| |  | Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born April 13 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) (now Azerbaijan) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion... |  | Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й), born March 23, 1931, in Leningrad, USSR, is a professional Swiss chess player and currently th... |  | Leonid Grigoryevich Yudasin (born in Leningrad, August 8, 1959) is a prominent chess master and trainer, now living in New York City. Awarded the... |  | Paul Keres was an Estonian chess grandmaster and one of the strongest chess players of all time. On four consecutive occasions he missed the chance... |  | Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (November 21, 1908 - July 18, 1983) was a leading Czechoslovak and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the early 20th... |  | Lev Polugaevsky was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the world chess championship, although he never achieved that... |  | Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov was an eminent Soviet chess player. |  | Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (born February 8, 1922, in Kaluga, Russia) is a Russian chess player and author. His father was German Jewish, and his... |  | Zurab Azmaiparashvili (born March 16, 1960) is a chess Grandmaster from Georgia. In the January 2007 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2632,... |  | Mark Evgenievich Taimanov is a Jewish, leading Ukrainian chess player and concert pianist. He was awarded the International Grandmaster title in... | |
