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…fide
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
chess player, sixteen game match, fourteen game match, Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik, FIDE World Chess Championship 2006, Classical World Chess Championship 2004…fide
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)
Chess grandmaster, chess, United Civil Front, From Baku, The Other Russia, grandmaster…fide
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
chess player, FIDE World Chess Championship 2005, twelve-game title unification match, FIDE World Chess Championship 2006, from Rousse, Fédération Internationale des Échecs…fide
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
World Chess Champion, Chess grandmaster, From chennai, kasparov, tamil, kramnik…fide
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)
youngest Grandmaster age, Magnus Øen Carlsen, third youngest Grandmaster in the world, Corus chess tournament, chess prodigy, Fédération Internationale des Échecs…fide
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
Soviet chess player, third world, Elo rating, ELO rating system, Meanings of asteroid names, Public Chamber of Russia…fide
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
Old Truronian, Fédération Internationale des Échecs, British Chess Championship, British Championship, FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, Professional Chess Association…2004 FIDE Championship, fide
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
chess player, World Chess Championship, Tarragona, International Grandmaster, Elo rating, ELO rating system…fide
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
chess player, United States Chess Federation, Crimean Tatars, International Grandmaster, Fédération Internationale des Échecs, chess prodigy…fide
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...