Chess Grandmasters

Russian chess grandmaster and activist

American chess player (1943–2008)

Norwegian chess player (born 1990)

Indian chess grandmaster

Russian chess player

Russian chess player (1937–2025)

Soviet chess player

Soviet-Latvian chess player (1936-1992)

Soviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion

Dutch chess player and mathematician

Russian chess grandmaster

Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. She is the only woman to be ranked in the world top 10, the only woman to achieve a rating over 2700, reaching a peak rating of 2735, and the only woman to compete in the final stage of a World Chess Championship. She was the top-rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement from competitive chess in 2014, remaining No. 1 until the March 2015 rating list; her record of 26 consecutive years as woman's No. 1 still stands.

title in chess awarded by FIDE

Indian chess grandmaster

Bulgarian chess grandmaster

Soviet chess grandmaster (1921–2010)

Russian chess player

Soviet chess player

Chinese grandmaster and former World Chess Champion

American chess player

Italian-American chess player

Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster

Hungarian chess player (born 1969)

Russian chess player

Estonian chess player and sportsperson (1916–1975)

Armenian-American chess player

Chinese chess player

Ukrainian chess player

Belarusian-Israeli chess player

Russian and Swiss chess player

Russian chess player

Ukrainian chess player

Azerbaijani chess player

Ukrainian chess player

Chinese chess player

Georgian chess grandmaster

Indian chess player

Uzbekistani chess player

Soviet chess grandmaster

Indian chess player

Azerbaijani chess player

English chess player and writer

Hungarian chess player

Bulgarian chess player

Danish chess grandmaster and author (1935–2010)

Russian chess player

Russian chess player (1889–1952)

Polish and French chess player (1887–1956)

Chinese-Qatari chess player

British chess grandmaster

Chinese chess player

French-Iranian chess player

American chess player

Dutch chess grandmaster (1951–2026)

Ukrainian chess player

Dutch chess player

Polish-Argentine chess player (1910-1997)

Russian-Polish chess player

American chess player

Russian chess player