Chess player celebrities
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Ksawery Tartakower (also known as Saviely or Savielly Tartakower in English, less often Xavier Tartacover or Xavier Tartakover; 1887–1956) was a leading Polish and French chess grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist and author of the 1
Ilya (or Ilia) Yulievich Smirin (Hebrew: איליה יוליביץ’ סמירין; Russian: Илья Юльевич Смирин; born January 21, 1968, in Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Soviet-Israeli chess Grandmaster. As of January 2012, his Elo rating
Ivan Bukavshin (Russian: Иван Букавшин; born May 3, 1995 in Rostov-on-Don) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (2011).
Alexander Huzman (born 10 April 1962, Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Soviet Union) is an Israeli (formerly Soviet) chess Grandmaster and trainer.
Hanna Ereńska (Ereńska-Radzewska), now Hanna Ereńska-Barlo (born 12 November 1946 in Poznań) is a Polish chess Woman Grandmaster.
Maya Jalloul (مايا جلول ; born 16 April 1990) is a Lebanese chess champion. She won the Lebanese women championship in 2009, the Arab U-18 women championship in 2007 and was the second in the Arab women championship in 2009. Jalloul also par
Israel Zilber (June 25, 1933, Riga, Latvia) is a chess player who won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1958.
Isidor Arthur Gunsberg (1 November 1854 – 2 May 1930) was a chess player, best known for narrowly losing the 1891 World Chess Championship match to Wilhelm Steinitz.
Eric Lobron (born 7 May 1960) is a German chess player of American descent. A former two-time national champion, he has been awarded the title Grandmaster by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).
Boris Kreiman (born June 7, 1976) is an American Grandmaster of chess. Kreiman a 3rd place winner in a U.S. Chess Championship in Seattle is also a winner of the Frank P. Samford, Jr. Chess Fellowship.
Valeriy Neverov (Russian: Валерий Неверов; Ukrainian: Валерій Невєров; born 21 June 1964 in Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (1991) and Ukrainian champion in 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1996. He played for Ukraine in the
Vladislav Tkachiev (Владислав Ткачёв, born Moscow November 9, 1973) is a French-Russian-Kazakhstani chess player.