1 Emanuel Lasker
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4
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: December 24, 1868
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Barlinek, Poland
Died: January 11, 1941
2 Adolf Anderssen
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Famous As: Chess Master
Birthdate: July 6, 1818
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Wrocław, Poland
Died: March 13, 1879
3 Siegbert Tarrasch
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3
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: March 5, 1862
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Wrocław, Poland
Died: February 17, 1934
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4 Vincent Keymer
9
2
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: November 15, 2004
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Mainz, Germany
5 Jan Gustafsson
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2
Famous As: Chess player, Poker player
Birthdate: June 25, 1979
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
6 Natalia Zhukova
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2
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: June 5, 1979
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Dresden, East Germany
7 Efim Bogoljubov
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2
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: April 14, 1889
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Stanislavchyk, Ukraine
Died: June 18, 1952
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2
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: February 13, 1960
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
9 Elisabeth Pahtz
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2
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: January 8, 1985
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Erfurt, East Germany
10 Arkadij Naiditsch
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1
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: October 25, 1985
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Riga, Latvia
11 Emil Josef Diemer
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1
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: May 15, 1908
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Radolfzell, Germany
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12 Robert Hübner
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1
Famous As: Chess player, Writer
Birthdate: November 6, 1948
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Cologne, Germany
13 Jacques Mieses
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1
Famous As: Chess player, Non-fiction writer
Birthdate: February 27, 1865
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Leipzig, Germany
Died: February 23, 1954
14 Louis Paulsen
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Famous As: Chess Player
Birthdate: January 15, 1833
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Blomberg, Germany
Died: August 18, 1891
15 Wolfgang Uhlmann
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2
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: March 29, 1935
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Dresden, Germany
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16 Curt von Bardeleben
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1
Famous As: Chess player, Writer
Birthdate: March 4, 1861
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: January 31, 1924
17 Eric Lobron
5
1
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: May 7, 1960
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
18 Vlastimil Hort
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1
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: January 12, 1944
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Kladno, Czechoslovakia
19 Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
5
1
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: August 1, 1976
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Braşov, Romania
20 Niclas Huschenbeth
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0
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: February 29, 1992
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Hann. Münden, Germany
21 Klaus Junge
5
1
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: January 1, 1924
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Concepción, Chile
Died: April 17, 1945
22 Luděk Pachman
5
1
Famous As: Chess Grandmaster
Birthdate: May 11, 1924
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Bělá pod Bezdězem, Czechia
Died: March 6, 2003
23 Sonja Graf
4
1
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: December 16, 1908
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Died: March 6, 1965
24 Johann Baptist Allgaier
3
1
Famous As: Early chess theorist and author of the first chess literature in the German language
Birthdate: June 19, 1763
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Bad Schussenried, Germany
Died: January 3, 1823
25 Lev Gutman
5
1
Famous As: Chess player, Writer
Birthdate: September 26, 1945
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Riga, Latvia
26 Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
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2
Famous As: Nobleman
Birthdate: April 10, 1579
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Dannenberg, Germany
Died: September 17, 1666
27 Arik Braun
2
0
Famous As: Chess player
Birthdate: February 8, 1988
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Aresing, West Germany
28 Erich Zepler
2
0
Famous As: Chess problem composer
Birthdate: January 27, 1898
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Herford, Germany
Died: May 13, 1980