Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov

male, 45 years old
Chess grandmaster chess player World Chess Champion chess United Civil Front From Baku … youngest ever World Chess Champion
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born April 13 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) (now Azerbaijan) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion... More
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
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... More
Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Kramnik

male, 33 years old
chess player sixteen game match fourteen game match Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik FIDE World Chess Championship 2006 Classical World Chess Championship 2004 … World Chess Champion
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. In October 2000, he beat... More
Boris Spassky

Boris Spassky

male, 71 years old
Soviet chess player grandmaster Soviet defector Boris Vasilievich Spassky World Chess Championship From Saint Petersburg … World Chess Champion
Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij) (born January 30, 1937) is a Russian-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion,... More
Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Karpov

male, 57 years old
Soviet chess player third world Elo rating ELO rating system Meanings of asteroid names Public Chamber of Russia … World Chess Champion
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He is the most successful tournament... More
Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand

male, 38 years old
World Chess Champion Chess grandmaster From chennai kasparov tamil kramnik
Viswanathan Anand (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world champion. Anand is one of only four players in... More
Veselin Topalov

Veselin Topalov

male, 33 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 … World Chess Champion
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... More
Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal

male, deceased (1992)
Soviet chess player 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.
Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker

male, deceased (1941)
grandmaster From Brandenburg Jewish World Chess Champion German Chess grandmaster
Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 - January 11, 1941) was a German chess World Chess Champion and grandmaster, mathematician, and philosopher born... More
Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Botvinnik

male, deceased (1995)
Soviet chess player 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.