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.

Ukrainian, formerly Soviet, chess player, grandmaster.

Walther Holzhausen

German chess player and chess composer

Andreas Duckstein

Austrian chess player/

Vasiliy Ivanchuk

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

Gerardo Barbero

Argentine chess player, grandmaster

Heikki Westerinen

Finnish chess player, grandmaster.

Arturs Neiksans

Chess player, grandmaster

English chess player and chess journalist.

Vilgelm Steinitz

German chess player, first world champion

Ukrainian chess player

Chilean chess player

Dutch chess composer.

American chess player, the first and only black grandmaster.

Ernesto Inarkiev

Russian chess player, grandmaster

Larissa Volpert

Soviet and Estonian chess player and literary scholar.

Georgian chess player

British chess player and school teacher

Czech chess player, grandmaster.

Soviet chess player, International Master

Yuriy Drozdovskiy

Ukrainian chess player, grandmaster

German chess player, philanthropist, chess journalist, publisher and chess activist

Bernhard Horwitz

English, formerly German, chess player

2nd world chess champion

Eduard Dyckhoff

German chess player and chess theorist

Bernardo Wexler

Argentine chess player.

Dutch checkers player and politician, five-time world champion

Mark Bluvshtein

Canadian and Israeli chess player, grandmaster

British chess player, grandmaster

Sergey Galdunts

Armenian chess player, international grandmaster.

Alexander Goloshchapov

Ukrainian chess player, grandmaster.

English chess player

Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mammadyarov

Azerbaijani chess player, international grandmaster, European champion 2009

Stuart Conquest

English chess player, grandmaster.

Sonia Graf-Stevenson

American chess player, international master.

American chess player of the late 19th century

Swiss chess player, International Master

Austrian chess player, grandmaster.

Merab Gagunashvili

Georgian chess player

Bosnian, formerly Serbian, Yugoslavian, chess player, grandmaster.

Vincenzo Castaldi

Italian chess player, International Master.

American, formerly Soviet, chess player, grandmaster.

Gari Koshnitskiy

Australian chess player, International Master of the ICCF (International Correspondence Chess Federation, 1972).

Azerbaijani chess player, international grandmaster. Coach of the Azerbaijani national chess team among teenagers.

Canadian chess player

Alexander Goldin

American chess player, grandmaster.

Rosendo Balinas

Filipino chess player

Frederick Yates

One of the strongest English chess players in the 1910s–1930s.

Spartak Vysochin

Ukrainian chess player, grandmaster

American, formerly Austrian chess player

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