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.

French sculptor and chess player

French chess player

Arthur Dunkelblum

Belgian chess player

American chess player, the first and only black grandmaster.

Serbian chess player, grandmaster

Narmin Kyazimova

Azerbaijani chess player

Canadian chess player

Andrey Zhigalko

Belarusian chess player, grandmaster

Norwegian chess player and chess writer, International Master

Belgian chess player, 6-time national champion.

Rosendo Balinas

Filipino chess player

Samuel Reshevsky

American grandmaster

Hungarian chess player

Czechoslovakian, formerly Austro-Hungarian, chess player and chess theorist

11th world chess champion

Czech chess player, grandmaster.

British chess player, columnist, author and promoter

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

Luka Budisavlevich

Serbian chess player, grandmaster

Herbert Grasemann

German chess composer and journalist

George Koltanowski

American, formerly Belgian, chess player, grandmaster

Alexey Ermolinskiy

Soviet and American chess player, coach.

Ukrainian, formerly Soviet, chess player and chess writer.

German chess player, grandmaster

German chess player

Ukrainian-German chess player

American, formerly Soviet, chess player, grandmaster.

Famous Scottish chess player

Antoaneta Stefanova

Bulgarian chess player.

Alisa Gallyamova

Russian chess player, international grandmaster.

Bulgarian chess player, grandmaster.

Lubomir Kavalek

American, formerly Czechoslovakian, chess player, grandmaster.

Belarusian grandmaster

Polish chess player.

Indian chess player

Alexander Voytkevich

International chess grandmaster.

Soviet chess player.

Rohini Khadilkar

Indian chess player

Latvian, formerly Soviet, chess player. Doctor.

Dorsa Derakhshani

American chess player of Iranian descent

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

Austrian chess player, grandmaster

Mathias Gerusel

German chess player.

English chess player, grandmaster

Arsen Egiazaryan

Armenian chess player, international grandmaster.

Ukrainian chess player, grandmaster.

Gleb Zahodyakin

Soviet chess composer.

Vladimir Grabinskiy

Ukrainian chess player.

Tamaz Giorgadze

Georgian, formerly Soviet, chess player, grandmaster.

Samuel Isenegger

Swiss chess player and chess composer-etudist, founder of the Swiss school of chess etudes.