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.

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

Armenian chess player; international master

Larry Christiansen

American chess player, grandmaster.

English chess player, grandmaster

Croatian, formerly Yugoslavian, chess player.

Israeli, formerly Soviet, chess player, grandmaster

Hungarian chess player

Zvonko Vranesic

Canadian chess player.

Austro-Hungarian chess player

Austrian chess player, grandmaster.

Mathias Gerusel

German chess player.

American, formerly Soviet, chess player, grandmaster.

Rosendo Balinas

Filipino chess player

Imants Dulbergs

Latvian, formerly Soviet, chess composer

Scottish chess player

British chess player, first British grandmaster.

Israeli chess player, International Master.

Swedish chess player, grandmaster.

Israeli chess player, grandmaster

Hayala Iskenderova

Azerbaijani chess player

Cenek Kottnauer

English chess player, International Master.

American chess player and chess theorist

Howard Staunton

English chess player

Stefan Kindermann

Austrian chess player, grandmaster

Israeli chess player, grandmaster

Antanas Cesnauskis

Soviet and Lithuanian chess player

American chess player of the late 19th century

Buhuti Gurgenidze

Soviet and Georgian chess player, grandmaster.

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

Curt Von Bardeleben

German chess player

Chinese chess player, grandmaster

An 18th-century Italian chess theorist.

Israeli chess player.

Florencio Campomanes

Filipino chess player

Victor Kupreichik

Belarusian, formerly Soviet, chess player, grandmaster

American chess player, international master among women (1950).

Austrian chess composer

Czech chess player

Farruh Amonatov

Tajik chess player

Soviet chess player.

Vasiliy Ivanchuk

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

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

Ukrainian, formerly Soviet, chess composer.

Luka Budisavlevich

Serbian chess player, grandmaster

Miguel Cuellar Gacharna

Colombian chess player.

Wilhelm Hanstein

German chess player

Dorsa Derakhshani

American chess player of Iranian descent

American chess player and Go board game expert

Groszpeter Attila

Hungarian chess player, grandmaster.