Wesley So

Wesley So

male, 16 years old
chess player, filipino, InternationalMaster
Wesley So (October 9, 1993 -) is a Filipino chess International Master who becomes the youngest member of the national men’s team to the Chess Ol...
Nigel Short

Nigel Short

male, 44 years old
chess player, montpellier, English, biel, subotica, Order of the British Empire…InternationalMaster, International 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...
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…International Grandmaster, InternationalMaster
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...
Parimarjan Negi

Parimarjan Negi

male, 16 years old
Indian, chess player, Chess grandmaster, InternationalMaster, International Grandmaster, chess prodigy
Parimarjan Negi (b. 9 February 1993) is a 14-year-old chess prodigy from India. In July 2005, he became the youngest International Master ever when...
Larry Christiansen

Larry Christiansen

male, 53 years old
chess player, Larry M. Christiansen, Sämisch King's Indian, Storming the Barricades, U.S. champion, King's Indian Defence…International Grandmaster, InternationalMaster
Larry M. Christiansen is a chess grandmaster who grew up in Riverside, California. He was U.S. champion in 1980, 1983, and 2002. He describes his...
Irina Krush

Irina Krush

female, 25 years old
Etienne Bacrot, US Women's Chess Championship, FIDE rating, Kasparov versus The World, ELO rating system, International Grandmaster…InternationalMaster
Irina Krush (b. December 24, 1983) is an American chess player. Born in Odessa, USSR (now Ukraine), she is widely known for her series of chess...
Jeremy Silman

Jeremy Silman

male, 55 years old
chess player, chess, writer, us open, U.S. Open Chess Championship, InternationalMaster
Jeremy Silman (born August 28 1954) is an American International Master of chess. He has won the US Open, the American Open and the National Open....

Ian Rogers

male, 49 years old
chess player, International Arbiter, International Grandmaster, InternationalMaster, Australian Chess Championship, Chess Olympiad…Woman FIDE Master
Professional chess player Ian Rogers (born June 24 1960 Hobart Tasmania) was the first Australian to become an International Grandmaster. He...
Abhijeet Gupta

Abhijeet Gupta

male, 20 years old
Indian, Bhilwara, Bhilwara district, InternationalMaster, From Rajasthan, Agarwal
Abhijeet Gupta (born 1989) at age of 15 is India's youngest International Master after FIDE, the World Chess Federation, officially awarded him the...
Vasik Rajlich

Vasik Rajlich

male
programs, MIT, czech, program, computer chess, chess…InternationalMaster
Vasik Rajlich (b. 1971 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an International Master in chess and the author of Rybka, one of the strongest chess playing programs...