Category
page 1Soviet chess players
Garry Kasparov
Russian chess grandmaster and activist
Anatoly Karpov
Russian chess player
Boris Spassky
Russian chess player (1937–2025)
Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess player
Mikhail Tal
Soviet-Latvian chess player (1936-1992)
Tigran Petrosian
Soviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion
Vasily Smyslov
Soviet chess grandmaster (1921–2010)
Nona Gaprindashvili
Soviet chess player
Viktor Korchnoi
Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster
Paul Keres
Estonian chess player and sportsperson (1916–1975)
Boris Gelfand
Belarusian-Israeli chess player

Alexander Khalifman
Russian chess player

Maia Chiburdanidze
Georgian chess grandmaster

David Bronstein
Soviet chess grandmaster
Efim Bogoljubov
Russian chess player (1889–1952)

Lyudmila Rudenko
Soviet chess player (1904-1986)

Gata Kamsky
American chess player
Elisabeth Bykova
Soviet chess player (1913-1989)

Olga Rubtsova
Russian chess player

Alexei Shirov
Latvian-Spanish chess player (born 1972)
Efim Geller
Soviet chess player (1925–1998)

Yuri Averbakh
Russian chess grandmaster and author (1922–2022)

Nana Alexandria
Georgian chess player

Mark Taimanov
Soviet chess player (1926–2016)

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

Andor Lilienthal
Hungarian chess player (1911–2010)
Alexander Beliavsky
Ukrainian and Slovenian chess player
Alisä Ğällämevä
Russian chess player
Isaac Boleslavsky
Soviet chess player (1919–1977)
Evgeny Bareev
Russian-Canadian chess player
Alexey Dreev
Russian chess player
Alexander Kotov
Soviet chess player (1913–1981)
Vladimir Akopian
Armenian-American chess player
Lev Polugaevsky
chess player (1934–1995)
Nana Ioseliani
Georgian chess player
Sergei Movsesian
Armenian chess player
Ashot Nadanian
chess player
Zurab Azmaiparashvili
Georgian chess player
Artur Yusupov
Russian chess player, chess writer and chess teacher
Lev Alburt
Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster

Alexander Onischuk
Ukrainian-American chess player
Rashid Nezhmetdinov
Soviet chess player
Emil Sutovsky
Israeli chess player
Irina Levitina
Russian-born American chess and bridge player
Gennadi Sosonko
Dutch chess player and coach
Ilya Smirin
Belarusian-Israeli chess player
Valery Salov
Russian chess grandmaster
Alla Kushnir
Russian-Israeli chess player (1941–2013)
Kira Zvorykina
Soviet chess player (1919–2014)
Grigory Levenfish
Soviet chess player (1889–1961)
Jaan Ehlvest
Estonian-American chess player (born 1962)
Mark Dvoretsky
Russian chess trainer, writer and International Master (1947-2016)
Vladimir Bagirov
Soviet chess player (1936-2000)
Roman Dzindzichashvili
Soviet-Israeli-American chess player
Peter Romanovsky
Russian chess player (1892–1964)
Igor Bondarevsky
Russian chess player (1913–1979)

Boris Gulko
Soviet-American chess player
Rafael Vaganian
Soviet chess player
Mikhail Gurevich
Soviet-Belgian chess player
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant
British chess player