Alexander Morozevich

Alexander Morozevich

male, 32 years old
chess player, Elo rating, ELO rating system, Fédération Internationale des Échecs, blindfoldchess, FIDE World Chess Championship 2005…World Chess Championship, Chess Olympiad, chess opening, Chess grandmaster, blindfold
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....

Richard Réti

male, deceased (1929)
Master of the Chess Board, pianist, composer, First World War, chess player, hungarian…chess, World Chess Championship, Chess problemist, New Ideas in Chess, blindfoldchess
Richard Réti (28 May, 1889, Pezinok (now Slovakia) - 6 June, 1929, Prague) was an Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player and chess p...
Joseph Henry Blackburne

Joseph Henry Blackburne

male, deceased (1924)
simultaneous chess, blindfoldchess, simultaneous, tournament, British, chess…blindfold, chess player
Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841-1924), nicknamed "Black Death", dominated the British chess world during the latter part of the 19th century. He...
Pietro Carrera

Pietro Carrera

male, deceased (1647)
in chess, blindfoldchess, chess, endgame, priest, sicilian…Capablanca chess, Chess handicap, chess player
Pietro Carrera was a Sicilian chess player, priest, and author. In his book "Il gioco degli scacchi" (1617), Carrera wrote about the origins of...

Abu-Bakr Muhammad Ben Yahya As-Suli

male, deceased (946)
chess player, chess opening, chess, basra, Shi'a Muslim, arab…blindfoldchess, chess strategy
Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli (c. 880 - 946) was an Arab shatranj (an ancestor of chess) player who came to prominence sometime in between...

Borislav Kostić

male, deceased (1963)
Jewish, Austrian, chess, grandmaster, showalter, Chess grandmaster…chess player, blindfoldchess
Borislav Kostić (February 24, 1887 – November 3, 1963) was a Serbian professional chess grandmaster from Vršac (Hungarian: Versecz; German: Wers...