Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

male, deceased (2008) ( Reykjavík, Iceland)
Greatest chess player of all time, chess player, World Chess Championship 1972, Chess grandmaster, anti-Semitic, World Chess Champion…Fédération Internationale des Échecs
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...
Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand

male, 39 years old
World Chess Champion, Chess grandmaster, From chennai, kasparov, tamil, kramnik…Fédération Internationale des Échecs
Viswanathan Anand (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world champion. Anand is one of only four players in...
Veselin Topalov

Veselin Topalov

male, 34 years old
chess player, FIDE World Chess Championship 2005, twelve-game title unification match, FIDE World Chess Championship 2006, from Rousse, Fédération Internationale des Échecs
Veselin Topalov (born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world champion. In the April 2007 FIDE rating list, he is...
Ruslan Ponomariov

Ruslan Ponomariov

male, 26 years old
FIDE Knock-Out World Championship, FIDE World Chess Championships 1998-2004, Corus tournament, Linares chess tournament, Corus chess tournament, Fédération Internationale des Échecs
Ruslan Ponomariov (born October 11, 1983) is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE world champion. On the April 2007 FIDE Elo rating list...
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

male, 47 years old
Chess organizations, Buddhist, Kalmyks, chinese, Kalmykia, Russian Federation…Fédération Internationale des Échecs
Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov (born April 5, 1962), a Buddhist millionaire businessman, is the President of the Republic of Kalmykia of the...
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
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...
Michael Adams

Michael Adams

male, 38 years old
Old Truronian, Fédération Internationale des Échecs, British Chess Championship, British Championship, FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, Professional Chess Association
Michael Adams is an International Grandmaster of chess. On the July 2007 FIDE rating list he is number fifteen in the world with an Elo rating of...
Jan Timman

Jan Timman

male, 57 years old
dutch, The Art of Chess Analysis, New In Chess, Fédération Internationale des Échecs, World Championship, Malmö
Jan Timman is a Dutch chessplayer who had his greatest successes in the 1970s and 1980s. He has won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times. He was...
Alexei Shirov

Alexei Shirov

male, 37 years old
chess player, World Chess Championship, Tarragona, International Grandmaster, Elo rating, ELO rating system…Fédération Internationale des Échecs
Alexei Shirov (Aleksejs Širovs, Алексей Широв, a chess grandmaster. On the July 2007 FIDE rating list he was ranked number eleven in the world wit...
Alexander Khalifman

Alexander Khalifman

male, 43 years old
Soviet chess player, grandmaster, Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman, Fédération Internationale des Échecs, Elo rating, International Grandmaster
Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman is a Russian chess grandmaster and former world champion. When he was 6 years old, he was taught chess by his...