Garry Kimovich Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov

male, deceased (1963)
Chessgrandmaster, chess, United Civil Front, From Baku, The Other Russia, grandmaster…Soviet chess player, retired from professional chess, Professional Chess Association, World Chess Championship, greatest chess champion
After long term friction with the international chess organisation, FIDE, Kasparov set up the rival organisation, the Professional Chess...
Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

male, deceased (2008) ( Reykjavík, Iceland)
Greatest chess player of all time, chess player, World Chess Championship 1972, Chessgrandmaster, anti-Semitic, World Chess Champion…chess, International Grandmaster, 1972 World Chess Championship, grandmaster, Icelandic chess player
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer is a United States-born chess Grandmaster who in 1972 became the only US-born chessplayer to become the official World...
Alexandra Kosteniuk

Alexandra Kosteniuk

female, 25 years old
podcast, International Master, Chess960, Woman Grandmaster, International Grandmaster, Elo rating…Chess woman grandmaster, chess player, Chessgrandmaster, grandmaster, chess
Alexandra Kosteniuk is a Russian chess player who became female European champion in 2004 by winning the tournament in Dresden, Germany. In August...
Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Kramnik

male, 34 years old
chess player, sixteen game match, fourteen game match, Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik, FIDE World Chess Championship 2006, Classical World Chess Championship 2004…Classical World Chess Championship 2000, International Grandmaster, chess, grandmaster, Chessgrandmaster
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. In October 2000, he beat...
Boris Spassky

Boris Spassky

male, 72 years old
Soviet chess player, grandmaster, Soviet defector, Boris Vasilievich Spassky, World Chess Championship, From Saint Petersburg…chess, Chessgrandmaster, World Chess Champion, chess player
Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij) (born January 30, 1937) is a Russian-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion,...
Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand

male, 39 years old
World Chess Champion, Chessgrandmaster, From chennai, kasparov, tamil, kramnik…International Grandmaster, chess, grandmaster, chess player
Viswanathan Anand (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world champion. Anand is one of only four players in...
Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Karpov

male, 58 years old
Soviet chess player, third world, Elo rating, ELO rating system, Meanings of asteroid names, Public Chamber of Russia…International Grandmaster, World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, Chessgrandmaster, grandmaster
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He is the most successful tournament...
Susan Polgar

Susan Polgar

female, 40 years old
Chessgrandmaster, Hungarian-American, Women's World Chess Champion, Zsuzsa Polgár, Judit Polgar, Texas Tech University faculty…Chess problemist, 2004 Chess Olympiad, International Grandmaster, chess player, grandmaster
Grandmaster Zsuzsa Polgar is a Hungarian-born American chess player. In 1984, at age 15, she became the top-ranked female player in the world and...
Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen

male, 18 years old (Norway)
youngest Grandmaster age, Magnus Øen Carlsen, third youngest Grandmaster in the world, Corus chess tournament, chess prodigy, Fédération Internationale des Échecs…International Grandmaster, chess, grandmaster, Chessgrandmaster, chess player
Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster who came to international attention after winning the C group of the Corus Chess Tournament in J...
Nigel Short

Nigel Short

male, 44 years old
chess player, montpellier, English, biel, subotica, Order of the British Empire…World Chess Championship, International Grandmaster, British chess Grandmaster, Chessgrandmaster, grandmaster
Nigel Short MBE (born June 1, 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire) is widely regarded as the strongest British chess player of the 20th century. He became a...