Category
page 1American chess writers
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

Bobby Fischer
American chess player (1943–2008)
Wilhelm Steinitz
Austrian-American chess player (1836–1900)

Susan Polgar
Hungarian chess player (born 1969)
Frank Marshall
American chess player

Samuel Reshevsky
American chess player
Reuben Fine
American chess player and psychologist (1914–1993)
Raymond Smullyan
American mathematician (1919–2017)
Yasser Seirawan
American chess player

Pal Benko
Hungarian-American chess player

Daniel Naroditsky
Daniel Aaron "Danya" Naroditsky was an American chess grandmaster, commentator, and content creator. During his career, he was widely considered one of the best speed chess players in the world and was consistently ranked among the top 25 players. His major tournament wins include the 2007 World Youth Championship, the 2013 U.S. Junior Championship, and the 2025 U.S. Blitz Championship. He became one of the youngest published authors in chess history at age 14 and earned the chess grandmaster title at age 17.

Sam Loyd
American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician (1841–1911)
Edward Lasker
German-American chess player (1885-1981)
Lev Alburt
Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster
Levy Rozman
American chess streamer and YouTuber
Sonja Graf
German-born American chess player
Arnold Denker
American chess player (1914–2005)
Jennifer Shahade
American chess and poker player
Robert Byrne
American chess player and writer (1928-2013)
William Lombardy
American chess player (1937-2017)
George Koltanowski
chess master (1903–2000)
Joel Benjamin
American chess grandmaster
Larry Christiansen
American chess player
Lubomír Kaválek
Czech-American chess player
Nick de Firmian
American chess player
Isaac Kashdan
American chess player (1905–1985)
Larry Evans
American chess player (1932–2010)
Irving Chernev
Ukrainean-American chess player
Herman Steiner
American chess player (1905-1955)
James Mason
Irish chess player, journalist and writer (1849–1905)
Israel Albert Horowitz
American chess player (1907–1973)
Harold C. Schonberg
American writer (1915–2003)
Arthur Bisguier
American chess player (1929-2017)
Paul Felix Schmidt
Estonian chess player and chemist (1916–1984)
Hans Berliner
American chess player and computer scientist (1929–2017)
Hans Kmoch
Austrian-Dutch chess player and writer
Joshua Waitzkin
American chess player
George Henry Mackenzie
American journalist (1837–1891)
Ben Finegold
American chess grandmaster
Maurice Ashley
American chess grandmaster
Andrew Soltis
American chess player
Charles Jaffe
American chess player
Jonathan Tisdall
American-Norwegian chess player and journalist
S. Lipschütz
American chess player (1863-1905)
Edmar Mednis
American chess player (1937–2002)
Willard Fiske
American librarian, book collector, and chess player (1831–1904)
John Fedorowicz
American chess player
John Leonard Watson
American chess player (1951-)
Jeremy Silman
American chess player and writer (1954–2023)
Bruce Pandolfini
American chess author, teacher, and coach
John W. Collins
American chess coach (1912-2001)
Milan Vukcevich
Serbian chess player (1937–2003)
Jeremy Gaige
American chess writer (1927–2011)
Weaver W. Adams
American chess player and author (1901–1963)
Nikolay Minev
Bulgarian chess player (1931–2017)
John Donaldson
American chess player

Eugene Perelshteyn
American chess player
Alexander Fishbein
Russian-American chess player
Hermann Helms
American chess player and writer (1870–1963)
Ron Henley
American chess player