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.

Polish chess player.

Gioachino Greco

The strongest chess player of the 17th century.

Tatev Abrahamyan

American chess player and prodigy

Soviet chess player, International Master

American chess player and Go board game expert

Miquel Illescas

Spanish chess player, grandmaster.

Rafael Vaganyan

Armenian chess player, international grandmaster, USSR champion.

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

American chess player, grandmaster

Georgian chess player

Chess historian.

Serbian chess player, grandmaster

Kirill Georgiev

Bulgarian chess player, grandmaster

Radoslaw Wojtaszek

Polish chess player, grandmaster

11th world chess champion

Ildar Ibragimov

American chess player, grandmaster.

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

Chilean chess player

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.

Zigbert Tarrash

One of the greatest chess players and chess theorists in history.

Vilgelm Steinitz

German chess player, first world champion

Norwegian chess player and chess writer, International Master

Danish grandmaster, contender for the world championship in the 1960s - 1970s.

American chess player

Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa

German chess player.

Icelandic chess player, grandmaster and businessman

Gukesh Dommaraju

Indian chess player, grandmaster

One of the leading Dutch chess players in the 1920s and 1930s.

Jean Villeneuve-Esclapon

French chess player and chess composer

English chess composer.

Narmin Kyazimova

Azerbaijani chess player

Mohammed Al-Modiahi

Qatari chess player, grandmaster

Fabiano Caruana

American chess player of Italian descent

Gerald Frank Anderson

British chess composer, military ace and diplomat.

Bulgarian chess player, International Master

Hungarian master, one of the strongest chess players of the late 19th century.

Dorsa Derakhshani

American chess player of Iranian descent

Svetozar Gligorich

International grandmaster, world championship contender, international arbiter.

German chess player

Alexander Kozlov

Chess composer and figure in the Soviet chess movement.

Soviet and Israeli pesagog and chess coach

Vasiliy Ivanchuk

Chess player, grandmaster, the strongest chess player in Ukraine in the 90s.

Austrian chess player and chess writer.

American, formerly Soviet, chess player, grandmaster

American grandmaster - graduate of the Soviet chess school

Johann Hjartarson

Icelandic chess player, grandmaster

Ukrainian, formerly Soviet, chess player and chess writer.

Ukrainian chess player, grandmaster.

Samuel Isenegger

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

Ukrainian chess player.