Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

male, deceased (2008) ( Reykjavík, Iceland)
Greatest chess player of all time, chessplayer, World Chess Championship 1972, Chess grandmaster, anti-Semitic, World Chess Champion…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...
Boris Spassky

Boris Spassky

male, 72 years old
Soviet chess player, grandmaster, Soviet defector, Boris Vasilievich Spassky, World Chess Championship, From Saint Petersburg…chess, Chess grandmaster, World Chess Champion, chessplayer
Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij) (born January 30, 1937) is a Russian-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion,...
Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Kramnik

male, 34 years old
chessplayer, sixteen game match, fourteen game match, Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik, FIDE World Chess Championship 2006, Classical World Chess Championship 2004…Classical World Chess Championship 2000, chess, Chess grandmaster, 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...
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, World Chess Champion, Chess grandmaster, chess, chessplayer
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He is the most successful tournament...
Susan Polgar

Susan Polgar

female, 40 years old
Chess grandmaster, Hungarian-American, Women's World Chess Champion, Zsuzsa Polgár, Judit Polgar, Texas Tech University faculty…Chess problemist, 2004 Chess Olympiad, chessplayer, chess, Chess woman grandmaster
Grandmaster Zsuzsa Polgar is a Hungarian-born American chess player. In 1984, at age 15, she became the top-ranked female player in the world and...
Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand

male, 39 years old
World Chess Champion, Chess grandmaster, From chennai, kasparov, tamil, kramnik…chess, chessplayer
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
chessplayer, FIDE World Chess Championship 2005, twelve-game title unification match, FIDE World Chess Championship 2006, from Rousse, Fédération Internationale des Échecs…World Chess Championship, chess, Chess grandmaster, World Chess Champion, Chess Oscar
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...
Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker

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

Nigel Short

male, 44 years old
chessplayer, montpellier, English, biel, subotica, Order of the British Empire…World Chess Championship, British chess Grandmaster, Chess grandmaster, chess, chess prodigy
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...
Paul Morphy

Paul Morphy

male, deceased (1884)
Spring Hill College alumni, Louisiana Creole, Tulane University alumni, chess master, World Chess Champion, chess…chess prodigy, rules of chess, chessplayer
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...