Chess player celebrities
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Duško Pavasovič (also spelt Pavasović and Pavasovic; born October 15, 1976) is a Slovenian chess grandmaster.
Izak (Izhak, Itzchak) Aloni (Schächter) (Hebrew: יצחק אלוני; born 5 April 1905 – 1985) was an Israeli chess master.
Mark Bluvshtein (born 20 April 1988 in Yaroslavl, Soviet Union) is a Soviet-born Canadian chess player, a Grandmaster, who resides in Canada. He became the youngest Canadian International Grandmaster (GM) ever in 2004, at the age of 16, having become
Teimour Radjabov (also spelled Teymur Rajabov; Azerbaijani: Teymur Rəcəbov; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster and former chess prodigy. On the June 2015 FIDE list, Radjabov has an Elo rating of 2738, making him No. 1 in Azerba
Yuri Kostiantynovych Yeliseyev (Russian: Юрий Константинович Елисеев) (born September 26, 1949 in Sverdlovsk, Luhansk Oblast) is a retired Soviet football player.
Jan Przewoźnik (born 16 September 1957) is a Polish chess player who won the Polish Chess Championship in 1979. FIDE International Master (1985).
Natalia Oleksandrivna Zhukova (Ukrainian: Наталія Олександрівна Жукова) (born 5 June 1979 in Dresden, East Germany) is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster. She won several age-group titles as a teenager, both at the European and W
Robert James “Bobby” Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess Grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time.
Igor Kurnosov (Russian: Игорь Курносов; 30 May 1985 – 8 August 2013) was a Russian chess grandmaster. In 2008, he won the Arctic Chess Challenge. He was also the winner of 2008/9 Hastings Masters tournament.
Zhao Xue (Chinese: 赵雪; born April 6, 1985 in Jinan, Shandong) is a Chinese chess player. In 2008, she became China’s 24th Grandmaster.
Zurab Azmaiparashvili (Georgian: ზურაბ აზმაიფარაშვილი; born 16 March 1960) is a chess Grandmaster from Georgia. In the September 2010 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2637, making him 114th in the world and Geo