Chess theoreticians

Cuban chess player (1888-1942)

former World Chess champion (1868–1941)

Russian chess player (1937–2025)

Soviet chess player

Dutch chess player and mathematician

Soviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion

Austrian-American chess player (1836–1900)

Soviet chess grandmaster (1921–2010)

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

Estonian chess player and sportsperson (1916–1975)

French composer and chess player (1726-1795)

Latvian-born Danish chess player and theoretician (1886-1935)

Soviet chess grandmaster

Russian chess player

Polish and French chess player (1887–1956)

Russian chess player (1889–1952)

American chess player

Czechoslovakian chess player (1889–1929)

Russian-Polish chess player

Polish-Argentine chess player (1910-1997)

Spanish priest and chess player

English chess master and Shakespearean scholar (1810-1874)

Hungarian American physicists, developer of the Elo rating

Soviet chess player (1925–1998)

Russian chess grandmaster and author (1922–2022)

Austro-Hungarian chess player

German chess player, chess writer, and papyrologist (1948–2025)

American chess player and psychologist (1914–1993)

Soviet chess player (1926–2016)

Serbian and Yugoslavian chess player (1923–2012)

Czech chess player, arbiter, theoretician, organiser and writer (1908–1983)

Hungarian-American chess player

Italian chess player

Polish-French chess player

Portuguese chess player

Soviet chess player (1919–1977)

Hungarian chess player (1870–1951)

chess player (1934–1995)

Russian chess player (1856-1923)

chess player

English chess player (1830–1908)

German-British chess player and chess book author

Italian chess player

German chess player (1896-1975)

Polish chess player (1838–1919)

German chess player (1833–1891)

Slovenian chess player (1907–1980)

Finnish and Russian chess player and theorist (1813-1872)

Austria-Hungarian chess player (1819-1885)

Hungarian chess player (1950–2023)

astronomer (1840-1919)

Soviet chess player (1936-2000)

Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster (1924-2003)

Italian chess player

Romanian chess player (1848-1920)

Soviet chess player (1889–1961)

chess international grandmaster (1893-1962)

Syrian chess master

British chess player

Italian chess player (1573-1647)