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 … 1972 World Chess Championship World Chess Championship
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
Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov

male, 45 years old
Chess grandmaster chess player World Chess Champion chess United Civil Front From Baku … World Chess Championship
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born April 13 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) (now Azerbaijan) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion... 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 Championship
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
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 Championship
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He is the most successful tournament... More
Boris Spassky

Boris Spassky

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

Nigel Short

male, 43 years old
chess player montpellier English biel subotica Order of the British Empire … World Chess Championship
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... More
Alexander Morozevich

Alexander Morozevich

male, 31 years old
chess player Elo rating ELO rating system Fédération Internationale des Échecs blindfold chess FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 … World Chess Championship
Alexander Morozevich is a Russian chess player. In the July 2007 FIDE list, he had an ELO rating of 2758, making him number 5 in the world.... More
Peter Svidler

Peter Svidler

male, 32 years old
World Chess Network Fédération Internationale des Échecs Rishon LeZion FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 World Blitz Championship Internet Chess Club … World Chess Championship
Peter Svidler is a Russian chess grandmaster. On the July 2007 FIDE rating list he has an ELO rating of 2735, making him the number twelve in the... More
Michael Adams

Michael Adams

male, 36 years old
Old Truronian Fédération Internationale des Échecs British Chess Championship British Championship FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 Professional Chess Association … World Chess Championship
Michael Adams is an International Grandmaster of chess. On the July 2007 FIDE rating list he is number fifteen in the world with an Elo rating of... More
Rustam Kasimdzhanov

Rustam Kasimdzhanov

male, 28 years old
chess player Fédération Internationale des Échecs World Junior Chess Championship Uzbek language Corus chess tournament FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 … FIDE World Chess Championship, 2004 World Chess Championship
Rustam Kasimdzhanov (born December 5, 1979) is a chess grandmaster from Uzbekistan. In the Uzbek language, which since 1992 has officially used... More