Pal Benko

Pal Benko

male, 81 years old
Pal Benko is a chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.

Richard Réti

male, deceased (1929)
Richard Réti (28 May, 1889, Pezinok (now Slovakia) - 6 June, 1929, Prague) was an Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player and chess p...
Alexander Rueb

Alexander Rueb

male, deceased (1959)
Alexander Rueb (December 27, 1882 - February 2, 1959) was a Dutch lawyer, diplomat, and chess official. He was born in The Hague. One of the...
Jan Rusinek

Jan Rusinek

male, 59 years old
Jan Rusinek (born 1950) is a Polish mathematician and chess problem composer, in which field he is particularly noted for his endgame studies. He...
Alexey Troitsky

Alexey Troitsky

male, deceased (1942)
Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky, or Alexei, or Troitzky (March 14, 1866-August 1942) is considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess...
Friedrich Amelung

Friedrich Amelung

male, deceased (1909)
Friedrich Ludwig Balthasar Amelung (born 23 March 1842, at Võisiku ("Woiseck") manor near Fellin [now Viljandi], Estonia – died 21 March 1909, Rig...
Leopold Mitrofanov

Leopold Mitrofanov

male, deceased (1992)
Leopold Adamovich Mitrofanov was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). He was a Russian chess composer, an International Master of chess (awarded...
Richard K. Guy

Richard K. Guy

male, 93 years old
Richard Kenneth Guy (born 1916, Nuneaton, Warwickshire) is a British mathematician, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the...
Erich Zepler

Erich Zepler

male, deceased (1980)
Erich Ernest Zepler, later known as Eric, was a German-born electronics expert and chess problem composer. He studied physics in Berlin and Bonn...

Genrikh Gasparyan

male, deceased (1995)
Genrikh Gasparyan (February 27, 1910 in Tbilisi - December 27, 1995 in Yerevan) is considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess...