John Nunn

John Nunn

male, 54 years old
John Denis Martin Nunn (born April 25, 1955 in London) is an English chess player and mathematician. John Nunn went up to Oriel College, Oxford, to...
Sam Loyd

Sam Loyd

male, deceased (1911)
Samuel Loyd (January 31, 1841-April 10, 1911), born in Philadelphia and raised in New York, was an American puzzle author and recreational...
Piotr Murdzia

Piotr Murdzia

male, 34 years old
Piotr Murdzia is a chess International Master from Poland. He was awarded the IM title in 1994. He won tournaments in Świdnica (1998) and Legnica (...
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

male, deceased (1977)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American author. Nabokov wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international...
Milan Vukcevich

Milan Vukcevich

male, deceased (2003)
Milan Radoje Vukcevich (March 11, 1937 - May 10, 2003) was a Yugoslav scientist, chess player and chess problem composer. Vukcevich was born in...
Jonathan Mestel

Jonathan Mestel

male, 52 years old
Dr Andrew Jonathan Mestel (born 13 March 1957 in Cambridge, England) is an applied mathematician at Imperial College who works on...
Tivadar Kardos

Tivadar Kardos

male, deceased (1998)
Tivadar Kardos was a well-known Hungarian chess problem creator (Chess composer) and author in chess. Kardos, an academic by career, composed more...
Noam Elkies

Noam Elkies

male, 43 years old (New York, New York, United States)
Noam D. Elkies (born 1966 in New York City) is a mathematician. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow....

Walter Grimshaw

male
Walter Grimshaw (March 12 1832 - December 27 1890) was a 19th century composer of chess problems. In 1854 he won the first ever chess problem...