Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

male, deceased (2008) ( Reykjavík, Iceland)
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...
Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Kramnik

male, 34 years old
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. In October 2000, he beat...
Garry Kimovich Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov

male, deceased (1963)
After long term friction with the international chess organisation, FIDE, Kasparov set up the rival organisation, the Professional Chess...
Veselin Topalov

Veselin Topalov

male, 34 years old
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...
Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand

male, 39 years old
Viswanathan Anand (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world champion. Anand is one of only four players in...
Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen

male, 18 years old (Norway)
Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster who came to international attention after winning the C group of the Corus Chess Tournament in J...
Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Karpov

male, 58 years old
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He is the most successful tournament...
Michael Adams

Michael Adams

male, 38 years old
Michael Adams is an International Grandmaster of chess. On the July 2007 FIDE rating list he is number fifteen in the world with an Elo rating of...
Alexei Shirov

Alexei Shirov

male, 37 years old
Alexei Shirov (Aleksejs Širovs, Алексей Широв, a chess grandmaster. On the July 2007 FIDE rating list he was ranked number eleven in the world wit...
Gata Kamsky

Gata Kamsky

male, 35 years old
The American Grandmaster Gata Kamsky is traveling to Elista, Russia on May 25th to play candidate matches in his second run for the world chess...