Chess Player

This page lists 5,697 biographies of chess players, covering lives from 800 to 2021. Featuring Anatoly Karpov, Andrew Weaver and Andrey Makarov. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Novendra Priasmoro

b. 1999

Zbigniew Jaśnikowski

b. 1955

Josef Cukierman

1900 – 1941

Graham Russell Mitchell

1905 – 1984

Jean-Marc Degraeve

b. 1971

Eros Riccio

b. 1977

Nico Zwirs

b. 1994

Abby Marshall

b. 1991

Beniamino Vergani

1863 – 1927

Anna-Maja Kazarian

b. 2000

Yngvar Barda

1935 – 1999

Paul Morphy

1837 – 1884

Hagen Poetsch

b. 1991

Karen Asrian

1980 – 2008

Bela Soos

1930 – 2007

Vladimir Alatortsev

1909 – 1987

Sion Radamantys Galaviz Medina

b. 2005

Abhimanyu Puranik

b. 2000

Isaac Lipnitsky

1923 – 1959

Dina Belenkaya

b. 1993

Akshat Chandra

b. 1999

Milan Vukić

b. 1942

Alexandra Obolentseva

b. 2001

Nóra Medvegy

b. 1977

Miroslav Filip

1928 – 2009

Ružica Milosavljević

b. 1946

Keti Tsatsalashvili

b. 1992

Dirk van Foreest

1862 – 1956

Yuri Gonzalez Vidal

b. 1981

Narmin Kazimova

b. 1993

Shyam Sundar

b. 1992

Julia Alboredo

b. 1997

Sergiu Samarian

1923 – 1991

Piet Kroon

1945 – 2021

Geetha Narayanan Gopal

b. 1989

Dejan Antić

b. 1968

Velichka Krumova

b. 1942

Róża Herman

1902 – 1995

Qiyu Zhou

b. 2000

Andreas Duhm

1883 – 1975

Irene Kharisma Sukandar

b. 1992

Emil Karastoichev

1916 – 1997

Nona Gaprindashvili

b. 1941

Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona

1542 – 1597

Mikuláš Maník

b. 1975

Georg Klaus

1912 – 1974

Serge Rubanraut

1948 – 2008

Gillian Moore

b. 1944

Paul Keres

1916 – 1975

Zbigniew Księski

1954 – 2018

Elmārs Zemgalis

1923 – 2014

Kamil Mitoń

b. 1984

Maxwell Fuller

1945 – 2013

Vladimir Kramnik

b. 1975

Miguoel Admiraal

b. 1994

John Rety

1930 – 2010

Jacob Ascher

1841 – 1912

Roberto Garcia Pantoja

b. 1992

Tennyson Olisa

b. 2003

Rob Hartoch

1947 – 2009

Inga Charkhalashvili

b. 1983

Francisco Javier Ochoa de Echagüen

b. 1954

Mehak Gul

b. 2000

Razvan Preotu

b. 1999

Aleksandr Sergeyev

1897 – 1970

Miguel Santos Ruiz

b. 1999

Raja Harshit

b. 2001

Dante Beukes

b. 2003

Carl Mayet

1810 – 1868

Carsten Høi

b. 1957

Włodzimierz Jastrzębski

1939 – 2024

Mark van der Werf

b. 1968

Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant

b. 1968

Charles Blake

1880 – 1961

Tianqi Yan

b. 2002

Sebastian Siebrecht

b. 1973

Vladimir Antoshin

1929 – 1994

Povilas Vaitonis

1911 – 1983

César Muñoz

1929 – 1997

Mohamed Haddouche

b. 1984

Mikhail Tseitlin

b. 1947

Aramís Álvarez Pedraza

b. 1988

Alexander Prameshuber

1926 – 1983

Darpan Inani

b. 1994

Jan Schulz

1899 – 1953

Wincenty Budzyński

1815 – 1866

Eduardo Etcheverry

Jolanta Guzik

b. 1981

R.K. Kieseritzky

1870 – 1923

František Pithart

1915 – 2003

Petra Movsesjanová

b. 1976

Shreyas Smith

b. 1996

William Norwood Potter

1840 – 1895

Dimitris Alexakis

b. 2003

Victor Bologan

b. 1971

George Koltanowski

1903 – 2000

Yu Yangyi

b. 1994

Diogo Fernando

b. 1980

Vadim Malakhatko

1977 – 2023

Kareim Wageih

b. 1992