Jean Dufresne

Jean Dufresne

male, deceased (1893)
French, Algebraicchessnotation, chess player, chess, German, chess composer
Jean Dufresne (February 14, 1829 - 1893) was a French-German chess player and chess composer. He was a pupil of Adolf Anderssen, and lost the...
Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Chigorin

male, deceased (1908)
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin, World Chess Championship, Russian, chess, soviet, ruy lopez…chess opening, Hastings 1895 chess tournament, Algebraicchessnotation, algebraic notation, chess player
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin was a leading Russian chess player. He served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet school of chess," which...
Lev Alburt

Lev Alburt

male, 64 years old
Michael Faynberg, Soviet chess player, International Grandmaster, grandmaster, Russian, chess…Chess Olympiad, Chess grandmaster, U.S. Chess Championship, U.S. Chess Champion, Algebraicchessnotation
Lev Osipovich Alburt (b. August 21, 1945) is a chess grandmaster. Alburt was born in Orenburg, Russia, and won the Ukrainian Chess Championship...
Vassily Ivanchuk

Vassily Ivanchuk

male, 40 years old
chess player, Linares chess tournament, Berezhany, Algebraicchessnotation, Fédération Internationale des Échecs, ELO rating system…World Chess Championship, Chess grandmaster, World Chess Champion
Vassily Ivanchuk, also transliterated as Vasyl (born March 18 1969), is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. Ivanchuk has an Elo rating of 2762 on the...
Amos Burn

Amos Burn

male, deceased (1925)
chess player, Hastings 1895, David Janowski, Algebraicchessnotation, Hastings 1895 chess tournament, Kingston upon Hull…chess
Amos Burn (1848-1925) was an English chess player, one of the world's leading players at the end of the 19th century. He was born in Hull and moved...
Boris Gulko

Boris Gulko

male, 62 years old
Qadafi, Soviet chess player, Elo rating, International Master, zionist, libya…Algebraicchessnotation, USSR Chess Championship, chess player, U.S. Chess Championship, Chess grandmaster
Boris Franzevich Gulko (b. February 9, 1947 in Erfurt, East Germany) is a U.S. International Grandmaster in chess. In Russian, his name is...
James Mason

James Mason

male, deceased (1905)
Social Chess, Mason Gambit, Mason Variation, chess openings, British, Irish…The Principles of Chess in Theory and Practice, The Art of Chess, Algebraicchessnotation, Hastings 1895 chess tournament, chess opening
James Mason (November 19, 1849 - January 18, 1905) was a famous chess player and writer. He was born in Kilkenny in Ireland. His original name is...
Daniel Harrwitz

Daniel Harrwitz

male, deceased (1884)
Bozen, Province of Silesia, South Tyrol, Wrocław, Kingdom of Prussia, bolzano…chess master, Algebraicchessnotation, chess player
Daniel Harrwitz was a Jewish German chess master. Harrwitz was born in Breslau (Wrocław) in the Prussian Province of Silesia. He established his r...
Edmar Mednis

Edmar Mednis

male, deceased (2002)
writer, Soviet defector, Refugee, chess informant, Chess grandmaster, chess…chess player, United States Chess Federation, Chess Olympiad, Algebraicchessnotation
Edmar John Mednis (1937-February 13, 2002) was an American chess International Grandmaster (awarded in 1980), born in Riga, Latvia.
Patrick Wolff

Patrick Wolff

male, 41 years old
chess player, Chess grandmaster, chess, American, International Grandmaster, Algebraicchessnotation…United States Chess Championship, Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess
Patrick G. Wolff (b. February 15 1968) is a United States chess International Grandmaster. The son of a University Philosophy lecturer, Wolff won...