Maccabiah Games chess players

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.

Belarusian-Israeli chess player

Russian chess grandmaster and author (1922–2022)

Ukrainian chess player

Ukrainian and Slovenian chess player

German chess player

Argentine chess player (1920–1996)

Brazilian chess player

Israeli chess player

Russian chess player

Israeli chess grandmaster