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, WorldChessChampion…chess, 1972 World Chess Championship, Icelandic chess player, American chess player, chess master
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...
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…Classical World Chess Championship 2000, World Champion, chess, Chess grandmaster, WorldChessChampion
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. In October 2000, he beat...
Boris Spassky

Boris Spassky

male, 72 years old
Soviet chess player, grandmaster, Soviet defector, Boris Vasilievich Spassky, World Chess Championship, From Saint Petersburg…World Champion, chess, Chess grandmaster, WorldChessChampion, chess player
Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij) (born January 30, 1937) is a Russian-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion,...
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…World Chess Championship, WorldChessChampion, Chess grandmaster, chess, World Champion
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
WorldChessChampion, Chess grandmaster, From chennai, kasparov, tamil, kramnik…chess, chess player
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…World Chess Championship, World Champion, chess, Chess grandmaster, WorldChessChampion
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...
Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal

male, deceased (1992)
Soviet chess player, soviet, WorldChessChampion, 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, WorldChessChampion, German, Chess grandmaster…chess player
Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 - January 11, 1941) was a German chess World Chess Champion and grandmaster, mathematician, and philosopher born...
Mikhail Botvinnik

Mikhail Botvinnik

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

Max Euwe

male, deceased (1981)
mathematician, World Chess Federation, grandmaster, dutch, Dutch world champion in sports, World Chess Championship…chess, Chess grandmaster, WorldChessChampion, chess player
Machgielis (Max) Euwe (May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess Grandmaster and Mathematician. He was the fifth player to become World Ch...