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…InternationalGrandmaster, grandmaster
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...
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…InternationalGrandmaster, Chess grandmaster, grandmaster
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He is the most successful tournament...
Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand

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

Susan Polgar

female, 40 years old
Chess grandmaster, Hungarian-American, Women's World Chess Champion, Zsuzsa Polgár, Judit Polgar, Texas Tech University faculty…InternationalGrandmaster, grandmaster, Chess woman 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...
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…InternationalGrandmaster, grandmaster, Chess grandmaster
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. In October 2000, he beat...
Yasser Seirawan

Yasser Seirawan

male, 49 years old
nottingham, arab, Arab American, damascus, InternationalGrandmaster, Fédération Internationale des Échecs…Chess grandmaster, grandmaster
Yasser Seirawan (born March 24, 1960) is a chess grandmaster and 4-time US-champion. He was winner of the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979....
Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Botvinnik

male, deceased (1995)
Soviet chess player, chess, chess player, World Chess Champion, electrical engineer, Chess grandmaster…InternationalGrandmaster
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (May 5, 1995) was a Russian International Grandmaster and long-time World Champion of chess.
Maurice Ashley

Maurice Ashley

male, 43 years old
College of the City of New York, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, St. Andrew, Chess for Success, St. Andrews, Jamaica, Larry Johnson…InternationalGrandmaster, grandmaster, Chess grandmaster
Maurice Ashley (born March 6, 1966 St. Andrew, Jamaica) is a chess grandmaster. He is the first and only African-American grandmaster. In the...
Nigel Short

Nigel Short

male, 44 years old
chess player, montpellier, English, biel, subotica, Order of the British Empire…International Master, InternationalGrandmaster, British chess Grandmaster, Chess grandmaster, 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...
David Bronstein

David Bronstein

male, deceased (2006)
ukrainian, chess player, David Ionovich Bronstein, grandmaster, InternationalGrandmaster, Jewish person…Chess grandmaster
David Ionovich Bronstein was renowned as a leading chess grandmaster and writer. Described as a creative genius and master of tactics by pundits...