Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Karpov

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

Garry Kimovich Kasparov

male, deceased (1963)
Chess grandmaster, chess, United Civil Front, From Baku, The Other Russia, grandmaster…Sovietchessplayer, 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...
Boris Spassky

Boris Spassky

male, 72 years old
Sovietchessplayer, grandmaster, Soviet defector, Boris Vasilievich Spassky, World Chess Championship, From Saint Petersburg…chess, Chess grandmaster, 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,...
Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Botvinnik

male, deceased (1995)
Sovietchessplayer, chess, chess player, World Chess Champion, electrical engineer, Chess grandmaster
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (May 5, 1995) was a Russian International Grandmaster and long-time World Champion of chess.
Tigran Petrosian

Tigran Petrosian

male, deceased (1984)
From Tbilisi, Sovietchessplayer, Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian, chess player, World Chess Champion, Chess grandmaster
Tigran Petrosian (June 17, 1929 - August 13,1984) was a former World Chess Champion. He is often known by the Russian version of his name, Tigran...
Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal

male, deceased (1992)
Sovietchessplayer, soviet, World Chess Champion, Chess grandmaster, Latvian, chess player
Mikhail Tal (November 9, 1936–June 28, 1992) was a Soviet-Latvian chess player, and the eighth World Chess Champion.
Viktor Korchnoi

Viktor Korchnoi

male, 78 years old
Sovietchessplayer, ussr, Refugee, Chess grandmaster, Swiss, chess player…USSR Chess Championship, World Senior Chess Champion, USSR chess champion, World Chess Championship, Chess Olympiad
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й), born March 23, 1931, in Leningrad, USSR, is a professional Swiss chess player and currently th...
Vasily Smyslov

Vasily Smyslov

male, 88 years old
Sovietchessplayer, Jewish, opening, International Grandmaster, Vladimir Simagin, Candidates Tournament…1948 World Chess Championship, World Chess Championship 1948, chess player, World Chess Champion, Chess grandmaster
Vasily Vasiliyevich Smyslov (born March 24, 1921, in Moscow) is a Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.
Paul Keres

Paul Keres

male, deceased (1975)
from Narva, Candidates' Tournament, Sovietchessplayer, estonian, Chess grandmaster, grandmaster…chess, World Chess Champion, chess player, soviet union
Paul Keres was an Estonian chess grandmaster and one of the strongest chess players of all time. On four consecutive occasions he missed the chance...
Efim Geller

Efim Geller

male, deceased (1998)
Sovietchessplayer, grandmaster, Efim Petrovich Geller, From Odessa, Jewish person, ukrainian…soviet, chess, Chess grandmaster, chess player
Efim Petrovich Geller was a Soviet chess player, a Grandmaster of world class at his peak. He won the Soviet Championship twice, in 1955 and 1979.