Chess Olympiad competitors

Russian chess grandmaster and activist

American chess player (1943–2008)

Norwegian chess player (born 1990)

Indian chess grandmaster

Russian chess player

French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)

Cuban chess player (1888-1942)

Russian-French chess player (1892–1946)

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.

Indian chess grandmaster

Bulgarian chess grandmaster

Russian chess player

Soviet chess grandmaster (1921–2010)

German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician (1862–1934)

Chinese grandmaster and former World Chess Champion

American chess player

Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster

Russian chess player

Estonian chess player and sportsperson (1916–1975)

Chinese chess player

Ukrainian chess player

Russian and Swiss chess player

Azerbaijani chess player

Russian chess player

Ukrainian chess player

Chinese chess player

Indian chess player

Ukrainian chess player

Soviet chess grandmaster

Uzbekistani chess player

Indian chess player

English chess player and writer

Azerbaijani chess player

Hungarian chess player

Danish chess grandmaster and author (1935–2010)

Bulgarian chess player

Russian chess player (1889–1952)

Russian chess player

Polish and French chess player (1887–1956)

Chinese-Qatari chess player

British chess grandmaster

American chess player

American chess player

French-Iranian chess player

Chinese chess player

Ukrainian chess player

Dutch chess grandmaster (1951–2026)

Dutch chess player

Russian chess player

Russian-Polish chess player

American chess player

Chinese chess player

Russian chess player

Hungarian chess player (1917–1998)