 March 1861 – 31 January 1924) was a German chess master, journalist, and member of the German nobility. Biography Curt von Bardeleben started playing chess when he was ten years old and quickly developed into ...

(Germany, 1861–1924) *

Leonard Barden Leonard William Barden (born 20 August 1929, in Croydon, London) is an English chess master, writer, broadcaster, journalist, organizer and promoter. The son of a dustman, he was educated at Whitgift School, South Croydon, and Balliol Coll ...

(England, born 1929) *

Evgeny Bareev Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev (russian: Евгений Ильгизович Бареев; born 21 November 1966) is a Russian-Canadian chess player and trainer. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989, he was ranked fourth in the FIDE world ...

(Russia, born 1966) * Robert Henry Barnes (England, New Zealand 1849–1916) *

Thomas Wilson Barnes Thomas Wilson Barnes (1825–1874) was an English chess master, one of the leading British masters of his time. Chess history Barnes was one of the leading British chess masters at the time of Paul Morphy's visit to the UK in 1858. Barnes had ...

(England, 1825–1874) * Alexei Barsov (Uzbekistan, born 1966) *

Mateusz Bartel Mateusz Bartel (born 3 January 1985) is a Polish chess Grandmaster. He won the Polish Chess Championship in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Career Bartel learnt to play the game at the age of 6 from his father when he and his younger brother we ...

(Poland, born 1985) *

John Bartholomew John Bartholomew (25 December 1831 – 29 March 1893) was a Scottish cartographer. Life Bartholomew was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, John Bartholomew Sr., started a cartographical establishment in Edinburgh, and he was educated ...

(US, born 1986) *

Dibyendu Barua Dibyendu Barua (born 27 October 1966) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Indian Chess Champion. He was the second Indian, after Viswanathan Anand, second Bengali after Niaz Murshed, and third South Asian after Niaz and Anand t ...

(India, born 1966) * Cerdas Barus (Indonesia, born 1961) * Michael Basman (England, born 1946) * Christian Bauer (France, born 1977) * Johann Hermann Bauer (Bohemia, Austria, 1861–1891) * Friedrich Baumbach (Germany, born 1935) * Albert Becker (Austria, Germany, Argentina 1896–1984) * Anjelina Belakovskaia (Ukraine, US, born 1969) * Liudmila Belavenets (Russia, 1940–2021) * Sergey Belavenets (Russia, 1910–1942) * Alexander Beliavsky (Ukraine, Slovenia, born 1953) * Slim Belkhodja (Tunisia, born 1962) *

Jana Bellin Jana Bellin (''née'' Malypetrová; born 9 December 1947) is a British, formerly Czechoslovak chess player. She was awarded the Woman International Master chess title in 1969 and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1982. Bellin was born in Prague ...

(Czechoslovakia, England, born 1947) *

Zdzisław Belsitzmann Zdzisław Belsitzmann (ca. 1890–1920) was a Polish chess master. Belsitzmann lived in Warsaw, where he played several times in tournaments with top Polish chess masters. In 1913, he drew a match against Salomon Langleben (+1 –1 =2). He tied ...

(Poland, circa 1890–1920) * Levi Benima (Netherlands, 1837–1922) * Clarice Benini (Italy, 1905–1976) *

Joel Benjamin Joel Lawrence Benjamin (born March 11, 1964) is an American chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). In 1998, he was voted "Grandmaster of the Year" by the U.S. Chess Federation. , his Elo rating was 2506, making him the No ...

(US, born 1964) * Francisco Benkö (Germany, Argentina, 1910–2010) * Pal Benko (France, Hungary, US, 1928–2019) * Dávid Bérczes (Hungary, born 1990) * Emanuel Berg (Sweden, born 1981) * Béla Berger (Hungary, Australia, 1931–2005) * Johann Berger (Austria, 1845–1933) * Victor Berger (Ukraine, England, 1904–1996) * Nils Bergkvist (Sweden, 1900–?) *

Teodors Bergs Teodors Bergs (Theodore Berg) (27 July 1902, in Riga – 3 October 1966, in Riga) was a Latvian chess master. In 1926, he took 2nd, behind Vladimirs Petrovs, and shared 2nd, behind Fricis Apšenieks in Riga. He took 3rd at Riga 1930 ( Movsas Fei ...

(Latvia, 1902–1966) * Hans Berliner (Germany, US, 1929–2017) * Ivar Bern (Norway, born 1967) * Karl Berndtsson (Sweden, 1892–1943) * Jacob Bernstein (US, ?–1958) *

Ossip Bernstein Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein (20 September 1882 – 30 November 1962) was a Russian-French chess player and businessman. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Biography Born in Zhytomyr, ...

(Ukraine, France, 1882–1962) * Sidney Norman Bernstein (US, 1911–1992) * Mario Bertok (Croatia, 1929–2008) * Katarina Beskow (Sweden, 1867–1939) * Louis Betbeder Matibet (France, 1901–1986) *

Kārlis Bētiņš Kārlis Bētiņš (german: Carl Behting; 27 October 1867, Bērzmuiža – 28 March 1943, Riga) was a Latvian chess master and composer of studies. He tied for 3rd-5th at Riga 1899 (the 1st Baltic Congress, his brother Roberts Bētiņš won), t ...

(Latvia, 1867–1943) * Siegmund Beutum (Austria, 1890–1966) * Vinay Bhat (US, born 1984) * Carlos Bielicki (Argentina, born 1940) * Martin Bier (Germany, 1854–1934) * Horace Bigelow (US, 1898–1980) * István Bilek (Hungary, 1932–2010) * Paul Rudolf von Bilguer (Germany, 1815–1840) *

Maurice Billecard Maurice (Moritz) Billecard (3 August 1876, in Lure – 8 December 1940) was a French chess master. He tied for 7-8th at Paris 1896 ( Dawid Janowski won), tied for 14-15th at Munich 1900 (the 12th DSB Congress, Géza Maróczy, Harry Pillsbury a ...

(France, 1876–?) * Reefat Bin-Sattar (Bangladesh, born 1974) * Henry Bird (England, 1830–1908) * Nathan Birnboim (Israel, born 1950) * Klaus Bischoff (Germany, born 1961) *

Arthur Bisguier Arthur Bernard Bisguier (October 8, 1929April 5, 2017), paternal surname Bisgeier, was an American chess player, chess promoter, and writer who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). Bisguier won two U.S. Junior Championships (1948, 1949) ...

(US, 1929–2017) * Peter Biyiasas (Greece, Canada, born 1950) * Dimitrije Bjelica (Serbia, born 1935) * Roy Turnbull Black (US, 1888–1962) *

Joseph Henry Blackburne Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924) was a British chess player. Nicknamed "The Black Death", he dominated the British scene during the latter part of the 19th century. Blackburne learned the game at the relatively late ...

(England, 1841–1924) *

Armand Blackmar Armand Edward Blackmar, was born in Vermont in 1826, to parents Reuben Harmon and Amanda (Cushman) Blackmar. Armand, with his brother, Henry, was the founder of Blackmar Brothers, a music publishing company. Begun in 1860, this publishing company ...

(US, 1826–1888) * Joseph Henry Blake (England, 1859–1951) *

Abram Blass Moshe Aba Blass (born 1896, Łomża, Poland - 1971, Tel-Aviv, Israel) was a Polish-Israeli chess master. Born in Łomża (then Russian Empire), he moved to the US, staying from 1911 to 1924. After returning to Poland, he lived in Warsaw. In 19 ...

(Poland, Israel, 1895–1971) *

Ottó Bláthy Ottó Titusz Bláthy (11 August 1860 – 26 September 1939) was a Hungarian electrical engineer. In his career, he became the co-inventor of the modern electric transformer, the tension regulator, the AC watt-hour meter.motor capacitor for ...

(Hungary, 1860–1939) *

Max Blau Max Blau (19 December 1918, Munich – 1984, Bern) was a Swiss chess master. He won the Swiss Chess Championship four times (1953, 1955, 1956, and 1967), and was awarded the International Master title in 1953. Blau represented Switzerland in Ches ...

(Germany, Switzerland, 1918–1984) * Ludwig Bledow (Germany, 1795–1846) * Paweł Blehm (Poland, born 1980) *

Dirk Bleijkmans Jan Dirk Bleijkmans (Bleykmans) (16 May 1875 – 27 December 1944) was a Dutch chess master. Bleijkmans was born in Amsterdam as the son of Karel Bleijkmans and Johanna Sophia van Wulften. He twice won unofficial Dutch championship (The Netherlan ...

(Netherlands, Indonesia, 1875–?) * Yaacov Bleiman (Lithuania, Israel, 1947–2004) * Calvin Blocker (US, born 1955) * Claude Bloodgood (US, 1937–2001) * Oscar Blum (Lithuania, France, born before 1910) * Benjamin Blumenfeld (Belarus, Russia, 1884–1947) * Max Blümich (Germany, 1886–1942) * Boris Blumin (Russia, Canada, US, 1907–1998) *

Milko Bobotsov Milko Georgiev Bobotsov ( bg, Милко Георгиев Бобоцов; 30 September 1931, in Plovdiv – 3 April 2000, in Sofia, Bulgaria

(Bulgaria, 1931–2000) * Dmitry Bocharov (Russia, born 1982) *

Samuel Boden Samuel Standidge Boden (born 4 May 1826 in East Retford, Nottinghamshire; d. 13 January 1882 in Bedford Square, London) was an English professional chess master. The mating pattern " Boden's Mate" was named after the mate that occurred in one o ...

(England, 1826–1882) * Fedor Bogatyrchuk (Ukraine, Canada, 1892–1984) *

Efim Bogoljubov Efim Bogoljubow ( or ), also known as Ewfim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow, ( (); also Romanized ''Bogoljubov'', ''Bogolyubov''; uk, Юхим Дмитрович Боголюбов, Yukhym Dmytrovych Boholiubov; April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952) ...

(Ukraine, Germany, 1889–1952) * Paolo Boi (Italy, 1528–1598) * Jacobo Bolbochán (Argentina, 1906–1984) *

Julio Bolbochán Julio Bolbochán (Buenos Aires, 20 March 1920 – Caracas, 28 June 1996) was the Argentine chess champion in 1946 and 1948. He learned the game from his older brother, Jacobo Bolbochán, later an International Master. He represented Argentina ...

(Argentina, 1920–1996) *

Isaac Boleslavsky Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky ( uk, Ісаак Єфремович Болеславський, russian: Исаак Ефремович Болеславский; 9 June 1919 – 15 February 1977) was a Soviet chess player and writer. Early caree ...

(Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, 1919–1977) * Victor Bologan (Moldova, born 1971) *

Igor Bondarevsky Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky (russian: Игорь Захарович Бондаревский; May 12, 1913 – June 14, 1979) was a Soviet Russian chess player, trainer, and chess author. He held the title of Grandmaster in both over-the-board ...

(Russia, 1913–1979) * Eero Böök (Finland, 1910–1990) *

Valentina Borisenko Valentina Mikhaylovna Borisenko (née Belova; russian: Валентина Михайловна Борисенко; Cherepovets, 28 January 1920 – Saint Petersburg, 6 March 1993) was a Soviet chess player. She was a five-time winner of the Wom ...

(Russia, 1920–1993) * Olexandr Bortnyk (Ukraine, born 1996) * Tea Bosboom-Lanchava (Netherlands, Georgia, born 1974) * George Botterill (England, Wales, born 1949) *

Mikhail Botvinnik Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, ( – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist and was a pioneer in computer chess. Botvinn ...

(Russia, 1911–1995) * Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (France, 1795–1840) *

César Boutteville César Boutteville (24 June 1917 – 21 May 2015) was a French–Vietnamese chess master. Biography & Career The son of a French father and a Vietnamese mother, Cesar Boutteville was born in Thin-Hao (or Thịnh Hào), nowadays part of Hanoi's u ...

(Vietnam, France, 1917–2015) *

Olena Boytsun Olena Boytsun (born 22 March 1983) is a university graduate and chess master from Ukraine. She has an MA in International Economics, having graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk National University Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (DNU, ...

(Ukraine, born 1983) *

Julius Brach Julius Brach (9 January 1881, Brno – 4 July 1938, Vyškov, Moravia) was a Czech chess master. In the beginning of his career, he won at Brno 1899, took 3rd at Osyky u Lomnice, took 2nd at Brno 1901, and took 3rd at Brno 1905. He tied for 5-6th ...

(Czechoslovakia, 1881–1938) *

Gyula Breyer Gyula "Julius" Breyer (30 April 1893 Budapest – 9 November 1921) was a Hungarian chess player and 1912 Hungarian national champion. Chess career In 1912 Breyer won the Hungarian championship in Temesvar. In a 1920 tournament in Berlin he fi ...

(Hungary, 1893–1921) * Alfred Brinckmann (Germany, 1891–1967) *

Mirko Bröder Mirko (Imre) Bröder, or Broeder, Broder, Breder (1911–1943) was a Hungarian–born Yugoslav chess master. Born in Budapest, he grew up in Novi Sad, Voivodina (then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes), where he studied law. He won a simu ...

(Hungary, Serbia, 1911–1943) * Miklós Bródy (Hungary, Romania, 1877–1949) * Vladimir Bron (Ukraine, 1909–1985) *

David Bronstein David Ionovich Bronstein (russian: Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet and Ukrainian chess player. Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narr ...

(Ukraine, 1924–2006) *

Walter Browne Walter Shawn Browne (10 January 1949 – 24 June 2015) was an Australian-born American chess and poker player. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1970, he won the U.S. Chess Championship six times. Early years Browne was born to an ...

(Australia, US, 1949–2015) * Agnieszka Brustman (Poland, born 1962) * Lázaro Bruzón (Cuba, born 1982) * Stellan Brynell (Sweden, born 1962) *

Bu Xiangzhi Bu Xiangzhi (; born December 10, 1985) is a Chinese chess player. In 1999, he became the 10th grandmaster from China at the age of 13 years, 10 months and 13 days, at the time the youngest in history. In April 2008, Bu and Ni Hua be ...

(China, born 1985) *

Henry Thomas Buckle Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 – 29 May 1862) was an English historian, the author of an unfinished ''History of Civilization'', and a strong amateur chess player. He is sometimes called "the Father of Scientific History". Early life ...

(England, 1821–1862) * Gerardo Budowski (Germany, France, Venezuela, Costa Rica, 1925–2014) *

Wincenty Budzyński Wincenty Budzyński (Budzinski, Budzinsky) (1815, Volhynia – 5 May 1866, Paris) was a Polish politician agent and Polish–French chess master. Born into a Polish noble family in Volhynia, he graduated from the Liceum Krzemienieckie. He fought a ...

(Poland, France, 1815–1866) * Nataliya Buksa (Ukraine, born 1996) * Constant Ferdinand Burille (France, US, 1866–1914) * Amos Burn (England, 1848–1925) * Algimantas Butnorius (Lithuania, 1946–2017) * Elisabeth Bykova (Russia, 1913–1989) * Donald Byrne (US, 1930–1976) * Robert Byrne (US, 1928–2013)

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* Florencio Campomanes (Philippines, 1927–2010) *

Daniel Hugo Cámpora Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength ...

(Argentina, born 1957) * Esteban Canal (Peru, Italy, 1896–1981) * Arianne Caoili (Australia, 1986–2020) *

José Raúl Capablanca José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he is widely renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play. Capabla ...

(Cuba, 1888–1942) * Rodolfo Tan Cardoso (Philippines, 1937–2013) *

Ruth Volgl Cardoso Ruth Cardoso (born Ruth Volkl; February 9, 1934 – February 11, 2000) was a Brazilian chess player born in Belmonte. She was awarded the title Woman International Master by the International Chess Federation in 1970. References Exter ...

(Brazil, 1934–2000) *

Carl Carls Carl Carls (September 16, 1880, Varel – September 11, 1958, Bremen) was a German chess master. In 1922, he took 2nd, behind Erhardt Post, in Bad Oeynhausen (22nd DSB–Congress). He won the 2nd German Championships at Bad Aachen 1934. He too ...

(Germany, 1880–1958) *

Magnus Carlsen Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the reigning five-time World Chess Champion. He is also a three-time World Rapid Chess Champion and five-time World Blitz Chess Champion. Carlsen has ...

(Norway, born 1990) * Pontus Carlsson (Sweden, born 1982) * Horatio Caro (England, Germany, 1862–1920) *

Berna Carrasco Berna Carrasco Araya (Carrasco de Budinich) (19 December 1914 – 7 July 2013) was a Chilean chess master, born in San Bernardo, Chile. At the 1939 Women's World Championship in Buenos Aires, she finished in third place behind Vera Menchik ...

(Chile, 1914–2013) *

Pietro Carrera Pietro Carrera (July 12, 1573 – September 18, 1647) was an Italian chess player, historian, priest and author. Biography Pietro Carrera born in Sicily, in Militello in Val di Catania (Province of Catania), located in the Valley of Noto; here ...

(Sicily, 1573–1647) *

Fabiano Caruana Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, Caruana became a grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, and 20 days—the youngest grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United St ...

(Dual citizenship: US and Italy, born 1992) *

Vincenzo Castaldi Vincenzo Castaldi (15 May 1916, Marradi – 6 January 1970, Florence) was an Italian chess master. He won the Italian Chess Championship seven times, (1936, 1937, 1947 (jointly), 1948, 1952 (jointly), 1953, and 1959), and was an Italian corres ...

(Italy, 1916–1970) * Mariano Castillo (Chile, 1905–1970) * Mišo Cebalo (Croatia, born 1945) * Giovanni Cenni (Italy, 1881–1957) *

Alfonso Ceron Alfonso Cerón (Xerone, Girón) (1535 in Granada – ? in Gerona?) was a Spanish chess master. Born in Granada, he had become a Catholic priest. He was one of the strongest Spanish chess players in the 16th century. Ceron participated in the firs ...

(Spain, 1535–?) * Oscar Chajes (Ukraine, Austria, US, 1873–1928) *

Ferenc Chalupetzky Ferenc Chalupetzky (6 April 1886, Magyaróvár – 19 August 1951, Győr) was a Hungarian chess master and author. He took 2nd at Győr 1905, shared 1st at Győr 1906, tied for 1st-3rd at Győr 1908, shared 2nd with István Abonyi, behind Karel ...

(Hungary, 1886–1951) * Edward Chamier (England, France, 1840–1892) *

Chan Peng Kong Chan Peng Kong (born 15 May 1956) is a chess player from Singapore. He was awarded by FIDE the title International Master (IM) in 2002. He won the national Singaporean Chess Championship in 1999 on tie-break score. Chan represented Singapore eig ...

(Singapore, born 1956) * Sandipan Chanda (India, born 1983) * Chang Tung Lo (China, born before 1960) * Murray Chandler (New Zealand, England, born 1960) * Pascal Charbonneau (Canada, born 1983) *

Rudolf Charousek Rudolf Charousek ( hu, Charousek Rezső; 19 September 1873 – 18 April 1900) was a Czech born Hungarian chess player. One of the top ten players in the world during the 1890s, he had a short career, dying at the age of 26 from tuberculosis. Re ...

(Hungary, 1873–1900) * Chantal Chaudé de Silans (France, 1919–2001) * Valery Chekhov (Russia, born 1955) *

Vitaly Chekhover Vitaly Alexandrovich Chekhover (also spelled Tschechower or Czechower, pronounced "chekh a VYAIR") (russian: Вита́лий Алекса́ндрович Чехове́р) (December 22, 1908 – February 11, 1965) was a Soviet chess player and c ...

(Russia, 1908–1965) * Chen De (China, born 1949) * Ivan Cheparinov (Bulgaria, born 1986) * Alexander Cherepkov (Russia, 1920–2009) *

Irving Chernev Irving Chernev (January 29, 1900 – September 29, 1981) was a chess player and prolific Russian-American chess author. He was born in Pryluky in the Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) and emigrated to the United States in 1905. Chernev was a ...

(Russia, US, 1900–1981) * Tykhon Cherniaiev (Ukraine, born 2010) *

Alexander Chernin Alexander Mikhailovich Chernin (russian: Александр Михайлович Чернин; born 6 March 1960) is a Soviet-born Hungarian chess grandmaster and trainer. Tournaments and championships Born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, as a youth ...

(Ukraine, Hungary, born 1960) * Konstantin Chernyshov (Russia, born 1967) * André Chéron (France, 1895–1980) * Maia Chiburdanidze (Georgia, born 1961) *

Mikhail Chigorin Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great ...

(Russia, 1850–1908) * Larry Christiansen (US, born 1956) *

Vladimir Chuchelov Vladimir Chuchelov (russian: Владимир Чучелов; born 28 September 1969 in Moscow) is a Belgian chess grandmaster and professional trainer. He won the Belgian Chess Championship in 2000. He appeared four times in the FIDE top 100 ...

(Russia, Belgium, born 1969) * Slavko Cicak (Montenegro, Sweden, born 1969) *

Roberto Cifuentes Roberto Cifuentes Parada (born 21 December 1957, Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean chess master. He won five times Chilean Chess Championship (1982–1986), and played seven times for Chile in Chess Olympiads (1978–1990). He also twice represente ...

(Chile, Netherlands, Spain, born 1957) *

Victor Ciocâltea Victor Ciocâltea (January 16, 1932 – September 10, 1983) was a Romanian chess player. He was awarded the International Master title in 1957 and the International Grandmaster title in 1978. Among his notable games is the one at the 15th Che ...

(Romania, 1932–1983) * Hermann Clemenz (Estonia, 1846–1908) * Albert Clerc (France, 1830–1918) * Viktorija Čmilytė (Lithuania, born 1983) * John Cochrane (England, 1798–1878) * Erich Cohn (Germany, 1884–1918) * Wilhelm Cohn (Germany, 1859–1913) * Edgard Colle (Belgium, 1897–1932) * John W. Collins (US, 1912–2001) *

Eugene Ernest Colman Eugene Ernest Colman (11 October 1878, Merton, England – 20 July 1964) was an English chess master. The son of the architect Ernest Gershom Colman (1851-1935) he graduated from Cambridge University with a law degree and entered service in the Ma ...

(England, 1878–1964) *

Camila Colombo Camila Colombo Seré (born 4 June 1990) is a Uruguayan psychopedagogue and chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master (WIM) by FIDE in 2012. Colombo is a multiple-time national women's champion. Personal life Born in ...

(Uruguay, born 1990) *

Adrián García Conde Adrián García Conde (4 May 1886 – 13 May 1943) was a Mexican-British chess master. Born in Valladolid, Yucatán, Mexico, since age 4 he lived in Liverpool, Bradford, London, Hull, and then in London again. He won the Liverpool Chess Club ...

(Mexico, England, 1886–1943) * Stuart Conquest (England, born 1967) *

Anya Corke Anya Sun Corke (born 12 September 1990 in California, USA) is an American-born English chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She played for Hong Kong, where she was the top ranked chess player, until 2009. Career Corke e ...

(England, Hong Kong, born 1990) * Nicolaas Cortlever (Netherlands, 1915–1995) * Juan Corzo (Cuba, 1873–1941) * Carlo Cozio (Italy, c. 1715 – c. 1780) * Spencer Crakanthorp (Australia, 1885–1936) * Pia Cramling (Sweden, born 1963) * Robert Crépeaux (France, 1900–1994) * Walter Cruz (Brazil, 1910–1967) * István Csom (Hungary, 1940–2021) *

Miguel Cuéllar Miguel Cuéllar Gacharná (18 November 1916 – 5 December 1985) was a Colombian chess master from Tinjacá. Cuéllar won the Colombian championship nine times: in 1941, 1946, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, and 1971. He played for Colombia i ...

(Colombia, 1916–1985) * Josef Cukierman (Poland, France, 1900–1941) * John Curdo (US, born 1931) * Ognjen Cvitan (Croatia, born 1961) * Hieronim Czarnowski (Poland, France, Austria-Hungary, 1834–1902) * Moshe Czerniak (Poland, Israel, 1910–1984)

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* Arthur Dake (US, 1910–2000) *

Pedro Damiano Pedro Damiano ( pt, Pedro Damião; ''Damiano'' is the Italian form, much like the Latin ''Damianus''; 1480–1544) was a Portuguese chess player. A native of Odemira, he was a pharmacist by profession. He wrote ''Questo libro e da imparare gio ...

(Portugal, 1480–1544) * Mato Damjanović (Croatia, 1927–2011) * Gösta Danielsson (Sweden, 1912–1978) *

Silvio Danailov Silvio Danailov ( bg, Силвио Данаилов; born 21 April 1961) is a former Bulgarian chess player and International Master. He was a manager and coach of the Bulgarian men's national chess team (1993-2000) and manager and coach of two f ...

(Bulgaria, born 1961) * A. Polak Daniels (Netherlands, before 1855–after 1883) *

Dawid Daniuszewski Dawid Daniuszewski (1885–1944) was a Polish chess master. Biography In 1906, he finished 2nd, behind Akiba Rubinstein, in Łódź. In 1907, he again finished 2nd, behind Rubinstein, and ahead of Gersz Rotlewi and Gersz Salwe in Łódź (''Qua ...

(Poland, 1885–1944) * Klaus Darga (Germany, born 1934) *

Alberto David Alberto David (born 26 March 1970) is a Luxembourgian-Italian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Italian Chess Champion. Chess career David was born in Milan in 1970, and in 1974 moved with his parents to Luxembourg, where he learned to pl ...

(Luxembourg, born 1970) *

Jacques Davidson Jacques Davidson (14 November 1890, in Amsterdam – 13 January 1969, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch chess master. Before World War I, he had lived in London for a number of years. Jacques had played with his father for a stake, he had won, and though ...

(Netherlands, 1890–1961) * Nigel Davies (England, born 1960) *

Boris de Greiff Boris de Greiff Bernal (13 February 1930 – 31 October 2011) was a Colombian chess master and writer, born in Medellín and son of the Colombian poet León de Greiff. Student in San Bartolome Mayor School], in 1951, he won the Colombian Ches ...

(Colombia, 1930–2011) * Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania, born 2001) * Frederick Deacon (Belgium, 1829–1875) *

Chakkravarthy Deepan J. Deepan Chakkravarthy (born 3 June 1987) is an Indian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Born in Madurai, Deepan Chakkravarthy won the Asian Junior Chess Championship in 2002. In the 2004 edition he fini ...

(India, born 1987) *

Nick de Firmian Nicholas Ernest de Firmian (born July 26, 1957) is an American chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1985. He is a three-time U.S. chess champion, winning in 1987 (with Joel Benjamin), 1995, and 1998. He also tied fo ...

(US, born 1957) * Marigje Degrande (Belgium, born 1992) * Aleksander Delchev (Bulgaria, born 1971) * Eugene Delmar (US, 1841–1909) *

Yelena Dembo Yelena Dembo (born December 8, 1983) is a Greek chess player, who holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is also a chess teacher and author. Family background Dembo was born on December 8, 1983, in Penza, Russia. ...

(Russia, Israel, Hungary, Greece, born 1983) *

Arnold Denker Arnold Sheldon Denker (February 21, 1914 – January 2, 2005) was an American chess player and author. He was U.S. champion in 1944 and 1946. In later years he served in various chess organizations, receiving recognition from the United States ...

(US, 1914–2005) * Alexandre Deschapelles (France, 1780–1847) * Andrei Deviatkin (Russia, born 1980) * Paul Devos (Belgium, 1911–1981) * André Diamant (Brazil, born 1990) * Mark Diesen (US, 1957–2008) * Julius Dimer (Germany, 1871–1945) * Nathan Divinsky (Canada, 1925–2012) * Rune Djurhuus (Norway, born 1970) *

Maxim Dlugy Maxim Alexandrovich Dlugy (born January 29, 1966) is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He was born in Moscow, USSR, and arrived with his family in the United States in 1977. He was awarded the International Master ...

(Russia, US, born 1966) *

Josef Dobiáš Josef Dobiáš (24 December 1886 in Mladá Boleslav – 31 January 1981) was a Czech chess player. At the beginning of his career, he took 5th at Prague 1908 (B tournament), tied for 4-5th at Pilsen (Plzeň) 1911, tied for 5-7th at Breslau 1912 ...

(Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, 1886–1981) *

Yosef Dobkin Yosef (Joseph) Dobkin (13 August 1909 – 9 April 1977) was an Israeli chess master. Dobkin was born in the Russian Empire. He immigrated to Palestine (British Mandate) in 1924 and studied chemistry at the Hebrew University. He did his Ph.D ...

(Russia, Israel, 1909–1977) * Yury Dokhoian (Russia, 1964–2021) *

Sergey Dolmatov Sergey Viktorovich Dolmatov (born February 20, 1959) is a Russian Grandmaster of chess and former World Junior Chess Champion. Born in Kiselevsk in the former Soviet Union, Dolmatov's solid yet enterprising style of play was soon to launch hi ...

(Russia, born 1959) * Lenier Dominguez (Cuba, born 1983) *

Józef Dominik Józef Dominik (10 March 1894, Dobczyce - 10 September 1920, Krasne) was a Polish chess master. Born in Dobczyce (western Galicia), he was educated in Crakow (Kraków, then Austria-Hungary). In his short chess career, he took 3rd at Crakow 1913 ...

(Poland, 1894–1920) *

Zadok Domnitz Zadok Domnitz (born 15 October 1933) is an Israeli chess master, born in Tel Aviv. He played three times for Israel in Chess Olympiads. * In 1962, at first reserve board in 15th Olympiad in Varna (+5 −2 =3); * In 1964, at third board in 1 ...

(Israel, born 1933) * Elena Donaldson (Russia, Georgia, US, 1957–2012) * John W. Donaldson (US, born 1958) * Ivo Donev (Austria, born 1959) * Jan Hein Donner (Netherlands, 1927–1988) * Iossif Dorfman (Ukraine, France, born 1952) *

Alexey Dreev Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev (, also transliterated as Aleksey or Alexei; born 30 January 1969) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989. Career While being a promising young chess talent, he was for a period ...

(Russia, born 1969) * Leonids Dreibergs (Latvia, US, 1908–1969) *

Kurt Dreyer Kurt Dreyer (31 July 1909 in Bielefeld, Germany – 29 September 1981 in Johannesburg, South Africa) was a German–South African chess master. Dreyer emigrated from Germany due to the country's Nazi policies. He was South African Champion in ...

(Germany, South Africa, 1909–1981) * Tihomil Drezga (Croatia, US, 1903–1981) * Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukraine, born 1984) * Leroy Dubeck (US, born 1939) *

Serafino Dubois Serafino Dubois (10 October 1817 – 15 January 1899) was an Italian chess Master and chess writer. Dubois was certainly among the strongest players in the world during the 1850s. He was known for his writings on the game, and for his promotion o ...

(Italy, 1817–1899) *

Daniil Dubov Daniil Dmitrievich Dubov (russian: Даниил Дмитриевич Дубов; born 18 April 1996) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He achieved his final norm for the Grandmaster title at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 14 days in 2011. He i ...

(Russia, born 1996) * Andreas Dückstein (Hungary, Austria, born 1927) *

Jan-Krzysztof Duda Jan-Krzysztof Duda (; born 26 April 1998) is a Polish chess grandmaster. A prodigy, he achieved the grandmaster title in 2013 at the age of 15 years and 21 days. he is ranked No. 1 in Poland and No. 18 in the world. His personal best rating ...

(Poland, born 1998) *

Jean Dufresne Jean Dufresne (14 February 1829 – 13 April 1893) was a German chess player and chess composer. He was a student of Adolf Anderssen, to whom he lost the " Evergreen game" in 1852. Life Dufresne was born and died in Berlin. The son of a wealthy ...

(Germany, 1829–1893) *

Andreas Duhm Andreas Duhm (22 August 1883, Göttingen – 23 November 1975, Heidelberg) was a German–Swiss chess master. Born in Göttingen, Germany, he was the younger brother of Hans Duhm and Dietrich Duhm. His father, Bernhard Duhm, was a professor for ...

(Germany, Switzerland, 1883–1975) *

Dietrich Duhm Dietrich Duhm (1880 in Göttingen – 22 July 1954 in Gailingen am Hochrhein) was a German–Swiss chess master. Born in Göttingen, Germany, he was the brother of Hans Duhm and Andreas Duhm. His father, Bernhard Duhm, was a professor for Protes ...

(Germany, Switzerland, 1880–1954) *

Hans Duhm Hans Duhm (12 August 1878, Göttingen – 4 January 1946) was a German–Swiss chess master. Born in Göttingen, Germany, he was the elder brother of Dietrich Duhm and Andreas Duhm. His father, Bernhard Duhm, was a professor for Protestant the ...

(Germany, Switzerland, 1878–1946) * Arthur Dunkelblum (Poland, Belgium, 1906–1979) * Oldřich Duras (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, 1882–1957) *

Fyodor Duz-Khotimirsky Fedor (Fyodor) Ivanovich Duz–Khotimirsky (sometimes transliterated Dus-Chotimirski, Khotymirsky etc.; Ukrainian: Фе́дір Іва́нович Дуз-Хотимирський; russian: Фёдор Дуз-Хотимирский; 25 September 1881 ...

(Ukraine, 1879–1965) * Mark Dvoretsky (Russia, 1947–2016) * Joanna Dworakowska (Poland, born 1978) * Eduard Dyckhoff (Germany, 1880–1949) *

Viacheslav Dydyshko Viacheslav Dydyshko (born 10 April 1949) is a Belarusian chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1995. He won eleven times the Belarusian Chess Championship (from 1965 to 2006) and played for Belarus in the Chess Oly ...

(Belarus, born 1949) * Boruch Israel Dyner (Poland, Belgium, Israel, 1903–1979) * Semen Dvoirys (Russia, born 1958) * Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia, born 1987) *

Roman Dzindzichashvili Roman Yakovlevich Dzindzichashvili ( ka, რომან იაკობის-ძე ჯინჯიხაშვილი; pronounced ''jin-jee-khash-VEE-lee''; born May 5, 1944) is a Soviet-born Israeli-American chess player. He was awarded th ...

(Georgia, Israel, US, born 1944) * Marat Dzhumaev (Uzbekistan, born 1976) *

Ding Liren Ding Liren (; born 24 October 1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He is the highest rated Chinese chess player in history and is also a three-time Chinese Chess Champion. He was the winner of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour, beating Maxime Vac ...

(China, born 1992)

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* James Eade (US, born 1957) * Zahar Efimenko (Ukraine, born 1985) * Marsel Efroimski (Israel, born 1995) *

Jaan Ehlvest Jaan Ehlvest (born 14 October 1962) is an Estonian-American chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1987. Ehlvest was Estonian champion in 1986. Since 2006, he has represented the United States. He was named Estonian Athle ...

(Estonia, born 1962) * Louis Eichborn (Germany, 1812–1882) * Rakhil Eidelson (Belarus, born 1958) * Vereslav Eingorn (Ukraine, born 1956) * Louis Eisenberg (Ukraine, US, 1876–after 1909) * Bengt Ekenberg (Sweden, 1912–1986) *

Folke Ekström Nils Johan Folke Ekström (12 October 1906, in Lund – 25 January 2000, in Saltsjobaden) was a Swedish International Master (IM) of chess and of correspondence chess (IMC). He won the Swedish Championships in 1947 and 1948; Swedish Correspondenc ...

(Sweden, 1906–2000) *

Erich Eliskases Erich Gottlieb Eliskases (15 February 1913 – 2 February 1997) was a chess player who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition. In the late 1930s he was considered a potential contender for the World Championship. ...

(Austria, Germany, Argentina, 1913–1997) *

Pavel Eljanov Pavel Eljanov ( uk, Павло Володимирович Ельянов, translit=Pavlo Volodymyrovych Elyanov; born 10 May 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He has won two team gold medals and one individual silver medal at the Chess Oly ...

(Ukraine, born 1983) *

Moissei Eljaschoff Moissei Zacharowitch Eljaschoff (24 June 1870, Kaunas, Kovno – 1919) was a Russian Empire chess master. He was the older brother of Israel Isidor Elyashev, the first Yiddish literary critic. He won a match against Carl Carls (3 : 1) at Berli ...

(Lithuania, 1870–1919) * John Emms (England, born 1967) * Lūcijs Endzelīns (Estonia, Latvia, Australia, 1909–1981) *

Jens Enevoldsen Jens Evald Enevoldsen-Elsing (23 September 1907 – 23 May 1980) was a Denmark, Danish chess master born in Copenhagen. Chess career Enevoldsen won the Danish Chess Championship five times (1940, 1943, 1947, 1948, and 1960). In 1939 he shared fir ...

(Denmark, 1907–1980) * Ludwig Engels (Germany, Brazil, 1905–1967) * Berthold Englisch (Austria, 1851–1897) *

David Enoch David Enoch (1901–1949) was an Israeli chess player. Biography David Enoch was born in Oświęcim in 1901. He emigrated to Berlin after the First World War. He tied for 6-7th at Berlin 1927 (Alfred Brinckmann won), and took 10th at Berlin ...

(Israel, 1901–1949) * Vladimir Epishin (Russia, born 1965) *

Stefan Erdélyi Ștefan (Stefan, Stepan) Erdélyi (17 November 1905, in Temesvár (now Timișoara) – 26 October 1968, in Reșița) was a Hungarian–Romanian chess master. Born in Temesvár (then Austria-Hungary), he lived in Romania after World War I. He took ...

(Hungary, Romania, 1905–1968) *

Hanna Ereńska Hannah or Hanna may refer to: People, biblical figures, and fictional characters * Hannah (name), a female given name of Hebrew origin * Hanna (Arabic name), a family and a male given name of Christian Arab origin * Hanna (Irish surname), a famil ...

(Poland, born 1946) * Arjun Erigaisi (India, born 2003) * Evgenij Ermenkov (Bulgaria, Palestine, born 1949) * Wilhelm Ernst (Germany, 1905–1952) * John Angus Erskine (New Zealand, Australia, 1873–1960) *

Andrey Esipenko Andrey Evgenyevich Esipenko (russian: Андрей Евгеньевич Есипенко; born 22 March 2002) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He won the European U10 Chess Championship in 2012, and both the European U16 and World U16 Chess Ch ...

(Russia, born 2002) *

Yakov Estrin Yakov Borisovich Estrin (Russian: Я́ков Бори́сович Эстрин, April 21, 1923 – February 2, 1987) was a Russian chess player, chess theoretician, writer, and World Correspondence Chess Champion who held the chess titles of Inte ...

(Russia, 1923–1987) *

Max Euwe Machgielis "Max" Euwe (; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 until 1937. He served as ...

(Netherlands, 1901–1981) * Larry M. Evans (US, 1932–2010) * William Davies Evans (Wales, 1790–1872) * Alexander Evensohn (Ukraine, 1892–1919) * Győző Exner (Hungary, 1864–1945)

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* Samuel Factor (Poland, US, 1883–1949) * Louisa Matilda Fagan (Italy, England, 1850–1931) * Hugo Fähndrich (Hungary, Austria, 1851–1930) *

Hans Fahrni Hans Fahrni (1 October 1874 in Prague – 28 May 1939 in Ostermundigen) was a Swiss chess master. In 1902, he took 12th in Hanover ( DSB Congress, B tournament, Walter John won). In 1904, he won in Coburg (DSB-Congress, B tournament). In 190 ...

(Bohemia, Switzerland, 1874–1939) * William Fairhurst (England, Scotland, New Zealand, 1903–1982) * Sammi Fajarowicz (Germany, 1908–1940) * Raphael Falk (Russia, 1856–1913) * Ernst Falkbeer (Austria-Hungary, 1819–1885) * Stefan Fazekas (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, England, 1898–1967) *

Sergey Fedorchuk Sergey Fedorchuk ( ua, Сергій Федорчук, translit=Serhiy Fedorchuk; born 14 March 1981) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002. Career In 1995 Fedorchuk won the European Youth Chess ...

(Ukraine, born 1981) *

Alexei Fedorov Alexei Fedorov (russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Фёдоров, ''Aleksey Dimitriyevich Fyodorov'', be, Аляксей Фёдараў, ''Aliaksey Fyodarau''; born 27 September 1972) is a Belarusian chess player. He was awarded th ...

(Belarus, born 1972) *

John Fedorowicz John Peter Fedorowicz (born September 27, 1958) is an American chess player and chess writer from The Bronx, New York. He learned to play chess in 1972, inspired by the Fischer–Spassky World Championship Match coverage on TV and as an enthus ...

(US, born 1958) *

Vladimir Fedoseev Vladimir Vasilyevich Fedoseev (russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Федосе́ев; born 16 February 1995) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2015, 2017, and 2021. Career Fedoseev tied for ...

(Russia, born 1995) *

Movsas Feigins Movsas Feigins or Movša Feigin (28 February 1908 – 11 August 1950) was a Latvian chess master. Biography Movsas Feigins was born in Dvinsk (then Russian Empire, now Daugavpils, Latvia). He won at Riga 1930, and was Latvian Champion in 1932 (aft ...

(Latvia, Argentina, 1908–1950) * Rafał Feinmesser (Poland, born before 1906) * Florin Felecan (Romania, US, born 1980) * Virgilio Fenoglio (Argentina, 1902–1990) *

Arthur Feuerstein Arthur William Feuerstein (December 20, 1935 – February 2, 2022) was an American chess master, and winner of the first U.S. Armed Forces Chess Championship in 1960. He represented the United States twice in FIDE The International Chess Feder ...

(US, born 1935) * Alexandr Fier (Brazil, born 1988) * Martha Fierro (Ecuador, born 1977) *

Miroslav Filip Miroslav Filip (27 October 1928 – 27 April 2009) was a Czech chess grandmaster. Filip was awarded the title of International Master in 1953, and the Grandmaster title in 1955. Filip represented Czechoslovakia in 12 consecutive Chess Olympia ...

(Czech Republic, 1928–2009) *

Anton Filippov Anton Filippov (born 6 December 1986 in Tashkent) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster (2008). He won the Asian Under-16 Chess Championship in 2001 in Doha, and the Asian U18 Championship in 2004. In 2007 he tied for 1st–3rd with Vladimir Egin ...

(Uzbekistan, born 1986) *

Reuben Fine Reuben C. Fine (October 11, 1914 – March 26, 1993) was an American chess player, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology. He was one of the strongest chess players in the world from the mi ...

(US, 1914–1993) * Ben Finegold (US, born 1969) *

Julius Finn Julius Finn (28 April 1871 – 6 December 1931) was an American chess master. Born into a Jewish family in Władysławow, Lithuania (then Russia), he came to New York City in 1887. From a humble start as a street peddler on the Lower East Side, ...

(Poland, US, 1871–1931) *

(US, born 1957) *

Alireza Firouzja Alireza Firouzja ( fa, علی‌رضا فیروزجا, ; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian and French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest ever 2800- rated player, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months ...

(Iran, France, born 2003) * Robert James Fischer (US, Iceland, 1943–2008) *

Alex Fishbein Alexander Gregory Fishbein (born May 8, 1968 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR as Aleksandr Grigoryevich Fishbein, Russian: Александр Григорьевич Фишбейн) is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandm ...

(US, born 1968) * Alexander Flamberg (Poland, 1880–1926) *

Alfred Flatow Alfred Flatow (3 October 1869 – 28 December 1942) was a Jewish German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was murdered in the Holocaust. Biography Flatow was a successful competitor in 1896. He won the parallel ba ...

(Germany, Australia, born 1937) * Glenn Flear (England, born 1959) * Ernst Flechsig (Germany, 1852–1890) * Bernhard Fleissig (Hungary, Austria, 1853–1931) * Max Fleissig (Hungary, Austria, 1845–after 1882) *

János Flesch János Flesch (30 September 1933 – 9 December 1983) was a chess Grandmaster, chess writer and coach, born in Budapest, Hungary. He is best known for claiming a world record simultaneous blindfold exhibition when he played 52 opponents in Buda ...

(Hungary, 1933–1983) *

Salo Flohr Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (November 21, 1908 – July 18, 1983) was a Czechoslovak and Soviet chess player and writer. He was among the first recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Flohr dominated many tourna ...

(Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Russia, 1908–1983) * Rodrigo Flores (Chile, 1913–2007) * Alberto Foguelman (Argentina, 1923–2013) * Jan Foltys (Czechoslovakia, 1908–1952) * George Salto Fontein (Netherlands, 1890–1963) *

Leó Forgács Leó Forgács (né Léo Fleischmann) (5 October 1881 in Budapest – 17 August 1930 in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary) was a Hungarian chess player. Biography Fleischmann began his international career at Hanover 1902 where he won ''Haupturnier B'' ...

(Hungary, 1881–1930) * Győző Forintos (Hungary, 1935–2018) * Albert Fox (US, 1881–1964) * Maurice Fox (Ukraine, Canada, 1898–1988) * Selim Franklin (England, US, 1814–1884) * Zenon Franco (Paraguay, born 1956) * Laurent Fressinet (France, born 1981) * Sergey von Freymann (Russia, Uzbekistan, 1882–1946) * Joel Fridlizius (Sweden, 1869–1963) * Daniel Fridman (Latvia, Germany, born 1976) *

Frederic Friedel Frederic Alois Friedel (born 1945) studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg without graduating. He joined the American sceptical society CSICOP (now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry). In 1985, he met Garry Kasparov and s ...

(Germany, born 1945) * Gunnar Friedemann (Estonia, 1909–1943) * David Friedgood (South Africa, England, born 1946) *

Henryk Friedman Henryk Friedman (Friedmann) (1903–1942) was a Polish chess master. He lived in Lviv (Lwów, Lemberg). In 1926–1934, Friedman won seven times in succession the Championship of Lviv but 1930, when he took 2nd place behind Stepan Popel. Friedman ...

(Poland, 1903–1942) * Alexander Fritz (Germany, 1857–1932) *

Martin Severin From Martin Severin Janus From (8 April 1828 – 6 May 1895) was a Danish chess master known for creating From's Gambit. From's Gambit is a sharp response to Bird's Opening, requiring precision from both players. Personal life Born in Nakskov, Fr ...

(Denmark, 1828–1895) * Achilles Frydman (Poland, 1905–1940) * Paulino Frydman (Poland, Argentina, 1905–1982) * Ľubomír Ftáčnik (Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, born 1957) * Andrija Fuderer (Vojvodina, Belgium, 1931–2011) *

Semyon Furman Semyon Abramovich Furman (December 1, 1920 – March 17, 1978) was a Soviet chess player and trainer of Belarussian Jewish origin. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1966. Furman is best known for developing Anatoly Karpov into a ...

(Russia, 1920–1978) * Ivana Maria Furtado (India, born 1999) *

Géza Füster Géza Füster (February 19, 1910 – December 30, 1990) was a Hungarian-Canadian chess master. A winner of the Hungarian championship, he later represented Canada at Chess Olympiads and at an interzonal tournament for the world chess champions ...

(Hungary, Canada, 1910–1990) * Roy Fyllingen (Norway, born 1975)

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Merab Gagunashvili Merab Gagunashvili ( ka, მერაბ გაგუნაშვილი; born 3 January 1985) is a Georgian chess grandmaster. He is a two-time Georgian Chess Champion. Chess career In 2001, he won the silver medal in the World Junior Ches ...

(Georgia, born 1985) * Aleksandr Galkin (Russia, born 1979) * Joseph Gallagher (England, Switzerland, born 1964) * Alisa Galliamova (Russia, born 1972) *

Surya Shekhar Ganguly Surya Sekhar Ganguly (born 24 February 1983), is an Indian chess grandmaster. His peak ELO rating was 2676 (July, 2016). Ganguly became an International Master at the age of 16 and a grandmaster at the age of 19. He has won 40 individual go ...

(India, born 1983) *

Nona Gaprindashvili Nona Gaprindashvili ( ka, ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a former Soviet and Georgian chess player, and the first woman ever to be awarded the FIDE title Grandmaster in 1978. She was the fifth women's ...

(Georgia, born 1941) *

Valeriane Gaprindashvili Valeriane Gaprindashvili ( ka, ვალერიანე გაფრინდაშვილი; born January 16, 1982) is a Georgian chess grandmaster (2002) and Georgian Champion in 2005. In 1993 and 1994, he won the European Youth Che ...

(Georgia, born 1982) * Carlos Garcia Palermo (Argentina, Italy, born 1953) * Raimundo García (Argentina, 1936–2020) *

Timur Gareev Timur Gareyev (sometimes spelled ''Gareev''; born March 3, 1988) is an Uzbeki-American chess grandmaster. He was born in Tashkent to Tatar parents. Gareyev was a part of the University of Texas at Brownsville's chess team from August 2005 to Au ...

(Uzbekistan, born 1988) *

Eldar Gasanov Eldar Gasanov (born 26 September 1982) is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (2007). Gasanov graduated from University of Kharkiv The Kharkiv University or Karazin University ( uk, Каразінський ун ...

(Ukraine, born 1982) * Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan, 1986–2014) *

Anna Gasik Anna Jakubowska ( Gasik, born 21 August 1988) is a Polish chess player who holds the Woman International Master title. She won the 2006 European Youth Chess Championship in the under 18 years old girls category. The competition was held in the ...

(Poland, born 1988) *

Einar Gausel Einar Johan Gausel (born 30 November 1963) is a Norwegian chess player and Norway's third International Grandmaster since 1995. Gausel has won three Norwegian Chess Championships, in 1992, 1996 and 2001. His Grandmaster title was gained after m ...

(Norway, born 1963) *

Viktor Gavrikov Viktor Nikolaevich Gavrikov (; 29 July 1957 – 27 April 2016) was a Lithuanian-Swiss chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1984. Gavrikov shared first place with Gintautas Piešina in the 1978 Lithuanian Championsh ...

(Lithuania, Switzerland, 1957–2016) *

Tamaz Gelashvili Tamaz Gelashvili ( ka, თამაზ გელაშვილი; born 8 April 1978) is a chess grandmaster from Georgia. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1999. His highest FIDE rating has been 2623, achieved in October 2007. His natio ...

(Georgia, born 1978) *

Boris Gelfand Boris Gelfand ( he, בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; be, Барыс Абрамавіч Гельфанд, Barys Abramavich Hel'fand; russian: Борис Абрамович Гельфанд, Boris Abramovich Gel'fand; born 24 June 1968) ...

(Belarus, Israel, born 1968) *

Efim Geller Efim Petrovich Geller (russian: Ефим Петрович Геллер, uk, Юхим Петрович Геллер; 8 March 1925 – 17 November 1998) was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Champi ...

(Ukraine, 1925–1998) * Uzi Geller (Israel, born 1931) * Petar Genov (Bulgaria, born 1970) *

Kiril Georgiev Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev ( bg, Кирил Димитров Георгиев; born 28 November 1965 in Petrich) is a Bulgarian and Macedonian chess grandmaster, and seven-time Bulgarian Chess Champion. Chess career Georgiev first caught the ...

(Bulgaria, born 1965) * Krum Georgiev (Bulgaria, born 1958) * Ernő Gereben (Hungary, Switzerland 1907–1988) *

Regina Gerlecka Regina Gerlecka (2 March 1913 – 12 March 1983) was a Polish chess player. In January 1935, she won the Warsaw championships. In June, Gerlecka won the inaugural Polish women's championship, which took place in Warsaw. Two months later, she fin ...

(Poland, 1913–1983) *

Eugênio German Eugênio Maciel German (24 October 1930 – 1 April 2001) was a Brazilian International chess master. German was born in Ubá, Brazil. In 1949, Eugênio German won a match against Jayme Schreibman Moses in Belo Horizonte (+2 –1 =1). In 1949, ...

(Brazil, 1930–2001) *

Theodor Germann Theodor Germann ( lv, Teodors Germans; 14 August 1879 – 29 January 1935) was a Latvian chess master. He tied for 6-8th at Riga 1899 (the 1st Baltic Chess Congress), took 5th at Riga 1900, took 6th at Dorpat (Tartu) 1901 (the 2nd Baltic-ch), tie ...

(Latvia, 1879–1935) *

Alik Gershon Alik Gershon (born 3 June 1980, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is an Israeli chess grandmaster. On 21 October 2010 he set the Guinness World Record for simultaneous games after playing 523 opponents in Tel Aviv. After 18 hours and 30 minutes, he w ...

(Israel, born 1980) * Edward Gerstenfeld (Poland, Ukraine 1915–1943) * Georgy Geshev (Bulgaria, 1903–1937) * Ehsan Ghaem Maghami (Iran, born 1982) * Tigran Gharamian (France, born 1984) * Ameet Ghasi (England, born 1987) * Florin Gheorghiu (Romania, born 1944) * Amédée Gibaud (France, 1885–1957) * Johannes Giersing (Denmark, 1872–1954) *

Ellen Gilbert Ellen E. Gilbert (née Strong) (April 30, 1837 – February 12, 1900) was a strong 19th century correspondence chess player, and one of the first significant women players in chess history. She became famous for her match victory against George ...

(US, 1837–1900) * Jessie Gilbert (England, 1987–2006) * Karl Gilg (Czechoslovakia, Germany, 1901–1981) * Aivars Gipslis (Latvia, 1937–2000) *

Anish Giri Anish Kumar Giri ( ne, अनीश कुमार गिरी; russian: Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Russian-born Dutch chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the title Grandmaster at ...

(Netherlands, born 1994) * Matteo Gladig (Italy, 1880–1915) *

Eduard Glass Eduard (Esra) Glass (born 1902 - died after 1980) was an Austrian chess master. He won at Vienna 1927, and shared 1st with Erich Eliskases at Innsbruck 1929 (Austrian Chess Championship). He played several times in the Trebitsch Memorial in Vienna ...

(Austria, 1902–after 1980) * Evgeny Gleizerov (Russia, born 1963) *

Igor Glek Igor Vladimirovich Glek (russian: Игорь Владимирович Глек; born 7 November 1961) is a Russian chess player, trainer, writer and theorist. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. Glek was born in Moscow. Com ...

(Russia, Germany, born 1961) *

Svetozar Gligorić Svetozar Gligorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Глигорић, 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record twelve times, and is consider ...

(Serbia, 1923–2012) *

Fernand Gobet Fernand Gobet (born February 12, 1962 in Switzerland) is a cognitive scientist and a cognitive psychologist, currently Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on the study of cognition, e ...

(Switzerland, born 1962) *

Michele Godena Michele Godena (born 30 June 1967) is an Italian chess player. He achieved the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) in 1988 and Grandmaster (GM) in 1996, following a plus score on board one for Italy at the Chess Olympiad in Yerevan. Gode ...

(Italy, born 1967) * Carl Goering (Germany, 1841–1879) * Alphonse Goetz (France, 1865–1934) * Leonid Gofshtein (Israel, 1953–2015) * Jason Goh Koon-Jong (Singapore, born 1989) * Goh Weiming (Singapore, born 1983) * Samuel Gold (Hungary, Austria, US, 1835–1920) * Alexander Goldin (Russia, born 1965) * Rusudan Goletiani (Georgia, US, born 1980) * Celso Golmayo Torriente (Cuba, Spain, 1879–1924) *

Celso Golmayo Zúpide Celso Golmayo y Zúpide (24 April 1820, in Logroño, Spain – 1 April 1898, in Havana) was a Spanish–Cuban chess master. He had been generally accepted as Cuban champion since his 1862 match defeat of Félix Sicre. He took part in the famous ...

(Spain, Cuba, 1820–1898) *

Manuel Golmayo Torriente Manuel Golmayo y de la Torriente (12 June 1883, in Havana, Cuba – 7 March 1973, in Madrid) was a Cuban-Spanish chess master. Born into a 'chess family' (father Celso Golmayo Zúpide, elder brother Celso Golmayo Torriente), he was Spanish Ch ...

(Cuba, Spain, 1883–1973) * Vitali Golod (Ukraine, Israel born 1971) *

Harry Golombek Harry Golombek OBE (1 March 1911 – 7 January 1995) was a British chess player, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished second in 1948. He was born in Lambeth to ...

(England, 1911–1995) * Alexander Goloshchapov (Ukraine, born 1978) *

Alexander Ferdinand von der Goltz Alexander Ferdinand von der Goltz (1819–1858) was a German chess master. Born in Prussia, he studied philology at University of Bonn, and was a friend of Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa. After his study, von der Goltz served as a Prussia ...

(Germany, 1819–1858) * Valentina Golubenko (Estonia, Croatia, born 1990) * Mikhail Golubev (Ukraine, born 1970) * Aleksei Goncharov (Russia, 1879–1913) *

Gong Qianyun Gong Qianyun (; born 11 March 1985) is a Singaporean chess player and holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Chess career Since Gong was seven year old, she started training in a chess academy in Guangdong, China. 2001 to 2009 Gong fi ...

(China, born 1985) * Jayson Gonzales (Philippines, born 1969) * José González García (Mexico, born 1973) *

Juan Carlos González Zamora Juan Carlos González Zamora (born June 24, 1968) is a Cuban-born Mexican chess grandmaster. He was the fourth Mexican to be awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly refer ...

(Mexico, born 1968) *

David S. Goodman David Simon Charles Goodman (born 25 February 1958 in England) is an International Master of chess, chess writer and teacher, and former journalist. He was educated at Latymer Upper School in London and at Keble College, Oxford. He has a BA an ...

(England, US, born 1958) *

Stephen J. Gordon Stephen John Gordon (born 4 September 1986) is an English chess grandmaster. Chess career In September 2004 he took a break from his A-level studies at The Blue Coat School, Oldham to compete in the thirteenth Monarch Assurance Isle of Man Inte ...

(England, born 1986) * Danny Gormally (England, born 1976) * Aleksandra Goryachkina (Russia, born 1998) * George H. D. Gossip (US, England, 1841–1907) * Solomon Gotthilf (Russia, 1903–1967) *

Hermann von Gottschall Hermann von Gottschall (16 October 1862, Posen – 7 March 1933, Görlitz) was a German chess master, son of the poet Rudolf Gottschall (since 1877: ''von Gottschall'') who was also a noted chess player. He took 3rd at Nuremberg 1883 (the 3rd DS ...

(Germany, 1862–1933) *

Boris Grachev Boris Pavlovich Grachev (russian: Борис Павлович Грачёв; born 27 March 1986) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Grachev competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2009, 2011, 2015, and 20 ...

(Russia, born 1986) * Alexander Graf (Uzbekistan, Germany, born 1962) * Sonja Graf (Germany, Argentina, US, 1908–1965) *

Julio Granda Zuniga Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga (born February 25, 1967) is a Peruvian chess grandmaster and four-time champion of the Americas. Career Born in Camaná, he learned how to play chess at the age of five. In 1980 he won the World Infant Cup in M ...

(Peru, born 1967) * Roberto Grau (Argentina, 1900–1944) * Gioachino Greco (Italy, 1600 – c. 1634) *

Ewen McGowen Green Ewen McGowen Green (born 4 April 1950) is a freelance chess teacher in Auckland, New Zealand. Green attained FIDE Master status in 1992. In 1979–80 he won the New Zealand Chess Championship along with Vernon A. Small and Ortvin Sarapu and ...

(New Zealand, born 1950) * Alon Greenfeld (US, Israel, born 1964) *

John Grefe John Alan Grefe (September 6, 1947 – December 22, 2013) was an American International Master of chess. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, his best result was a tie for first with Lubomir Kavalek in the 1973 U.S. Championship. FIDE awarded him the ...

(US, 1947–2013) *

Bernhard Gregory Bernhard Gregory ( in Tallinn – 2 February 1939 in Berlin) was a Baltic German chess master. Life Bernhard Gregory was born on in Reval, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire (now Tallinn, Estonia) as a son of advocate Ferdinand Oscar Gregory ...

(Estonia, Germany, 1879–1939) * Gisela Kahn Gresser (US, 1906–2000) * Helgi Grétarsson (Iceland, born 1977) * Richard Griffith (England, 1872–1955) * Nikolay Grigoriev (Russia, 1895–1935) *

Avetik Grigoryan Avetik Grigoryan ( hy, Ավետիք Գրիգորյան, born January 27, 1989) is an Armenian chess Grandmaster (2008). He was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1989. He achieved his International Master title at the age of 18 and became a Grandmaster ...

(Armenia, born 1989) * Vincent Grimm (Austria, Hungary, 1800–1872) *

Alexander Grischuk Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Grischuk was the Russian champion in 2009. He is also a three-time world blitz chess champion (in 2006, 2012 and 2015). He has competed in five Candidates ...

(Russia, born 1983) *

Efstratios Grivas Efstratios Grivas (born March 30, 1966) is a Greek chess player who holds the titles of Grandmaster, FIDE Senior Trainer, International Arbiter, and FIDE International Organizer. Early years He was born in Egio, Achaia and grew up in Athens, ...

(Greece, born 1966) * Henri Grob (Switzerland, 1904–1974) * Aristide Gromer (France, 1908–1966) * Adriaan de Groot (Netherlands, 1914–2006) *

Ernst Grünfeld ---- Ernst Franz Grünfeld (November 21, 1893 – April 3, 1962) was an Austrian chess player and writer, mainly on opening theory. He was among the inaugural recipients of the grandmaster title in 1950. Life and career Grünfeld was bo ...

(Austria, 1893–1962) * Yehuda Gruenfeld (Poland, Israel, born 1956) * James Grundy (England, US, 1855–1919) * Izaak Grynfeld (Poland, Israel, born 1920) * Gu Xiaobing (China, born 1985) * Ion Gudju (Romania, 1897–1988) *

Eduard Gufeld Eduard Yefimovich Gufeld (russian: Эдуа́рд Ефи́мович Гу́фельд; 19 March 1936 – 23 September 2002) was a Soviet International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess author. Chess career Gufeld began participating in chess tou ...

(Ukraine, US, 1936–2002) *

Ilse Guggenberger Ilse D. Guggenberger (née de Caro, born 1 April 1942) is a Colombian chess master. She was the Colombian Chess Championship, Colombian Women's Champion in 1965, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1984. She played six times for Colombia in ...

(Colombia, born 1942) * Carlos Guimard (Argentina, 1913–1998) * Vidit Gujrathi (India, born 1994) * Boris Gulko (Russia, US, born 1947) *

Gunnar Gundersen Gunnar Gundersen may refer to: *Gunnar Gundersen (politician) (born 1956), Norwegian politician and Olympic swimmer * Gunnar S. Gundersen (1921–1983), Norwegian modernist painter. *Gunnar Gundersen (chess player) (1882–1943), Australian chess ...

(France, Norway, Australia, 1882–1943) *

Isidor Gunsberg Isidore ( ; also spelled Isador, Isadore and Isidor) is an English and French masculine given name. The name is derived from the Greek name ''Isídōros'' (Ἰσίδωρος) and can literally be translated to "gift of Isis." The name has survived ...

(Hungary, England, 1854–1930) * Abhijeet Gupta (India, born 1989) * Dmitry Gurevich (Russia, US, born 1956) * Ilya Gurevich (Ukraine, US, born 1972) * Mikhail Gurevich (Ukraine, Belgium, Turkey, born 1959) * Bukhuti Gurgenidze (Georgia, 1933–2008) * Jan Gustafsson (Germany, born 1979) *

Emanuel Guthi Emanuel Guthi (born 1938) is an Israeli chess master. He played twice for Israel in Chess Olympiads. * In 1960, at second reserve board in 14th Chess Olympiad in Leipzig (+7 –2 =4); * In 1964, at first reserve board in 16th Chess Olympiad ...

(Israel, born 1938) * Lev Gutman (Latvia, Israel, Germany, born 1945) *

Fritz Gygli Fritz Gygli (12 November 1896 in Villachern – 27 April 1980 in Zürich) was a Swiss chess master. He tied for 3rd-4th at St. Gallen 1920, tied for 4-8th at Neuchâtel 1922, shared 2nd at Interlaken 1924, took 2nd at Zurich 1925, tied for 3rd- ...

(Switzerland, 1896–1980) *

Alfred William Gyles Alfred William Gyles (7 March 1888 – 15 May 1967) was New Zealand chess champion on two occasions—1930/31 and 1935/36. Gyles was born in Wellington, New Zealand Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Ze ...

(New Zealand, 1888–1967)

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* Anna Hahn (Latvia, US, born 1976) * Vitaly Halberstadt (Ukraine, France, 1903–1967) * Alexander Halprin (Russia, Austria, 1868–1921) * Tunç Hamarat (Turkey, Austria, born 1946) * Hichem Hamdouchi (Morocco, born 1972) * Rani Hamid (Bangladesh, born 1944) * Jon Ludvig Hammer (Norway, born 1990) * Carl Hamppe (Switzerland, Austria, 1814–1876) *

Milton Hanauer Milton Loeb Hanauer (5 August 1908 – 16 April 1988) was a public school principal, chess master and Marshall Chess Club official. Born in Harrison, New York, He is best known for running the New York school competition that became known as the Ha ...

(US, 1908–1988) * James Hanham (US, 1840–1923) * Hermann von Hanneken (Germany, 1810–1886) * Curt Hansen (Denmark, born 1964) * Wilhelm Hanstein (Germany, 1811–1850) * Khosro Harandi (Iran, 1950–2019) * Dronavalli Harika (India, born 1991) * Pendyala Harikrishna (India, born 1986) * Max Harmonist (Germany, 1864–1907) * Daniel Harrwitz (Germany, France, 1823–1884) *

William Hartston William Roland Hartston (born 12 August 1947) is an English journalist who wrote the Beachcomber column in the ''Daily Express''. He is also a chess player who played competitively from 1962 to 1987 and earned a highest Elo rating of 2485. He ...

(England, born 1947) * Wolfgang Hasenfuss (Latvia, 1900–1944) * Stewart Haslinger (England, born 1981) * Arnaud Hauchard (France, born 1971) * Cécile Haussernot (France, born 1998) * Kornél Havasi (Hungary, 1892–1945) * Jonathan Hawkins (England, born 1983) * Mark Hebden (England, born 1958) *

Bartłomiej Heberla Bartłomiej Heberla (born 19 June 1985) is a Polish chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. As of January 2021, he was ranked 15th among all Polish players. Chess career Bartłomiej Heberla was the Polish U16 champion in 2001 ...

(Poland, born 1985) *

Jean Hébert Jean Hébert (born November 11, 1957 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian chess player, writer, journalist, and commentator who holds the ICCF title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and the FIDE title of International Master. He is the 2009 ...

(Canada, born 1957) * Hans-Joachim Hecht (Germany, born 1939) *

Jonny Hector Jonny Hector (born 13 February 1964) is a Swedish chess player. In chess, he received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1991. In correspondence chess, he earned the ICCF title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1999. Born in Malmö, Sweden, Hector ...

(Sweden, born 1964) * Fenny Heemskerk (Netherlands, 1919–2007) *

Wolfgang Heidenfeld Wolfgang Heidenfeld (; 29 May 1911 – 3 August 1981) was a German chess player and chess composer. Heidenfeld was born in Berlin. He was forced to move from Germany to South Africa in the 1930s because he was a Jew. There, he won the South A ...

(Germany, South Africa, Ireland, 1911–1981) * Jakub Heilpern (Poland, 1850–1910) * Herbert Heinicke (Brazil, Germany, 1905–1988) * Arved Heinrichsen (Lithuania, 1879–1900) * Dan Heisman (US, born 1950) * Grigory Helbach (Russia, 1863–1930) * Karl Helling (Germany, 1904–1937) * Johan Hellsten (Sweden, born 1975) * Hermann Helms (US, 1870–1963) * Ron Henley (US, born 1956) *

Moriz Henneberger Moriz Henneberger (16 October 1878, Bümpliz – 7 April 1959, Basel) was a Swiss chess master and chess composer. He was Swiss Champion in 1899, 1906 (jointly), 1909, 1911 (jointly), and 1914 (jointly). He played for Switzerland in the 2nd Che ...

(Switzerland, 1878–1959) *

Walter Henneberger Walter Henneberger (19 May 1883, Ennenda – 15 January 1969, Zurich) was a Swiss chess master. He was Swiss Champion in 1904, 1906 (jointly), 1911 (jointly), and 1912. He took 16th at The Hague 1928 ( World Amateur Chess Championship, Max Euwe w ...

(Switzerland, 1883–1969) *

Deen Hergott Deen Hergott (born October 23, 1962, in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian International Master of Chess. By profession, he is a mathematician, computer programmer, and chess journalist. Early years Deen Hergott learned chess in his hometown o ...

(Canada, born 1962) * Sigmund Herland (Romania, 1865–1954) *

Róża Herman Róża Maria Herman (16 January 1902 – 7 March 1995) was a Polish chess player. She was awarded the title International Woman Master by FIDE in 1950. In June 1935, she took 4th place at the first Polish women's championship, held in Warsaw, w ...

(Poland, 1902–1995) *

Gilberto Hernández Guerrero Gilberto Hernández Guerrero (born February 4, 1970 in Ébano, San Luis Potosí) is a chess Grandmaster from Mexico. On the July 2008 FIDE rating list he has an Elo rating of 2550, making him the second highest ranked player on the Mexican EL ...

(Mexico, born 1970) * Robert Hess (US, born 1991) * Tiger Hillarp Persson (Sweden, born 1970) *

Wilhelm Hilse Wilhelm Heinrich Hilse (26 June 1878 – 30 November 1940) was a German chess master. He tied for 12/13th at Coburg 1904 ( DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier A'', Augustin Neumann won), shared 1st at Bremen 1906 (''Quadrangular''), took 4th at Hannover ...

(Germany, 1878–1940) *

Moshe Hirschbein Moshe Hirschbein (var. Hirszbein, Hirszbain, Hirszbajn) (1894 – 1940) was a Polish chess master. Born into a Jewish family, he lived in Łódź, playing in many local tournaments. In 1912, he took 7th (Efim Bogoljubow won), twice took 4th (''Q ...

(Poland, 1894–1940) *

Moses Hirschel Maskil Moses Hirschel (13 September 1754 – 24 June 1818 Breslau) was a German writer, polemicist and chess author. Hirschel was a representative of the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, in Kingdom of Prussia toward the end of the 18th century. ...

(Germany, 1754 – c. 1823) * Philipp Hirschfeld (Germany, 1840–1896) * Azahari Siti Nur Fatimah Hj (Brunei, born 1992) * Jóhann Hjartarson (Iceland, born 1963) * Hoang Thanh Trang (Vietnam, Hungary, born 1980) * Albert Hodges (US, 1861–1944) *

Julian Hodgson Julian Michael "Jules" Hodgson (born 25 July 1963 in London) is a British chess player, grandmaster, and former British chess champion. Biography He first came to the notice of the chess world for his achievements as a junior, whilst at Ha ...

(England, born 1963) * Leopold Hoffer (Hungary, France, England, 1842–1913) *

Karl Holländer Karl Holländer (Hollaender, Hollander) (born 2 August 1868 – died ?) was a German chess master. He lived in Berlin, where he played in local tournaments. He tied for 11-12th in 1888 (Horatio Caro won), took 5th in 1889 (Theodor von Scheve won), ...

(Germany, 1868–? ) * Edith Holloway (England, 1868–1956) *

Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska (5 February 1931 – 29 November 2006) was a Polish chess player. She was awarded the titles Woman International Master in 1955 and Woman Grandmaster in 1984 by FIDE. Born in Lviv, she was nine-time Polish women's cham ...

(Poland, 1931–2006) *

Walther von Holzhausen Walther von Holzhausen (29 May 1876, Opava – 9 August 1935, Magdeburg) was a German chess master and problemist. Born in Troppau (Opava), then Austrian Silesia, as the son of an Austrian officer (although his family lived in Frankfurt am M ...

(Austria, Germany, 1876–1935) *

Baldur Hönlinger Baldur Hönlinger (Hoenlinger) (7 July 1905 – 12 March 1990) was an Austrian chess master who participated in tournaments and competitions from the 1920s to the 1950s. A native of Vienna, Baldur Hönlinger played at first board (+8 -3 =4) for Au ...

(Austria, Germany, 1905–1990) * Bill Hook (US, British Virgin Islands, 1925–2010) *

Vlastimil Hort Vlastimil Hort (born 12 January 1944) is a German chess Grandmaster. During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the world's strongest players and reached the 1977–78 Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship, but never qualified fo ...

(Czechoslovakia, Germany, born 1944) *

Israel Horowitz Israel Albert Horowitz (often known as I. A. Horowitz or Al Horowitz) (November 15, 1907 – January 18, 1973) was an American International Master of chess. He is most remembered today for the books he wrote about chess. In 1989 he was induct ...

(US, 1907–1973) *

Bernhard Horwitz Bernhard Horwitz (1807 in Neustrelitz – 1885 in London) was a German and British chess master, chess writer and chess composer. Horwitz was born in Neustrelitz and went to school in Berlin, where he studied art. From 1837 to 1843, he was par ...

(Germany, England, 1807–1885) *

Henry Hosmer Henry Hosmer (April 7, 1837 – January 1, 1892) Jeremy Gaige, ''Chess Personalia: A Biobibliography'', McFarland & Company, 1987, p. 180. . was a nineteenth-century American chess master. He is known to have played in only two significant chess ...

(US, 1837–1892) *

Enamul Hossain Enamul Hossain (born 1981) is the fifth chess player from Bangladesh to become a Grandmaster. No other player from his country has earned the title since he attained it in 2008. He defeated Pavel Eljanov in a two-game match in Chess World Cup ...

(Bangladesh, born 1981) * Hou Yifan (China, born 1994) *

Jovanka Houska Jovanka Houska (born 10 June 1980) is an English chess player with the titles International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a nine-time British Women's Chess Champion. Formative years Born in south London, her family name stem ...

(England, born 1980) *

Clarence Howell Clarence Seaman Howell (2 April 1881, New York City – 27 October 1936) was an American chess master. He took 4th at Buffalo 1901 (Harry Pillsbury won), and played in several cable matches USA vs. England (1901, 1902, 1903, 1907, 1908) and Brookl ...

(US, 1881–1936) * David Howell (England, born 1990) *

James Howell James Howell (c. 1594 – 1666) was a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age. The son of a Welsh clergyman, he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Ho ...

(England, born 1967) * Zbyněk Hráček (Czech Republic, born 1970) * Karel Hromádka (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, 1887–1956) * Vincenz Hruby (Bohemia, Austria, Italy, 1856–1917) * Hsu Li Yang (Singapore, born 1972) *

Huang Qian Huang Qian (; born July 18, 1986) is a Chinese chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won the Chinese Women's Chess Championship in 2012 and the Asian Women's Chess Championship in 2013. Huang competed in the ...

(China, born 1986) *

Robert Hübner Robert Hübner (born November 6, 1948) is a German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist. He was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s. Chess career At eighteen, he was joint winner of the West German Ch ...

(Germany, born 1948) * Werner Hug (Switzerland, born 1952) * Krunoslav Hulak (Croatia, 1951–2015) *

Koneru Humpy Koneru Humpy (born 31 March 1987) is an Indian chess player best known for winning the FIDE Women's rapid chess championship in 2019. In 2002, she became the youngest woman ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster (GM) at the age of 15 years ...

(India, born 1987) *

Harriet Hunt Harriet Vaughan Hunt (born 4 February 1978 in Oxford) is an English chess player and five-time British Women's Chess Champion (which she most recently won in October 2021, 22 years after her fourth win). Having trained as a plant scientist a ...

(England, born 1978) * Alexander Huzman (Ukraine, Israel, born 1962)

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* Ildar Ibragimov (Russia, US, born 1967) * Bella Igla (Russia, Israel, born 1985) * Juan Iliesco (Romania, Argentina, 1898–1968) *

Rolando Illa Rolando Illa (6 September 1880, New York City – 3 May 1937, Buenos Aires) was a Cuban–Argentine chess master. Born in New York into a Cuban family, he moved to Argentina and was naturalized in 1904. He was a co-founder of the ''Club Argentino ...

(US, Cuba, Argentina, 1880–1937) * Miguel Illescas Córdoba (Spain, born 1965) * Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky (Russia, 1894–1941) * Ernesto Inarkiev (Kyrgyzstan, Russia, born 1985) * Viorel Iordăchescu (Moldova, born 1977) *

Nana Ioseliani Nana Ioseliani ( ka, ნანა იოსელიანი; born 12 February 1962) is a Georgian chess player. She was awarded by FIDE the Woman Grandmaster title in 1980 and the International Master title in 1993. Already in 1978 she was s ...

(Georgia, born 1962) * Alexander Ipatov (Ukraine, Spain, Turkey, born 1993) * Andrei Istrățescu (Romania, born 1985) * Saidali Iuldachev (Uzbekistan, born 1968) *

Vassily Ivanchuk Vasyl Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk ( uk, Василь Михайлович Іванчук; born March 18, 1969), also transliterated as Vassily Ivanchuk, is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1988. A leading ...

(Ukraine, born 1969) *

Ivan Ivanišević Ivan Ivanišević ( sr-cyr, Иван Иванишевић; born 23 November 1977) is a Serbian chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster in 2000. He won the Serbian Chess Championship in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2017 and 2019. He p ...

(Serbia, born 1977) * Alexander Ivanov (US, born 1956) *

Igor Ivanov Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov (born 23 September 1945) is a Russian politician who was Foreign Minister of Russia from 1998 to 2004 under both the Yeltsin and the Putin administrations. Early life Ivanov was born in 1945 in Moscow to a Russian fathe ...

(Russia, Canada, US, 1947–2005) *

Božidar Ivanović Božidar Ivanović ( Montenegrin Cyrillic: Божидар Ивановић; born in Cetinje, Montenegro (then Yugoslavia), 24 August 1946) is a chess Grandmaster who now represents Montenegro, a politician, and a chess official. He has served ...

(Montenegro, born 1949) *

Borislav Ivkov Borislav Ivkov (12 November 1933 – 14 February 2022) was a Serbian chess Grandmaster. He was a World championship candidate in 1965, and played in four more Interzonal tournaments, in 1967, 1970, 1973, and 1979. Ivkov was a three-time Yugos ...

(Serbia, born 1933) * Stefan Izbinsky (Ukraine, 1884–1912) *

Zviad Izoria Zviad Izoria (Georgian: ზვიად იზორია, born 6 January 1984 in Georgia) is a chess grandmaster playing for the United States. Zviad is a winner of HB Global Chess Challenge and a $50,000 in prize money. He played on the Geor ...

(Georgia, born 1984)

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Jana Jacková Jana Jacková (born 6 August 1982) is a Czech chess player. She played for the Czech team in following Chess Olympiads: 33rd Chess Olympiad, Elista 1998, 34th Chess Olympiad, Istanbul 2000, 35th Chess Olympiad, Bled 2002, 36th Chess Olympiad, Cal ...

(Czech Republic, born 1982) * Egil Jacobsen (Denmark, 1897–1923) * Ernst Jacobson (Sweden, ?–?) *

Carl Jaenisch Carl Ferdinand von Jaenisch (russian: Карл Андреевич Яниш, ''Karl Andreyevich Yanish''; April 11, 1813 – March 7, 1872) was a Finnish and Russian chess player and theorist. In the 1840s, he was among the top players in the ...

(Finland, Russia, 1813–1872) * Charles Jaffe (Russia, US, 1883–1941) * Jerzy Jagielski (Poland, Germany, 1897–1955) * Dmitry Jakovenko (Russia, born 1983) * Lora Jakovleva (Russia, born 1932) * Dragoljub Janošević (Serbia, 1923–1993) * Chaim Janowski (Poland, Germany, Japan, c.1868–1935) *

Dawid Janowski Dawid Markelowicz Janowski (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled ''David'') was a Polish-born French chess player. The Janowski variations of the Old Indian Defense and of the Queen's Gambit Declined are named after him. Biography ...

(Poland, France, 1868–1927) * Vlastimil Jansa (Czech Republic, born 1942) * Nicolai Jasnogrodsky (Ukraine, England, US, 1859–1914) * Carlos Jáuregui (Chile, Canada, 1932–2013) *

Florian Jenni Florian Jenni (born 24 March 1980 in Lieli) is a Swiss chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It ...

(Switzerland, born 1980) *

Eleazar Jiménez Eleazar Jiménez Zerquera (25 June 1928 – 6 May 2000) was a Cuban chess master. Jiménez won the Cuban Championship five times, in 1957, 1960, 1963, 1965, and 1967. He won the Pan American Chess Championship three times, in 1963, 1966 and 1970 ...

(Cuba, 1928–2000) *

Baadur Jobava Baadur Jobava ( ka, ბაადურ ჯობავა; born 26 November 1983) is a Georgian chess grandmaster and three-time Georgian champion (2003, 2007, 2012). He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2004 and in the FIDE Wo ...

(Georgia, born 1983) * Leif Erlend Johannessen (Norway, born 1980) *

Svein Johannessen Svein Johannessen (17 October 1937 – 27 November 2007) was a Norwegian chess player. He became Norway's second International Master, after Olaf Barda, in 1961. He won four Norwegian Chess Championships, in 1959, 1962, 1970 and 1973. According ...

(Norway, 1937–2007) *

Darryl Johansen Darryl Keith Johansen (born 4 February 1959 in Melbourne) is an Australian chess grandmaster. He has won the Australian Chess Championship a record six times (in 1984, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2002, and 2012), and represented Australia at fourteen ...

(Australia, born 1959) * Walter John (Poland, Germany, 1879–1940) * Hans Johner (Switzerland, 1889–1975) * Paul Johner (Switzerland, 1887–1938) *

Gawain Jones Gawain Christopher Bernard Jones (born 11 December 1987) is an English chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. He won the British Chess Championship in 2012 and 2017. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013, ...

(England, born 1987) *

Iolo Jones Iolo Ceredig Jones (2 August 1947-6th September 2021) was a Welsh former international chess player born in Llandysul. He is notable as the co-author of the only Welsh language chess manual, , which he wrote with his father, T. Llew Jones. ...

(Wales, 1947–2021) * Paul Journoud (France, 1821–1882) * Ju Wenjun (China, born 1991) * Max Judd (Poland, US, 1851–1906) *

Klaus Junge Klaus Junge (1 January 1924 – 17 April 1945) was one of the youngest Chilean-German chess masters. In several tournaments during the 1940s he held his own among the world's leading players. An officer in the Wehrmacht, he died during the Ba ...

(Chile, Germany, 1924–1945) *

Otto Junge Carlos Otto Junge (1887, Concepción, Chile – 1978, Germany) was a Chilean–German chess master. He was Chilean Champion in 1922. The Junge family moved from Chile to Germany in 1930. They lived in Hamburg, and played (father and son) in ''Ha ...

(Chile, Germany, 1887–1978) * Miervaldis Jurševskis (Latvia, Canada, 1921–2014)

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Bernhard Kagan Bernhard Kagan (15 August 1866 – 27 November 1932, Berlin) was a German chess player, writer, publisher, editor, and organizer. Biography Born in Poland, Kagan lived in Berlin, where he played in local tournaments. He took 7th in 1898, tied fo ...

(Poland, Germany, 1866–1932) * Shimon Kagan (Israel, born 1942) * Victor Kahn (Russia, France, 1889–1971) *

Gregory Kaidanov Gregory Kaidanov (russian: Григорий Зиновьевич Кайда́нов, ; born 11 October 1959) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster. He was inducted into the United States Chess Hall of Fame in 2013. His peak rating is 2646 ...

(Ukraine, Russia, US, born 1959) * Osmo Kaila (Finland, 1916–1991) *

Charles Kalme Charles Ivars Kalme ( lv, Kārlis Ivars Kalme, November 15, 1939 – March 20, 2002) was a Latvians, Latvian United States, American chess master and a mathematician. Kalme was born in Riga, Latvia on November 15, 1939. At the conclusion of Wo ...

(Latvia, Germany, US, 1939–2003) *

Gata Kamsky Gata Kamsky ( tt-Cyrl, Гата Камский, italics=no; russian: Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion. Kamsky reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Ch ...

(Russia, US, born 1974) *

Ilya Kan Ilya Abramovich Kan (russian: Илья Абрамович Кан; 4 May 1909 – 12 December 1978) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Master (IM) by FIDE in 1950. Kan was born in Samara. He played ten times ...

(Russia, 1909–1978) * Marcus Kann (Austria, 1820–1886) * Albert Kapengut (Belarus, US, born 1944) *

Julio Kaplan Julio Argentino Kaplan Pera (born 25 July 1950, Argentina) is a Puerto Rican chess player, former world junior chess champion as well as software developer and founder of Heuristic Software. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1964 to Pu ...

(Argentina, Puerto Rico, US, born 1950) * Darja Kapš (Slovenia, born 1981) *

Mona May Karff Mona May Karff (née Minna Ratner; 20 October 1908 – 10 January 1998) was an American chess player. She dominated U.S. women's chess in the 1940s and early 1950s: she held seven U.S. Women's Chess Champion titles and four consecutive U.S. O ...

(Moldova, Russia, Palestine, US, 1914–1998) *

Sergey Karjakin Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin, . (born 12 January 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster (formerly representing Ukraine). A chess prodigy, he previously held the record for the world's youngest ever grandmaster, (until it was eventually taken ...

(Ukraine, born 1990) * Anastasiya Karlovich (Ukraine, born 1982) *

Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov ( rus, links=no, Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈkarpəf; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Che ...

(Russia, born 1951) *

Isaac Kashdan Isaac Kashdan (November 19, 1905 in New York City – February 20, 1985 in Los Angeles) was an American chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was twice U.S. Open champion (1938, 1947). He played five times for the United States in chess Olymp ...

(US, 1905–1985) *

Rustam Kasimdzhanov Rustam Kasimdzhanov; russian: Рустам Касымджанов (born 5 December 1979) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Champion (2004-05). He was Asian champion in 1998. In addition to his tournament play, Kasimdzhan ...

(Uzbekistan, born 1979) * Garry Kasparov (Azerbaijan, Russia, born 1963) * Genrikh Kasparyan (Armenia, 1910–1995) * Miroslav Katětov (Czechoslovakia, 1918–1995) * Arthur Kaufmann (Romania, Austria, 1872–1940) * Lubomir Kavalek (Czechoslovakia, US, 1943–2021) * Raymond Keene (England, born 1948) * Hermann Keidanski (Poland, Germany, 1865–1938) * Dieter Keller (Switzerland, born 1936) * Edith Keller-Herrmann (Germany, 1921–2010) * Rudolf Keller (Germany, 1917–1993) * Brian Kelly (chess player), Brian Kelly (Ireland, born 1978) * Emil Kemény (Hungary, US, 1860–1925) * Edvīns Ķeņģis (Latvia, born 1959) * Hugh Alexander Kennedy (Ireland, England, 1809–1878) * Paul Keres (Estonia, 1916–1975) * Alexander Kevitz (US, 1902–1981) * Rohini Khadilkar (India, born 1963) * Alexander Khalifman (Russia, born 1966) * Mir Sultan Khan (India, Pakistan, 1905–1966) * Andrei Kharlov (Russia, 1968–2014) * Murtas Kazhgaleyev (Kazakhstan, born 1973) * Abram Khavin (Ukraine, 1914–1974) * Igor Khenkin (Russia, Germany, born 1968) * Denis Khismatullin (Russia, born 1984) * Ratmir Kholmov (Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, 1925–2006) * Natalia Khoudgarian (Russia, Canada, born 1975) * Nino Khurtsidze (Georgia, 1975–2018) * Feliks Kibbermann (Estonia, 1902–1993) * Georg Kieninger (Germany, 1902–1975) * Lionel Kieseritzky (Estonia, France, 1806–1853) * R.K. Kieseritzky (Estonia, Russia, c. 1870 – after 1922) * Daniel King (chess player), Daniel King (England, born 1963) * Olof Kinnmark (Sweden, 1897–1970) * Ove Kinnmark (Sweden, 1944–2015) * Georg Klaus (Germany, 1912–1974) * Jan Kleczyński Jr. (Poland, 1875–1939) * Jan Kleczyński Sr. (Poland, 1837–1895) * Ernest Klein (chess player), Ernst Klein (Austria, England, 1910–1990) * Paul Klein (chess player), Paul Klein (Germany, Ecuador, 1915–1992) * Josef Kling (Germany, 1811–1876) * Jānis Klovāns (Latvia, 1935–2010) * Gyula Kluger (Hungary, 1914–1994) * Hans Kmoch (Austria, Netherlands, US, 1894–1973) * Rainer Knaak (Germany, born 1953) * Viktor Knorre (Russia, 1840–1919) * Mikhail Kobalia (Russia, born 1978) * Alexander Koblencs (Latvia, 1916–1993) * Berthold Koch (Germany, 1899–1988) * Alexander Kochyev (Russia, born 1956) * Artur Kogan (Ukraine, Israel, born 1974) * Boris Kogan (Russia, US, 1940–1993) * Anton Kohler (Germany, c. 1907–1961) * Stanisław Kohn (Poland, 1895–1940) * Friedrich Köhnlein (Germany, 1879–1916) * Dmitry Kokarev (chess player), Dmitry Kokarev (Russia, born 1982) * Atanas Kolev (Bulgaria, born 1967) * Ignác Kolisch (Slovakia, Austria-Hungary, 1837–1899) * Jakub Kolski (Poland, 1899–1941) * Georges Koltanowski (Belgium, US, 1903–2000) * Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov (Poland, Serbia, born 1938) * Humpy Koneru (India, born 1987) * Imre König (Hungary, Yugoslavia, England, US, 1899–1992) * Jerzy Konikowski (Poland, Germany, born 1947) * Alexander Konstantinopolsky (Ukraine, 1910–1990) * Danny Kopec (US, 1954–2016) * Viktor Korchnoi (Russia, Switzerland, 1931–2016) * Akshayraj Kore (India 1988) * Anton Korobov (Ukraine, born 1985) * Imre Korody (Hungary, 1905–1969) * Alexey Korotylev (Russia, born 1977) * Yona Kosashvili (Georgia, Israel, born 1970) * Gary Koshnitsky (Moldova, Australia, 1907–1999) * Nadezhda Kosintseva (Russia, born 1985) * Tatiana Kosintseva (Russia, born 1986) * Alexandra Kosteniuk (Russia, born 1984) * Boris Kostić (Austria-Hungary, Yugoslavia, 1887–1963) * Jan Kotrč (Czechoslovakia, 1862–1943) * Vasilios Kotronias (Greece, born 1964) * Pavel Kotsur (Kazakhstan, born 1974) * Alexander Kotov (Russia, 1913–1981) * Čeněk Kottnauer (Czechoslovakia, England, 1910–1996) * Bachar Kouatly (Syria, Liban, France, born 1958) * Vlatko Kovačević (Croatia, born 1942) * Alexander Kovchan (Ukraine, born 1983) * Boris Koyalovich (Russia, 1867–1941) * Valentina Kozlovskaya (Russia, born 1938) * Zdenko Kožul (Croatia, born 1966) * Jesse Kraai (US, born 1972) * Yair Kraidman (Israel, born 1932) * Adolf Kraemer (Germany, 1898–1972) * Adolf Kramer (Germany, 1871–1934) * Haije Kramer (Netherlands, 1917–2004) * Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, born 1975) * Michał Krasenkow (Russia, Poland, born 1963) * Orla Hermann Krause (Denmark, 1867–1935) * Martyn Kravtsiv (Ukraine, born 1990) * Boris Kreiman (Russia, US, born 1976) * Josef Krejcik (Austria, 1885–1957) * Leon Kremer (Poland, 1901–1941) * Martin Kreuzer (Germany, born 1962) * Ljuba Kristol (Russia, Israel, born 1944) * Stanislav Kriventsov (Russia, US, born 1973) * Nikolai Krogius (Russia, born 1930) * Paul Krüger (chess player), Paul Krüger (Germany, 1871–1939) * Irina Krush (Ukraine, US, born 1983) * Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukraine, born 1986) * Arvid Kubbel (Russia, 1889–1938) * Leonid Kubbel (Russia, 1891–1942) * Sergey Kudrin (Russia, US, born 1959) * Adam Kuligowski (Poland, born 1955) * Kaido Külaots (Estonia, born 1976) * Abhijit Kunte (India, born 1977) * Abraham Kupchik (Belarus, US, 1892–1970) * Viktor Kupreichik (Belarus, 1949–2017) * Bojan Kurajica (Bosnia and Herzegovina, born 1947) * Igor Kurnosov (Russia, 1985–2013) * Alla Kushnir (Russia, Israel, 1941–2013) * Gennady Kuzmin (Russia, 1946–2020) * Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukraine, born 1990) * Jan Kvicala (Czechoslovakia, 1868–1939)

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* Kateryna Lahno (Ukraine, born 1989) * Bogdan Lalić (Yugoslavia/Croatia, England, born 1964) * Erwin l'Ami (Netherlands, born 1985) * Frank Lamprecht (Germany, born 1968) * Konstantin Landa (Russia, 1972–2022) * Salo Landau (Poland, Netherlands, 1903–1944) * Gary Lane (chess player), Gary Lane (England, Australia, born 1964) * Lisa Lane (US, born 1938) * Max Lange (Germany, 1832–1899) * Salomon Langleben (Poland, 1862–1939) * Bent Larsen (Denmark, 1935–2010) * Ernst Larsson (Sweden, 1897–1963) * Baron Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (Prussia/Germany, 1818–1899) * Berthold Lasker (Germany, 1860–1928) * Edward Lasker (Poland, Germany, US, 1885–1981) * Emanuel Lasker (Germany, Russia, US, 1868–1941) * Milda Lauberte (Latvia, 1918–2009) * Leho Laurine (Estonia, Sweden, 1904–1998) * Jessica Lauser (American) * Joël Lautier (Canada, France, born 1973) * Darwin Laylo (Philippines, born 1980) * Frédéric Lazard (France, 1883–1948) * Gustave Lazard (France, 1876–1949) * Milunka Lazarević (Serbia, 1932–2018) * Viktor Láznička (Czech Republic, born 1988) * Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam, born 1991) * Sergey Lebedev (chess player), Sergey Lebedev (Russia, 1868–1942) * Peter Lee (chess player), Peter Lee (England, born 1943) * Peter Leepin (Switzerland, 1920–1995) * Legall de Kermeur (France, 1702–1792) * Anatoly Lein (Russia, US, 1931–2018) * Péter Lékó (Hungary, born 1979) * Giovanni Leonardo (Italy, 1542–1587) * Paul Saladin Leonhardt (Poland, Germany, 1877–1934) * Alex Lenderman (US, born 1989) * James A. Leonard (US, 1841–1862) * Konstantin Lerner (Ukraine, 1950–2011) * Jean-Pierre Le Roux (chess player), Jean-Pierre Le Roux (France, born 1982) * Alexandre Lesiège (Canada, born 1975) * Norman Lessing (US, 1911–2001) * René Letelier (Chile, 1915–2006) * Grigory Levenfish (Poland, Russia, 1889–1961) * Aleksandr Levin, Alexander Levin (Russia, 1871–1929) * Jacob Levin (chess player), Jacob Levin (US, 1904–1992) * Naum Levin (Ukraine, Australia, born 1933) * Irina Levitina (Russia, US, born 1954) * Stepan Levitsky (Russia, 1876–1924) * David Levy (chess player), David Levy (Scotland, born 1945) * Jerzy Lewi (Poland, Sweden, 1949–1972) * Moritz Lewitt (Germany, 1863–1936) * Li Chao (chess player), Li Chao (China, born 1989) * Li Ruofan (Singapore, born 1978) * Li Shilong (China, born 1977) * Li Shongjian (China, born 1939) * Li Wenliang (chess player), Li Wenliang (China, born 1967) * Li Zunian (China, born 1958) * Liang Chong (China, born 1980) * Liang Jinrong (China, born 1960) * Vladimir Liberzon (Russia, Israel, 1937–1996) * Theodor Lichtenhein (Germany, US, 1829–1874) * Espen Lie (Norway, born 1984) * Kjetil Aleksander Lie (Norway, born 1980) * Andor Lilienthal (Hungary, Russia, 1911–2010) * Darcy Lima (Brazil, born 1962) * Lin Ta (China, born 1963) * Lin Weiguo (China, born 1970) * Paul Lipke (Germany, 1870–1955) * Isaac Lipnitsky (Ukraine, 1923–1959) * Samuel Lipschütz (Hungary, US, 1863–1905) * Georgy Lisitsin (Russia, 1909–1972) * Paul List (Ukraine, Germany, England, 1887–1954) * Marta Litinskaya-Shul (Ukraine, born 1949) * John Littlewood (chess player), John Littlewood (England, 1931–2009) * Liu Shilan (China, born 1962) * Liu Wenzhe (China, 1940–2010) * Ljubomir Ljubojević (Serbia, born 1950) * Eric Lobron (US, Germany, born 1960) * Josef Lokvenc (Austria, 1899–1974) * Giambattista Lolli (Italy, 1698–1769) * Rudolf Loman (Netherlands, 1861–1932) * William Lombardy (US, 1937–2017) * Ruy López de Segura (Spain, c. 1530 – c. 1580) * Edward Löwe (England, 1794–1880) * Otto Löwenborg (Sweden, 1888–1969) * Johann Löwenthal (Hungary, England, 1810–1876) * Leopold Löwy, Jr (Austria, 1871–after 1909) * Leopold Löwy, Sr (Austria, 1840–after 1904) * Moishe Lowtzky (Ukraine, Poland, 1881–1940) * Sam Loyd (US, 1841–1911) * Smbat Lputian (Armenia, born 1958) * Luis Ramirez Lucena (Spain, c. 1465 – c. 1530) * Markas Luckis (Lithuania, Argentina, 1905–1973) * Andrey Lukin (Russia, born 1948) * Stig Lundholm (Sweden, 1917–2009) * Erik Lundin (Sweden, 1904–1988) * Francisco Lupi (Portugal, before 1910–1954) * Constantin Lupulescu (Romania, born 1984) * Thomas Luther (Germany, born 1969) * Christopher Lutz (Germany, born 1971)

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* Gottlieb Machate (Germany, 1904–1974) * Aleksandras Machtas (Lithuania, Israel, 1892–1973) * Bartłomiej Macieja (Poland, born 1977) * George Henry Mackenzie (Scotland, US, 1837–1891) * Nicholas MacLeod (Canada, 1870–1965) * Carlos Maderna (Argentina, 1910–1976) * Ildikó Mádl (Hungary, born 1969) * Elmar Magerramov (Azerbaijan, born 1958) * Joanna Majdan (Poland, born 1988) * Kazimierz Makarczyk (Poland, 1901–1972) * Vladimir Makogonov (Azerbaijan, 1904–1993) * Gyula Makovetz (Hungary, 1860–1903) * Vadim Malakhatko (Ukraine, Belgium, born 1977) * Vladimir Malakhov (chess player), Vladimir Malakhov (Russia, born 1980) * Vidmantas Mališauskas (Lithuania, born 1963) * Vladimir Malaniuk (Russia, Ukraine, 1957–2017) * Boris Maliutin (Russia, 1883–1920) * Nidjat Mamedov (Azerbaijan, born 1985) * Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, born 1985) * Rauf Mamedov (Azerbaijan, born 1988) * Maria Manakova (Serbia, born 1974) * Karmen Mar (Slovenia, born 1987) * Napoleon Marache (France, US, 1818–1875) * Max Marchand (Netherlands, 1888–1957) * Georg Marco (Romania, Austria, 1863–1923) * Alisa Marić (Serbia, born 1970) * Mirjana Marić (Serbia, born 1970) * Mihail Marin (Romania, born 1965) * Beatriz Marinello (Chile, born 1964) * Sergio Mariotti (Italy, born 1946) * Ján Markoš (Slovakia, born 1985) * Tomasz Markowski (chess player), Tomasz Markowski (Poland, born 1975) * Robert Markuš (Serbia, born 1984) * Géza Maróczy (Hungary, 1870–1951) * Davide Marotti (Italy, 1881–1940) * Dražen Marović (Croatia, born 1938) * Frank Marshall (chess player), Frank Marshall (US, 1877–1944) * Dion Martinez (Cuba, US, 1837–1928) * Giovanni Martinolich (Italy, 1884–1910) * Rico Mascariñas (Philippines, born 1953) * Houshang Mashian (Iran, Israel, born 1938) * James Mason (chess player), James Mason (Ireland, US, England, 1849–1905) * Dimitrios Mastrovasilis (Greece, born 1983) * Aleksandar Matanović (Serbia, born 1930) * Hermanis Matisons (Latvia, 1894–1932) * Milan Matulović (Serbia, 1935–2013) * Svetlana Matveeva (Russia, born 1969) * Carl Mayet (Germany, 1810–1868) * Isaak Mazel (Belarus, Russia, 1911–1943) * Neil McDonald (chess player), Neil McDonald (England, born 1967) * Alexander McDonnell (chess player), Alexander McDonnell (Ireland, 1798–1835) * Colin McNab (Scotland, born 1961) * Luke McShane (England, born 1984) * Henrique Mecking (Brazil, born 1952) * Antonio Medina García, Antonio Medina (Spain, 1919–2003) * Edmar Mednis (Latvia, US, 1937–2002) * Susanto Megaranto (Indonesia, born 1987) * Philipp Meitner (Austria, 1838–1910) * Hrant Melkumyan (Armenia, born 1989) * Olga Menchik (Russia, Czechoslovakia, England, 1908–1944) * Vera Menchik (Russia, Czechoslovakia, England, 1906–1944) * Julius Mendheim (Germany, 1788–1836) * Jonathan Mestel (England, born 1957) * Johannes Metger (Germany, 1850–1926) * Voldemārs Mežgailis (Latvia, 1912–1998) * Paul Michel (chess player), Paul Michel (Germany, Argentina, 1905–1977) * Walter Michel (Switzerland, 1888–after 1935) * Reginald Pryce Michell (England, 1873–1938) * Jacques Mieses (Germany, England, 1865–1954) * Samuel Mieses (Germany, 1841–1884) * Vladas Mikėnas (Estonia, Lithuania, 1910–1992) * Adrian Mikhalchishin (Ukraine, Slovenia, born 1954) * Victor Mikhalevski (Belarus, Israel, born 1972) * Igor Miladinović (Serbia, born 1974) * Tony Miles (England, 1955–2001) * Zdravko Milev (Bulgaria, 1929–1984) * Borislav Milić (Yugoslavia, 1925–1986) * Sophie Milliet (France, born 1983) * Stuart Milner-Barry (England, 1906–1995) * Vadim Milov (Russia, Israel, Switzerland, born 1972) * Artashes Minasian (Armenia, born 1987) * Johannes Minckwitz (Germany, 1843–1901) * Nikolay Minev (Bulgaria, US, 1931–2017) * Dragoljub Minić (Montenegro, 1936–2005) * Evgenij Miroshnichenko (Ukraine, born 1978) * Azer Mirzoev (Azerbaijan, born 1978) * Vesna Mišanović (Bosnia, born 1964) * Abhimanyu Mishra (US, born 2009) * Kamil Mitoń (Poland, born 1984) * Jack Mizzi (Malta, born 2006) * Lilit Mkrtchian (Armenia, born 1982) * Stasch Mlotkowski (US, 1881–1943) * Abram Model (Latvia, Russia, 1896–1976) * Charles Moehle (US, 1859–1898) * Ariah Mohiliver (Poland, Israel, 1904–1996) * Stefan Mohr (Germany, born 1967) * Alexander Moiseenko (Ukraine, born 1980) * Baldur Möller (Iceland, 1914–1999) * Jørgen Møller (Denmark, 1873–1944) * Augustus Mongredien (England, 1807–1888) * Léon Monosson (Belarus, France, 1892–1943) * Julius du Mont (France, England, 1881–1956) * Mario Monticelli (Italy, 1902–1995) * María Teresa Mora (Cuba, 1902–1980) * Elshan Moradi (Iran, born 1985) * Luciana Morales Mendoza (Peru, born 1987) * Kalikst Morawski (Poland, 1859 – c. 1939) * Bruno Moritz (Germany, Ecuador, 1898–?) * Iván Morovic (Chile, born 1963) * Alexander Moroz (Ukraine, 1961–2009) * Alexander Morozevich (Russia, born 1977) * Paul Morphy (US, 1837–1884) * John Morrison (chess player), John Morrison (Canada, 1889–1975) * Paul Motwani (Scotland, born 1962) * Alexander Motylev (Russia, born 1979) * Sergei Movsesian (Armenia, Slovakia, born 1978) * Paul Mross (Poland, Germany, 1910–1991) * Martin Mrva (Slovakia, born 1971) * André Muffang (France, 1897–1989) * Hans Müller (chess player), Hans Müller (Austria, 1896–1971) * Karsten Müller (Germany, born 1970) * César Muñoz (Ecuador, 1929–2000) * Piotr Murdzia (Poland, born 1975) * Jacob Murey (Russia, Israel, born 1941) * Augusto de Muro (Argentina, ? –1959) * Niaz Murshed (Bangladesh, born 1966) * Phiona Mutesi (Uganda, birthdate unknown) * Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine, Slovenia, born 1990) * Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine, born 1992) * Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren (Mongolia, born 1938) * Hugh Myers (US, 1930–2008)

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* Ashot Nadanian (Armenia, born 1972) * Arkadij Naiditsch (Latvia, Germany, born 1985) * Oskar Naegeli (Switzerland, 1885–1959) * Géza Nagy (Hungary, 1892–1953) * Miguel Najdorf (Poland, Argentina, 1910–1997) * Hikaru Nakamura (Japan, US, born 1987) * William Ewart Napier, William Napier (England, US, 1881–1952) * Mario Napolitano (Italy, 1910–1995) * Renato Naranja (Philippines, born 1940) * Srinath Narayanan (India, born 1994) * Daniel Naroditsky (US, born 1995) * David Navara (Czech Republic, born 1985) * Vera Nebolsina (Russia, born 1989) * Ozren Nedeljković (Serbia, 1903–1984) * Gastón Needleman (Argentina, born 1990) * Parimarjan Negi (India, born 1993) * Iivo Nei (Estonia, born 1931) * Oleg Neikirch (Georgia, Bulgaria, 1914–1985) * Kateřina Němcová (Czech Republic, born 1990) * Vladimir Nenarokov (Russia, 1880–1953) * Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia, born 1990) * Vincenzo Nestler (Italy, 1912–1988) * Augustin Neumann (Austria, 1879–1906) * Gustav Neumann (Germany, 1838–1881) * Vladislav Nevednichy (Romania, born 1969) * Valeriy Neverov (Ukraine, born 1962) * Rashid Nezhmetdinov (Russia, 1912–1974) * Ni Hua (China, born 1983) * Arno Nickel (Germany, born 1952) * Bryon Nickoloff (Canada, 1956–2004) * Bjørn Nielsen (Denmark, 1907–1949) * Peter Heine Nielsen (Denmark, born 1973) * Torkil Nielsen (Faroe Islands, born 1964) * Hans Niemann (US, born 2003) * Walter Niephaus (Germany, 1923–1992) * Aleksandr Nikitin (chess player), Aleksandr Nikitin (Russia, 1935–2022) * Yuri Nikolaevsky (Ukraine, 1937–2004) * Ioannis Nikolaidis (Greece, born 1971) * Predrag Nikolić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, born 1960) * Allan Nilsson (Sweden, 1899–1949) * Aron Nimzowitsch (Latvia, Denmark, 1886–1935) * Ning Chunhong (China, born 1968) * Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Romania, born 1976) * Josef Noa (Hungary, 1856–1903) * Jesús Nogueiras (Cuba, born 1959) * Federico Norcia (Italy, 1904–1985) * Holger Norman-Hansen (Denmark, 1899–1984) * David Norwood (England, born 1968) * Daniël Noteboom (Netherlands, 1910–1932) * Igor Novikov (chess player), Igor Novikov (Ukraine, US, born 1962) * Nikolay Novotelnov (Russia, 1911–2006) * Heinz Nowarra (Germany, 1897–c. 1945) * John Nunn (England, born 1955) * Friedrich Nürnberg (Germany, 1909–1984) * Tomi Nybäck (Finland, born 1985) * Gustaf Nyholm (Sweden, 1880–1957) * Illia Nyzhnyk (Ukraine, born 1996)

O

* Kevin O'Connell (chess player), Kevin O'Connell (England, Ireland, born 1949) * Handszar Odeev (Turkmenistan, born 1972) * Leif Øgaard (Norway, born 1952) * John O'Hanlon (chess player), John O'Hanlon (Ireland, 1876–1960) * Tõnu Õim (Estonia, born 1941) * Kaarle Ojanen (Finland, 1918–2009) * Albéric O'Kelly de Galway (Belgium, 1911–1980) * Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland, born 1935) * Helgi Ólafsson (Iceland, born 1956) * Mikhailo Oleksienko (Ukraine, born 1986) * Lembit Oll (Estonia, 1966–1999) * Adolf Georg Olland (Netherlands, 1867–1933) * Anton Olson (Sweden, 1881–after 1928) * Alexander Onischuk (Ukraine, US born 1975) * Karel Opočenský (Czechoslovakia, 1892–1975) * Wilhelm Orbach (Germany, 1894–1944) * Menachem Oren (Poland, Israel, 1901–1962) * Gerard Oskam (Netherlands, 1880–1952) * Berge Østenstad (Norway, born 1964) * John Owen (chess player), John Owen (England, 1827–1901) * Karlis Ozols (Latvia, Australia, 1912–2001)

P

* Luděk Pachman (Czechoslovakia, Germany, 1924–2003) * Nikola Padevsky (Bulgaria, born 1933) * Elisabeth Pähtz (Germany, born 1985) * Mladen Palac (Croatia, born 1971) * Sam Palatnik (Ukraine, US, born 1950) * Luis Palau (chess player), Luis Palau (Argentina, 1897–1971) * Victor Palciauskas (Lithuania, US, born 1941) * Richard Palliser (England, born 1981) * Rudolf Palme (Austria, 1910–2005) * Ryan Palmer (chess player), Ryan Palmer (Jamaica, born 1974) * Davor Palo (Denmark, born 1985) * Eero Paloheimo (Finland, born 1936) * Oscar Panno (Argentina, born 1935) * Vasily Panov (Russia, 1906–1973) * Mark Paragua (Philippines, born 1984) * Bernard Parham (US, born 1946) * Shadi Paridar (Iran, born 1986) * Mircea Pârligras (Romania, born 1980) * Bruno Parma (Slovenia, born 1941) * Frank Parr (England, 1918–2003) * Louis Paulsen (Germany, 1833–1891) * Wilfried Paulsen (Germany, 1828–1901) * Duško Pavasovič (Croatia, Slovenia, born 1975) * Max Pavey (US, 1918–1957) * Jiří Pelikán (chess player), Jiří Pelikán (Czechoslovakia, Argentina, 1906–1985) * Yannick Pelletier (Switzerland, born 1976) * Roman Pelts (Ukraine, Canada, born 1937) * Peng Xiaomin (China, born 1973) * Peng Zhaoqin (China, born 1968) * Jonathan Penrose (England, 1933–2021) * Corina Peptan (Romania, born 1978) * Julius Perlis (Poland, Austria, 1880–1913) * Frederick Perrin (England, US, 1815–1889) * Raaphi Persitz (England, Israel, Switzerland, 1934–2009) * Nick Pert (England, born 1981) * John Peters (chess player), John Peters (US, born 1951) * Jusefs Petkevich (Latvia, born 1940) * Arshak Petrosian (Armenia, born 1953) * Davit G. Petrosian (Armenia, born 1984) * Tigran Petrosian (Armenia, Georgia, USSR, 1929–1984) * Alexander Petrov (chess player), Alexander Petrov (Russia, 1794–1867) * Vladimirs Petrovs (Latvia, 1907–1943) * Gerhard Pfeiffer (Germany, 1923–2000) * Helmut Pfleger (Germany, born 1943) * François-André Danican Philidor (France, 1726–1795) * Luis Piazzini (Argentina, 1905–1980) * Jeroen Piket (Netherlands, born 1969) * Harry Nelson Pillsbury (US, 1872–1906) * Hermann Pilnik (Germany, Argentina, 1914–1981) * Karol Piltz (Poland, 1903–1939) * Albert Pinkus (US, 1903–1984) * József Pintér (Hungary, born 1953) * Vasja Pirc (Slovenia, 1907–1980) * Rudolf Pitschak (Czechoslovakia, US, 1902–1988) * Karl Pitschel (Austria, 1829–1883) * Aaron Pixton (US, born 1986) * Ján Plachetka (Slovakia, born 1945) * Albin Planinc (Slovenia, 1944–2008) * James Plaskett (England, Spain, born 1960) * Kazimierz Plater (Poland, 1915–2004) * Igor Platonov (Ukraine, 1934–1995) * Joseph Platz (Germany, US, 1905–1981) * Isaías Pleci (Argentina, 1907–1979) * David Podhorzer (Austria, 1907–1998) * Natalia Pogonina (Russia, born 1985) * Henryk Pogorieły (Poland, 1908–1943) * Ernest Pogosyants (Ukraine, 1935–1990) * Iosif Pogrebyssky (Ukraine, 1906–1971) * Amos Pokorný (Czechoslovakia, 1890–1949) * Rudolph Pokorny (Bohemia, Mexico, US, 1880–after 1920) * Giulio Polerio (Italy, 1548–1612) * Judit Polgár (Hungary, born 1976) * Zsuzsa Polgar (Hungary, US, born 1969) * Zsofia Polgar (Hungary, Israel, born 1974) * Elisabeta Polihroniade (Romania, 1935–2016) * David Polland (US, born 1915) * William Pollock (chess player), William Pollock (United Kingdom, 1859–1896) * Lev Polugaevsky (Belarus, Russia, 1934–1995) * Arturo Pomar (Spain, 1931–2016) * Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine, 1983) * Domenico Ponziani (Italy, 1719–1796) * Stepan Popel (Poland, France, US, 1909–1987) * Ignatz von Popiel (Austria-Hungary, Poland, 1863–1941) * Petar Popović (chess player), Petar Popović (Yugoslavia, Serbia, born 1959) * Artur Popławski (Poland, Switzerland, 1860–1918) * Yosef Porat (Germany, Israel, 1909–1996) * Moritz Porges (Bohemia/Austria-Hungary, 1857–1909) * Lajos Portisch (Hungary, born 1937) * Ehrhardt Post (Germany, 1881–1947) * Evgeny Postny (Israel, born 1981) * Peter Potemkine (Russia, France, 1886–1926) * Vladimir Potkin (Russia, born 1982) * Ludovit Potuček (Slovakia, 1912–1982) * Christian Poulsen (chess player), Christian Poulsen (Denmark, 1912–1981) * Atousa Pourkashiyan (Iran, born 1988) * Borki Predojević (Bosnia, born 1987) * Edith Charlotte Price (England, 1872–1952) * Lodewijk Prins (Netherlands, 1913–1999) * Svetlana Prudnikova (Russia, born 1967) * Dawid Przepiórka (Poland, 1880–1942) * Lev Psakhis (Russia, Israel, born 1958) * Lenka Ptáčníková (Czechoslovakia, Iceland, born 1976) * Stojan Puc (Slovenia, 1921–2004) * Viktors Pupols (Latvia, US, born 1934) * Cecil Purdy (New Zealand, Australia, 1906–1979) * John Purdy (chess player), John Purdy (Australia, 1935–2011)

Q

* Qi Jingxuan (China, born 1947) * Qin Kanying (China, born 1974) * Oscar Quiñones (chess player), Oscar Quiñones (Peru, born 1941) * Miguel Quinteros (Argentina, born 1947)

R

* Braslav Rabar (Croatia, 1919–1973) * Abram Rabinovich (Lithuania, Russia, 1878–1943) * Ilya Rabinovich (Russia, 1891–1942) * Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, born 1987) * Ivan Radulov (Bulgaria, born 1939) * Markus Ragger (Austria, born 1988) * Viacheslav Ragozin (Russia, 1908–1962) * Ziaur Rahman (chess player), Ziaur Rahman (Bangladesh, born 1974) * Maurice Raizman (Moldova/Russia, France 1905–1974) * Iweta Rajlich (Poland, born 1981) * Ramachandran Ramesh (India, born 1976) * Alejandro Ramírez (chess player), Alejandro Ramírez (Costa Rica, born 1988) * Richárd Rapport (Hungary, born 1996) * Nukhim Rashkovsky (Russia, born 1946) * Ilmar Raud (Estonia, Argentina, 1913–1941) * Vsevolod Rauzer (Ukraine, 1908–1941) * Yuri Razuvayev (Russia, 1945–2012) * Damian Reca (Argentina, 1894–1937) * Hans Ree (Netherlands, born 1944) * Brian Reilly (France, England, Ireland, 1901–1991) * Dimitri Reinderman (Netherlands, born 1972) * Fred Reinfeld (US, 1910–1964) * Heinrich Reinhardt (Germany, Argentina, 1903–1990) * Salome Reischer (Austria, Palestine, US, 1899–1980) * Teodor Regedziński (Poland, 1894–1954) * Arturo Reggio (Italy, 1863–1917) * Josef Rejfíř (Czechoslovakia, 1909–1962) * Ludwig Rellstab (chess player), Ludwig Rellstab (Germany, 1904–1983) * Georges Renaud (France, 1893–1975) * Samuel Reshevsky (Poland, US, 1911–1992) * Pál Réthy (Hungary, 1905–1962) * Richard Réti (Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia, 1889–1929) * Ramón Rey Ardid (Spain, 1903–1988) * Alexander Riazantsev (chess player), Alexander Riazantsev (Russia, born 1985) * Zoltán Ribli (Hungary, born 1951) * Pablo Ricardi (Argentina, born 1962) * Isaac Rice (US, 1850–1915) * Kurt Richter (Germany, 1900–1969) * Antonio Rico (Spain, 1908–1988) * Alessandra Riegler (Italy, born 1961) * Fritz Riemann (Germany, 1859–1932) * Friedl Rinder (Germany, 1905–2001) * Horst Rittner (Germany, 1930–2021) * Nikolai Riumin (Russia, 1908–1942) * Jules Arnous de Rivière (France, 1830–1905) * Karl Robatsch (Austria, 1928–2000) * Walter Robinow (Germany, 1867–1938) * Ray Robson (US, born 1994) * Ludwig Rödl (Germany, 1907–1970) * Maxim Rodshtein (Israel, born 1989) * Hans Roepstorff (Germany, 1910–1945) * Ian Rogers (chess player), Ian Rogers (Australia, born 1960) * Gustav Rogmann (Germany, 1909–1947) * Kenneth Rogoff (US, born 1953) * Dorian Rogozenko (Romania, born 1973) * Ivan Vladimir Rohaček (Slovakia, 1909–1977) * Michael Rohde (chess player), Michael Rohde (US, born 1959) * Michael Roiz (Russia, Israel born 1983) * Oleg Romanishin (Ukraine, born 1952) * Alexander Romanovsky (chess player), Alexander Romanovsky (Lithuania, Russia, 1880–1943) * Peter Romanovsky (Russia, 1892–1964) * Max Romih (Croatia, Italy, 1893–1979) * Chris de Ronde (Netherlands, Argentina, 1912–1996) * Catharina Roodzant (Netherlands, 1896–1999) * Salme Rootare (Estonia, 1913–1987) * Vidrik Rootare (Estonia, c.1900–1985) * Jakob Rosanes (Ukraine/Austria-Hungary, Germany, 1842–1922) * Bernardo Roselli (Uruguay, born 1965) * Leon Rosen (Poland, US, 1869–1942) * Andreas Rosendahl (Denmark, 1864–1909) * Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz (Latvia, Russia, 1876–after 1928) * Jacob Rosenthal (US, 1881–1954) * Samuel Rosenthal (Poland, France 1837–1902) * Laura Ross (chess player), Laura Ross (US, born 1988) * Stefano Rosselli del Turco (Italy, 1877–1947) * Héctor Rossetto (Argentina, 1922–2009) * Nicolas Rossolimo (Ukraine, France, US, 1910–1975) * Gersz Rotlewi (Poland, 1889–1920) * Eugène Rousseau (chess player), Eugéne Rousseau (France, c. 1810 – c. 1870) * Jonathan Rowson (Scotland, born 1977) * Solomon Rozental (Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, 1890–1955) * Eduardas Rozentalis (Lithuania, born 1963) * Vesna Rožič (Slovenia, 1987–2013) * Levy Rozman (US, born 1995) * Ruan Lufei (China, born 1987) * Serge Rubanraut (China, Australia, 1948–2008) * Karl Ruben (Denmark, 1903–1938) * Jorge Rubinetti (Argentina, 1945–2016) * Akiba Rubinstein (Poland, Germany, Belgium, 1882–1961) * Emanuel Rubinstein (Poland, 1897–?) * José Rubinstein (Argentina, 1940–1997) * Simon Rubinstein (chess player), Simon Rubinstein (Austria, South Africa, c. 1910–1942) * Solomon Rubinstein (Poland, US, 1868–1931) * Sergei Rublevsky (Russia, born 1974) * Olga Rubtsova (Russia, 1909–1994) * Iosif Rudakovsky (Ukraine, 1914–1947) * Lyudmila Rudenko (Ukraine, Russia, 1904–1986) * Mary Rudge (England, 1842–1919) * Nikoly Rudnev (Ukraine, Uzbekistan, 1895–1944) * Anna Rudolf (Hungary, born 1987) * Alexander Rueb (Netherlands, 1882–1959) * Mikhail Rytshagov (Estonia, born 1967)

S

* Peter Alexandrovich Saburov (Russia, 1835–1918) * Peter Petrovich Saburov (Russia, Switzerland, 1880–1932) * Antonio Sacconi (Italy, 1895–1968) * Matthew Sadler (England, born 1974) * Darmen Sadvakasov (Kazakhstan, born 1979) * Yousof Safvat (Iran, 1940–2003) * Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (France, 1800–1872) * Jaroslav Šajtar (Czechoslovakia, 1921–2003) * Konstantin Sakaev (Russia, born 1974) * Yuri Sakharov (Ukraine, 1922–1981) * Valery Salov (Russia, born 1964) * Alessandro Salvio (Italy, c. 1570 – c. 1640) * Gersz Salwe (Poland, 1862–1920) * Friedrich Sämisch, Friedrich (Fritz) Sämisch (Germany, 1896–1975) * Sergiu Samarian (Romania, Germany, 1923–1991) * Grigory Sanakoev (Russia, 1935–2021) * Luis Augusto Sánchez (Colombia, 1917–1981) * Albert Sandrin Jr. (US, 1923–2004) * Raúl Sanguineti (Argentina, 1933–2000) * Anthony Santasiere (US, 1904–1977) * Emmanuel Sapira (Romania, Belgium, 1900–1943) * Ortvin Sarapu (Estonia, New Zealand, 1924–1999) * Jonathan Sarfati (Australia, New Zealand, born 1964) * Gabriel Sargissian (Armenia, born 1983) * Ivan Šarić (chess player), Ivan Šarić (Croatia, born 1990) * Nihal Sarin (India, born 2004) * Zoltan Sarosy (Hungary, Canada, 1906–2017) * Jacob Sarratt (England, 1772–1819) * Jeff Sarwer (Canada, born 1978) * Krishnan Sasikiran (India, born 1981) * Harold Saunders (chess player), Harold Saunders (England, 1875–1950) * Stanislav Savchenko (Ukraine, born 1967) * Vladimir Savon (Ukraine, 1940–2005) * Gyula Sax (Hungary, 1951–2014) * Emil Schallopp (Germany, 1843–1919) * Morris Schapiro (Lithuania, US, 1903–1996) * Willem Schelfhout (Netherlands, 1874–1951) * Theodor von Scheve (Germany, 1851–1922) * Emanuel Schiffers (Russia, 1850–1904) * Willi Schlage (Germany, 1888–1940) * Carl Schlechter (Austria, 1874–1918) * Roland Schmaltz (Germany, born 1974) * Carl Friedrich Schmid (Latvia, 1840–1897) * Lothar Schmid (Germany, 1928–2013) * Paul Felix Schmidt (Estonia, Germany, US, 1916–1984) * Włodzimierz Schmidt (Poland, born 1943) * Ludwig Schmitt (Germany, 1902–1980) * Wilhelm Schönmann (Germany, 1889–1970) * Georg Schories (Germany, 1874–1934) * Karl Schorn (Germany, 1803–1850) * Arnold Schottländer (Germany, 1854–1909) * František Schubert (Czechoslovakia, 1894–1940) * John William Schulten (US, 1821–1875) * Jan Schulz (Czechoslovakia, 1899–1953) * Aaron Schwartzman (Argentina, 1908–2013) * Gabriel Schwartzman (Romania, US, born 1976) * Leon Schwartzmann (Poland, France, 1887–1942) * Paulette Schwartzmann (Latvia, France, Argentina, 1894–1953?) * Adolf Schwarz (Hungary, Austria, 1836–1910) * Jacques Schwarz (Austria, 1856–1921) * Samuel Schweber (Argentina, 1936–2017) * Marie Sebag (France, born 1986) * Yasser Seirawan (Syria, US, born 1960) * Adolf Seitz (Germany, Argentina 1898–1970) * Alexey Selezniev (Russia, France, 1888–1967) * Lidia Semenova (Ukraine, born 1951) * Olav Sepp (Estonia, born 1969) * Edward Guthlac Sergeant (England, 1881–1961) * Philip Walsingham Sergeant (England, 1872–1952) * Aleksandr Sergeyev (chess player), Aleksandr Sergeyev (Russia, 1897–1970) * Dražen Sermek (Slovenia, born 1969) * Gregory Serper (Uzbekistan, US, born 1969) * Samuel Sevian (US, born 2000) * Alexander Shabalov (Latvia, US, born 1967) * Greg Shahade (US, born 1978) * Jennifer Shahade (US, born 1980) * Leonid Shamkovich (Russia, Israel, US, 1923–2005) * Gauri Shankar (chess player), Gauri Shankar (India, born 1992) * Samuel Shankland (US, born 1991) * Andrey Shariyazdanov (Russia, born 1976) * Elizabeth Shaughnessy (Ireland, US, born 1937) * Shen Yang (chess player), Shen Yang (China, born 1989) * James Sherwin (US, England, born 1933) * Sergei Shipov (Russia, born 1966) * Kamran Shirazi (Iran, US, France, born 1952) * Alexei Shirov (Latvia, Spain, born 1972) * Nigel Short (England, born 1965) * Jackson Showalter (US, 1860–1935) * Yury Shulman (Belarus, US, born 1975) * Ilya Shumov (Russia, 1819–1881) * Polina Shuvalova (Russia, born 2001) * Félix Sicre (Cuba, 1817–1871) * Bruno Edgar Siegheim (Germany, South Africa, 1875–1952) * Guðmundur Sigurjónsson (Iceland, born 1947) * Jeremy Silman (US, born 1954) * Vladimir Simagin (Russia, 1919–1968) * Albert Simonson (US, 1914–1965) * Amon Simutowe (Zambia, born 1982) * Marcel Sisniega Campbell (Mexico, 1959–2013) * Stanislaus Sittenfeld (Poland, France, 1865–1902) * Sanan Sjugirov (Russia, born 1993) * Karel Skalička (Czechoslovakia, Argentina, 1896–1979) * Almira Skripchenko (Moldova, France, born 1976) * Bogdan Śliwa (Poland, 1922–2003) * Sam Sloan (United States, born 1944) * Roman Slobodjan (Germany, born 1975) * Jørn Sloth (Denmark, born 1944) * Jan Smeets (Netherlands, born 1985) * Jan Smejkal (Czechoslovakia, born 1946) * David Smerdon (Australia, born 1984) * Shlomo Smiltiner (Israel, 1915–2015) * Ilya Smirin (Belarus, Israel, born 1968) * Pavel Smirnov (Russia, born 1982) * Stephen Francis Smith (Canada, England, 1861–1928) * Vasily Osipovich Smyslov (Russia, 1881–1943) * Vasily Smyslov (Russia, 1921–2010) * Wesley So (Philippines, born 1993) * Bartosz Soćko (Poland, born 1978) * Monika Soćko (Poland, born 1978) * Andrei Sokolov (Russia, France, born 1963) * Ivan Sokolov (chess player), Ivan Sokolov (Bosnia, Netherlands, born 1968) * Alexey Sokolsky (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, 1908–1969) * Dragan Šolak (Serbia, 1980) * Alexander Solovtsov (Russia, 1847–1923) * Andrew Soltis (US, born 1947) * Ariel Sorín (Argentina, born 1967) * Genna Sosonko (Russia, Netherlands, born 1943) * Victor Soultanbeieff (Russia, Belgium, 1895–1972) * Vladimir Sournin (Russia, US, 1875–1942) * João de Souza Mendes (Brazil, 1892–1969) * Hugo Spangenberg (Argentina, born 1975) * Vasil Spasov (chess player), Vasil Spasov (Bulgaria, born 1971) * Boris Spassky (Russia, France, born 1937) * Jon Speelman (England, born 1956) * Abraham Speijer (Netherlands, 1873–1956) * Rudolf Spielmann (Austria, Sweden, 1883–1942) * Kevin Spraggett (Canada, born 1954) * Ana Srebrnič (Slovenia, born 1984) * Gideon Ståhlberg (Sweden, 1908–1967) * Wilhelm von Stamm (Latvia, ?–1905) * Philipp Stamma (Syria, England, France, 1705–1755) * Nikolaus Stanec (Austria, born 1968) * Charles Stanley (Chess player), Charles Stanley (England, US, 1819–1901) * Nava Starr (Latvia, Canada, born 1949) * Howard Staunton (England, 1810–1874) * Michael Stean (England, born 1953) * Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria, born 1979) * Hannes Stefánsson (Iceland, born 1972) * Elias Stein (chess player), Elias Stein (Alsace, Netherlands, 1748–1812) * Leonid Stein (Ukraine, 1934–1973) * Endre Steiner (Hungary, 1901–1944) * Lajos Steiner (Hungary, Australia 1903–1975) * Herman Steiner (Slovakia/Hungary, US, 1905–1955) * Wilhelm Steinitz (Bohemia, Austria, England, US, 1836–1900) * Daniël Stellwagen (Netherlands, born 1987) * Károly Sterk (Hungary, 1881–1946) * Adolf Stern (chess player), Adolf Stern (Germany, 1849–1907) * Agnes Stevenson (England, before 1901–1935) * Lara Stock (Croatia, born 1992) * Mark Stolberg (Russia, 1922–1943) * Gösta Stoltz (Sweden, 1904–1963) * Leon Stolzenberg (Poland, US, 1895–1974) * Zurab Sturua (Georgia, born 1964) * Mihai Șubă (Romania, born 1947) * Mladen Šubarić (Croatia, 1908–1991) * Hugo Süchting (Germany, 1874–1916) * Alexey Suetin (Russia, 1926–2001) * Berthold Suhle (Poland, Germany, 1837–1904) * Franciszek Sulik (Poland, Argentina, Australia, 1908–2000) * Šarūnas Šulskis (Lithuania, born 1972) * Aaron Summerscale (England, born 1969) * Anne Sunnucks (England, 1927–2014) * Jaime Sunye Neto (Brazil, born 1957) * Emil Sutovsky (Azerbaijan, Israel, born 1977) * Duncan Suttles (Canada, born 1945) * Evgeny Sveshnikov (Latvia, 1950–2021) * Dmitry Svetushkin (Moldova, 1980–2020) * Peter Svidler (Russia, born 1976) * Rudolf Swiderski (Germany, 1878–1909) * Eugenio Szabados (Hungary, Italy, 1898–1974) * László Szabó (chess player), László Szabó (Hungary, 1917–1998) * Gedali Szapiro (Poland, Israel, 1929–1972) * Salomon Szapiro (Poland, 1882–1944) * Rudolph Sze (China, US, c.1890–1938) * József Szén (Hungary, 1805–1857) * József Szily (Hungary, 1913–1976) * Jorge Szmetan (Argentina, 1950–2015) * Aleksander Sznapik (Poland, born 1951) * Abram Szpiro (Germany, Poland, 1912–1943)

T

* Mark Taimanov (Ukraine, Russia, 1926–2016) * Sándor Takács (Hungary, 1893–1932) * Mikhail Tal (Latvia, 1936–1992) * Tan Chengxuan (China, born 1963) * Hiong Liong Tan (Indonesia, Netherlands, 1938–2009) * Lian Ann Tan (Singapore, born 1947) * Tan Zhongyi (China, born 1991) * László Tapasztó (Hungary, Venezuela, US, born 1930) * James Tarjan (US, born 1952) * Siegbert Tarrasch (Germany, 1862–1934) * Savielly Tartakower (Austria/Poland, France, 1887–1956) * Jean Taubenhaus (Poland, France, 1850–1919) * Lev Taussig (Czechoslovakia, 1880–?) * Povilas Tautvaišas (Lithuania, US, 1916–1980) * Jan Willem te Kolsté (Netherlands, 1874–1936) * Richard Teichmann (Germany, 1868–1925) * Oscar Tenner (Germany, US, 1880–1948) * Rudolf Teschner (Germany, 1922–2006) * Vitaly Teterev (Belarus, born 1983) * Praveen Thipsay (India, born 1959) * Murugan Thiruchelvam (England, born 1988) * George Alan Thomas (Turkey, England, 1881–1972) * James Thompson (chess player), James Thompson (England, US, 1804–1870) * Theophilus Thompson (US, 1855 – after 1940?) * Tian Tian (chess player), Tian Tian (China, born 1983) * Viktor Tietz (Czechoslovakia, 1859–1937) * Hans Tikkanen (Sweden, born 1985) * Jan Timman (Netherlands, born 1951) * Gert Jan Timmerman (Netherlands, born 1956) * Artyom Timofeev (chess player), Artyom Timofeev (Russia, born 1985) * Samuel Tinsley (England, 1847–1903) * Sergei Tiviakov (Russia, Netherlands, born 1973) * Jonathan Tisdall (US, Norway, born 1958) * Vladislav Tkachiev (Russia, Kazakhstan, France born 1973) * Miodrag Todorcevic (Serbia, France, born 1940) * Alexander Tolush (Russia, 1910–1969) * Evgeny Tomashevsky (Russia, born 1987) * Vasilije Tomović (Montenegro, 1906–?) * Tong Yuanming (China, born 1972) * Alice Tonini (Italy, ?) * Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, born 1975) * Eugenio Torre (Philippines, born 1951) * Carlos Torre Repetto (México, 1902–1978) * Yury Toshev (Bulgaria, 1907–1974) * Izaak Towbin (Ukraine, Poland, 1899–1941) * Karel Traxler (Czechoslovakia, 1866–1936) * Lawrence Trent (England, born 1986) * František Treybal (Czechoslovakia, 1882–1942) * Karel Treybal (Czechoslovakia, 1885–1941) * George Treysman (US, 1881–1959) * Petar Trifunović (Croatia, Serbia, 1910–1980) * Georgi Tringov (Bulgaria, 1937–2000) * Paul Truong (Vietnam, US, born 1965) * Cindy Tsai (US, born 1985) * Anatol Tschepurnoff (Finland, 1871–1942) * Mark Tseitlin (Russia, Israel, born 1943) * Mikhail Tseitlin (Belarus, Russia, born 1947) * Vitaly Tseshkovsky (Russia, 1944–2011) * Alexander Tsvetkov (Bulgaria, 1914–1990) * Leon Tuhan-Baranowski (Poland, Germany, 1907–1954) * Vladimir Tukmakov (Ukraine, born 1946) * Johannes Türn (Estonia, 1899–1993) * Abe Turner (US, 1924–1962) * Maxim Turov (Russia, born 1979) * Isador Samuel Turover (Belgium, US, 1892–1978) * Theodore Tylor (England, 1900–1968) * Dimitri Tyomkin (Canada, born 1977) * Alexandru Tyroler (Romania, 1891–1990)

U

* Louis Uedemann (US, 1854–1912) * Shinsaku Uesugi (Japan, born 1991) * Wolfgang Uhlmann (Germany, 1935–2020) * Tüdeviin Üitümen (Mongolia, 1939–1993) * Maximilian Ujtelky (Hungary/Slovakia, 1915–1979) * Mikhail Ulibin (Russia, born 1971) * Mikhail Umansky (Russia, 1952–2010) * Wolfgang Unzicker (Germany, 1925–2006) * Anna Ushenina (Ukraine, born 1985)

V

* Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France, born 1990) * Rafael Vaganian (Armenia, born 1951) * Samuil Vainshtein (Russia, 1894–1942) * Anatoly Vaisser (Kazakhstan, France, born 1949) * Povilas Vaitonis (Lithuania, Canada, 1911–1983) * Árpád Vajda (Hungary, 1896–1967) * Francisco Vallejo Pons (Spain, born 1982) * Michael Valvo (US, 1942–2004) * Johannes van den Bosch (chess player), Johannes van den Bosch (Netherlands, 1906–1994) * Arnold van den Hoek (Netherlands, 1921–1945) * Paul van der Sterren (Netherlands, born 1956) * John van der Wiel (Netherlands, born 1959) * Dirk van Foreest (Netherlands, 1862–1956) * Jorden van Foreest (Netherlands, born 1999) * Lucas van Foreest (Netherlands, born 2001) * Norman van Lennep (Netherlands, 1872–1897) * Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk (Netherlands, Brazil, born 1948) * Theo van Scheltinga (Netherlands, 1914–1994) * Louis van Vliet (Netherlands, 1870–1932) * Loek van Wely (Netherlands, born 1972) * Cyril Vansittart (England, Italy, 1852–1887) * Zoltán Varga (chess player), Zoltán Varga (Hungary, born 1970) * Egon Varnusz (Hungary, 1933–2008) * Evgeni Vasiukov (Russia, 1933–2018) * Petar Velikov (Bulgaria, born 1951) * Dragoljub Velimirović (Serbia, 1942–2014) * Gavriil Veresov (Russia, 1912–1979) * Beniamino Vergani (Italy, 1863–1927) * Giovanni Vescovi (Brazil, born 1978) * Boris Verlinsky (Ukraine, Russia, 1888–1950) * Milan Vidmar (Slovenia, 1885–1962) * Milan Vidmar Jr. (Slovenia, 1909–1980) * Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (India, born 1979) * Benito Villegas, (Argentina, 1877–1952) * Yakov Vilner (Ukraine, 1899 – c. 1930) * William Samuel Viner (Australia, 1881–1933) * Fernando Visier Segovia (Spain, born 1943) * Isakas Vistaneckis (Lithuania, Israel, 1910–2000) * Nikita Vitiugov (Russia, born 1987) * Alvis Vītoliņš (Latvia, 1946–1997) * Evgeny Vladimirov (Kazakhstan, born 1957) * Erwin Voellmy (Switzerland, 1886–1951) * Sergey Volkov (chess player), Sergey Volkov (Russia, born 1974) * Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine, born 1986) * Larissa Volpert (Russia, 1926–2017) * Andrey Vovk (Ukraine, born 1991) * Yuri Vovk (Ukraine, born 1988) * Zvonko Vranesic (Croatia, Canada, born 1938) * Milan Vukcevich (Serbia, US, 1937–2003) * Milan Vukić (Serbia, Bosnia, born 1942) * Vladimir Vuković (Croatia, 1898–1975) * Konstantin Vygodchikov (Belarus, Russia, 1892–1941) * Alexey Vyzmanavin (Russia, 1960–2000)

W

* Robert Wade (chess player), Robert Wade (New Zealand, England, 1921–2008) * Alexander Wagner (Poland, 1868–1942) * Heinrich Wagner (Germany, 1888–1959) * Victor Wahltuch (England, 1875–1953) * Josh Waitzkin (United States, born 1976) * Carl August Walbrodt (Netherlands, Germany, 1871–1902) * George Walker (chess player), George Walker (England, 1803–1879) * Max Walter (Slovakia, 1896–1940) * Wang Hao (chess player), Wang Hao (China, born 1989) * Wang Lei (chess player), Wang Lei (China, born 1975) * Wang Pin (China, born 1974) * Puchen Wang (China, New Zealand, born 1990) * Wang Rui (chess player), Wang Rui (China, born 1978) * Wang Yu (chess player), Wang Yu (China, born 1982) * Wang Yue (chess player), Wang Yue (China, born 1987) * Chris Ward (chess player), Chris Ward (England, born 1968) * Preston Ware (US, 1821–1891) * Cathy Warwick (England, born 1968) * Miyoko Watai (Japan, born 1945) * John L. Watson (US, born 1951) * William Watson (chess player), William Watson (England, born 1962) * William Wayte (England, 1829–1898) * Simon Webb (chess player), Simon Webb (England, 1949–2005) * Tom Wedberg (Sweden, born 1953) * Henri Weenink (Netherlands, 1892–1931) * Otto Wegemund (Germany, 1870–1928) * Wei Yi (China, born 1999) * Wolfgang Weil (Austria, 1912–1945) * Max Weiss (Hungary, Austria, 1857–1927) * Peter Wells (chess player), Peter Wells (England, born 1965) * Carl Wemmers (Germany, 1845–1882) * Wen Yang (chess player), Wen Yang (China, born 1988) * Jan Werle (Netherlands, born 1984) * Guy West (Australia, born 1958) * Heikki Westerinen (Finland, born 1944) * Bernardo Wexler (Romania, Argentina, 1925–1992) * Kasimir de Weydlich (Poland, 1859–1913) * Norman Tweed Whitaker (US, 1890–1975) * Michael Wiedenkeller (Sweden, born 1963) * Arthur Wijnans (Indonesia, Netherlands, 1920–1945) * Elijah Williams (chess player), Elijah Williams (England, 1810–1854) * Simon Williams (chess player), Simon Williams (England, born 1979) * Szymon Winawer (Poland, 1838–1920) * Karl Gottlieb von Windisch (Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, 1725–1793) * Peter Winston (chess player), Peter Winston (US, born 1958) * William Winter (chess player), William Winter (England, 1898–1955) * Victor Winz (Germany, Israel, Argentina, 1906-?) * John Wisker (England, 1846–1884) * Alexander Wittek (Croatia, Austria, 1852–1894) * Aleksandar Wohl (Australia, born 1963) * Antoni Wojciechowski (Poland, 1905–1938) * Radosław Wojtaszek (Poland, born 1987) * Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (Latvia, Poland, US, 1963–2006) * Heinrich Wolf (Austria, 1875–1943) * Siegfried Reginald Wolf (Austria, Israel, 1867–1951) * Paula Wolf-Kalmar (Austria, 1881–1931) * Balduin Wolff (Germany, 1819–1907) * Patrick Wolff (US, born 1968) * Wong Meng Kong (Singapore, born 1963) * Baruch Harold Wood (England, 1909–1989) * Wu Mingqian (China, born 1961) * Wu Shaobin (Singapore, 1969) * Wu Wenjin (China, born 1976) * Marmaduke Wyvill (chess player), Marmaduke Wyvill (England, 1814–1896)

X

* Xie Jun (China, born 1970) * Jeffery Xiong (US, born 2000) * Xu Jun (China, born 1962) * Xu Yuanyuan (China, born 1981) * Xu Yuhua (China, born 1976)

Y

* Yuri Yakovich (Russia, born 1962) * Daniel Yanofsky (Poland, Canada, 1925–2000) * Frederick Yates (chess player), Frederick Yates (England, 1884–1932) * Ye Jiangchuan (China, born 1960) * Ye Rongguang (China, born 1963) * Olavo Yépez (Ecuador, 1937–2021) * Trotzky Augusto Yepez Obando, Trotzky Yepez (Ecuador, 1940–2010) * Alex Yermolinsky (US, born 1958) * Betül Cemre Yıldız (Turkey, born 1989) * Yin Hao (chess player), Yin Hao (China, born 1979) * Carissa Yip (US, born 2003) * Jennifer Yu (chess player), Jennifer Yu (US, born 2002) * Yu Shaoteng (China, born 1979) * Leonid Yudasin (Russia, Israel, born 1959) * Mikhail Yudovich (Russia, 1911–1987) * Peter Yurdansky (Russia, 1891–1937) * Artur Yusupov (chess player), Artur Yusupov (Russia, Germany, born 1960)

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* Józef Żabiński (Poland, 1860–1928) * Aron Zabłudowski (Poland, 1909–1941) * Aldo Zadrima (Albania, born 1948) * Vladimir Zagorovsky (Russia, 1925–1994) * Sergey Zagrebelny (Uzbekistan, born 1965) * Alexander Zaitsev (chess player), Alexander Zaitsev (Russia, 1935–1971) * Igor Zaitsev (Russia, born 1938) * Lazar Zalkind (Ukraine, 1886–1945) * Oswaldo Zambrana (Bolivia, born 1981) * Abram Zamikhovsky (Ukraine, 1908–1978) * Alonso Zapata (Colombia, born 1958) * Pablo Zarnicki (Argentina, born 1972) * Anna Zatonskih (Ukraine, US, born 1978) * Tatiana Zatulovskaya (Azerbaijan, Russia, Israel, 1935–2017) * Beata Zawadzka (Poland, born 1986) * Jolanta Zawadzka (Poland, born 1987) * Elmārs Zemgalis (Latvia, US, 1923–2014) * Zhang Jilin (China, born 1986) * Zhang Pengxiang (China, born 1980) * Zhang Weida (China, born 1949) * Zhang Xiaowen (chess player), Zhang Xiaowen (China, born 1989) * Zhang Zhong (China, Singapore, born 1978) * Zhao Jun (chess player), Zhao Jun (China, born 1986) * Zhao Lan (China, born 1963) * Zhao Xue (China, born 1985) * Zhao Zong-Yuan (China, Australia, born 1986) * Viktor Zheliandinov (Ukraine, 1935–2021) * Zhou Jianchao (China, born 1988) * Zhou Weiqi (China, born 1986) * Zhu Chen (China, born 1976) * Natalia Zhukova (Ukraine, born 1979) * Yaacov Zilberman (Israel, born 1954) * Otto Zimmermann (Switzerland, 1892–1979) * Adolf Zinkl (Bohemia, Austria, 1871–1944) * Emil Zinner (Czechoslovakia, 1909–1942) * František Zíta (Czechoslovakia, 1909–1977) * Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (Russia, France, 1884–1954) * Leo Zobel (Slovakia, 1895–1962) * Alexander Zubarev (Ukraine, born 1979) * Nikolai Zubarev (Russia, 1894–1951) * Bernard Zuckerman (US, born 1943) * Igor Zugic (Canada, born 1981) * Johannes Zukertort (Poland, Germany, England, 1842–1888) * Vadim Zvjaginsev (Russia, born 1976) * Kira Zvorykina (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus 1919–2014) * Adolf Zytogorski (Poland, England, –1882)

Famous people connected with chess

The people in this list are famous in other areas of activity, but are known to have played chess, or have declared an interest in the game, or created works of art and literature in which the game is prominently featured.

Computers

* Deep Blue (chess computer), Deep Blue, the International Business Machines, IBM computer chess, chess playing computer, was victorious in a 1997 match against then-world champion Garry Kasparov. ** Deep Thought (chess computer), Deep Thought, an earlier version of Deep Blue, won many computer chess championships. * Deep Fritz achieved a draw in the 2002 match, "Brains in Bahrain", against Vladimir Kramnik. A variant, X3D Fritz, drew against Kasparov in 2004, and the version Deep Fritz 10 defeated the world champion Vladimir Kramnik in 2006. * Houdini (chess) Since the release of version 1.5 on 15 December 2010, it has taken the top spot in every rating list that includes it. * Hydra (chess) is a very strong machine which uses custom parallel hardware. * Junior (chess), Junior is the winner of the 2006 World Computer Chess Championship, its third victory at this event. * Rybka is a recent engine. As of December 2006, Rybka has topped all chess engine rating lists and won the 2007 WCCC. * Shredder (chess), Shredder is another strong program, having won the WCCC twice.

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