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.

American chess player of the late 19th century

Larissa Volpert

Soviet and Estonian chess player and literary scholar.

Sigmund Herland

Romanian chess player

Nana Alexandria

Georgian, formerly Soviet, chess player, grandmaster

Teimur Radzhabov

English chess composer.

Antoaneta Stefanova

Bulgarian chess player.

Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant

Scottish chess player of Georgian origin

American chess player, grandmaster.

Johann Nepomuk Berger

Austrian chess player, chess theorist and chess composer.

Dragolyub Velimirovich

Serbian, formerly Yugoslavian, chess player, grandmaster.

Zvonko Vranesic

Canadian chess player.

German chess player and chess writer.

Giovanni Vescovi

Brazilian chess player, grandmaster

Israeli, formerly Polish, chess player.

Austrian chess player, grandmaster

Aron Nimtsovich

German chess player

Israeli chess player.

Soviet chess player, International Master

Spartak Vysochin

Ukrainian chess player, grandmaster

Latvian, formerly Soviet chess player

Constantin Ionescu

Romanian chess player

Lenier Dominguez Perez

Cuban chess player, grandmaster

Israeli, formerly Soviet, chess player, grandmaster

Moldavian chess player, grandmaster.

Estonian chess grandmaster

Julio Ernesto Granda Zuniga

Peruvian chess player, international grandmaster

German chess player.

Russian chess player, grandmaster

English chess player and chess journalist.

Galina Satonina

Multiple champion of Kazan and Tatarstan in women's chess

Austro-Hungarian chess player

Edward William Formanek

American, chess player

Norwegian chess player and chess writer, International Master

Ukrainian chess player, grandmaster

Alexander Voytkevich

International chess grandmaster.

Miquel Illescas

Spanish chess player, grandmaster.

Ruslan Ponomarev

Chess player, world chess champion.

Georgian chess player

Indian chess player

Belgian opera singer (bass-baritone), conductor and composer.

Outstanding chess player of the 20th century, international grandmaster 1950.

David Bronstein

Chess player, grandmaster (since 1950).

Boris de Greiff

Colombian chess player

Eduard Dyckhoff

German chess player and chess theorist

Donatas Lapenis

Lithuanian chess player, ICCF Grandmaster

Buhuti Gurgenidze

Soviet and Georgian chess player, grandmaster.

Soviet, Azerbaijani chess player

Hungarian chess player, grandmaster.