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…International Grandmaster, grandmaster
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…popular chess grandmaster
After long term friction with the international chess organisation, FIDE, Kasparov set up the rival organisation, the Professional Chess...
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…International Grandmaster, grandmaster, 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...
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…International Grandmaster, grandmaster, Chess grandmaster
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. In October 2000, he beat...
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…International Grandmaster, Chess grandmaster, grandmaster
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He is the most successful tournament...
Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan Anand

male, 39 years old
World Chess Champion, Chess grandmaster, From chennai, kasparov, tamil, kramnik…International Grandmaster, grandmaster
Viswanathan Anand (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world champion. Anand is one of only four players in...
Boris Spassky

Boris Spassky

male, 72 years old
Soviet chess player, grandmaster, Soviet defector, Boris Vasilievich Spassky, World Chess Championship, From Saint Petersburg…Chess grandmaster
Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij) (born January 30, 1937) is a Russian-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion,...
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…International Grandmaster, grandmaster, Chess grandmaster
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...
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…International Grandmaster, grandmaster, Chess grandmaster
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...
Nigel Short

Nigel Short

male, 44 years old
chess player, montpellier, English, biel, subotica, Order of the British Empire…International Grandmaster, British chess Grandmaster, Chess grandmaster, grandmaster
Nigel Short MBE (born June 1, 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire) is widely regarded as the strongest British chess player of the 20th century. He became a...