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.
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Henry Atkins
 Great BritainBritish chess player and school teacher
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Maia Chiburdanidze
 GeorgiaFormer world chess champion
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Yuriy Krivoruchko
 UkraineUkrainian chess player, grandmaster
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Boris Gelfand
 BelarusBelarusian grandmaster
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Bobby Fischer
 USA11th world chess champion
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Stuart Conquest
Great Britain English chess player, grandmaster.
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Dmitriy Gurevich
USA American chess player, grandmaster
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Valeriy Beim
 AustriaAustrian chess player and chess coach, grandmaster
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Gideon Shtalberg
 SwedenSwedish chess grandmaster, world championship contender, chess writer, international arbiter.
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Peter Svidler
 RussiaRussian chess player, grandmaster
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Joshua Waitzkin
USA American chess player and Tai Chi Chuan master.
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Henry Bird
Great Britain English chess player of the second half of the 19th century
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Georg Kieninger
 GermanyGerman chess player, International Master
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Isaac Vistaneckis
 IsraelIsraeli, formerly Lithuanian, Soviet, chess player
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Polgar Judit
 HungaryHungarian chess player, grandmaster.
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James Aitken
Great Britain Scottish chess player
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Sophie Milliet
 FranceFrench chess player
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Rudolf Haruzek
Hungary Hungarian master, one of the strongest chess players of the late 19th century.
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Ignaz Kolisch
Austria Austro-Hungarian chess player
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Joel Benjamin
USA American chess player, grandmaster
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Alik Gershon
Israel Israeli chess player, grandmaster
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Maxim Dlugy
USA American chess player, grandmaster
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Arsen Egiazaryan
 ArmeniaArmenian chess player, international grandmaster.
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Joseph Kriheli
Georgia Soviet chess composer
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Artur Usupov
Germany German, formerly Soviet chess player.
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Alon Greenfeld
Israel Israeli, chess player, grandmaster
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Friedrich Samisch
Germany German chess player, grandmaster.
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Utut Adianto
 IndonesiaIndonesian chess player, grandmaster
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Rashid Nezhmetdinov
International Master of Chess, Master of Sports in Checkers, Honored Trainer of the USSR, five-time champion of the RSFSR, three-time champion of the USSR in national team championships.
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Aivars Gipslis
 LatviaKatvian chess player, grandmaster
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Jan Adamski
 PolandPolish chess player.
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Iosif Dorfman
France French, formerly Soviet, chess player, grandmaster
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Gennadiy Zaychik
USA American chess player, grandmaster
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Yan Dobruisky
 CzechChess composer.
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Mona Karf
USA American chess player, international master among women (1950).
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Sahaj Grover
 IndiaIndian chess player
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Julio Ernesto Granda Zuniga
 PeruPeruvian chess player, international grandmaster
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Joseph Blackburne
Great Britain Chess player, grandmaster, the strongest chess player in England at the end of the 19th century.
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Natalya Zhukova
Ukraine Ukrainian chess player, women's grandmaster
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Tamaz Gelashvili
Georgia Georgian chess player, grandmaster.
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Antoni Mayls
Great Britain British chess player, first British grandmaster.
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Andrey Zontah
Ukraine Ukrainian chess player, grandmaster.
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Paul Johner
 SwitzerlandSwiss chess player
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Gerardo Barbero
 ArgentinaArgentine chess player, grandmaster
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Buhuti Gurgenidze
Georgia Soviet and Georgian chess player, grandmaster.
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Gioachino Greco
 ItalyThe strongest chess player of the 17th century.
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Tigran Kotanjyan
Armenia Armenian chess player, grandmaster.
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Lev Polugaevsky
Russia Chess player, international grandmaster
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Ruslan Ponomarev
Ukraine Chess player, world chess champion.
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Nino Gurieli
Georgia Georgian chess player
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