Chess Player
People in this occupation
Charles Bent
1919 – 2004
Alexander Cunningham
1654 – 1737
Abraham Tolentino
b. 1964
Abram Gurvich
1897 – 1962
Jonathan Rowson
b. 1977
Matafia Scheinberg
1909 – 2002
Alexander Wittek
1852 – 1894
Josef Kling
1811 – 1876
Andrey Makarov
b. 1954
Peter Gvozdják
b. 1965
Marmaduke Wyvill
1815 – 1896
Nikolai Krogius
1930 – 2022
Antonín Novotný
1827 – 1871
Fufi Santori
1932 – 2018
George Wheatcroft
1905 – 1987
Johannes Kohtz
1843 – 1918
Felicia Lamport
1916 – 1999
Ladislav Salai, Jr.
b. 1961
Ferenc Erkel
1810 – 1893
Ariel Erenberg
b. 2001
Yoshiharu Habu
b. 1970
Rupert Cross
1912 – 1980
Carmen Kass
b. 1978
Narcís Vinyoles
1440 – 1517
Bedrich Formánek
1933 – 2023
Frank Holzke
b. 1971
Joel Fridlizius
1869 – 1963
Nikolay Sazhin
b. 1988
Dana Reizniece-Ozola
b. 1981
Mark Dvoretsky
1947 – 2016
Mathias Feist
b. 1961
Richard Goldenberg
1947 – 2023
Hans Duistermaat
1942 – 2010
Nenad Petrović
1907 – 1989
Gerald Frank Anderson
1898 – 1983
George Alcock MacDonnell
1830 – 1899
Yosef Rosenthal
1844 – 1913
Tim Krabbé
b. 1943
Martin Staszko
b. 1976
László Polgár
b. 1946
Eric Schiller
1955 – 2018
Sam Loyd
1841 – 1911
Lothar Schmid
1928 – 2013
Fred Waitzkin
b. 1943
John Roycroft
b. 1929
Levy Rozman
b. 1995
George Atwood
1745 – 1807
Hugh Blandford
1917 – 1981
Alonzo Morphy
1798 – 1856
Vladimir Pimonov
b. 1955
Ernst Flechsig
1852 – 1890
André Bjerke
1918 – 1985
Karolina Fortin
b. 1991
Julien Song
b. 1993
Emanuel Lasker
1868 – 1941
Erich Zepler
1898 – 1980
Arthur John Mackenzie
1871 – 1949
Leonid Volkov
b. 1980
Tadeusz Wolsza
b. 1956
Charles Wreford-Brown
1866 – 1951
Johann Berger
1845 – 1933
Atrioc
b. 1991
Robert Hyatt
b. 1948
Hermanis Matisons
1894 – 1932
Jaap Amesz
b. 1982
Lucyna Krawcewicz
b. 1938
Walther von Holzhausen
1876 – 1935
Kārlis Bētiņš
1867 – 1943
Maurice Wertheim
1886 – 1950
Hansruedi Glauser
1945 – 2014
Boris Becker
b. 1967
Alain Campbell White
1880 – 1951
Misha Mengelberg
1935 – 2017
Alexander Munro Davie
b. 1946
Miodrag Todorčević
b. 1940
Leopold Hoffer
1842 – 1913
Juan Silvano Diaz Perez
1914 – 1969
Piers Bohl
1865 – 1921
Delia Duca
b. 1986
Gavin Extence
b. 1982
Jean-Louis Preti
1798 – 1881
Karel Traxler
1866 – 1936
Jan Przewoźnik
1957 – 2023
Nathan Divinsky
1925 – 2012
Josep Tolosa
1846 – 1916
Martin Lohse
b. 1971
Emilis Šlekys
1951 – 2012
Norman Macleod
1927 – 1991
Samuel Rosenthal
1837 – 1902
Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli
854 – 946
Dennis Dieks
b. 1949
Guy Nearing
1890 – 1986
François-André Danican Philidor
1726 – 1795
William Fairhurst
1903 – 1982
Guðmundur Pálmason
1928 – 2004
Mirai Aoshima
b. 1995
Robert K. von Weizsäcker
b. 1954
Ladislav Prokeš
1884 – 1966
Alexey Troitsky
1866 – 1942
Július Kozma
1929 – 2009