Category
page 120th-century Russian chess players
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
Garry Kasparov
Russian chess grandmaster and activist
Alexander Alekhine
Russian-French chess player (1892–1946)
Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess player
Boris Spassky
Russian chess player (1937–2025)
Vasily Smyslov
Soviet chess grandmaster (1921–2010)
David Bronstein
Soviet chess grandmaster
Mikhail Chigorin
Russian chess player
Vera Menchik
Czech chess player (1906–1944)
Lyudmila Rudenko
Soviet chess player (1904-1986)
Alexander Morozevich
Russian chess player
Elisabeth Bykova
Soviet chess player (1913-1989)
Olga Rubtsova
Russian chess player
Yuri Averbakh
Russian chess grandmaster and author (1922–2022)
Efim Geller
Soviet chess player (1925–1998)
Andor Lilienthal
Hungarian chess player (1911–2010)
Alisä Ğällämevä
Russian chess player
Evgeny Bareev
Russian-Canadian chess player
Alexey Dreev
Russian chess player
Alexander Kotov
Soviet chess player (1913–1981)
Ekaterina Kovalevskaya
Soviet / Russian chess player
Grigory Levenfish
Soviet chess player (1889–1961)
Mark Dvoretsky
Russian chess trainer, writer and International Master (1947-2016)
Igor Bondarevsky
Russian chess player (1913–1979)
Fedir Bohatyrchuk
Ukrainian chess player (1892–1984)
Gregory Kaidanov
Ukrainian-American chess player
Vadim Milov
Israeli-Swiss chess player
Boris Verlinsky
Soviet chess player (1888–1950)
Igor Kurnosov
Russian chess grandmaster (1985–2013)
Yury Dokhoian
Russian chess player (1964-2021)
Nicolas Rossolimo
Chess player (1910–1975)
Anatoly Lein
Soviet-American chess player (1931–2018)
Tatjana Lematschko
Swiss and Bulgarian chess player
Sergey Dolmatov
Russian chess player
Ilya Rabinovich
Russian chess player (1891-1942)
Valentina Borisenko
chess player (1920–1993)
Yakov Estrin
Russian chess player (1923–1987)
Leonid Kubbel
Russian chess player (1891-1942)
Valentina Kozlovskaya
Russian chess player
Georgy Lisitsin
Russian chess player (1909-1972)
Vladimir Antoshin
Soviet chess Grandmaster, a theoretician and a national champion of correspondence chess (1929-1994)
Nikolai Grigoriev
Russian chess player (1895–1938)
Charles Jaffe
American chess player
Vladimir Burmakin
Russian chess player (born 1967)
Nikolai Krogius
Russian chess player (1930–2022)
Igor Glek
Russian chess grandmaster and coach
Alexey Selezniev
Soviet chess player (1888–1967)
Valery Loginov
Russian chess player
Alexander Galkin
Russian chess player
Olga Menchik
Czech-British chess player (1908-1944)
Alexander Lastin
Russian chess player
Vladimir Simagin
Russian chess grandmaster (1919–1968)
Victor Kahn
Russian-French chess player
Julia Demina
Russian chess player
Yuri Shabanov
Russian chess player (1937–2010)
Elena Fatalibekova
Russian chess player
Evgeny Gleizerov
Russian chess player
Oleg Korneev
Russian chess player
Alexander Evenson
Ukrainian chess player
Leopold Mitrofanov
Russian chess player (1932-1992)