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…chess, 1972 World Chess Championship, Icelandic chess player, American chess player, chessmaster
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...
Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley

male, deceased (1947)
hermetic order of the golden dawn, Occult writer, The Book of the Law, Golden Dawn, thelema, Founder of religions…chess player, chessmaster, chess
Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947; the surname is pronounced // i.e. with the first syllable so...
Paul Morphy

Paul Morphy

male, deceased (1884)
Spring Hill College alumni, Louisiana Creole, Tulane University alumni, chessmaster, World Chess Champion, chess…chess prodigy, rules of chess, chess player
Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 - July 10, 1884), "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess," was an American chess player. He is considered to have been...
Adolf Anderssen

Adolf Anderssen

male, deceased (1879)
Elo rating, from Wrocław, ELO rating system, German native of Silesia, chess player, from Silesia…chessmaster
Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 - March 13, 1879) was a German chess master, one of the most renowned of the classic masters of 19th...
Howard Staunton

Howard Staunton

male, deceased (1874)
staunton chess set, shakespeare, English, buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, chess player, World Chess Champion…chessmaster
Howard Staunton was an English chess master and unofficial World Chess Champion. He was also a newspaper chess columnist, chess book author, and...
Dan Heisman

Dan Heisman

male
chess player, National Master, Deep Blue, United States Chess Federation, kasparov, American…chess, chessmaster
Dan Heisman started playing tournament chess at 16 and was soon on the U.S. Chess Federation's "Top 25 Under Age 21" list. He attended Caltech and...
Hikaru Nakamura

Hikaru Nakamura

male, 22 years old
Frank Samford, bishop, "Hikaru" Nakamura, Frank Samford Chess Fellow, chess prodigy, Fédération Internationale des Échecs…United States Chess Federation, Chess grandmaster, chessmaster, chess player
"Hikaru" Nakamura is an American chess Grandmaster (GM). He was born in Osaka, Japan, to a Japanese father and an American mother and moved with...
Lionel Kieseritzky

Lionel Kieseritzky

male, deceased (1853)
From Tartu, From Paris, estonian, German, chessmaster, French…chess player
Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky (born January 1 1806 in Dorpat (Tartu), Estonia - died May 18 1853, in Paris, France) was a 19th...
Dan Harrington

Dan Harrington

male, 63 years old
World Series of Poker, World Series of Poker Main Event winner, Action Dan, wsop, Mayfair Club, American gambling writer…chess player, chessmaster
Dan Harrington (born December 6, 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a professional poker player. Harrington is a former champion backgammon...
Johannes Zukertort

Johannes Zukertort

male, deceased (1888)
buried at Brompton Cemetery, British, German, chessmaster, polish, chess player
Johannes Hermann Zukertort (7 September 1842 - 20 June 1888) was a leading chess master of German Polish-Jewish origin.