Leonard Chess

Leonard Chess

male, deceased (1969)
Motal, Lejzor Czyz, Blues Hall of Fame inductee, bass drum, Laura Lee, Philip Chess…Chess Records
Leonard Chess (March 12, 1917 - October 16, 1969) was a record company executive, founder of Chess Records. Chess was influential in the...
Phil Chess

Phil Chess

male, 88 years old
Jewish, "Sonny Boy Williamson", Motal, Philip Chess, Aristocrat Records, Blues Hall of Fame…Chess Records
Philip Chess (b. 1921) is a Polish-American record producer and company executive, the co-founder of Chess Records. He was born Fiszel Czyz in a...
Marshall Chess

Marshall Chess

male, 67 years old
American, Record producer, rock and roll, from Chicago, The Rolling Stones, blues…Chess Records
Marshall Chess (born 13 March 1942, Chicago, Illinois-) is the son and nephew of the founders of Chess Records, the Chicago based independent...
Richard Chess

Richard Chess

male
poet, Academic, university of north carolina at asheville, American
Richard Chess was born in Los Angeles in 1953. He spent most of his childhood and youth in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He is the author of three books...
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, 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...
Garry Kimovich Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov

male, deceased (1963)
Chess grandmaster, chess, United Civil Front, From Baku, The Other Russia, grandmaster…Soviet chess player, retired from professional chess, Professional Chess Association, World Chess Championship, greatest chess champion
After long term friction with the international chess organisation, FIDE, Kasparov set up the rival organisation, the Professional Chess...
Education: Botvinnik Chess School
Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Kramnik

male, 34 years old
chess player, 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...
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, chess player, 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, chess player
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
chess player, 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...