Jewish Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, rel ...

players and theoreticians have long been involved in the game of

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

and have significantly contributed to the development of chess. Chess gained popularity amongst Jews in the 12th century. The game was privileged by distinguished rabbis, as well as by women. Of the first 13 undisputed world champions, six were Jewish or had some Jewish ancestry:

Wilhelm Steinitz William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was a Bohemian-Austrian, and later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and c ...

Emanuel Lasker Emanuel Lasker (; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially ...

Mikhail Botvinnik Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (; ; – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an electrical engineer and computer sci ...

Mikhail Tal Mikhail Tal (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet and Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely regarded as Comparison of top chess players throughout history, one ...

Bobby Fischer Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Chess Champi ...

and

Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess Elo rating system, ra ...

. The

Modern School of Chess Modern may refer to: History *Modern history ** Early Modern period ** Late Modern period *** 18th century *** 19th century *** 20th century ** Contemporary history * Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century Philosophy ...

espoused by Steinitz and

Siegbert Tarrasch Siegbert Tarrasch (; 5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century. Life Tarrasch was born in Bresla ...

, the Hypermodernism influenced by

Aron Nimzowitsch Aron Nimzowitsch (; , ''Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich''; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Latvian-born Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimzowitsch was one of the best chess players in the world. He was the foremost f ...

and

Richard Réti Richard Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian and later Czechoslovak chess player, chess author and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exception of N ...

, and the Soviet Chess School promoted by Botvinnik were all strongly influenced by Jewish players. Other influential Jewish chess theoreticians, writers and players include

Johannes Zukertort Johannes Hermann Zukertort (; 7 September 1842 – 20 June 1888) was a Polish-born British-German chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, but lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship ...

Savielly Tartakower Savielly Tartakower (also known as ''Xavier'' or ''Ksawery'' ''Tartakower'', less often ''Tartacover'' or ''Tartakover''; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (chess), Internatio ...

Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...

, Gyula Breyer, Rudolf Spielmann,

Samuel Reshevsky Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid 1930s to the late 1 ...

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 ...

David Bronstein David Ionovich Bronstein (; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet chess player. Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in World Chess Championship 195 ...

, and

Miguel Najdorf Miguel Najdorf ( ; born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf; 15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in 1939, and he stayed and settled there. He was a leadin ...

Arpad Elo Arpad Emmerich Elo ( August 25, 1903 – November 5, 1992) was a Hungarian-American physics professor who created the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess. Born in Egyházaskesző, Kingdom of Hungary, he moved to the Uni ...

, the inventor of the scientific rating system employed by

FIDE The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( , ), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the Spor ...

, analysed some 476 major tournament players from the 19th century onward, and of the 51 highest ranked players, approximately one half were Jewish. This includes one of the strongest ever players,

, who was world No. 1 from 1985 until his retirement in 2005. Kasparov is of Jewish descent, through his father.

, the highest rated player in history when he became world champion in 1972, had a Jewish mother and likely Jewish father despite

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views. The list also includes

Judit Polgár Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the Strong (chess), strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years ...

, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player ever.

Beer-sheba Beersheba ( / ; ), officially Be'er-Sheva, is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most po ...

in Israel is the city with the most chess grandmasters per capita in the world.

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has also won one silver and one bronze medal at

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List

The list refers to chess players who are Jewish and have attained outstanding achievements in chess. * Aaron (Albert) Alexandre (c. 1765–1850), German-born French-English * Simon Alapin (1856–1923), Lithuanian *

Lev Alburt Lev Osipovich Alburt (born August 21, 1945) is an American 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 ...

(born 1945), Russian/American * Izaak Appel (1905–1941), Polish, killed by the Nazis * Lev Aronin (1920–1982), Russian/Soviet *

Levon Aronian Levon Grigori Aronian (; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian chess grandmaster who has represented the United States since 2021. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster in 2000, at the age of 17. He is a former world rapid and blit ...

(born 1982), Armenian grandmaster,

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champion twice * Arnold Aurbach (c. 1888–1952), Polish-born French * Yuri Averbakh (1922–2022), Russian grandmaster who was the only GM to become a centenarian and who played in one Candidates tournament (1953) * Mary Weiser Bain (1904–1972), born in Hungary (now sub-Carpathian Ukraine), immigrated to the United States as a teenager, first American woman to represent the U.S. in an organized chess competition, won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 1951, awarded the Woman International Master title in 1952 * Dina Belenkaya (born 1993) Russian-Israeli chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer, and

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r who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster * Anjelina Belakovskaia (born 1969), Ukrainian-born US woman grandmaster * Alexander Beliavsky (born 1953), Ukrainian-born Soviet/Slovenian grandmaster *

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. Life and career Benjamin is a native of Bro ...

(born 1964), American grandmaster *

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

(1882–1962), Ukrainian-born French grandmaster * Arthur Bisguier (1929–2017), US grandmaster *

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 192 ...

(1896–1971), Polish *

Isaac Boleslavsky Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky (, ; 9 June 1919 – 15 February 1977) was a Soviet chess grandmaster and writer. Early career Born in Zolotonosha in Ukraine to Jewish parents, Boleslavsky taught himself chess at age nine. In 1933, he became sch ...

(1919–1977), Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster *

(1911–1995), Russian/Soviet grandmaster and 6th undisputed world champion * Gyula Breyer (1893–1921), Hungarian, pioneer of the hypermodern school, important chess theorist, blindfold simultaneous record holder *

(1924–2006), Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster, * Oscar Chajes (1873–1928), Ukrainian/Polish/Austrian-born US * Vitaly Chekhover (1908–1965), Russian *

Isabelle Choko Isabelle Choko (née Izabela Sztrauch Galewska, 18 September 1928 – 21 July 2023) was a Polish-French Holocaust survivor and chess player who won the 1956 French Women's Chess Championship. Biography Isabelle Choko was born in Łódź, Polan ...

(1928–2023), Polish-French concentration camp survivor * Erich Cohn (1884–1918), German * Wilhelm Cohn (1859–1913), GermanChess
JewishEncyclopedia.com. Retrieved on 2010-06-21. * Moshe Czerniak (1910–1984), Polish-born Israeli *

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 ...

(1914–2005), US grandmaster * Arthur Dunkelblum (1906–1979), Polish-born Belgian * Mark Dvoretsky (1947–2016), noted Russian trainer and international master * Roman Dzindzichashvili (born 1944), Georgian-born Israeli American grandmaster * Vereslav Eingorn (born 1956), Ukrainian grandmaster *

Berthold Englisch Berthold Englisch (9 July 1851 in Hotzenplotz – 19 October 1897 in Vienna) was a chess master from Austria-Hungary. Englisch was born in Austrian Silesia, Austrian Empire into a Jewish family. He earned his living as a stock-market agent. He ...

(1851–1897), Austrian * Larry Evans (1932–2010), US grandmaster *

Rafał Feinmesser Rafał Feinmesser (1895 – ?) was a Polish chess master. He was murdered in the Holocaust in Warszawa. He played several times in the Warsaw championships. He tied for 5-6th in 1926 (Abram Blass and Paulin Frydman won), tied for 6-7th in 1927 ...

(1895–?), Polish, killed in Warsaw during Holocaust *

(1914–1993), US grandmaster * Alexander Flamberg (1880–1926), Polish *

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 tournam ...

(1908–1983), Ukrainian-born

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and Soviet grandmaster * Henryk Friedman (1903–1942), Polish, killed by the Nazis * Paulino Frydman (1905–1982), Polish-born Argentine *

Boris Gelfand Boris Abramovich Gelfand (; born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. A six-time World Championship candidate (1991, 1994–95, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013), he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, mak ...

(born 1968), Belarusian-born Israeli grandmaster,

champion * Efim Geller (1925–1998), Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster *

Harry Golombek Harold "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. Biography He was ...

(1911–1995), English * Eduard Gufeld (1936–2002), Ukrainian grandmaster * Boris Gulko (born 1947), German-born Russian US grandmaster * Isidor Gunsberg (1854–1930), Hungarian-born English * Ilya Gurevich (born 1972), Russian-born US grandmaster and junior World champion * Mikhail Gurevich (born 1959), Ukrainian-born Russian Turkish grandmaster * Dmitry Gurevich Born in 1956, Russian/American grandmaster * Lev Gutman (born 1945), Latvian-born Israeli German grandmaster *

Daniel Harrwitz Daniel Harrwitz (22 February 1821 – 2 January 1884) was a German chess master. Harrwitz was born in Breslau (Wrocław) in the Prussian Province of Silesia. Harrwitz's correct birth and death dates (22 February 1821 and 2 January 1884 respecti ...

(1821–1884),

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n/Polish/German-born English French *

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 indu ...

(1907–1973), US *

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 part ...

(1807–1885), German-born English *

Dawid Janowski Dawid Markelowicz Janowski (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled ''David'') was a Polish chess player. Several opening variations are named after Janowski. Biography Born into a Jewish-Polish family in Wołkowysk, Russian Empire ...

(1868–1927), Belarusian/Polish-born French grandmaster * Max Judd (1851–1906), US * Gregory Kaidanov (born 1959), Ukrainian-born Russian US grandmaster * Julio Kaplan (born 1950), Argentine-born Puerto Rican US grandmaster and World junior champion * Mona May Karff (1908–1998),

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n-born US woman master *

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 Oly ...

(1905–1985), US grandmaster * Alexander Khalifman (born 1966), Russian grandmaster and World champion *

Stanisław Kohn Stanisław Kohn (1895–1940) was a Polish chess master. Kohn played for Poland in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924. In 1925, he won the Warsaw Championship. In 1926, he tied for 3rd-7th, behind Dawid Przepiórka and Paulin Frydman ...

(1895–1940), Polish, killed by the Nazis * Ignatz von Kolisch (1837–1889), Hungarian/

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n-born Austrian grandmaster * George Koltanowski (1903–2000), Belgian-born US grandmaster *

Viktor Korchnoi Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (, ; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (before 1976) and Swiss (after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Bor ...

(1931–2016), Russian-born grandmaster * Yair Kraidman (born 1932), Israeli grandmaster * Leon Kremer (1901–1941), Polish * Abraham Kupchik (1892–1970), Belarusian/Polish-born US *

Alla Kushnir Alla Shulimovna Kushnir (; ; 11 August 1941 – 2 August 2013) was a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. She was awarded the FIDE titles of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1962 and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1976. In 2017, she was inducted ...

(1941–2013), Russian Israeli woman grandmaster * Salo Landau (1903–1944), Polish-born Dutch, killed by the

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s *

Berthold Lasker Berthold Lasker (also, per birth registry Jonathan Berthold Barnett Lasker)per birth registry (Archiwum Państwowe Gorzów Wielkopolski, Sąd Obwodowy w Barlinku, Duplikaty księg metrykalnych gminy żydowskiej, signature 66/886/0/3/4, item 105 ...

(1860–1928), Prussian/German/Polish-born master, elder brother of Emanuel Lasker *

Edward Lasker Edward Lasker (born Eduard Lasker) (December 3, 1885 – March 25, 1981) was a German-American chess and Go player. He was awarded the title of International Master of chess by FIDE. Lasker was an engineer by profession, and an author ...

(1885–1981), Polish/German-born US *

(1868–1941), Prussian/German/Polish-born US grandmaster and 2nd undisputed world champion * Anatoly Lein (1931–2018), Russian/Soviet/American grandmaster * Konstantin Lerner (1950–2011), Ukrainian/Israeli grandmaster *

Grigory Levenfish Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish (; – 9 February 1961) was a Soviet chess player who scored his peak competitive results in the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice Soviet champion, in 1934 (jointly with Ilya Rabinovich) and 1937. In 1937 he drew a m ...

(1889–1961), Polish/Russian-born grandmaster * Irina Levitina (born 1954), Russian-born US woman grandmaster * Vladimir Liberzon (1937–1996), Russian-born Israeli grandmaster *

Andor Lilienthal Andor (André, Andre, Andrei) Arnoldovich Lilienthal Reuben Fine, ''The World's Great Chess Games'', Dover Publications, 1983, p. 216. . (5 May 1911 – 8 May 2010) was a Hungarian and Soviet chess player. In his long career, he played against ...

(1911–2010), Russian-born Hungarian/Soviet grandmaster * Samuel Lipschütz (1863–1905), Austria-Hungary/American *

Johann Löwenthal Johann Jacob Löwenthal (; 15 July 1810 – 24 July 1876) was a Hungarian-born professional chess master. He was among the top 3 players of the 1850s. Biography Löwenthal was born in Budapest, the son of a Jewish merchant. He was educated a ...

(1810–1876), Hungarian-born US English *

Moishe Lowtzky Moishe (Mojżesz) Lowtzky (Łowcki) (1881–1940) was a Ukrainian–Polish chess master. Biography He was born into a Jewish family in Ukraine. In 1903, Lowtzky tied for 6-7th with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in Kyiv (3rd RUS-ch). The event was won ...

(1881–1940), Ukrainian-born Polish, killed by Nazis * Gyula Makovetz (1860–1903), Hungarian * Jonathan Mestel (born 1957), English grandmaster and World U-16 champion * Houshang Mashian (born 1938), Iranian-Israeli chess master *

Jacques Mieses Jacques Mieses (born Jacob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German chess player. Mieses, who was Jewish, fled the Nazi regime in 1938 and later became a British citizen. Hooper, David and Kenneth Whyld 1996. ''The Oxford comp ...

(1865–1954), German-born English grandmaster *

(1910–1997), Polish-born Polish/Argentine grandmaster * Daniel Naroditsky (born 1995), American grandmaster and chess streamer *

Ian Nepomniachtchi Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi ( rus, Ян Алекса́ндрович Непо́мнящий, r=Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy, p=ˈjan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈpomnʲɪɕːɪj, a=Ru-Ian Alexandrovich Nepomnyashchij.ogg; born 14 J ...

(born 1990), Russian grandmaster *

(1886–1935), Latvian-born Danish * Isaías Pleci (1907–1979), Argentine *

(born 1976), Hungarian grandmaster * Susan Polgár (born 1969), Hungarian-born US grandmaster and World champion * Zsófia Polgár (born 1974), Hungarian-born Israeli international master *

Lev Polugaevsky Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky ( rus, Лев Абрамович Полугаевский, p=pəlʊɡɐˈjefskʲɪj; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in ...

(1934–1995), Belarusian/Soviet grandmaster *

Dawid Przepiórka Dawid Przepiórka (22 December 1880 – presumed April 1940) was a History of the Jews in Poland, Jewish-Polish chess player of the early twentieth century, who won the first Polish championship. Biography Dawid Przepiórka was born 22 Decemb ...

(1880–1940), Polish, killed by Nazis * Lev Psakhis (born 1958), Russian/Soviet/Israeli grandmaster * Abram Rabinovich (1878–1943), Lithuanian/Russian * Ilya Rabinovich (1891–1942), Russian *

Teimour Radjabov Teimour Boris oghlu Radjabov (also spelled Teymur Rajabov; , ; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. A former child prodigy, he earned the title of Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster in March 2001 at age 14, ...

(born 1987), Azerbaijani grandmaster * Nukhim Rashkovsky (1946–2023), Russian grandmaster *

(1911–1992), Polish-born US grandmaster *

(1889–1929), Slovakian/Hungarian-born Czech * Maxim Rodshtein (born 1989), Israeli U-16 World champion *

Kenneth Rogoff Kenneth Saul Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster. He is the Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University. During the Great Recession, Rogoff was an influential proponent of auste ...

(born 1953), US grandmaster * Eric Rosen (born 1993), American international master, Twitch streamer, chess YouTuber * Samuel Rosenthal (1837–1902), Polish-born French *

Eduardas Rozentalis Eduardas Rozentalis (born 27 May 1963 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian chess grandmaster. Chess career He played for the Lithuanian team in every Chess Olympiad since 1992, except in 2000 and 2012. Rozentalis won the Lithuanian Chess Championship i ...

(born 1963), Lithuanian grandmaster * Levy Rozman (born 1995), American international master, chess YouTuber, commentator, “teacher” *

(1880–1961), Polish grandmaster * Gersz Salwe (1862–1920), Polish grandmaster *

Jennifer Shahade Jennifer Shahade (born December 31, 1980) is an American chess player, poker player, commentator and writer. She is a two-time United States Women's Champion and has the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. Shahade is the author of the books ''Ches ...

(born 1980), American chess player, poker player, commentator and writer * Leonid Shamkovich (1923–2005), Soviet/Israeli/Canadian/American grandmaster * Yury Shulman (born 1975), Belarusian/Soviet/American grandmaster * Gennady Sosonko (born 1943), Russian-born Dutch grandmaster * Jon Speelman (born 1956), English grandmaster * Rudolf Spielmann (1883–1942), Austrian-born Swedish * Leonid Stein (1934–1973), Ukrainian-born Russian grandmaster *

Endre Steiner Endre (Andreas) Steiner (27 June 1901 – 29 December 1944) was a Hungarian chess player, born in Budapest. Endre Steiner played for Hungary in five official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads. * In 1927, he played at first reserve board at 1st ...

(1901–1944), Hungarian, killed by the Nazis *

Herman Steiner Herman Steiner (April 15, 1905 – November 25, 1955) was an American chess player, organizer, and columnist. He won the U.S. Chess Championship in 1948 and became International Master in 1950. Even more important than his playing career were h ...

(1905–1955), Slovakian/Hungarian-born US *

Lajos Steiner Lajos Steiner (14 June 1903, in Nagyvárad ( Oradea) – 22 April 1975, in Sydney) was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master. Steiner was one of four children of Bernat Steiner, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Cecilia (née Schwarz) ...

(1903–1975), Romanian/Hungarian-born Australian *

(1836–1900), Czech-born Austrian and US grandmaster and 1st undisputed world champion * Mark Stolberg (1922–1942), Russian *

Emil Sutovsky Emil Sutovsky (; born 19 September 1977) is an Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1996. Sutovsky is the FIDE CEO since 2022. Previously, he served as FIDE Director-General (2018-22). He was the president of th ...

(born 1977), Israeli grandmaster *

Peter Svidler Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster and commentator who is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion. Svidler has competed in three World Championshi ...

(born 1976), Russian grandmaster,

champion * László Szabó (1917–1998), Hungarian grandmaster * Mark Taimanov (1926–2016), Soviet/Russian grandmaster *

(1936–1992), Soviet/Latvian grandmaster and 8th undisputed world champion *

(1862–1934), Polish/German grandmaster and Senior World champion *

(1887–1956), Russian-born Austrian/Polish/French grandmaster * Anna Ushenina (born 1985), Ukraine-born Women's World Champion * Anatoly Vaisser (born 1949), Kazakh-born Soviet/French grandmaster * Joshua Waitzkin (born 1976), American Junior Champion and martial arts champion *

Max Weiss Miksa (Max) Weisz (21 July 1857 – 14 March 1927) was an Austrian chess player born in the Kingdom of Hungary. Weiss was born in Sereď. Moving to Vienna, he studied mathematics and physics at the university, and later taught those subjects. Wei ...

(1857–1927), Slovakian/Hungarian-born Austrian *

Simon Winawer Szymon Abramowicz Winawer (March 6, 1838 – November 29, 1919) was a Polish chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883. Tournament and match results At the Paris 1867 tournament held at the Café de la Régence, his first inte ...

(1838–1919), Polish *

Patrick Wolff Patrick Gideon Wolff (born February 15, 1968) is an American chess Grandmaster. He is the son of philosopher Robert Paul Wolff and brother of law professor Tobias Barrington Wolff. Wolff won the United States Chess Championship in 1992 and ...

, (born 1968), American grandmaster and twice US champion * Leonid Yudasin (born 1959), Russian-born Israeli grandmaster * Tatiana Zatulovskaya (1935–2017), Azerbaijani-born Russian Israeli woman grandmaster *

(1842–1888), Polish-born German English master who lost a match to Steinitz for the world championship

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