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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mikhail Tal | Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal | 1936 | 1992 | Soviet | chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Tal |
| Emanuel Lasker | Emanuel Lasker | 1868 | 1941 | German | chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Champion in history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Lasker |
| Wilhelm Steinitz | William Steinitz | 1836 | 1900 | Austrian | and later American chess player, and the first official World Chess Champion, from 1886 to 1894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Steinitz |
| David Bronstein | David Ionovich Bronstein | 1924 | 2006 | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bronstein |
| Judit Polgár | Judit Polgár | 1976 | n/a | Hungarian | chess grandmaster, generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polgár |
| Aron Nimzowitsch | Aron Nimzowitsch | 1886 | 1935 | Latvian | chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Nimzowitsch |
| Reuben Fine | Reuben C. Fine | 1914 | 1993 | American | chess player, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Fine |
| Siegbert Tarrasch | Siegbert Tarrasch | 1862 | 1934 | German | chess player, considered to have been among the strongest ones, and one of the most influential chess theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegbert_Tarrasch |
| Boris Gelfand | Boris Gelfand | 1968 | n/a | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Gelfand |
| Savielly Tartakower | Savielly Tartakower | 1887 | 1956 | Polish | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savielly_Tartakower |
| Max Weiss | Miksa (Max) Weisz | 1857 | 1927 | Austrian | chess player born in the Kingdom of Hungary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weiss |
| Akiba Rubinstein | Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein | 1880 | 1961 | Polish | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiba_Rubinstein |
| Richard Réti | Richard Selig Réti | 1889 | 1929 | null | Austrian, later Czechoslovakian chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Réti |
| Mark Taimanov | Mark Evgenievich Taimanov | 1926 | 2016 | null | one of the leading Soviet chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Taimanov |
| Lev Polugaevsky | Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky | 1934 | 1995 | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Polugaevsky |
| Efim Geller | Efim Petrovich Geller | 1925 | 1998 | Soviet | chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efim_Geller |
| Jennifer Shahade | Jennifer Shahade | 1980 | n/a | American | chess player, poker player, commentator and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Shahade |
| Salo Flohr | Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr | 1908 | 1983 | Czechoslovak | chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo_Flohr |
| Alexander Khalifman | Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman | 1966 | n/a | Russian | chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Khalifman |
| Alexander Beliavsky | Alexander Genrikhovich Beliavsky | 1953 | n/a | null | Soviet, Ukrainian chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Beliavsky |
| Rudolf Spielmann | Rudolf Spielmann | 1883 | 1942 | Austrian | Jewish chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Spielmann |
| Harry Golombek | Harry Golombek OBE | 1911 | 1995 | British | chess player, chess author, and wartime codebreaker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Golombek |
| Arnold Denker | Arnold Sheldon Denker | 1914 | 2005 | American | chess player and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Denker |
| László Szabó (chess player) | László Szabó | 1917 | 1998 | Hungarian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Szabó_(chess_player) |
| Tim Krabbé | Tim Krabbé | 1943 | n/a | Dutch | journalist, novelist and chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Krabbé |
| Paul List | Pawel M. List | 1887 | 1954 | Russian | Jewish chess player, who emigrated to Britain in 1937 but never took British citizenship | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_List |
| Andor Lilienthal | Andor (André, Andre, Andrei) Arnoldovich LilienthalReuben Fine, The World's Great Chess Games, Dover Publications, 1983, p. 216. . | 1911 | 2010 | Hungarian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andor_Lilienthal |
| George Koltanowski | George Koltanowski | 1903 | 2000 | Belgian | chess player, promoter, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koltanowski |
| Dawid Janowski | Dawid Markelowicz Janowski | 1868 | 1927 | Russian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawid_Janowski |
| Isaac Boleslavsky | Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky | 1919 | 1977 | Soviet | chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Boleslavsky |
| Mikhail Gurevich (chess player) | Mikhail Gurevich | 1959 | n/a | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gurevich_(chess_player) |
| Joel Benjamin | Joel Lawrence Benjamin | 1964 | n/a | American | chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Benjamin |
| Jacques Mieses | Jacques Mieses | 1865 | 1954 | German | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Mieses |
| Daniel Yanofsky | Daniel Abraham Yanofsky | 1925 | 2000 | Canadian | chess player, chess writer, chess arbiter, and lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Yanofsky |
| Emil Sutovsky | Emil Sutovsky | 1977 | n/a | Israeli | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Sutovsky |
| Arthur Bisguier | Arthur Bernard Bisguier | 1929 | 2017 | American | chess player, chess promoter, and writer who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bisguier |
| Ossip Bernstein | Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein | 1882 | 1962 | Russian | chess player and business man | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossip_Bernstein |
| Grigory Levenfish | Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish | none | 1961 | Soviet | chess player who scored his peak competitive results in the 1920s and 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Levenfish |
| Maurice Wertheim | Maurice Wertheim | 1886 | 1950 | American | investment banker, chess player, chess patron, art collector, environmentalist, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wertheim |
| Anatoly Lein | Anatoly Yakovlevich Lein | 1931 | 2018 | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Lein |
| Isidor Gunsberg | Isidor Arthur Gunsberg | 1854 | 1930 | Hungarian | chess player, best known for narrowly losing the 1891 World Chess Championship match to Wilhelm Steinitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Gunsberg |
| Jon Speelman | Jonathan Simon Speelman | 1956 | n/a | English | Grandmaster chess player, mathematician, chess writer and Twitch streamer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Speelman |
| William Hartston | William Roland Hartston | 1947 | n/a | English | journalist who writes the Beachcomber column in the Daily Express and a chess player who played competitively from 1962 to 1987 with a highest Elo rating of 2485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hartston |
| Szymon Winawer | Szymon Abramowicz Winawer | 1838 | 1919 | Polish | Jewish chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szymon_Winawer |
| Moshe Czerniak | Moshe Czerniak | 1910 | 1984 | Polish | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Czerniak |
| Herman Steiner | Herman Steiner | 1905 | 1955 | null | United States chess player, organizer, and columnist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Steiner |
| Ilya Rabinovich | Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich | 1891 | 1942 | Russian | and later Soviet chess player, among the best ones in his country for three decades, from 1910 to 1940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Rabinovich |
| Roman Dzindzichashvili | Roman Yakovlevich Dzindzichashvili | 1944 | n/a | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Dzindzichashvili |
| Jonathan Penrose | Jonathan Penrose | 1933 | 2021 | English | chess player, who held the titles Grandmaster (1993) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1983) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Penrose |
| Semyon Furman | Semyon Abramovich Furman | 1920 | 1978 | Soviet | chess player and trainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Furman |
| Irving Chernev | Irving Chernev | 1900 | 1981 | null | chess player and prolific Russian-American chess author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Chernev |
| David Enoch | David Enoch | 1901 | 1949 | Israeli | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Enoch |
| Dawid Przepiórka | Dawid Przepiórka | 1880 | 1940 | Polish | prominent chess player of the early twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawid_Przepiórka |
| Ilya Smirin | Ilya (or Ilia) Smirin | 1968 | n/a | Israeli | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Smirin |
| Sofia Polgar | Sofia Polgar | null | null | null | internationally renowned Hungarian chess player, teacher, and artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Polgar |
| Leonid Yudasin | Leonid Yudasin | 1959 | n/a | Soviet | chess player and trainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Yudasin |
| Salo Landau | Salo (Salomon) Landau | 1903 | 1944 | Dutch | chess player, who died in a Nazi concentration camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo_Landau |
| Boris Verlinsky | Boris Markovich Verlinsky | 1888 | 1950 | Soviet | chess player, who was awarded the title International Master by FIDE, the world chess federation, in 1950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Verlinsky |
| Lodewijk Prins | Lodewijk Prins | 1913 | 1999 | Dutch | chess player and referee of chess competitions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodewijk_Prins |
| Tatiana Zatulovskaya | Tatiana Zatulovskaya | 1935 | 2017 | Israeli | (formerly Soviet) chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana_Zatulovskaya |
| Daniel Fridman | Daniel Fridman | 1976 | n/a | Latvian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Fridman |
| Alexander Konstantinopolsky | Alexander Markovich Konstantinopolsky | 1910 | 1990 | Soviet | chess player, trainer and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Konstantinopolsky |
| Jacqueline Piatigorsky | Jacqueline Rebecca Louise Piatigorsky | 1911 | 2012 | French | chess player, author, sculptor, philanthropist, and arts patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Piatigorsky |
| Maxim Dlugy | Maxim Alexandrovich Dlugy | 1966 | n/a | American | chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Dlugy |
| Alla Kushnir | Alla Shulimovna Kushnir | 1941 | 2013 | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alla_Kushnir |
| Gennadi Sosonko | Gennadi "Genna" Sosonko | 1943 | n/a | Soviet | chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadi_Sosonko |
| Yury Shulman | Yuri Shulman | 1975 | n/a | Belarusian | chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Shulman |
| Hermanis Matisons | Hermanis Matisons | 1894 | 1932 | Latvian | chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermanis_Matisons |
| Samuel Rosenthal | Samuel Rosenthal | 1837 | 1902 | Polish | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Rosenthal |
| Gyula Breyer | Gyula "Julius" Breyer | 1893 | 1921 | Hungarian | chess player and 1912 Hungarian national champion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyula_Breyer |
| Yakov Estrin | Yakov Borisovich Estrin | 1923 | 1987 | Russian | chess player, chess theoretician, writer, and World Correspondence Chess Champion who held the chess titles of International Master and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Estrin |
| Oscar Chajes | Oscar Chajes | 1873 | 1928 | American | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Chajes |
| Abram Rabinovich | Abram Isaakovich Rabinovich | 1878 | 1943 | Lithuanian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Rabinovich |
| Horatio Caro | Horatio Caro | 1862 | 1920 | English | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Caro |
| Endre Steiner | Endre (Andreas) Steiner | 1901 | 1944 | Hungarian | chess player, born in Budapest | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endre_Steiner |
| Gisela Kahn Gresser | Gisela Kahn Gresser | 1906 | 2000 | American | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisela_Kahn_Gresser |
| Rudolf Charousek | Rudolf Charousek | 1873 | 1900 | Czech | born Hungarian chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Charousek |
| S. Lipschütz | Samuel or Salomon Lipschütz | 1863 | 1905 | null | chess player and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Lipschütz |
| Luis Ramírez de Lucena | Luis Ramírez de Lucena | 1465 | 1530 | Spanish | chess player who published the first extant chess book | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Ramírez_de_Lucena |
| Isakas Vistaneckis | Isakas Vistaneckis | 1910 | 2000 | Lithuanian | Jewish chess player who held the chess title of Correspondence Chess International Master (IM) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isakas_Vistaneckis |
| Yelena Dembo | Yelena Dembo | 1983 | n/a | Greek | chess player, who holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelena_Dembo |
| Wolfgang Heidenfeld | Wolfgang Heidenfeld | 1911 | 1981 | German | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Heidenfeld |
| Joshua Waitzkin | Joshua Waitzkin | 1976 | n/a | American | chess player, martial arts competitor, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Waitzkin |
| Mona May Karff | Mona May Karff | 1908 | 1998 | American | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_May_Karff |
| Ilya Kan | Ilya Abramovich Kan | 1909 | 1978 | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Kan |
| Vitaly Chekhover | Vitaly Alexandrovich Chekhover | 1908 | 1965 | Soviet | chess player and chess composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Chekhover |
| Jacob Murey | Jacob Isaacovich Murey | 1941 | n/a | Russian | chess player who holds the chess titles of Grandmaster (1987) and Correspondence Chess International Master (1970) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Murey |
| Vitali Golod | Vitali Golod | 1971 | n/a | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Golod |
| Semyon Alapin | Semyon Zinovyevich Alapin | none | 1923 | Russian | chess player, openings analyst, and puzzle composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Alapin |
| Mark Bluvshtein | Mark Bluvshtein | 1988 | n/a | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bluvshtein |
| Ilya Gurevich | Ilya Mark Gurevich | 1972 | n/a | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Gurevich |
| Julio Kaplan | Julio Argentino Kaplan Pera | 1950 | n/a | Puerto Rican | chess player, former world junior chess champion as well as software developer and founder of Heuristic Software | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Kaplan |
| Menachem Oren | Menachem Oren | 1903 | 1962 | Polish | chess player and mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Oren |
| Evgeny Postny | Evgeny Postny | 1981 | n/a | Israeli | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Postny |
| Nava Starr | Nava Starr | 1949 | n/a | null | Latvia-born Canadian chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nava_Starr |
| Jean Dufresne | Jean Dufresne | 1829 | 1893 | German | chess player and chess composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dufresne |
| Mark Tseitlin | Mark Tseitlin | 1943 | 2022 | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Tseitlin |
| Max Judd | Max Judd | 1851 | 1906 | American | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Judd |
| Anatoly Vaisser | Anatoly Vaisser | 1949 | n/a | Soviet | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Vaisser |
| Paulette Schwartzmann | Paulette Schwartzmann | 1894 | 1953 | French | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulette_Schwartzmann |
| Ljuba Kristol | Ljuba Danielovna Kristol | 1944 | n/a | Russian | chess player who holds the ICCF title of Lady Grandmaster (LGM) and the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljuba_Kristol |
| Miron Sher | Miron Naumovich Sher | 1952 | 2020 | Soviet | chess player, who was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 1992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miron_Sher |
| Samuel Schweber | Samuel Schweber | 1936 | 2017 | Argentine | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Schweber |
| Dmitry Gurevich | Dmitry Gurevich | 1956 | n/a | Russian | chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Gurevich |
| Yehuda Gruenfeld | Yehuda Gruenfeld | 1956 | n/a | Israeli | chess player, who holds the title of grandmaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Gruenfeld |
| Semen Dvoirys | Semen Isaakovich Dvoirys | 1958 | n/a | Russian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen_Dvoirys |
| Gerald Abrahams | Gerald Abrahams | 1907 | 1980 | English | chess player, author, and barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Abrahams |
| Aaron Alexandre | Aaron (Albert) Alexandre | 1765 | 1850 | null | German–French–English chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Alexandre |
| Vitaly Halberstadt | Vitaly Halberstadt | 1903 | 1967 | French | chess player, theorist, tactician, problemist, and, above all, a noted endgame study composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Halberstadt |
| Liudmila Belavenets | Liudmila Sergeyevna Belavenets | 1940 | 2021 | Russian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liudmila_Belavenets |
| Marsel Efroimski | Marsel Efroimski | 1995 | n/a | Israeli | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsel_Efroimski |
| Leopold Hoffer | Leopold Hoffer | 1842 | 1913 | English | Jewish chess player and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Hoffer |
| Julius Perlis | Julius Perlis | 1880 | n/a | Austrian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Perlis |
| Esther Epstein | Esther Danilovna Epstein | 1954 | n/a | null | United States chess player and systems manager, who has won the U.S. Women's Chess Champion in 1991 and 1997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Epstein |
| Arthur Feuerstein | Arthur William Feuerstein | 1935 | 2022 | American | chess player and winner of the first U.S. Armed Forces Chess Championship | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Feuerstein |
| Victor Buerger | Victor Buerger (Berger) | 1904 | 1996 | Ukrainian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Buerger |
| Rubén Felgaer | Rubén Felgaer | 1981 | n/a | Argentine | chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubén_Felgaer |
| Yochanan Afek | Yochanan Afek | 1952 | n/a | Israeli | chess player, composer, trainer and arbiter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochanan_Afek |
| Achilles Frydman | Achilles Frydman | 1904 | 1940 | Polish | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles_Frydman |
| N. Koppelman | N. Kopelman (Koppelman) | 1881 | 1944 | Russian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Koppelman |
| Gyula Makovetz | Gyula Makovetz | 1860 | 1903 | Hungarian | journalist and chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyula_Makovetz |
| Eugene Perelshteyn | Eugene Perelshteyn | 1980 | n/a | American | chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Perelshteyn |
| Ram Soffer | Ram Soffer | 1965 | n/a | Israeli | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Soffer |
| Alexander Fishbein | Alexander Gregory Fishbein | 1968 | n/a | American | chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fishbein |
| Salome Reischer | Salome Reischer | 1899 | 1980 | Austrian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_Reischer |
| Moritz Porges | Moritz Porges | 1857 | 1909 | Czech | Jewish chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Porges |
| Paul Baender | Paul Baender | 1906 | 1985 | German | chess player and functionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baender |
| Israel Zilber | Israel Zilber | 1933 | n/a | null | chess player who won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Zilber |
| Ronen Har-Zvi | Ronen Har-Zvi | 1976 | n/a | Israeli | chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronen_Har-Zvi |
| Gastón Needleman | Gastón Needleman | 1990 | n/a | null | former chess player from Mendoza, Argentina | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastón_Needleman |
| Clara Friedman | Clara Friedman | 1920 | 2015 | Israeli | chess player who held the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1966) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Friedman |
| Zelman Kleinstein | Zelman Kleinstein | 1910 | 1912 | null | Palestine/Israeli chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelman_Kleinstein |
| Slavko Wolf | Dr. Slavko Wolf | 1862 | 1936 | Croatian | lawyer, chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavko_Wolf |
| Jorge Szmetan | Jorge Szmetan | 1950 | 2015 | Argentine | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Szmetan |
| Philip Baker (chess player) | Philip Baker | 1880 | 1932 | Irish | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Baker_(chess_player) |
| Yuliya Levitan | Yuliya Levitan | 1973 | n/a | American | chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1992) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuliya_Levitan |
| Lena Glaz | Lena Glaz | 1961 | n/a | Israeli | chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1985) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Glaz |
| Philipp Hirschfeld | Philipp Hirschfeld | 1840 | 1896 | German | chess player and theoretician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Hirschfeld |
| Leon Stolzenberg | Leon Stolzenberg | 1895 | 1974 | American | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Stolzenberg |
| Leopold Löwy Sr. | Leopold Loewy | 1840 | n/a | Austrian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Löwy_Sr. |
| Alexandru Segal | Alexandru Sorin Segal | 1947 | 2015 | null | economist and chess player Romanian Jewish naturalized Brazilian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Segal |
| Matafia Šeinbergas | Matafia Šeinbergas | 1909 | 2002 | Lithuanian | chess player, medical scientist (immunologist, microbiologist, virologist), and the father of Isai Scheinberg, founder of PokerStars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matafia_Šeinbergas |
| Ariel Sorín | Ariel Hugo Sorín | 1967 | n/a | Argentine | chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sorín |
| Giora Peli | Giora Peli | 1936 | 2020 | Israeli | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giora_Peli |
| Zara Nakhimovskaya | Zara Nakhimovskaya (Kavnatsky) | 1934 | n/a | null | chess player who won the Latvian Chess Championship for women in 1958, 1959, 1961, and 1962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zara_Nakhimovskaya |
| Josefa Gurfinkel | Josefa Alexandrovna Gurfinkel | 1919 | 1997 | Russian | Jewish-born Soviet chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (1954) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefa_Gurfinkel |
| Tema Filanovskaya | Tema Filanovskaya | 1915 | 1994 | Soviet | chess player who three times won the Russian SFSR Women Chess Championship (1951, 1954, 1955) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tema_Filanovskaya |
| Albert Mandelbaum | Albert Mandelbaum | 1925 | unknown | Israeli | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mandelbaum |
| Yoav Dothan | Yoav Dothan | 1955 | n/a | Israeli | chess player who holds the chess title of International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoav_Dothan |
| Bella Gesser | Bella Gesser , Igla | 1985 | n/a | Israeli | chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Gesser |