Chees player

Meet the extraordinary individuals who have captivated the world with their exceptional skills in chees playing. From world champions to Hollywood icons, explore the list of famous celebrities who have left an indelible mark in this beloved game of chance and strategy.

Swedish chess player, grandmaster.

Nicholas Ernest Firmian

American chess player, grandmaster.

American scientist, information technology specialist, chess player.

Russian chess master and chess composer.

Rasul Ibragimov

Azerbaijani chess player, international grandmaster

Indian chess player

Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez

Spanish chess player, grandmaster.

French chess player, grandmaster

Chess player, international grandmaster

Tigran Kotanjyan

Armenian chess player, grandmaster.

Heikki Westerinen

Finnish chess player, grandmaster.

Lubomir Kavalek

American, formerly Czechoslovakian, chess player, grandmaster.

German grandmaster, contender for the world championship, participant in a number of candidate matches.

American chess player, grandmaster, chess author and journalist.

Israeli chess player, grandmaster

Czechoslovakian and Soviet chess player, International Grandmaster (1950).

Frederick Yates

One of the strongest English chess players in the 1910s–1930s.

Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mammadyarov

Azerbaijani chess player, international grandmaster, European champion 2009

Armenian chess player, grandmaster

German, formerly Soviet chess player.

Guillermo Garcia Gonzalez

Cuban chess player, grandmaster.

A Czech grandmaster who was distinguished by the originality of his ideas

Ukrainian, formerly Soviet, chess player

5th World Chess Champion

Chess player, grandmaster from Armenia, winner of the 2005 World Chess Cup

Soviet, Azerbaijani chess player

Ukrainian-German chess player

Georgian chess player, grandmaster.

Milan Radoe Vukcevich

American, formerly Yugoslavian, chess player and chess composer.

Ukrainian chess player, grandmaster.

American, formerly Soviet, chess player, grandmaster.

American grandmaster - graduate of the Soviet chess school

German, formerly Soviet, chess player, first grandmaster.

Israeli chess player, grandmaster.

American chess player, grandmaster

British chess player and school teacher

Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, philosopher and writer.

Israeli chess player.

Johann Baptist Allgaier

The strongest chess player in Austria at the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th centuries.

Armenian chess player; international master

Norwegian chess player and chess writer, International Master

Bulgarian chess player, grandmaster.

French sculptor and chess player

Slovak, formerly Czechoslovakian, chess player.

German chess player

Daniel Hugo Campora

Argentine chess player, grandmaster

English chess player and chess journalist.

Dutch chess player.

English chess player of the second half of the 19th century

Bozidar Dzhurashevich

Serbian, chess player