Bobby Fischer09 March 1943, Icelander, American
Chess Grandmaster
Magnus Carlsen30 November 1990, Norwegian
World Chess Champion
Garry Kasparov13 April 1963, Russian
Chess Player
Viswanathan Anand11 December 1969, Indian
Chess Player
Mikhail Tal09 November 1936, Latvian
Chess Player
Samuel Reshevsky26 November 1911, American
Chess Player
Hikaru Nakamura09 December 1987, American
Chess player
Joshua Waitzkin04 December 1976, American
Chess player
Viktor Korchnoi23 March 1931, Russian
Chess player, Writer
Hou Yifan27 February 1994, Chinese
Chess player
Wesley So09 October 1993, Filipino
Chess player
Fabiano Caruana30 July 1992, Italian, American
Chess player
Boris Spassky30 January 1937, French, Russian
Chess Grandmaster
José Raúl Capablanca19 November 1888, Cuban
Chess Player
Levon Aronian06 October 1982, Armenian
Chess player
Vladimir Kramnik25 June 1975, Russian
Chess player, Writer
Ian Nepomniachtchi14 July 1990, Russian
Chess player
Tigran Petrosian17 June 1929, Georgian
Chess player, Writer, Journalist
Pia Cramling23 April 1963, Swedish
Chess player
Mikhail Botvinnik17 August 1911, Russian
Chess player
Vera Francevna Menchik-Stevenson16 February 1906, British
Chess player
Tania Sachdev20 August 1986, Indian
Chess player
Ding Liren24 October 1992, Chinese
Chess player
Maurice Ashley06 March 1966, Jamaican, American
Author
Alexandra Kosteniuk23 April 1984, Russian
Chess Player
Nona Gaprindashvili03 May 1941, Georgian
Chess player
Demis Hassabis27 July 1976, British
Engineer, Chess player
Yasser Seirawan24 March 1960, American
Chess player, Non-fiction writer
Humpy Koneru31 March 1987, Indian
Chess player
Veselin Topalov15 March 1975, Bulgarian
Chess player
Miyoko Watai08 January 1945, Japanese
Chess player, Pharmacist
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Alexander Grischuk31 October 1983, Russian
Chess player
Vasily Smyslov24 March 1921, Russian
Chess grandmaster
Max Euwe20 May 1901, Dutch
Chess player, Mathematician, Chess official,
Jovanka Houska10 June 1980, British
Chess player
Miguel Najdorf15 April 1910, Argentinian, Polish
Chess player
Arpad Elo25 August 1903, American
Chess player, Physicist, Scientist, University
Jennifer Shahade31 December 1980, American
Chess player, Non-fiction writer, Journalist
Richard Farleigh09 November 1960, Australian
Chess player, Investor, Businessperson
Gata Kamsky02 June 1974, American
Chess player
Maya Chiburdanidze17 January 1961, Russian
Chess player
Boris Gelfand24 June 1968, Belarusian, Israeli
Chess player, Non-fiction writer
Bent Larsen04 March 1935, Danish
Chess player
Sofia Polgar02 November 1974, Canadian, Hungarian
Chess player
Peter Svidler17 June 1976, Russian
Chess player
Noam Elkies25 August 1966, American
Mathematician, Chess composer, University teacher,
Ruslan Ponomariov11 October 1983, Ukrainian
Chess player
Fiona Steil-Antoni10 January 1989, Luxembourgian
Chess player
Donald Byrne12 June 1930, American
Chess player
Vytautas Landsbergis18 October 1932, Lithuanian
Politician, Chess player, Musicologist, Music
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov05 April 1962, Russian
Businessperson, Politician, Journalist, Chess
Elmārs Zemgalis09 September 1923, Latvian
Chess player, Non-fiction writer
Viktorija Cmilyte-Nielsen06 August 1983, Lithuanian
Speaker of the Seimas
Savielly Tartakower21 February 1887, Austrian, French, Polish
Chess player
Richard Réti28 May 1889, Austrian, Slovak
Chess Player
Alexander Morozevich18 July 1977, Russian
Chess player
Svetozar Gligoric02 February 1923, Serbian
Chess Grandmaster
Parimarjan Negi09 February 1993, Indian
Chess player
Susan Polgar19 April 1969, Hungarian, American
Chess player
Antoaneta Stefanova19 April 1979, Bulgarian
Chess grandmaster
Xie Jun30 October 1970, Chinese
Chess Grandmaster
Johan van Hulst28 January 1911
Teacher, University teacher, Politician, Chess
Sam Loyd31 January 1841, American
Chess Player
Nino Batsiashvili01 January 1987, Georgian
Chess player
Natalia Pogonina09 March 1985, Russian
Chess player
Zhu Chen16 March 1976, Chinese
Chess player
Lisa Lane25 April 1938, American
Chess player
Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet14 June 1881, British
Badminton player
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant19 July 1968, Georgian, British
Chess player
Padmini Rout05 January 1994, Indian
Chess player
Harry Golombek01 March 1911, British
Chess player
Nana Alexandria13 October 1949, Georgian
Chess player
Almira Skripchenko17 February 1976, French, Moldovan
Chess player
Arnold Denker21 February 1914, American
Chess Player
George Koltanowski17 September 1903, American
Chess player
Florencio Campomanes22 February 1927, Filipino
Political scientist
Alisa Galliamova18 January 1972, Russian
Chess player
Dana Reizniece-Ozola06 November 1981, Latvian
Politician
Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi25 March 1979, Indian
Chess player
Marie Sebag15 October 1986, French
Chess player
Monika Socko24 March 1978, Polish
Chess player
Sonja Graf16 December 1908, German, American
Chess player
Andor Lilienthal05 May 1911, Hungarian
Chess Grandmaster
Gennadi Sosonko18 May 1943
Chess player, Non-fiction writer
Larissa Volpert30 March 1926, Estonian, Russian
Chess grandmaster
Anna Zatonskih17 July 1978, Ukrainian, American
Chess player
Alla Kushnir11 August 1941, Israeli, Russian
Chess player
Luděk Pachman11 May 1924, Czech, German
Chess Grandmaster
Zhao Xue06 April 1985, Chinese
Chess player
Turkan Mamedyarova07 August 1989, Azerbaijani
Chess player
David Levy14 March 1945, British
Chess master
Xu Yuhua29 October 1976, Chinese
Chess Grandmaster
Elisaveta Bykova04 November 1913, Russian
Chess Player
Nancy Lane1971 AD, Australian
Chess player