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811 relations: Abe Turner, Abhijeet Gupta, Abraham Baratz, Abraham de Moivre, Abraham ibn Ezra, Abraham Kupchik, Abram Blass, Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli, Achilles Frydman, Adam Mickiewicz, Adolf Albin, Adolf Anderssen, Adriaan de Groot, Adrian Mikhalchishin, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Agnieszka Brustman, Aivars Gipslis, Akiba Rubinstein, Alan Turing, Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, Albert Becker (chess player), Albert Einstein, Albert Salomon Anselm von Rothschild, Aldo Clementi, Aleister Crowley, Alejandro Ramírez (chess player), Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, Aleksandr Lenderman, Alessandro Salvio, Alex Yermolinsky, Alexander Alekhine, Alexander Areshchenko, Alexander Baburin, Alexander Beliavsky, Alexander Evenson, Alexander Grischuk, Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky, Alexander Ivanov (chess player), Alexander Khalifman, Alexander Koblencs, Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Alexander Kotov, Alexander McDonnell (chess player), Alexander Morozevich, Alexander Motylev, Alexander Petrov (chess player), Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Rueb, Alexander Shabalov, Alexander Tolush, ... Expand index (761 more) »
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Abe Turner
Abraham Turner (1924 – October 25, 1962) was an American chess master.
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Abhijeet Gupta
Abhijeet Gupta (born 16 October 1989) is an Indian chess player with the title of Grandmaster (GM).
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Abraham Baratz
Abraham Baratz (14 September 1895, Bessarabia – 1975, Paris) was a Romanian–French chess master.
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Abraham de Moivre
Abraham de Moivre FRS (26 May 166727 November 1754) was a French mathematician known for de Moivre's formula, a formula that links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory.
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Abraham ibn Ezra
Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾĒzrāʾ, often abbreviated as; إبراهيمالمجيد ابن عزرا Ibrāhim al-Mājid ibn Ezra; also known as Abenezra or simply Ibn Ezra, 1089 / 1092 – 27 January 1164 / 23 January 1167)Jewish Encyclopedia; Chambers Biographical Dictionary gives the dates 1092/93 – 1167 was one of the most distinguished Jewish biblical commentators and philosophers of the Middle Ages.
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Abraham Kupchik
Abraham Kupchik (25 March 1892 – 26 November 1970) was an American chess master.
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Abram Blass
Moshe Aba Blass (born 1896, Łomża, Poland - 1971, Tel-Aviv, Israel) was a Polish-Israeli chess master.
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Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-‘Abbās al-Ṣūlī (Arabic: أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن العباس الصولي) (born c. 870 Gorgan – died between 941 and 948 Basra) was a Turkic scholar and a court companion of three Abbāsid caliphs: al-Muktafī, his successor al-Muqtadir, and later, al-Radi, whom he also tutored.
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Achilles Frydman
Achilles Frydman (March 19, 1904, Łódź – 1940) was a Polish chess player.
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Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist.
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Adolf Albin
Adolf Albin (14 September 1848 – 22 March 1920) was a Romanian chess player.
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Adolf Anderssen
Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (6 July 1818 – 13 March 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Adriaan de Groot
Adrianus Dingeman (Adriaan) de Groot (Santpoort, 26 October 1914 – Schiermonnikoog, 14 August 2006) was a Dutch chess master and psychologist, who conducted some of the most famous chess experiments of all time in the 1940s-60.
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Adrian Mikhalchishin
Adrian Bohdanovych Mikhalchishin (also Mihalcisin, Mihalčišin or Mykhalchyshyn, Адріян Богданович Михальчишин, born November 18, 1954) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster now playing for Slovenia.
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
Adrien-Marie Legendre (18 September 1752 – 9 January 1833) was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics.
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Agnieszka Brustman
Agnieszka Brustman (born 31 July 1962) is a Polish chess player holding the title of woman grandmaster.
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Aivars Gipslis
Aivars Gipslis (February 8, 1937 – April 13, 2000) was a Latvian chess player, writer, editor and coach, who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster and the ICCF title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.
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Akiba Rubinstein
Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player.
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Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.
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Albéric O'Kelly de Galway
Albéric Joseph Rodolphe Marie Robert Ghislain O'Kelly de Galway (17 May 1911 – 3 October 1980) was a Belgian chess Grandmaster (1956), an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1962), and the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess (1959–1962).
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Albert Becker (chess player)
Albert Becker (5 September 1896 in Vienna – 7 May 1984 in Vicente López), also known as Alberto Becker, was an Austrian–Argentine chess master.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".
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Albert Salomon Anselm von Rothschild
Albert Salomon Anselm Freiherr von Rothschild (29 October 1844 – 11 February 1911) was a banker in Austria-Hungary and a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria.
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Aldo Clementi
Aldo Clementi (25 May 1925 – 3 March 2011) was an Italian classical composer.
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Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, philosopher, political theorist, novelist, mountaineer, and painter.
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Alejandro Ramírez (chess player)
Alejandro Tadeo Ramírez Álvarez (born 21 June 1988) is a Costa Rican-American chess Grandmaster and commentator.
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Aleksander Wojtkiewicz
Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (Aleksandrs Voitkevičs; January 15, 1963 – July 14, 2006) was a Polish chess grandmaster.
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Aleksandr Lenderman
Aleksandr "Alex" Lenderman (born September 23, 1989) is an American chess grandmaster.
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Alessandro Salvio
Alessandro Salvio (c. 1575 – c. 1640) was a leading Italian chess player in the early 17th century.
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Alex Yermolinsky
Alex Yermolinsky (translit; born April 11, 1958) is an American chess player.
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Alexander Alekhine
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine (March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns.
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Alexander Areshchenko
Alexander Areshchenko (Oleksandr Areshchenko; born June 15, 1986) is a Ukrainian chess player.
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Alexander Baburin
Alexander Evgenyevich Baburin (Aleksandr Yevgen'yevich Baburin; born 19 February 1967) is a Russian-Irish grandmaster of chess.
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Alexander Beliavsky
Alexander Genrikhovich Beliavsky (Олександр Генріхович Бєлявський, Aleksander Henrikovič Beljavski; also romanized Belyavsky; born December 17, 1953) is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Slovenian chess player.
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Alexander Evenson
Alexandr Moyseyevich Evensohn (Evenson, Evensson) (1892–1919) was a Russian chess master.
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Alexander Grischuk
Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky
Alexander Fyodorovich Ilyin (Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ильи́н-Жене́вский; November 28, 1894 – September 3, 1941), known with the party name Zhenevsky, "the Genevan" because he joined the Bolshevik group of Russian émigrés while exiled in that city, was a Soviet chess master and organizer, one of founders of the Soviet chess school, an Old-Guard Bolshevik cadre, a writer, a military organizer, a historian and a diplomat.
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Alexander Ivanov (chess player)
Alexander Vladimirovich Ivanov (born May 1, 1956) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster.
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Alexander Khalifman
Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman (Алекса́ндр Вале́рьевич Халифма́н; born 18 January 1966) is a Russian chess player and writer.
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Alexander Koblencs
Alexander Koblencs (Aleksandrs Koblencs, Александр Кобленц, Alexander Koblenz; 3 September 1916, Riga – 9 December 1993, Berlin) was a Latvian chess master, trainer, and writer.
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Alexander Konstantinopolsky
Alexander Markovich Konstantinopolsky (Александр Маркович Константинопольский; 19 February 1910 – 21 September 1990) was a Soviet chess player, trainer and writer.
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Alexander Kotov
Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Ко́тов; (– 8 January 1981) was a Soviet chess grandmaster and author. He was a Soviet chess champion, a two-time world title Candidate, and a prolific writer on the subject of chess. Kotov served in high posts in the Soviet Chess Federation, and wrote most of his books during the Cold War.
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Alexander McDonnell (chess player)
Alexander McDonnell (1798–1835), sometimes spelled MacDonnell, was an Irish chess master, who contested a series of six matches with the world's leading chess player Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais in 1834.
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Alexander Morozevich
Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich (translit; born July 18, 1977) is a Russian chess player.
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Alexander Motylev
Alexander Anatolyevich Motylev (Александр Анатольевич Мотылёв; born 17 June 1979) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Alexander Petrov (chess player)
Alexander Dmitrievich Petrov (Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Петро́в) (February 12, 1794 – April 22, 1867) was a Russian chess player, chess composer, and chess writer.
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.
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Alexander Rueb
Alexander Rueb (27 December 1882 – 2 February 1959) was a Dutch lawyer, diplomat, and chess official.
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Alexander Shabalov
Alexander Anatolyevich Shabalov (Алекса́ндр Анато́льевич Шаба́лов; Aleksandrs Šabalovs; born September 12, 1967) is an American chess grandmaster and a four-time winner of the United States Chess Championship (1993, 2000, 2003, 2007).
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Alexander Tolush
Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush (1 May 1910 – 3 March 1969) was a Soviet chess grandmaster.
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Alexander Wittek
Alexander Wittek (12 October 1852, Sisak – 11 May 1894, Graz) was an Austrian-Hungarian architect and chess master.
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Alexander Zaitsev (chess player)
Alexander Nikolayevich Zaitsev (June 15, 1935 – October 31, 1971) was a Soviet chess grandmaster.
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Alexandra Kosteniuk
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian and Swiss chess grandmaster who was the Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010 and Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021.
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Alexandre Deschapelles
Alexandre Deschapelles (March 7, 1780 in Ville-d'Avray near VersaillesOctober 27, 1847 in Paris) was a French chess player who, between the death of François-André Danican Philidor and the rise of Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, was probably the strongest player in the world.
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Alexei Shirov
Alexei Shirov (Aleksejs Širovs; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess player.
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Alexey Dreev
Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev (Алексей Сергеевич Дреев, also transliterated as Aleksey or Alexei; born 30 January 1969) is a Russian chess player.
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Alexey Suetin
Alexey Stepanovich Suetin (Алексе́й Степа́нович Суэ́тин; November 16, 1926 – September 10, 2001) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster and author.
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Alexey Vyzmanavin
Alexey Borisovich Vyzmanavin (sometimes written Vyzhmanavin; Алексе́й Бори́сович Выжмана́вин; 4 December 1960 – 6 January 2000) was a Russian chess Grandmaster.
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Alfonso X of Castile
Alfonso X (also known as the Wise, el Sabio; 23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284) was King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1 June 1252 until his death in 1284.
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Alfred Kreymborg
Alfred Francis Kreymborg (December 10, 1883 – August 14, 1966) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist.
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Alfred William Gyles
Alfred William Gyles (7 March 1888 – 15 May 1967) was New Zealand chess champion on two occasions—1930/31 and 1935/36.
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Alisa Galliamova
Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova (Алиса Михайловна Галлямова, Алисә Михаил кызы Галләмова; born 18 January 1972 in Kazan) is a Russian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Almira Skripchenko
Almira Skripchenko (born 17 February 1976) is a Moldovan-French chess player who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Amos Burn
Amos Burn (31 December 1848 – 25 November 1925) was an English chess player, one of the world's leading players at the end of the 19th century, and a chess writer.
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Ana Srebrnič
Ana Srebrnič (born 20 February 1984) is a Slovene chess player.
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Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов,; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, and politician.
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Andor Lilienthal
Andor (André, Andre, Andrei) Arnoldovich LilienthalReuben Fine, The World's Great Chess Games, Dover Publications, 1983, p. 216.
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András Adorján
András Adorján (born András Jocha; 31 March 1950 – 11 May 2023) was a Hungarian Chess Grandmaster (1973) and author.
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Andrei Sokolov
Andrei Yurievich Sokolov (Андре́й Ю́рьевич Соколо́в; born 20 March 1963, in Vorkuta, Komi ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a chess Grandmaster of Russian origin, now living in France.
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Andrei Volokitin
Andrei Volokitin (Андрій Волокітін, Andriy Volokitin; born 18 June 1986 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
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Andrew Soltis
Andrew Eden Soltis (born May 28, 1947) is an American chess grandmaster, author and columnist.
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Andrey Lukin
Andrei Lukin (Андрей Лукин, born August 28, 1948) is a chess International Master and a chess coach.
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Anjelina Belakovskaia
Anjelina Belakovskaia (translit; born May 17, 1969) is an American chess player holding the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Anna Akhsharumova
Anna Akhsharumova (Анна Марковна Ахшарумова; born 9 January 1957, Moscow) is a Woman Grandmaster of chess.
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Anna Muzychuk
Anna Olehivna Muzychuk (Анн́а Оле́гівна Музичу́к; Ana Muzičuk; born 28 February 1990) is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM).
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Anna Zatonskih
Anna Zatonskih (Ганна Затонських; July 17, 1978) is a Ukrainian American chess player who holds the titles International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Anthony Quinn
Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), better known by his stage name Anthony Quinn, was an American actor.
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Antoaneta Stefanova
Antoaneta Stefanova (Антоанета Стефанова; born 19 April 1979) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and Women's World Champion from 2004 to 2006.
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Anton Korobov
Anton Sergiyovych Korobov (Антон Сергійович Коробов; born 25 June 1985) is a Ukrainian chess player.
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Anurag Dikshit
Anurag Dikshit (born 1973) is an Indian businessman.
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Anya Corke
Anya Sun Corke (born 12 September 1990 in California, USA) is an American-born English chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Arianne Caoili
Arianne Bo Caoili (22 December 1986 – 30 March 2020) was a Filipino and Australian chess player.
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Arkadij Naiditsch
Arkadij Naiditsch (Arkadi Naydiç; born 25 October 1985) is Latvian-German chess grandmaster who currently represents Bulgaria after previously representing Latvia (until 1997), Germany (1998–2015) and Azerbaijan (2015-2024).
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Arno Nickel
Arno Nickel (born February 15, 1952) is a German correspondence chess Grandmaster and a well-known German chess publisher.
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Arnold Denker
Arnold Sheldon Denker (February 21, 1914 – January 2, 2005) was an American chess player and author.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, filmmaker, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder known for his roles in high-profile action films.
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Aron Nimzowitsch
Aron Nimzowitsch (Ārons Nimcovičs; Аро́н Иса́евич Нимцо́вич, Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Latvian-born Danish chess player and writer.
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Arpad Elo
Arpad Emmerich Elo (August 25, 1903 – November 5, 1992) was a Hungarian-American physics professor who created the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess.
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Arthur Bisguier
Arthur Bernard Bisguier (October 8, 1929April 5, 2017) was an American chess player, chess promoter, and writer who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).
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Arthur Dake
Arthur William Dake (April 8, 1910 – April 28, 2000) was an American chess player.
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Artur Yusupov (chess player)
Artur Mayakovich Yusupov (Арту́р Маякович Юсу́пов; Artur Majakowitsch Jussupow; born February 13, 1960) is a chess grandmaster and a chess writer.
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Atahualpa
Atahualpa, also Atawallpa (Quechua), Atabalica, Atahuallpa, Atabalipa (1502July 1533), was the last effective Inca emperor before his capture and execution during the Spanish conquest.
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Augustus II, Duke of Brunswick
Augustus II (10 April 1579 – 17 September 1666), called the Younger (August der Jüngere), a member of the House of Welf was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
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Augustus Mongredien
Augustus Mongredien (1807–1888) was a corn merchant, also known as a political economist and writer.
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Ava Gardner
Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress.
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Étienne Bacrot
Étienne Bacrot (born 22 January 1983) is a French chess grandmaster, and as a child, a chess prodigy.
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Ľubomír Ftáčnik
Ľubomír Ftáčnik (born October 30, 1957, in Bratislava) is a Slovak chess grandmaster and a former European Junior Champion.
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Baruch Harold Wood
Baruch Harold Wood (13 July 1909 – 4 April 1989) was an English chess player, editor and author.
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Basil Rathbone
Philip St.
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Beatriz Marinello
Beatriz Mansilla Marinello (born May 14, 1964) is a Chilean-American chess player and chess official.
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Ben Affleck
Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker.
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Ben Finegold
Benjamin Philip Finegold (born September 6, 1969) is an American chess grandmaster and YouTuber/Twitch streamer.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.
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Bent Larsen
Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 1935 – 9 September 2010) was a Danish chess grandmaster and author.
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Berge Østenstad
Berge Østenstad (born 15 September 1964) is a Norwegian chess player and Norway's sixth International Grandmaster.
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Bernard Zuckerman
Bernard Zuckerman (born March 31, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York) is an International Master of chess.
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Bernhard Horwitz
Bernhard Horwitz (1807 in Neustrelitz – 1885 in London) was a German and British chess master, chess writer and chess composer.
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Berthold Englisch
Berthold Englisch (9 July 1851 in Hotzenplotz – 19 October 1897 in Vienna) was a chess master from Austria-Hungary.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, logician, philosopher, and public intellectual.
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born filmmaker and screenwriter.
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Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American musician, songwriter, and actor.
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Bobby Fischer
Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.
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Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by the nickname Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter and activist.
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Boris Alterman
Boris Alterman (בוריס אלתרמן, Борис Альтерман; born May 4, 1970) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli chess Grandmaster, FIDE Senior Trainer (2010), advisor of the Junior chess program.
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Boris Gelfand
Boris Gelfand (בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; Barys Abramavič Heĺfand; Boris Abramovich Gel'fand; born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player.
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Boris Gulko
Boris Franzevich Gulko (p; born February 9, 1947) is a Soviet-American Grandmaster in chess.
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Boris Kostić
Borislav Kostić (24 February 1887 – 3 November 1963) was a Serbian chess grandmaster and a popularizer of the game.
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Boris Spassky
Boris Vasilievich Spassky (Borís Vasíl'yevich Spásskiy; born January 30, 1937) is a Russian chess grandmaster who was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972.
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Boris Verlinsky
Boris Markovich Verlinsky (8 January 1888 – 30 October 1950) was a Soviet chess player, who was awarded the title International Master by FIDE, the world chess federation, in 1950.
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Borislav Ivkov
Borislav Ivkov (12 November 1933 – 14 February 2022) was a Serbian chess Grandmaster.
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Brains in Bahrain
Brains in Bahrain was an eight-game chess match between World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik and the computer program Deep Fritz 7, held in October 2002.
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Braslav Rabar
Braslav Rabar (27 September 1919, Zagreb – 6 December 1973, Zagreb) was a Croatian-Yugoslavian chess International Master (1950) and chess writer.
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Bruno Parma
Bruno Parma (born December 30, 1941) is a Slovene-Yugoslav chess player and Grandmaster.
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Bu Xiangzhi
Bu Xiangzhi (born December 10, 1985) is a Chinese chess player.
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Cardinal Richelieu
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French statesman and prelate of the Catholic Church.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß; Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 177723 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science.
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Carl Icahn
Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.
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Carl Jaenisch
Carl Ferdinand von Jaenisch (Karl Andreyevich Yanish; April 11, 1813 – March 7, 1872) was a Finnish and Russian chess player and theorist.
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Carl Mayet
Carl (Karl) Mayet (11 August 1810, Berlin – 18 May 1868, Stettin, now Szczecin) was a German chess master.
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Carl Schlechter
Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century.
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Carlos Torre Repetto
Carlos Jesús Torre Repetto (29 November 1904, GeneanetHooper/Whyld, Gaige say 1905. – 19 March 1978) was a Mexican chess player and the first from his country to be awarded the title of grandmaster, which was accorded by FIDE in 1977.
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Carmen Kass
Carmen Kass (born September 14, 1978) is an Estonian model and actress.
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Cecil Purdy
C.J.S. (Cecil John Seddon) Purdy (27 March 1906 – 6 November 1979) was an Australian chess player and writer.
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.
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Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer (28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976.
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Charles Henry Stanley
Charles Henry Stanley (September 2, 1819 – October 6, 1901) was the first chess champion of the United States.
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Charles Kalme
Charles Ivars Kalme (Kārlis Ivars Kalme, November 15, 1939 – March 20, 2002) was a Latvian American chess master and a mathematician.
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Charles Wreford-Brown
Charles Wreford-Brown (9 October 1866 – 26 November 1951) was an English sportsman.
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Charles XII of Sweden
Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII (Karl XII) or Carolus Rex (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 O.S.), was King of Sweden (including current Finland) from 1697 to 1718.
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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
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Chess
Chess is a board game for two players.
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Chess engine
In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards as strongest.
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Chris Ward (chess player)
Christopher Geoffrey Ward (26 March 1968) is a British chess Grandmaster (GM), chess coach, and author.
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Christopher Lutz
Christopher Lutz (born 24 February 1971) is a German chess grandmaster and a two-time German Chess Champion.
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Claude Akins
Claude Aubrey Akins (May 25, 1926 – January 27, 1994) was a character actor with a long career on stage, screen, and television.
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Claude Bloodgood
Claude Frizzell Bloodgood III (alias: Klaus Frizzel Bluttgutt III; July 14, 1937 – August 4, 2001) was a controversial American chess player.
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Cnut
Cnut (Knútr; c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035.
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Colin McNab
Colin Anderson McNab (born 3 February 1961) is a Scottish chess player.
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Computer chess
Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess.
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Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander
Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (19 April 1909 – 15 February 1974), known as Hugh Alexander and C. H. O'D.
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Curt Hansen (chess player)
Curt Hansen (born September 18, 1964, in Bov, Sønderjylland) is a Danish chess grandmaster and a former World Junior Champion.
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Curt von Bardeleben
Curt Carl Alfred von Bardeleben (4 March 1861 – 31 January 1924) was a German chess master, journalist, and member of the German nobility.
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Dan Heisman
Dan Heisman (born July 8, 1950) is a United States Chess Federation National Master, author and instructor.
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Daniel Gormally
Daniel William Gormally (born 4 May 1976) is an English chess Grandmaster.
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Daniel Harrwitz
Daniel Harrwitz (22 February 1821 – 2 January 1884) was a German chess master.
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Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu (born July 26, 1974) is a Canadian professional poker player who has won seven World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles.
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Daniel Yanofsky
Daniel Abraham (Abe) Yanofsky (March 25, 1925 – March 5, 2000) was a Canadian chess player, chess arbiter, writer, lawyer, and politician.
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Danny Kopec
Daniel Kopec (February 28, 1954 – June 12, 2016) was an American chess International Master, author, and computer science professor at Brooklyn College.
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Darja Kapš
Darja Kapš (born November 26, 1981) is a Slovene chess player with the title of Woman Grandmaster.
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Darryl Johansen
Darryl Keith Johansen (born 4 February 1959 in Melbourne) is an Australian chess grandmaster.
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David Baramidze
David Baramidze (დავით ბარამიძე, Davit' Baramidze; born September 27, 1988) is a German chess Grandmaster.
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David Bronstein
David Ionovich Bronstein (Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet chess player.
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David Goodman (chess player)
David Simon Charles Goodman (born 25 February 1958 in England) is an International Master of chess, chess writer and teacher, and former journalist.
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David Howell (chess player)
David Wei Liang Howell (born 14 November 1990) is an English chess grandmaster and commentator.
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David Hume
David Hume (born David Home; – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical skepticism and metaphysical naturalism.
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David Levy (chess player)
David Neil Laurence Levy (born 14 March 1945) is an International Master of chess who plays for Scotland, and a businessman.
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David Navara
David Navara (born 27 March 1985) is a Czech chess grandmaster, the highest-ranked of his country.
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David Norwood
David Robert Norwood (born 3 October 1968) is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who is also a chess player - grandmaster, chess writer, former captain of the English chess team and has represented England and Andorra at chess.
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Davor Palo
Davor Palo (born 2 November 1985) is a Danish chess Grandmaster.
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Dawid Janowski
Dawid Markelowicz Janowski (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled David) was a Polish chess player.
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Dawid Przepiórka
Dawid Przepiórka (22 December 1880 – presumed April 1940) was a Jewish-Polish chess player of the early twentieth century, who won the first Polish championship.
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Deep Blue (chess computer)
Deep Blue was a chess-playing expert system run on a unique purpose-built IBM supercomputer.
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Deep Thought (chess computer)
Deep Thought was a computer designed to play chess.
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Dimitrije Bjelica
Dimitrije Bjelica (Димитрије Бјелица; born November 8, 1935) is a Serbian (formerly Yugoslav) chess FIDE Master.
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Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (sometimes romanized as Mendeleyev, Mendeleiev, or Mendeleef;; Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev,; 8 February 18342 February 1907) was a Russian chemist and inventor.
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Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek (born 29 January 1965) is a Czech former ice hockey goaltender who mostly played for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Donald Byrne
Donald Byrne (June 12, 1930 – April 8, 1976) was an American university professor and chess player.
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Dragoljub Minić
Dragoljub Minić (March 5, 1937 – c. April 5, 2005) was a Yugoslav Grandmaster of chess.
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Duncan Suttles
Duncan Suttles (born 21 December 1945) is a chess grandmaster.
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Dustin Diamond
Dustin Neil Diamond (January 7, 1977 – February 1, 2021) was an American actor and stand-up comedian.
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Edgard Colle
Edgard Colle (18 May 1897 – 19 April 1932) was a Belgian chess master.
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Edith Keller-Herrmann
Edith Keller-Herrmann (17 November 1921 – 12 May 2010) was a German woman chess master.
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Edmar Mednis
Edmar John Mednis (Edmārs Džons Mednis; March 22, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was a Latvian-American chess player and writer of Latvian origin.
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Edmund Landau
Edmund Georg Hermann Landau (14 February 1877 – 19 February 1938) was a German mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis.
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Eduard Gufeld
Eduard Yefimovich Gufeld (Эдуа́рд Ефи́мович Гу́фельд; 19 March 1936 – 23 September 2002) was a Soviet/American International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess author.
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Eduardas Rozentalis
Eduardas Rozentalis (born 27 May 1963 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian chess grandmaster.
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Edward Gerstenfeld
Edward (Eduard) Issakovich Gerstenfeld (January 1915 in Lemberg – December 1943 (?) in Rostov-on-Don, USSR) was a Polish chess master.
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Edward Lasker
Edward Lasker (born Eduard Lasker) (December 3, 1885 – March 25, 1981) was a German-American chess and Go player.
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Eero Böök
Eero Einar Böök (9 February 1910 – 7 January 1990) was a Finnish chess player and engineer.
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Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow, also known as Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow (April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952), was a Russian-born German chess grandmaster.
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Efim Geller
Efim Petrovich Geller (Ефим Петрович Геллер; Юхим Петрович Геллер; 8 March 1925 – 17 November 1998) was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak.
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Efstratios Grivas
Efstratios Grivas (born March 30, 1966) is a Greek chess player who holds the titles of Grandmaster, FIDE Senior Trainer, International Arbiter, and FIDE International Organizer.
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Einar Gausel
Einar Johan Gausel (born 30 November 1963) is a Norwegian chess player and Norway's third International Grandmaster since 1995.
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Ekaterina Atalik
Ekaterina Atalik (née Polovnikova; born 14 November 1982 in Kirov) is a Russian-Turkish chess player, who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya
Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya (born Elena Bronislavovna Akhmilovskaya, Елена Брониславовна Ахмыловская; 11 March 1957 – 18 November 2012) was a Soviet-born American chess player.
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Elisabeth Pähtz
Elisabeth Pähtz (born January 8, 1985, sometimes spelt Elisabeth Paehtz) is a German chess Grandmaster.
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Elisaveta Bykova
Elisaveta Ivanovna Bykova (or Elisabeth Bykova, Russian: Елизаве́та Ива́новна Бы́кова; 4 November 1913 – 8 March 1989) was a Soviet chess player and twice Women's World Chess Champion, from 1953 until 1956, and again from 1958 to 1962.
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Elizabeth Shaughnessy
Elizabeth Shaughnessy (born 1937) is an Irish-American chess player and trainer who regularly represents the national team at the Chess Olympiad.
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Elmārs Zemgalis
Elmārs Zemgalis (9 September 1923 – 8 December 2014) was a Latvian and American chess master and mathematics professor at Highline College.
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Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher.
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Emanuel Schiffers
Emanuel (Emmanuel) Stepanovich Schiffers (Эммануил Степанович Шифферс; –) was a Russian chess player and chess writer.
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Emil Sutovsky
Emil Sutovsky (born 19 September 1977) is an Israeli chess player.
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Endre Steiner
Endre (Andreas) Steiner (27 June 1901 – 29 December 1944) was a Hungarian chess player, born in Budapest.
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English draughts
English draughts (British English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts).
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Ephraim Kishon
Ephraim Kishon (August 23, 1924 – January 29, 2005) was a Hungarian-born Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated film director.
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Erich Eliskases
Erich Gottlieb Eliskases (15 February 1913 – 2 February 1997) was a chess player who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition.
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Erik Estrada
Henry Enrique Estrada (born March 16, 1949) is an American actor and police officer.
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Ernő Gereben
Ernő Gereben (18 June 1907 – 16 May 1988) was a Hungarian–Swiss chess master whose half-century career extended from the mid-1920s to the late 1970s.
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Ernest Klein (chess player)
Ernest Ludwig Klein (1910–1990) was an Austrian-British chess master and author.
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Ernest Meissonier
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (21 February 181531 January 1891) was a French academic painter and sculptor.
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Ernst Falkbeer
Ernst Karl Falkbeer (June 27, 1819 – December 14, 1885) was an Austrian chess master and journalist.
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Ernst Grünfeld
---- Ernst Franz Grünfeld (November 21, 1893 – April 3, 1962) was an Austrian chess player and writer, mainly on opening theory.
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Esteban Canal
Esteban Canal (April 19, 1896 – February 14, 1981) was a leading Peruvian chess player who had his best tournament results in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
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Eugène Rousseau (chess player)
Eugène Rousseau (13 November 1805, Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France – Paris, France, 1870) was a French chess master.
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Eugene Delmar
Eugene Delmar (September 12, 1841, New York – February 22, 1909, New York), was one of the leading United States chess masters of the 19th century and the four-time New York State champion in 1890, 1891, 1895 and 1897.
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Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (Yevgeny Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky; 16 August 1884 – 31 December 1954) was a Russian chess player, music and drama critic, teacher and author.
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Evgeny Bareev
Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev (Евгений Ильгизович Бареев; born 21 November 1966) is a Russian-Canadian chess player, trainer, and writer.
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Evgeny Sveshnikov
Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov (Евгений Эллинович Све́шников; Jevgēņijs Svešņikovs; 11 February 1950 – 18 August 2021) was a Russian chess player and writer who is credited with development of the Sveshnikov Variation of the Sicilian Defence.
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Fedir Bohatyrchuk
Fedir Parfenovych Bohatyrchuk (also Bogatirchuk, Bohatirchuk, Bogatyrtschuk; Федір Парфенович Богатирчук; Fyodor Parfenyevich Bogatyrchuk; 27 November 1892 – 4 September 1984) was a Ukrainian–Canadian chess player, doctor of medicine (radiologist), political activist, and writer.
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Ferdinand Foch
Ferdinand Foch (2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general, Marshal of France and member of the Académie Française.
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Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
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Florencio Campomanes
Florencio Campomanes (22 February 1927 – 3 May 2010) was a Filipino political scientist, chess player, and chess organizer.
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Florian Jenni
Florian Jenni (born 24 March 1980 in Lieli) is a Swiss chess grandmaster.
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Florin Felecan
Florin Felecan (born 7 April 1981, in Brasov) is a chess International Master.
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Florin Gheorghiu
Florin Gheorghiu (born 6 April 1944) is a Romanian chess player and has been a university lecturer in foreign languages.
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François-André Danican Philidor
François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player.
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Francisco Vallejo Pons
Francisco Vallejo Pons (born 21 August 1982) is a Spanish chess grandmaster.
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Frank Anderson (chess player)
Frank Ross Anderson (1928–1980) was a Canadian chess master and writer.
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Frank Lamprecht
Frank Lamprecht (born 21 June 1968) is a German chess International Master and chess trainer.
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Frank Marshall (chess player)
Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.
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Franz Brentano
Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Josef Brentano (16 January 1838 – 17 March 1917) was a German philosopher and psychologist.
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist and writer from Prague.
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Fred Reinfeld
Fred Reinfeld (January 27, 1910 – May 29, 1964) was an American writer on chess and many other subjects.
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Fred Yates (chess player)
Fred Dewhirst Yates (16 January 1884, Birstall – 11 November 1932, London) was an English chess master who won the British Chess Championship on six occasions.
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Frederic Friedel
Frederic Alois Friedel (born 1945) studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg without graduating.
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Frederick the Great
Frederick II (Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786.
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Friðrik Ólafsson
Friðrik Ólafsson (born 26 January 1935) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster.
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Fricis Apšenieks
Fricis Apšenieks (Old orthography: Fritzis Apscheneek; 7 April 1894 in Tetele, Courland Governorate – 25 April 1941 in Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian chess master.
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Friedrich Amelung
Friedrich Ludwig Balthasar Amelung (–) was a Baltic German cultural historian, businessman and chess endgame composer.
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Friedrich Baumbach
Friedrich (Fritz) Baumbach (born 8 September 1935 in Weimar, Germany) is a German International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the eleventh ICCF World Champion, 1983–1989.
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Friedrich Sämisch
Friedrich Sämisch (20 September 1896 – 16 August 1975) was a German chess player and chess theorist.
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Fritz (chess)
Fritz is a German chess program originally developed for Chessbase by Frans Morsch based on his Quest program, ported to DOS, and then Windows by Mathias Feist.
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Gabriel Sargissian
Gabriel Eduardi Sargissian (Գաբրիել Էդուարդի Սարգսյան, Gabriel Eduardi Sargsyan; born 3 September 1983) is an Armenian chess grandmaster.
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Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer.
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Gary Lane (chess player)
Gary William Lane (born November 1964) is a professional chess player and author.
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Gastón Needleman
Gastón Needleman (born 1990) is a former chess player from Mendoza, Argentina.
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Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky (italics; Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion.
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Gauri Shankar (chess player)
Gauri Shankar (born 1 October 1992) is an Indian chess player who is currently a FIDE Master.
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Géza Füster
Géza Füster (February 19, 1910 – December 30, 1990) was a Hungarian-Canadian chess master.
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Géza Maróczy
Géza Maróczy (3 March 1870 – 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess player, one of the leading players in the world in his time.
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Gösta Stoltz
Gösta Stoltz (May 9, 1904 – July 25, 1963) was a Swedish chess grandmaster.
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Gedeon Barcza
Gedeon Barcza (August 21, 1911, in Kisújszállás – February 27, 1986, in Budapest) was a Hungarian chess grandmaster.
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Gennadi Sosonko
Gennadi "Genna" Borisovich Sosonko (Геннадий Борисович Сосонко, Gennady Borisovich Sosonko; born 18 May 1943) is a Russian-born Dutch chess grandmaster and writer.
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Genrikh Kasparyan
Genrikh Kasparyan (Surname also spelled Kasparian) (27 February 1910 – 27 December 1995) was an Armenian chess player.
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Georg Kieninger
Georg Kieninger (5 June 1902, in Munich – 25 January 1975, in Düsseldorf) was a German chess player and International Master (IM).
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George Biddell Airy
Sir George Biddell Airy (27 July 18012 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, as well as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1826 to 1828 and the seventh Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.
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George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American actor, director and producer.
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George Koltanowski
George Koltanowski (also "Georges"; 17 September 1903 – 5 February 2000) was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer.
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George Soros
George Soros (born György Schwartz on August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.
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George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
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Georgi Tringov
Georgi Petrov Tringov (Георги Пеев Трингов) (7 March 1937 – 2 July 2000) was a Grandmaster of chess from Bulgaria.
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Gerald Abrahams
Gerald Abrahams (15 April 1907 – 15 March 1980) was an English chess player, author, and barrister.
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Gerardo Barbero
Gerardo Fabián Barbero (21 August 1961 – 4 March 2001) was an Argentine chess grandmaster.
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Gerolamo Cardano
Gerolamo Cardano (also Girolamo or Geronimo; Jérôme Cardan; Hieronymus Cardanus.; 24 September 1501– 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler.
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Gersz Rotlewi
Gersz (Georg, George, Gersh) Rotlewi (Rotlevi, Rotlevy) (1889 – 1920) was a Polish chess master.
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Gersz Salwe
Gersz Salwe (12 December 1862, Warsaw – 15 December 1920, Łódź), also written Salve, italic, was a Polish chess master.
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Gert Jan Timmerman
Gert Jan Timmerman (born 15 April 1956) is a Dutch chess player, most famous for being the fifteenth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess, 1996–2002.
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Gideon Ståhlberg
Anders Gideon Tom Ståhlberg (26 January 1908 – 26 May 1967) was a Swedish chess player.
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Gioachino Greco
Gioachino Greco (&ndash), surnamed Cusentino and more frequently il Calabrese, was an Italian chess player and writer.
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Gisela Kahn Gresser
Gisela Kahn Gresser (February 8, 1906 Detroit, Michigan – December 4, 2000)"Gisela Kahn Gresser", Chess Life, March 2001, p. 40.
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Glenn Flear
Glenn Curtis Flear (born 12 February 1959 in Leicester, England) is a British chess grandmaster now living in Montpellier, France.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (– 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who invented calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic, and statistics.
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Gregor Piatigorsky
Gregor Piatigorsky (Grigoriy Pavlovich Pyatigorskiy; August 6, 1976) was a Russian Empire-born American cellist.
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Gregory Kaidanov
Gregory Kaidanov (Григорий Зиновьевич Кайда́нов, Grigoriy Zinovyevich Kaydanov; born 11 October 1959) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster.
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Gregory Serper
Gregory Serper (translit; born September 14, 1969) is a chess grandmaster.
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Grigori Perelman
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (a; born 13 June 1966) is a Russian mathematician who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and geometric topology.
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Grigory Levenfish
Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish (Григо́рий Я́ковлевич Левенфи́ш; – 9 February 1961) was a Soviet chess player who scored his peak competitive results in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Grigory Potemkin
Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (A number of dates as late as 1742 have been found on record; the veracity of any one is unlikely to be proved. This is his "official" birth-date as given on his tombstone.) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great.
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Grigory Sanakoev
Grigory Konstantinovich Sanakoev (17 April 1935 – 8 October 2021) was a Russian chess player who held the title of International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.
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Gunnar Friedemann
Gunnar Friedemann (22 September 1909 in Tallinn – 2 February 1944) was an Estonian chess master.
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Gustave Doré
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6January 1832 – 23January 1883) was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor.
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Guy West
Guy West (born 7 September 1958) is an Australian chess player who holds the FIDE title of International Master (IM).
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Guy Williams (actor)
Armando Joseph Catalano (January 14, 1924 – April 30, 1989), better known as Guy Williams, was an American actor.
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Gyula Breyer
Gyula "Julius" Breyer (30 April 1893 Budapest – 9 November 1921) was a Hungarian chess player and 1912 Hungarian national champion.
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Gyula Sax
Gyula Sax (18 June 1951 – 25 January 2014) was a Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter (1995).
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer.
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HAL 9000
HAL 9000 (or simply HAL or Hal) is a fictional artificial intelligence character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series.
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Hans Berliner
Hans Jack Berliner (January 27, 1929 – January 13, 2017) was an American chess player, and was the World Correspondence Chess Champion, from 1965–1968.
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Hans Frank
Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician, war criminal, and lawyer who served as head of the General Government in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War.
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Hans Kmoch
Johann "Hans" Joseph Kmoch (July 25, 1894 – February 13, 1973) was an Austrian-Dutch-American chess International Master (1950), International Arbiter (1951), and a chess journalist and author, for which he is best known.
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Hans Müller (chess player)
Hans Müller (1 December 1896, Vienna – 28 February 1971, Vienna) was an Austrian chess player, theoretician and author of books.
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Hans Ree
Hans Ree (born 15 September 1944 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer.
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Harry Golombek
Harry Golombek OBE (1 March 1911 – 7 January 1995) was a British chess player, chess author, and wartime codebreaker.
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Harry Nelson Pillsbury
Harry Nelson Pillsbury (December 5, 1872 – June 17, 1906) was a leading American chess player.
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Héctor Rossetto
Héctor Decio Rossetto (8 September 1922 in Bahía Blanca, Argentina – 23 January 2009 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine chess player.
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Heidi Fleiss
Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30, 1965) is an American former procurer.
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Helgi Ólafsson
Helgi Ólafsson (born 15 August 1956) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster.
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Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.
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Henrique Mecking
Henrique Costa Mecking (born 23 January 1952), also known as Mequinho, is a Brazilian chess grandmaster who reached his zenith in the 1970s and is still one of the strongest players in Brazil.
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Henry Bird (chess player)
Henry Edward Bird (14 July 1829 – 11 April 1908) was an English chess player, author and accountant.
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Henry Darrow
Henry Darrow (born Enrique Tomás Delgado Jiménez; September 15, 1933 – March 14, 2021) was an American character actor of stage and film known for his role as Manolito "Mano" Montoya on the 1960s television series The High Chaparral.
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Henry Ernest Atkins
Henry Ernest Atkins (20 August 1872 – 31 January 1955) was a British chess master who is best known for his unparalleled record of winning the British Chess Championship nine times in eleven attempts.
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Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood.
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Henry IV of France
Henry IV (Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610.
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Henry Thomas Buckle
Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 – 29 May 1862) was an English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization, and a strong amateur chess player.
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Henryk Friedman
Henryk Friedman (Friedmann) (1903–1942) was a Polish chess master.
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Herman Steiner
Herman Steiner (April 15, 1905 – November 25, 1955) was an American chess player, organizer, and columnist.
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Hermanis Matisons
Hermanis Matisons (Herman Mattison; 1894, Riga – 1932) was a Latvian chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early 1930s.
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Hermann Pilnik
Hermann Pilnik (8 January 1914, Stuttgart, Germany – 12 November 1981, Caracas, Venezuela) was a German-born Argentine chess Grandmaster.
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Hikaru Nakamura
Christopher Hikaru Nakamura, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, December 7, 2022 (born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion.
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Ho Chi Minh
italic (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ) or just Uncle (Bác), and by other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary, nationalist, and politician.
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Horst Rittner
Horst Robert Rittner (16 July 1930 – 14 June 2021) was a German correspondence chess Grandmaster.
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Hou Yifan
Hou Yifan (born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Shenzhen University.
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Howard Staunton
Howard Staunton (April 1810 – 22 June 1874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant.
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Howard Stern
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American broadcaster and media personality.
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Hristos Banikas
Hristodoulos Banikas (Χριστόδουλος Μπανίκας; born 20 May 1978) is a Greek chess grandmaster from Thessaloniki.
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Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), colloquially nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor.
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Hydra (chess)
Hydra was a chess machine, designed by a team with Dr. Christian "Chrilly" Donninger, Dr.
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Ian Rogers (chess player)
Ian Rogers (born 24 June 1960) is an Australian chess player, trainer and writer.
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Ignatz Kolisch
Baron Ignatz von Kolisch (6 April 1837 – 30 April 1889), also Baron Ignaz von Kolisch (German) or báró Kolisch Ignác (Hungarian), was a merchant, journalist and chess master with Jewish roots. Kolisch was born into a Jewish family in Pressburg (known today as Bratislava). Both in business and as a chess player he was eminently successful.
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Ignatz von Popiel
Ignatz (Ignaz, Ignacy) von Popiel (27 July 1863 – 2 May 1941) was a Polish-Ukrainian chess player.
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Igor Bondarevsky
Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky (Игорь Захарович Бондаревский; May 12, 1913 – June 14, 1979) was a Soviet Russian chess player, trainer, and chess author.
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Igor Zaitsev
Igor Arkadyevich Zaitsev (Игорь Аркадьевич Зайцев; born 27 May 1938) is a Russian grandmaster of chess.
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Iivo Nei
Iivo Nei (born 31 October 1931 in Tartu) is an Estonian chess master.
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Ilmar Raud
Ilmar Raud (30 April 1913 – 13 July 1941) was an Estonian chess master.
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Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter.
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Irina Krush
Irina Borisivna Krush (Ірина Борисівна Круш; born December 24, 1983) is an American chess Grandmaster.
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Irving Chernev
Irving Chernev (January 29, 1900 – September 29, 1981) was a chess player and prolific Ukrainian-born American chess author.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (– April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
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Isaac Boleslavsky
Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky (Ісаак Єфремович Болеславський, Исаак Ефремович Болеславский; 9 June 1919 – 15 February 1977) was a Soviet chess player and writer.
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Isaac Kashdan
Isaac Kashdan (November 19, 1905, in New York City – February 20, 1985, in Los Angeles) was an American chess grandmaster and chess writer.
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Isaac Rice (businessman)
Isaac Leopold Rice (February 22, 1850 – November 2, 1915) was a German-born Jewish American businessman, investor, musicologist, author, and chess patron.
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Isakas Vistaneckis
Isakas Vistaneckis (Isaak, Itzhak Vistinietzki) (29 September 1910 in Marijampolė – 30 December 2000 in Tel Aviv) was a Lithuanian Jewish chess player who held the chess title of Correspondence Chess International Master (IM).
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Isidor Gunsberg
Isidor Arthur Gunsberg (also spelled Günzberg,; 1 November 1854 – 2 May 1930) was a Hungarian chess player, best known for narrowly losing the 1891 World Chess Championship match to Wilhelm Steinitz.
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Israel Albert Horowitz
Israel Albert Horowitz (often known as I. A. Horowitz or Al Horowitz) (November 15, 1907 – January 18, 1973) was an American International Master of chess.
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István Bilek
István Bilek (11 August 1932 – 20 March 2010) was a Hungarian chess grandmaster.
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Ivan Radulov
Ivan Radulov (Иван Радулов) (born 7 January 1939, in Burgas) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster.
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Ivan Sokolov (chess player)
Ivan Sokolov (born 13 June 1968) is a Dutch-Bosnian chess player and writer.
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Ivar Bern
Ivar Bern (born 20 January 1967) is a Norwegian chess player, most famous for being the seventeenth World Correspondence Chess Champion, 2002–2007.
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Iván Morovic
Iván Eduardo Morovic Fernández (born 24 March 1963) is a Chilean chess player with the title of International Grandmaster.
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Ivo Donev
Ivo Donev (born 25 December 1959) is a Bulgarian, with Austrian passport, who is a professional chess and poker player.
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Iweta Rajlich
Iweta Rajlich (born Radziewicz, 16 March 1981) is a Polish chess International Master and Woman Grandmaster, multiple winner of Women Chess Championships of Poland.
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Izaak Appel
Izaak (Isaak) Appel (1905–1941) was a Polish chess master.
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Jaan Ehlvest
Jaan Ehlvest (born 14 October 1962) is an Estonian-American chess player.
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Jackson Showalter
Jackson Whipps Showalter (February 5, 1859 in Minerva, Kentucky – February 5, 1935 in Lexington, Kentucky) was a five-time U.S. Chess Champion: 1890, 1892, 1892–1894, 1895–96 and 1906–1909.
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Jacques Mieses
Jacques Mieses (born Jacob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German-born British chess player.
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Jacques Villon
Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 – June 9, 1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker.
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Jaime Sunye Neto
Jaime Sunye Neto (born May 2, 1957) is a Brazilian chess player.
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Jakob Rosanes
Jakob Rosanes (also Jacob; 16 August 1842 – 6 January 1922) was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
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James Eade
James V. Eade (born March 23, 1957) is an American chess master, chess administrator, chess tournament organizer, and chess book publisher.
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James Macrae Aitken
James Macrae Aitken (27 October 1908 – 3 December 1983) was a Scottish chess player.
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James Mason (chess player)
James Mason (19 November 1849 – 12 January 1905) was a British-American chess player, journalist and writer who became one of the world's best half-dozen players in the 1880s.
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James Plaskett
Harold James Plaskett (born 18 March 1960) is a British chess grandmaster and writer.
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James Sherwin
James Terry Sherwin (born October 25, 1933) is a corporate executive and International Master in chess.
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Jamie Foxx
Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, and comedian.
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Jan Foltys
Jan Foltys (13 October 1908, Svinov – 11 March 1952, Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czechoslovakia) was a Czech chess International Master.
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Jan Hein Donner
Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner (July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer.
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Jan Smejkal
Jan Smejkal (born 22 March 1946) is a Czech chess player and, since 1972, an International Grandmaster.
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Jan Timman
Jan Timman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading chess players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
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Jana Bellin
Jana Bellin (née Malypetrová; born 9 December 1947) is a British, formerly Czechoslovak chess player.
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Jaroslav Šajtar
Jaroslav Šajtar (December 3, 1921 – February 4, 2003) was a Czech chess master and an honorary grandmaster, born in Ostrava.
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Ján Plachetka
Ján Plachetka (born February 18, 1945) is a chess Grandmaster from Slovakia.
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János Flesch
János Flesch (30 September 1933 – 9 December 1983) was a chess Grandmaster, chess writer and coach, born in Budapest, Hungary.
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Józef Piłsudski
Józef Klemens Piłsudski (5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920).
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József Szén
József Szén (9 July 1805, Pest, Hungary – 13 January 1857) was a chess master from the Austrian Empire.
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Jørn Sloth
Jørn Sloth (born 5 September 1944 in Sjørring, Thy, Denmark) is a Danish chess player who holds the chess titles of FIDE Master and Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.
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Jean Dufresne
Jean Dufresne (14 February 1829 – 13 April 1893) was a German chess player and chess composer.
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Jean Taubenhaus
Jean (Jan) Taubenhaus (14 December 1850, in Warsaw – 14 September 1919, in Paris) was a Polish–born French chess master.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer.
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Jennifer Shahade
Jennifer Shahade (born December 31, 1980) is an American chess player, poker player, commentator and writer.
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Jerry Mathers
Gerald Patrick Mathers (born June 2, 1948) is a former American actor best known for his role in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, originally broadcast from 1957 to 1963.
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Jessie Gilbert
Jessica "Jessie" Laura Cory Gilbert (30 January 1987 – 26 July 2006) was a British chess player.
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Joël Lautier
Joël Lautier is a French chess grandmaster and one of the world's leading chess players in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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Joel Benjamin
Joel Lawrence Benjamin (born March 11, 1964) is an American chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).
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Johann Hermann Bauer
Johann Hermann Bauer (23 June 1861, Kotopeky – 5 April 1891, Görz) was an Austrian chess master.
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Johann Löwenthal
Johann Jacob Löwenthal (Löwenthal János Jakab; 15 July 1810 – 24 July 1876) was a professional chess master.
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Johannes Minckwitz
Johannes Minckwitz (April 11, 1843, Leipzig – May 20, 1901, Biebrich) was a German chess player and author.
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Johannes Türn
Johannes Türn (27 May 1899, in Tartu – 8 March 1993, in Tallinn) was an Estonian chess player.
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Johannes Zukertort
Johannes Hermann Zukertort (Polish: Jan Hermann Cukiertort; 7 September 1842 – 20 June 1888) was a Polish-born British-German chess master.
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John Barrymore
John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth; February 14 or 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an American actor on stage, screen, and radio.
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John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.
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John Cochrane (chess player)
John Cochrane (4 February 1798 – 2 March 1878) was a Scottish chess master and lawyer.
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John Emms (chess player)
John Michael Emms (born 14 March 1967) is an English chess Grandmaster and chess author.
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John Fedorowicz
John Peter Fedorowicz (born September 27, 1958) is an American chess player and chess writer from The Bronx, New York.
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John Littlewood (chess player)
John Eric Littlewood (25 May 1931 – 16 September 2009) was for many years a leading British chess player and took the title of national senior champion in 2006.
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John Nunn
John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician.
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John Owen (chess player)
John Owen (8 April 1827 – 24 November 1901) was an English vicar and amateur chess master.
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John Peters (chess player)
John (Jack) Peters (born 1951) is an American International Master of chess.
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John von Neumann
John von Neumann (Neumann János Lajos; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath.
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John W. Collins
John ("Jack") William Collins (September 23, 1912 – December 2, 2001) was an American chess master, author, and teacher.
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John Wayne
Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed "the Duke", was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.
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Jon Speelman
Jonathan Simon Speelman (born 2 October 1956 in Marylebone, London) is a British chess player and author.
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Jonathan Mestel
Andrew Jonathan Mestel (born 13 March 1957 in Cambridge, England) is a British mathematician and chess player.
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Jonathan Penrose
Jonathan Penrose, (7 October 1933 – 30 November 2021) was an English chess player, who held the titles Grandmaster (1993) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1983).
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Jonathan Rowson
Jonathan Rowson (born 18 April 1977) is a Scottish chess grandmaster and philosopher.
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Jonathan Sarfati
Jonathan David Sarfati (born 1 October 1964) is a young Earth creationist who writes articles for Creation Ministries International (CMI), a non-profit Christian apologetics ministry.
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Jonathan Tisdall
Jonathan D. Tisdall (born August 26, 1958) is an American-born Norwegian and Irish grandmaster of chess (title awarded 1993) and works as a freelance journalist.
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Jonny Hector
Jonny Hector (born 13 February 1964) is a Swedish chess player.
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José Ferrer
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992) was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television.
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José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset (9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist.
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José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
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Josef Lokvenc
Josef Lokvenc (1 May 1899, in Vienna – 2 April 1974, in Sankt Pölten) was an Austrian chess master.
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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski,; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.
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Joseph Cukierman
Joseph (Józef, Iosif) Cukierman (Zukermann) (Gródek, Austria-Hungary, 28 March 1899 – Castres, France, 18 November 1940) was a Polish-born French chess master.
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Joseph Gallagher
Joseph Gerald Gallagher (born in London, 4 May 1964) is a British-born Swiss chess player and writer.
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Joseph Henry Blackburne
Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924) was a British chess player.
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Joshua Waitzkin
Joshua Waitzkin (born December 4, 1976) is an American former chess player, martial arts world champion, and author.
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Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz (Јосип Броз,; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (Тито), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980.
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Juan Corzo
Juan Corzo y Príncipe (June 24, 1873 – September 27, 1941) was a Spanish–Cuban chess master and five-time chess champion of Cuba.
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Juan María Solare
Juan María Solare (born August 11, 1966) is an Argentine composer and pianist.
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Judah Halevi
Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi; Yahūḏa al-Lāwī; c. 1075 – 1141) was a Sephardic Jewish poet, physician and philosopher.
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Judit Polgár
Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time.
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Jules Arnous de Rivière
Jules Arnous de Rivière (4 May 1830, Nantes – 11 September 1905, Paris) was the strongest French chess player from the late 1850s through the late 1870s.
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Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress.
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Julian Hodgson
Julian Michael "Jules" Hodgson (born 25 July 1963 in London) is a British chess player, grandmaster, and former British chess champion.
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Julio Bolbochán
Julio Bolbochán (Buenos Aires, 20 March 1920 – Caracas, 28 June 1996) was the Argentine chess champion in 1946 and 1948.
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Julius Perlis
Julius Perlis (19 January 1880, in Białystok (Poland, then Russian Empire) – 11 September 1913, in Ennstal) was an Austrian chess player.
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Junior (chess)
Junior is a computer chess program written by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shai Bushinsky.
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Kamil Mitoń
Kamil Mitoń (born 12 April 1984, in Kraków) is a Polish chess Grandmaster (2002).
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Kamran Shirazi
Kamran Shirazi (کامران شیرازی; born 21 November 1952) is an International Master of chess, who won the Iranian Chess Championship in 1972.
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Karel Hromádka
Karel Hromádka (23 April 1887 in Großweikersdorf, Austria – 16 July 1956) was a Czech chess player, two-time Czech champion, 1913 and 1921 (jointly).
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Karel Traxler
Karel Traxler (1866 – 1936) was a Czech chess master and composer of chess problems.
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Karel Treybal
Karel Treybal (2 February 1885 – 2 October 1941) was a prominent Czech chess player of the early twentieth century.
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Karen Asrian
Karen Asrian (Կարեն Ասրյան; 24 April 1980 – 9 June 2008) was an Armenian chess player.
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
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Karlis Ozols
Karlis Aleksandrs Ozols (Kārlis Aleksandrs Ozols; 9 August 1912, in Riga – 23 March 2001, in Australia) was a Latvian lieutenant in the Nazi-controlled Latvian Auxiliary Police and a member of Heinrich Himmler's SS during WW2.
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Karol Irzykowski
Karol Irzykowski (23 January 1873 – 2 November 1944) was a Polish writer, literary critic, film theoretician, and chess player.
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Karsten Müller
Karsten Müller (born November 23, 1970, in Hamburg, West Germany) is a German chess Grandmaster and author.
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Kate Jackson
Lucy Kate Jackson (born October 29, 1948) is an American actress and television producer, known for her television roles as Sabrina Duncan in the series Charlie's Angels (1976–1979) and Amanda King in the series Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983–1987).
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Kateryna Lagno
Kateryna Aleksandrovna Lagno (Екатерина Александровна Лагно,; born 27 December 1989) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian) chess grandmaster.
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Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades.
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Kazimierz Makarczyk
Kazimierz Makarczyk (1 January 1901, Warsaw – 27 May 1972, Łódź) was a Polish chess master.
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Keanu Reeves
Keanu Charles Reeves (born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor and musician.
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Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Saul Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster.
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Kjetil Aleksander Lie
Kjetil Aleksander Lie (born 18 November 1980 in Porsgrunn) is a Norwegian chess player, and Norway's eighth International Grandmaster (GM).
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Klaus Junge
Klaus Junge (1 January 1924 – 17 April 1945) was one of the youngest Chilean-German chess masters.
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Koneru Humpy
Koneru Humpy (born 31 March 1987) is an Indian chess player best known for winning the FIDE Women's rapid chess championship in 2019.
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Konstantin Aseev
Konstantin Aseev (October 20, 1960 – August 22, 2004) was a Russian chess Grandmaster and trainer.
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Krishnan Sasikiran
Krishnan Sasikiran (Tamil: கிருஷ்ணன் சசிகிரண்; born 7 January 1981) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
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Kurt Richter
Kurt Paul Otto Joseph Richter (24 November 1900 – 29 December 1969) was a German chess International Master (IM) and chess writer.
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Lajos Portisch
Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik".
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Lajos Steiner
Lajos Steiner (14 June 1903, in Nagyvárad (Oradea) – 22 April 1975, in Sydney) was a Hungarian–born Australian chess master.
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Larissa Volpert
Larissa Ilinichna Volpert (Лариса Ильинична Вольперт; 30 March 1926 – 1 October 2017) was a Soviet chess Woman Grandmaster and Russian and Estonian philologist.
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Larry Christiansen
Larry Mark Christiansen (born June 27, 1956) is an American chess player of Danish ancestry.
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Larry Evans (chess player)
Larry Melvyn Evans (March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010) was an American chess player, author, and journalist who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1957.
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Laura Ross (chess player)
Laura R. Smith (born 1988), formerly Laura R. Ross, is an American chess player.
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Lauren Bacall
Betty Joan Perske (September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014), professionally known as Lauren Bacall, was an American actress.
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LaVar Arrington
LaVar RaShad Arrington (born June 20, 1978) is an American former football linebacker who played for seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
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László Szabó (chess player)
László Szabó (March 19, 1917 – August 8, 1998) was a Hungarian chess player.
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Lázaro Bruzón
Lázaro Bruzón Batista (born 2 May 1982 in Holguín) is a Cuban-American chess grandmaster.
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Lūcijs Endzelīns
Lūcijs (Lucius) Endzelīns (21 May 1909, Dorpat (Tartu), Estonia – 27 October 1981, Adelaide, Australia) was a Latvian-Australian chess master.
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Leó Forgács
Leó Forgács (né Léo Fleischmann) (5 October 1881 in Budapest – 17 August 1930 in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary) was a Hungarian chess player.
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Legall de Kermeur
François Antoine de Legall de Kermeur (1702–92) was a French chess player, and was possibly the world's best player from about 1730 to 1755.
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Leif Øgaard
Leif Øgaard (born 5 January 1952) is a Norwegian chess player.
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Leif Erlend Johannessen
Leif Erlend Johannessen (born 14 May 1980) is a Norwegian chess player, and Norway's fifth grandmaster.
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Lenka Ptáčníková
Lenka Ptáčníková (born 16 January 1976) is a Czech-born Icelandic chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.
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Lennox Lewis
Lennox Claudius Lewis (born 2 September 1965) is a boxing commentator and former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2003.
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Leonard Barden
Leonard William Barden (born 20 August 1929, in Croydon, London) is an English chess master, writer, broadcaster, journalist, organizer and promoter.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler (15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus.
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Leonid Kubbel
Karl Artur Leonid Kubbel (Леонид Иванович Куббель; 1891 or 1892 – 1942) was a Russian composer of chess endgame studies and problems.
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Leonid Shamkovich
Leonid Aleksandrovich Shamkovich (Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Шамко́вич; June 1, 1923 – April 22, 2005) was a chess Grandmaster and chess writer.
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Leonid Stein
Leonid Zakharovych Stein (Леонід Захарович Штейн; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine.
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Leonid Yudasin
Leonid Yudasin (ליאוניד גריגורייביץ' יודסין; translit; born August 8, 1959) is a Soviet-born Israeli chess player and trainer.
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Leroy Dubeck
Leroy William Dubeck (born March 1, 1939) is an American chess master and retired professor of physics.
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Lev Alburt
Lev Osipovich Alburt (born August 21, 1945) is a chess Grandmaster, writer and coach.
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Lev Polugaevsky
Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky (p; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was a Soviet chess player.
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Lev Psakhis
Lev Borisovich Psakhis (לב בוריסוביץ' פסחיס; Лев Борисович Псахис; born 29 November 1958) is an Israeli chess grandmaster, trainer and author.
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Levon Aronian
Levon Grigori Aronian (Levon Grigori Aronyan; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian-American chess grandmaster.
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Lew Ayres
Lewis Frederick Ayres III (December 28, 1908 – December 30, 1996) was an American actor whose film and television career spanned 65 years.
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Li Shilong
Li Shilong (born August 10, 1977) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster.
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Lilit Mkrtchian
Lilit Mkrtchian (Լիլիթ Մկրտչյան; born 9 August 1982) is an Armenian chess player.
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Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director.
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Lionel Kieseritzky
Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky (Лионель Адальберт Багратион Феликс Кизерицкий; –) was a Baltic German chess master and theoretician, known for his contributions to chess theory, as well for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, known as the "Immortal Game".
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Lisa Lane
Marianne Elizabeth Lane Hickey (April 25, 1933 – February 28, 2024), also known as Lisa Lane, was an American chess player.
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List of female chess players
This article lists female chess players who have received FIDE (International Chess Federation) titles or have other significant achievements in chess. List of chess players and list of female chess players are lists of chess players.
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List of Israeli chess players
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Liudmila Belavenets
Liudmila Sergeyevna Belavenets (Людмила Сергеевна Белавенец; also transliterated Lyudmila Sergeevna Belavenets; 7 June 1940 – 7 November 2021) was a Russian chess player.
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Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (born 1 August 1976) is a Romanian chess grandmaster.
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Ljuba Kristol
Ljuba Danielovna Kristol (לובה דניאלובנה קריסטול; Любовь Даниэловна Кристол; born May 26, 1944, in Leningrad) is a Russian-born Israeli chess player who holds the ICCF title of Lady Grandmaster (LGM) and the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM).
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Ljubomir Ljubojević
Ljubomir Ljubojević (born November 2, 1950) is a Serbian chess grandmaster.
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Loek van Wely
Loek van Wely (born 7 October 1972) is a Dutch chess player and politician.
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Lora Yakovleva
Lora Grigoryevna Yakovleva (Лора Григорьевна Яковлева, also transliterated Jakovleva; born April 21, 1932, in Perm) is a Russian chess player who holds the ICCF title of Lady Grandmaster (LGM).
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Lothar Schmid
Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid (10 May 1928 – 18 May 2013) was a German chess grandmaster.
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Louis Paulsen
Louis Paulsen (15 January 1833 in Gut Nassengrund near Blomberg, Principality of Lippe – 18 August 1891) was a German chess player.
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Louis XIII
Louis XIII (sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.
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Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais
Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795 – December 1840) was a French chess master, possibly the strongest player in the early 19th century.
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Lubomir Kavalek
Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek (Lubomír Kaválek, August 9, 1943 – January 18, 2021) was a Czech-American chess player.
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Luděk Pachman
Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann, May 11, 1924 – March 6, 2003) was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist.
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Ludovico Carracci
Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna.
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Ludwig Bledow
Dr Ludwig Erdmann Bledow (27 July 1795, Berlin – 6 August 1846, Berlin) was a German chess master and chess organizer (co-founder of the Berlin Pleiades).
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Ludwig Engels
Ludwig Engels (11 December 1905, Düsseldorf, Germany – 10 January 1967, São Paulo, Brazil) was a German–Brazilian chess master.
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Luis Ramírez de Lucena
Luis Ramírez de Lucena (c. 1465 – c. 1530) was a Spanish chess player who published the first extant chess book.
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Luke McShane
Luke James McShane (born 7 January 1984) is an English chess player.
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Lyudmila Rudenko
Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko (Людми́ла Влади́мировна Руде́нко, Людмила Володимирівна Руденко; 27 July 1904 – 4 March 1986) was a Soviet chess player and the second women's world chess champion, from 1950 until 1953.
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Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
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Magnus Carlsen
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster.
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Maia Chiburdanidze
Maia Chiburdanidze (მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster.
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Maimonides
Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (רמב״ם), was a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.
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Man Ray
Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris.
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Manuel Aaron
Manuel Aaron (born 30 December 1935) is the first Indian chess master in the second half of the 20th century.
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Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.
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Marco Girolamo Vida
Marco Girolamo Vida or Marcus Hieronymus Vida (1485? – September 27, 1566) was an Italian humanist, bishop and important poet in Christian Latin literature.
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Maria Manakova
Maria Manakova (born 1 March 1974) is a Russian-born Serbian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Mark Dvoretsky
Mark Izrailevich Dvoretsky (Марк Изра́илевич Дворе́цкий; December 9, 1947 – September 26, 2016) was a Russian chess trainer, writer, and International Master.
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Mark Paragua
Mark Callano Paragua (born March 29, 1984) is a Filipino chess grandmaster.
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Mark Taimanov
Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (Марк Евгеньевич Тайманов; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971.
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Markas Luckis
Markas (Marcos) Luckis (17 January 1905, in Pskov – 9 February 1973, in Buenos Aires) was a Lithuanian–Argentine chess master.
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Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva; however, Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name.
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Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist.
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Marmaduke Wyvill (chess player)
Marmaduke Wyvill (22 December 1815 in Constable Burton – 25 June 1896 in Bournemouth) was a leading English chess master and Liberal Party politician.
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Martha Fierro
Martha Lorena Fierro Baquero (born September 6, 1977) is an American-born Ecuadorian chess player holding the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster, and FIDE International Organizer.
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Martin Amis
Sir Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic.
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Maurice Ashley
Maurice Ashley (born March 6, 1966) is an American chess player, author, and commentator.
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Maurice Benyovszky
Count Maurice Benyovszky de Benyó et Urbanó (Benyovszky Máté Móric Mihály Ferenc Szerafin Ágost; Maurycy Beniowski; Móric Beňovský; 20 September 1746 – 24 May 1786) was a military officer, adventurer, and writer from the Kingdom of Hungary, who described himself as both a Hungarian and a Pole.
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Max Euwe
Machgielis "Max" Euwe (May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator.
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Max Harmonist
Max Harmonist (Berlin, 10 February 1864 – 16 October 1907) was a leading German chess master.
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Max Weiss
Miksa (Max) Weisz (21 July 1857 – 14 March 1927) was an Austrian chess player born in the Kingdom of Hungary.
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Maxim Dlugy
Maxim Alexandrovich Dlugy (born January 29, 1966) is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster.
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (born 21 October 1990), often referred to by his initials, MVL, is a French chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Champion.
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Mór Jókai
Móricz Jókay of Ásva (18 February 1825 – 5 May 1904), known as Mór Jókai, was a Hungarian novelist, dramatist and revolutionary.
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Mel Brooks
Melvin James Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright.
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Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin (Menaḥem Begin,; Menachem Begin (Polish documents, 1931–1937);; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel.
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Menachem Oren
Menachem Oren (born Mieczysław Chwojnik; מנחם אורן; 1903 – December 1962) was a Polish-born Israeli chess player and mathematician.
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Michał Krasenkow
Michał Krasenkow (born 14 November 1963) is a Polish chess grandmaster, chess trainer and writer.
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Michael Basman
Michael John Basman (16 March 194626 October 2022) was an English chess player and author.
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Michael Valvo
Michael Valvo (April 19, 1942 in New York – September 18, 2004 in Chanhassen, Minnesota) was an International Master of chess.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
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Miguel Najdorf
Miguel Najdorf (born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf) (15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish–Argentine chess grandmaster.
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Miguel Quinteros
Miguel Ángel Quinteros (born December 28, 1947, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1973.
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Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (– May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns.
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Mikhail Chigorin
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also Tchigorin; Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; –) was a Russian chess player.
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Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet and Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion.
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Mikhail Umansky
Mikhail Markovich Umansky (Russian: Михаил Маркович Уманский; January 21, 1952 – December 17, 2010) was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, who was the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998.
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Milan Matulović
Milan Matulović (10 June 1935 – 9 October 2013) was a chess grandmaster who was the second or third strongest Yugoslav player for much of the 1960s and 1970s behind Svetozar Gligorić and possibly Borislav Ivkov.
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Milan Vidmar
Milan Vidmar (22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer.
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Milan Vukcevich
Milan R. Vukcevich (born Milan Radoje Vukčević; March 11, 1937 – May 10, 2003) was a Yugoslav-American chemist, a grandmaster of chess problem composition and writer.
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Milko Bobotsov
Milko Georgiev Bobotsov (Милко Георгиев Бобоцов; 30 September 1931, in Plovdiv – 3 April 2000, in Sofia, Bulgaria) was the first Bulgarian to attain the chess title of Grandmaster, achieving this title in 1961.
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Miroslav Filip
Miroslav Filip (27 October 1928 – 27 April 2009) was a Czech chess grandmaster.
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Miroslav Katětov
Miroslav Katětov (March 17, 1918, Chembar, Russia – December 15, 1995) was a Czech mathematician, chess master, and psychologist.
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Miyoko Watai
is a retired Japanese chess player and widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer.
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Moishe Lowtzky
Moishe (Mojżesz) Lowtzky (Łowcki) (1881–1940) was a Ukrainian–Polish chess master.
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Mona May Karff
Mona May Karff (née Minna Ratner; 20 October 1908 – 10 January 1998) was an American chess player.
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Morgan Fairchild
Morgan Fairchild (born Patsy Ann McClenny; February 3, 1950) is an American actress.
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Moses Isserles
Moses Isserles (משה בן ישראל איסרלישׂ; Mojżesz ben Israel Isserles; 22 February 1530 / 25 Adar I 5290 – 11 May 1572 / 18 Iyar 5332), also known by the acronym Rema, was an eminent Polish Ashkenazi rabbi, talmudist, and posek (expert in Jewish law).
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Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian.
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Moshe Czerniak
Moshe Czerniak (born Moizes Czerniak, also knowns as Miguel Czerniak; משה צ'רניאק; 3 February 1910 – 31 August 1984) was a Polish-Israeli chess player.
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Movsas Feigins
Movsas Feigins or Movša Feigin (28 February 1908 – 11 August 1950) was a Latvian chess master.
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Murray Chandler
Murray Graham Chandler (born 4 April 1960, Wellington, New Zealand) is a New Zealand chess grandmaster.
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Murugan Thiruchelvam
Murugan Thiruchelvam (born 11 December 1988), of Sri Lankan descent, is an English chess player.
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Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy (born Myrna Adele Williams; August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American film, television and stage actress.
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Nadezhda Kosintseva
Nadezhda Anatolyevna Kosintseva (Надежда Анатольевна Косинцева; born 14 January 1985) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Nana Dzagnidze
Nana Dzagnidze (ნანა ძაგნიძე; born 1 January 1987) is a Georgian chess player.
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Nana Ioseliani
Nana Ioseliani (ნანა იოსელიანი; born 12 February 1962) is a Georgian chess player.
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Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
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Natalia Khoudgarian
Natalia Khoudgarian (born 1973) is a Russian-born Canadian chess player.
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Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky (נתן שרנסקי; Натан Щаранский; Натан Щаранський; born 20 January 1948) is an Israeli politician, human rights activist, and author.
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Nathan Divinsky
Nathan Joseph Harry Divinsky (October 29, 1925 – June 17, 2012) was a Canadian mathematician, university professor, chess master, chess writer, and chess official.
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Nava Starr
Nava Starr (née Shterenberg; born April 4, 1949) is a Latvia-born Canadian chess player.
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Niaz Murshed
Niaz Murshed (নিয়াজ মোরশেদ; also Morshed; born May 13, 1966) is a Bangladeshi chess grandmaster.
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Nick de Firmian
Nicholas Ernest de Firmian (born July 26, 1957) is an American chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1985.
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Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known by his stage name Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer.
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Nicolas Rossolimo
Nicolas Rossolimo (translit; February 28, 1910 – July 24, 1975) was a Russian Empire-born chess player.
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Nigel Short
Nigel David Short (born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach and commentator who has been the FIDE Director for Chess Development since September 2022.
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Nino Khurtsidze
Nino Khurtsidze (28 September 1975 – 22 April 2018) was a Georgian chess player.
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Nona Gaprindashvili
Nona Gaprindashvili (ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster.
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Norman T. Whitaker
Norman Tweed Whitaker (April 9, 1890 – May 20, 1975) was an American International Master of chess, a lawyer, a civil servant, and a chess author.
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Olaf Barda
Olaf Barda (17 August 1909 – 2 May 1971 in Oslo), born Olaf M. Olsen, was a Norwegian chess player.
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Oldřich Duras
Oldřich Duras (also Důras; 30 October 1882, Pchery, Bohemia, then Austria-Hungary – 5 January 1957, Prague, then Czechoslovakia) was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century.
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Oleg Romanishin
Oleg Mikhailovich Romanishin (translit; born 10 January 1952) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and former European junior champion.
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Olena Boytsun
Olena Boytsun (born 22 March 1983) is a Ukrainian chess player.
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Olga Rubtsova
Olga Nikolayevna Rubtsova (О́льга Никола́евна Рубцо́ва; 20 August 1909 – 13 December 1994) was a Soviet chess player and the fourth women's world chess champion.
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Olivia de Havilland
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (July 1, 1916July 26, 2020) was a British and American actress.
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Omar Khayyam
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (عمر خیّام), was a Persian polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry.
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Ortvin Sarapu
Ortvin Sarapu (born Ortvin Sarapuu; 22 January 1924 – 13 April 1999), known in New Zealand as "Mr Chess", was an Estonian-born chess player who emigrated to New Zealand and won or shared the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times from 1952 to 1990.
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Oscar Chajes
Oscar Chajes (pronounced "HA-yes") (December 14, 1873 – February 28, 1928)* was an American chess player.
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Oscar Panno
Oscar Roberto Panno (born 17 March 1935) is an Argentine chess Grandmaster.
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Ossip Bernstein
Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein (20 September 1882 – 30 November 1962) was a French chess player and businessman.
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Ottó Bláthy
Ottó Titusz Bláthy (11 August 1860 – 26 September 1939) was a Hungarian electrical engineer.
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Pal Benko
Pal Charles Benko (Benkő Pál; July 15, 1928 – August 25, 2019) was a Hungarian and American chess player, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.
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Paolo Boi
Paolo Boi (1528–1598) was an Italian chess player.
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Parimarjan Negi
Parimarjan Negi (born 9 February 1993) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
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Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominence in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.
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Patrick Wolff
Patrick Gideon Wolff (born February 15, 1968) is an American chess Grandmaster.
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Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős (Erdős Pál; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician.
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Paul Felix Schmidt
Paul Felix Schmidt (– 11 August 1984) was an Estonian and German chess player, writer and chemist.
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Paul Keres
Paul Keres (7 January 1916 – 5 June 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer.
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Paul Michel (chess player)
Paul (Pablo) Michel (Alzenau, 27 December 1905 – La Plata, 14 September 1977) was a German–Argentine chess master.
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Paul Morphy
Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837July 10, 1884) was an American chess player.
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Paul Motwani
Paul Motwani (born 13 June 1962) is a Scottish chess grandmaster.
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Paul Rudolf von Bilguer
Paul Rudolf (or Rudolph) von Bilguer (21 September 1815 – 16 September 1840) was a German chess master and chess theoretician from Ludwigslust in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
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Paul Saladin Leonhardt
Paul Saladin Leonhardt (13 November 1877 – 14 December 1934) was a German chess master.
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Paul Truong
Paul Truong (born June 2, 1965) is an American and Cambodian chess player, trainer, and organizer.
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Paulino Frydman
Paulino (Paulin) Frydman (26 May 1905 in Warsaw, Poland – 2 February 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Polish chess master.
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Pedro Damiano
Pedro Damiano (Pedro Damião; Damiano is the Italian form, much like the Latin Damianus; 1480–1544) was a Portuguese chess player.
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Peng Zhaoqin
Peng Zhaoqin (born 8 May 1968 in Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a Chinese-born Dutch chess player.
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Pentala Harikrishna
Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
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Petar Trifunović
Petar Trifunović (31 August 1910 – 8 December 1980) was a Yugoslav and Serbian chess player, who was awarded the international grandmaster title, and was a five-time Yugoslav champion.
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Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor, singer and television director and producer.
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Peter Heine Nielsen
Peter Heine Nielsen (born 24 May 1973) is a Danish chess trainer and player.
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Peter Leko
Peter Leko (Lékó Péter; born September 8, 1979) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and commentator.
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Peter Svidler
Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and commentator who is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion.
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Peter Thiel
Peter Andreas Thiel (born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist.
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Peter Winston (chess player)
Peter Jonathan Winston (March 18, 1958 – disappeared January 26, 1978) was an American chess player from New York City.
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Philipp Stamma
Philipp Stamma (– c. 1755), a Syriac native of Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, later resident of England and France, was a chess master and a pioneer of modern chess.
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Pia Cramling
Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling (born 23 April 1963) is a Swedish chess grandmaster.
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Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant
Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (12 September 1800, Monflanquin – 29 October 1872) was a leading French chess master and an editor of the chess periodical Le Palamède.
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Pietro Carrera
Pietro Carrera (July 12, 1573 – September 18, 1647) was an Italian chess player, historian, priest and author.
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Polly Bergen
Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin; July 14, 1930 – September 20, 2014) was an American actress, singer, television host, writer and entrepreneur.
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Pope Innocent III
Pope Innocent III (Innocentius III; 22 February 1161 – 16 July 1216), born Lotario dei Conti di Segni (anglicized as Lothar of Segni), was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 January 1198 until his death on 16 July 1216.
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Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII (Leone XIII; born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903.
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Povilas Tautvaišas
Povilas Tautvaišas (Paul Tautvaisas / Tautvaisis) (6 May 1916 in Mogilev – November 1980 in Chicago) was a Lithuanian-American chess master.
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Povilas Vaitonis
Povilas (Paul) Vaitonis (1911-1983) was a Lithuanian–Canadian chess master.
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Preston Ware
Preston Ware Jr. (August 12, 1821 – January 29, 1890) was an American chess player.
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Professor Moriarty
Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character and criminal mastermind created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a formidable enemy for the author's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
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Pyotr Romanovsky
Pyotr Arsenyevich Romanovsky (Пётр Арсеньевич Романо́вский; 29 July 1892 – 1 March 1964) was a Russian and Soviet chess player and author.
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Qin Kanying
Qin Kanying (born 2 February 1974) is a Chinese chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.
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Rafael Vaganian
Rafael Artemovich Vaganian (Ռաֆայել Արտյոմի Վահանյան, Rrafayel Artyomi Vahanyan, Рафаэль Артёмович Ваганян, Rafael Artemovich Vaganyan; born 15 October 1951) is an Armenian chess player holding the title of grandmaster (GM).
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Rainn Wilson
Rainn Percival Dietrich Wilson (born January 20, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, podcaster, producer, writer, and director best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013), for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
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Ramachandran Ramesh
Ramachandran Ramesh (born 20 April 1976), also known as R. B. Ramesh, is an Indian chess grandmaster from Chennai who won the 2002 British Championship and the 2007 Commonwealth Championship.
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Rani Hamid
Rani Hamid (born 14 July 1944) is a Bangladeshi chess player.
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Rashi
Shlomo Yitzchaki (רבי שלמה יצחקי; Salomon Isaacides; Salomon de Troyes; 13 July 1105), commonly known by the acronym Rashi, was a French rabbi who authored comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud and Hebrew Bible.
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Rashid Nezhmetdinov
Rashid Gibyatovich Nezhmetdinov (Раши́д Гибя́тович Нежметди́нов, Tatar: Рәшит Һибәт улы Нәҗметдинов, Räşit Hibät ulı Näcmetdinov;; December 15, 1912 – June 3, 1974) was a Soviet chess player, chess writer, and checkers player.
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Ratmir Kholmov
Ratmir Dmitrievich Kholmov (Russian: Ратмир Дмитриевич Холмов) (13 May 1925 in Shenkursk – 18 February 2006 in Moscow) was a Russian chess Grandmaster.
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Ray Robson
Ray Robson (born October 25, 1994) is an American chess player.
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Raymond Keene
Raymond Dennis Keene (born 29 January 1948) is an English chess grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author.
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Raymond Smullyan
Raymond Merrill Smullyan (May 25, 1919 – February 6, 2017) was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher.
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Reefat Bin-Sattar
Reefat Bin-Sattar (রিফাত বিন সাত্তার; born 25 July 1974) is a Bangladeshi chess grandmaster.
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Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
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Renato Naranja
Renato Naranja (born September 24, 1940) is an International Master of chess from the Philippines.
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Reuben Fine
Reuben C. Fine (October 11, 1914 – March 26, 1993) was an American chess player, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology.
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Richard Farleigh
Richard Bruce Farleigh (born Richard Buckland Smith, 9 November 1960) is an Australian private investor and reality television personality.
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Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.
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Richard Griffith (chess player)
Richard Clewin Griffith (22 July 1872 in London – 11 December 1955 in Hendon, London) was an English chess player, author and editor.
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Richard K. Guy
Richard Kenneth Guy (30 September 1916 – 9 March 2020) was a British mathematician.
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Richard Réti
Richard Selig Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak, chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies.
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Richard Teichmann
Richard Teichmann (24 December 1868 – 15 June 1925) was a German chess master and a chess composer.
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Rico Mascariñas
Rico Mascariñas (born 2 March 1953) is a Philippine (Filipino) chess player with the title of International Master.
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Robert Byrne (chess player)
Robert Eugene Byrne (April 20, 1928 – April 12, 2013) was an American chess player and chess author who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).
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Robert Hübner
Robert Hübner (born November 6, 1948) is a German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist.
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Robert Koch
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist.
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Robert Wade (chess player)
Robert Graham Wade (10 April 1921 – 29 November 2008), known as Bob Wade, was a New Zealand and English chess player, writer, arbiter, coach, and promoter.
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Roland Topor
Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surreal nature of his work.
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Roman Dzindzichashvili
Roman Yakovlevich Dzindzichashvili (რომან იაკობის-ძე ჯინჯიხაშვილი; pronounced jin-jee-khash-VEE-lee; born May 5, 1944) is a Soviet-born Israeli-American chess player.
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Romanas Arlauskas
Romanas Arlauskas (11 June 1917, Kaunas, Lithuania – 22 September 2009 Adelaide, Australia) was a Lithuanian-born Australian chess player who held the ICCF title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.
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Ron Henley (chess player)
Ronald Watson Henley (born December 5, 1956, in Houston, Texas) is an American chess grandmaster, writer, narrator and producer of chess videos, as well as financial funding trader.
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Rosendo Balinas Jr.
Rosendo Carreon Balinas Jr. (September 10, 1941 – September 24, 1998) was a chess grandmaster from the Philippines.
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Roy Turnbull Black
Roy Turnbull Black (February 14, 1888 – July 27, 1962) was an American chess player.
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Rudolf Charousek
Rudolf Charousek (Charousek Rezső; 19 September 1873 – 18 April 1900) was a Czech born Hungarian chess player.
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Rudolf Spielmann
Rudolf Spielmann (5 May 1883 – 20 August 1942) was a Jewish-Austrian chess master of the romantic school, and chess writer.
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Rudolf Teschner
Rudolf Teschner (16 February 1922, Potsdam – 23 July 2006, Berlin-Steglitz) was a German chess master and writer.
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Rune Djurhuus
Rune Djurhuus (born 25 January 1970 in Elverum) is a Norwegian chess player, and the fourth Norwegian International Grandmaster.
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Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Olehovych Ponomariov (Русла́н Оле́гович Пономарьо́в; born 11 October 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
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Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Rustam Kasimdzhanov (born 5 December 1979) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Champion (2004-05). He was Asian champion in 1998.
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Rusudan Goletiani
Rusudan Goletiani (რუსუდან გოლეთიანი; born September 8, 1980) is a Georgian-American chess player with the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.
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Ruy López de Segura
Rodrigo "Ruy" López de Segura (c. 1530 – c. 1580) was a Spanish chess player, author, and Catholic priest whose 1561 treatise Libro de la invención liberal y Arte del juego del Axedrez was one of the first books about modern chess in Europe.
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Ryan Palmer (chess player)
Ryan Palmer (born 23 January 1974) is an English chess player of Jamaican origin; he was the Jamaican National Champion in 1992.
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Rybka
Rybka is a computer chess engine designed by International Master Vasik Rajlich.
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Saladin
Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (– 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.
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Salo Flohr
Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (November 21, 1908 – July 18, 1983) was a Czechoslovak and Soviet chess player and writer.
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Salo Landau
Salo (Salomon) Landau (1 April 1903, Bochnia, Galicia, Austria-Hungary – March 1944,Westerbork Cartotheek NIOD Amsterdam Grodziszcze, Świdnica County, Poland) was a Dutch chess player, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.
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Sam Loyd
Samuel Loyd (January 30, 1841 – April 10, 1911) was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician.
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Sam Sloan
Samuel Howard Sloan (born September 7, 1944), also known as Mohammad Ismail Sloan, is an American perennial candidate and former broker-dealer.
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Samuel Boden
Samuel Standidge Boden (born 4 May 1826 in East Retford, Nottinghamshire; d. 13 January 1882 in Bedford Square, London) was an English professional chess master.
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Samuel Factor
Samuel ("S. D.") Factor (Faktor) (22 September 1883, Łódź – 11 January 1949, Chicago) was a Polish-American chess master.
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Samuel Lipschutz
Samuel or Salomon Lipschütz (July 4, 1863 in Ungvár – November 30, 1905 in Hamburg) was a chess player and author.
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Samuel Reshevsky
Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster.
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Samuel Rosenthal
Samuel Rosenthal (7 September 1837 – 12 September 1902) was a Polish-born French chess player.
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Savielly Tartakower
Savielly Tartakower (also known as Xavier or Ksawery Tartakower, less often Tartacover or Tartakover; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish chess player.
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Semyon Alapin
Semyon Zinovyevich Alapin (Семён Зиновьевич Алапин; – 15 July 1923) was a Russian chess player, openings analyst, and puzzle composer.
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Serafino Dubois
Serafino Dubois (10 October 1817 – 15 January 1899) was an Italian chess Master and chess writer.
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Sergei Movsesian
Sergei Movsesian (Սերգեյ Մովսիսյան; born 3 November 1978) is an Armenian chess player.
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (– 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union.
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Sergei Rublevsky
Sergei Vladimirovich Rublevsky (Сергей Владимирович Рублевский; born 15 October 1974) is a Russian chess grandmaster (1994).
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Sergei Tiviakov
Sergei Tiviakov (Серге́й Тивяков; born 14 February 1973) is a Russian–Dutch chess grandmaster.
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Sergey Belavenets
Sergey Vsevolodovich Belavenets (Серге́й Всеволодович Белавенец; 18 July 19106 March 1942) was a Soviet chess master, theoretician, and chess journalist.
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Sergey Dolmatov
Sergey Viktorovich Dolmatov (born February 20, 1959) is a Russian Grandmaster of chess and former World Junior Chess Champion.
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Sergey Karjakin
Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin (born 12 January 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Sergey von Freymann
Sergey von Freymann (Freyman, Frejman, Freiman) (1882–1946) was a Russian-Uzbekistani chess master.
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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Shahriyar Hamid oghlu Mammadyarov (Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov; born 12 April 1985), known internationally as Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Sholem Aleichem
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (Соломон Наумович Рабинович; May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and שלום עליכם, also spelled in Soviet Yiddish,; Russian and Шо́лом-Але́йхем), was a Yiddish author and playwright who lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States.
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Shredder (software)
Shredder is a commercial chess engine and graphical user interface (GUI) developed in Germany by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen in 1993.
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Siegbert Tarrasch
Siegbert Tarrasch (5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Simen Agdestein
Simen Agdestein (born 15 May 1967) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, chess coach, author, and former professional footballer as a striker for the Norway national football team.
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Simon Webb (chess player)
Simon Webb (10 June 1949 – 14 March 2005) was a British chess player and writer who held the chess titles of International Master and Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.
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Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet
Sir George Alan Thomas, 7th Baronet (14 June 1881 – 23 July 1972) was a British badminton, tennis and chess player.
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Sofia Polgar
Sofia Polgar (Polgár Zsófia,; born November 2, 1974) is a Hungarian and Israeli chess player, teacher, and artist.
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Sonja Graf
Susanna "Sonja" Graf (December 16, 1908 – March 6, 1965) was a German and American chess player.
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Space Odyssey
The Space Odyssey series is a series of science fiction novels by the writer Arthur C. Clarke.
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Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Herman Lem (12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of novels, short stories and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism.
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Stanislav Kriventsov
Stanislav G. "Stan" Kriventsov (Станислав Кривенцов; born November 2, 1973, in Moscow, Russia) is a Canadian chess International Master and chess coach who resides in the United States.
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer.
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Stefan Mohr
Stefan Mohr (born 22 October 1967) is a German chess grandmaster (GM).
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Stepan Popel
Stepan (Stefan, Stephan, Stephen) Popel (Popiel) (15 August 1909 – 27 December 1987) was a multiple chess champion of Lviv, Paris, and eventually of the Ukrainians in North America (USA and Canada).
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Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator, and writer.
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Stephen J. Gordon
Stephen John Gordon (born 4 September 1986) is an English chess grandmaster.
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Steve Davis
Steve Davis (born 22 August 1957) is an English retired professional snooker player who is currently a commentator, DJ, electronic musician and author.
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Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician.
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Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known professionally as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor.
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Stuart Milner-Barry
Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry (20 September 1906 – 25 March 1995) was a British chess player, chess writer, World War II codebreaker and civil servant.
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Suat Atalık
Suat Atalık (born October 10, 1964) is a Turkish-Bosnian chess grandmaster.
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Sultan Khan (chess player)
Sultan Khan (Punjabi and میاں سلطان خان, 1903 – 25 April 1966; often given the erroneous honorific Mir Sultan Khan or Mir Malik Sultan Khan) was a Punjabi chess player, and later a citizen of Pakistan, who was the strongest Asian player of the early 1930s.
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Susanto Megaranto
Susanto Megaranto (born 8 October 1987) is an Indonesian chess player.
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Svein Johannessen
Svein Johannessen (17 October 1937 – 27 November 2007) was a Norwegian chess player.
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Svetlana Matveeva
Svetlana Vladislavovna Matveeva (Светлана Владиславовна Матвеева; born 4 July 1969) is a Russian chess player holding the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.
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Svetozar Gligorić
Svetozar Gligorić (Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician.
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Szymon Askenazy
Szymon Askenazy (December 24, 1865, Zawichost – June 22, 1935, Warsaw) was a Jewish-Polish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school.
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Szymon Winawer
Szymon Abramowicz Winawer (March 6, 1838 – November 29, 1919) was a Polish chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883.
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Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa
Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as Baron von der Lasa; 17 October 1818 – 27 July 1899) was a German chess master, chess historian and theoretician of the nineteenth century, a member of the Berlin Chess Club and a founder of the Berlin Chess School (the Berlin Pleiades).
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Tatev Abrahamyan
Tatev Abrahamyan (Տաթև Աբրահամյան; born January 13, 1988) is an Armenian-American chess player.
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Tatiana Kosintseva
Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva (Татьяна Анатольевна Косинцева; born 11 April 1986) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Tatiana Zatulovskaya
Tatiana Zatulovskaya (טטיאנה זטולובסקיה; Татьяна Яковлевна Затуловская, Tatiana Yakovlevna Zatulovskaya; 8 December 1935 – 2 July 2017) was an Israeli (formerly Soviet and Russian) chess player.
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Tõnu Õim
Tõnu Õim (born 16 June 1941) is an Estonian grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the first to have won the ICCF World Championship twice, in 1983 and 1999.
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Teimour Radjabov
Teimour Boris oghlu Radjabov (also spelled Teymur Rajabov; Teymur Boris oğlu Rəcəbov,; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster.
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Teodor Regedziński
Teodor (Theodor, Theodore) Regedziński (Regedzinski, Reger) (28 April 1894 – 2 August 1954) was a Polish chess master of German origin.
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Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila, OCD (Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada; 28 March 15154 or 15 October 1582), also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer.
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Theodore Tylor
Sir Theodore Henry Tylor (13 May 1900 – 23 October 1968) was a lawyer and international level chess player, despite being nearly blind.
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
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Thomas Luther
Thomas Luther (born November 4, 1969, in Erfurt) is a German chess player and International Grandmaster of chess.
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Thomas Wilson Barnes
Thomas Wilson Barnes (1825–1874) was an English chess master, one of the leading British masters of his time.
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Tiger Hillarp Persson
Tiger Hillarp Persson (born Tigger Christopher Robin Hillarp Persson, 28 October 1970) is a Swedish chess grandmaster.
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Tigran Petrosian
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (Տիգրան Վարդանի Պետրոսյան; Тигран Вартанович Петросян; 17 June 1929 – 13 August 1984) was a Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster and the ninth World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969.
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Timur Gareyev
Timur Gareyev (sometimes spelled Gareev; born March 3, 1988) is an Uzbekistani and American chess grandmaster.
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Tommy Lapid
Joseph "Tommy" Lapid (יוסף "טומי" לפיד; born Tomislav Lampel; 27 December 1931 – 1 June 2008) was a Yugoslav-born Israeli radio and television presenter, playwright, journalist, politician and government minister known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit.
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Tony Buzan
Anthony Peter "Tony" Buzan (2 June 1942 – 13 April 2019) was an English author and educational consultant.
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Tony Dow
Anthony Lee Dow (April 13, 1945 – July 27, 2022) was an American actor, film producer, director and sculptor.
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Tony Miles
Anthony John Miles (23 April 1955 – 12 November 2001) was an English chess player and the first Englishman to earn the Grandmaster title.
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Ulf Andersson
Ulf Andersson (born 27 June 1951) is a leading Swedish chess player.
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United States Chess Federation
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Utut Adianto
Utut Adianto Wahyuwidayat (born 16 March 1965), commonly known as Utut Adianto is an Indonesian politician and chess player, who is serving as a member of the People's Representative Council since 2009.
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Vadim Zvjaginsev
Vadim Zvjaginsev (Vadim Victorovich Zvyagintsev; born 18 August 1976 in Moscow) is a Russian chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1994.
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Valery Salov
Valery Salov (born 26 May 1964) is a Russian chess grandmaster who was ranked third in the world in 1995.
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Vasilios Kotronias
Vasilios Kotronias (Βασίλειος Κοτρωνιάς; first name sometimes spelled Vassilios; born 25 August 1964) is a Greek chess player and writer.
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Vasily Smyslov
Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Vasíliy Vasíl'yevich Smyslóv; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who was the seventh World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.
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Vasja Pirc
Vasja Pirc (December 19, 1907 – June 2, 1980) was a Yugoslav chess player.
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Vasyl Ivanchuk
Vasyl Mykhailovych Ivanchuk (Василь Михайлович Іванчук; born March 18, 1969), is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
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Vera Menchik
Vera Francevna Mencikova (Вера Францевна Менчик, Vera Frantsevna Menchik; Věra Menčíková; 16 February 1906 – 26 June 1944), was a Russian-born Czechoslovak chess player who primarily resided in England.
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Veselin Topalov
Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov (pronounced; Весели́н Алексáндров Топа́лов; born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Champion.
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Viacheslav Ragozin
Viacheslav Vasilyevich Ragozin (Вячесла́в Васи́льевич Раго́зин; 8 October 1908 – 11 March 1962) was a Soviet chess player, writer and editor.
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Victor Bologan
Victor (Viorel) Bologan (born 14 December 1971) is a Moldovan chess player and author.
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Victor Niederhoffer
Victor Niederhoffer (born December 10, 1943) is an American hedge fund manager, champion squash player, bestselling author and statistician.
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Victor Palciauskas
Victor Palciauskas (born Vytautas Palčiauskas; October 3, 1941 in Kaunas) is a Lithuania-born American chess player who holds the chess title of International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.
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Victor Winz
Viktor (Víctor) Winz (31 August 1906 – date of death unknown) was a Palestine/Israeli–Argentine chess master.
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Viktor Knorre
Viktor Karlovich Knorre (Виктор Карлович Кнорре; 4 October 1840 – 25 August 1919) was a Russian astronomer of German ethnic origin.
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Vincenz Hruby
Vincenc Hrubý (9 September 1856 – 16 July 1917, Trieste) was a Czech chess master.
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Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion.
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Vitaly Tseshkovsky
Vitaly Valeryevich Tseshkovsky (Виталий Валерьевич Цешковский; 25 September 1944, Omsk – 24 December 2011, Krasnodar) was a Russian chess Grandmaster and a former champion of the USSR.
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Vladas Mikėnas
Vladas Mikėnas (17 April 1910 – 3 November 1992) was a Lithuanian chess player and journalist.
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Vladimir Akopian
Vladimir Akopian (Владимир Акопян, Վլադիմիր Հակոբյան; born December 7, 1971) is an Armenian-American chess Grandmaster.
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Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Vladimir Malakhov (chess player)
Vladimir Malakhov (Владимир Малахов; born 27 November 1980) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Владимир Владимирович Набоков; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
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Vladimir Savon
Vladimir Andreyevich Savon (Володи́мир Андрійович Саво́н; 26 September 1940 – 1 June 2005) was a Ukrainian chess player.
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Vladimir Tukmakov
Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (born March 5, 1946, in Odesa) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
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Vladimir Vuković
Vladimir Vuković (26 August 1898, Zagreb – 18 November 1975, Zagreb) was a Croatian Jewish chess writer, theoretician, player, arbiter, and journalist.
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Vladimir Zagorovsky
Vladimir Pavlovich Zagorovsky (Влади́мир Па́влович Загоро́вский; 29 June 1925, Voronezh, Russia, formerly USSR – 6 November 1994, Voronezh, Russia) was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess.
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Vladimirs Petrovs
Vladimirs Petrovs (translit; 27 September 1908 – 26 August 1943) was a Latvian Russian chess player.
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Vladislav Tkachiev
Vladislav Tkachiev (Владислав Ткачёв, born Moscow November 9, 1973) is a Russian-born Kazakh-French chess player.
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Vlastimil Hort
Vlastimil Hort (born 12 January 1944) is a Czechoslovak and later German chess Grandmaster.
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Walter Browne
Walter Shawn Browne (10 January 1949 – 24 June 2015) was an Australian-born American chess and poker player.
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Wang Yue (chess player)
Wang Yue (born 31 March 1987) is a Chinese chess player.
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Werner Hug
Werner Hug (born 10 September 1952 in Feldmeilen) is a Swiss chess player.
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Wilhelm Steinitz
William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was a Bohemian-Austrian and, later, American chess player.
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Will Smith
Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, rapper and film producer.
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William Hartston
William Roland Hartston (born 12 August 1947) is an English journalist who wrote the Beachcomber column in the Daily Express.
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William Lombardy
William James Joseph Lombardy (December 4, 1937 – October 13, 2017) was an American chess grandmaster, chess writer, teacher, and former Catholic priest.
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William Windom (actor)
William Windom (September 28, 1923 – August 16, 2012) was an American actor.
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William Winter (chess player)
William Winter (11 September 1897 – 18 December 1955) was a British chess player.
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Wilt Chamberlain
Wilton Norman Chamberlain (August21, 1936 – October12, 1999) was an American professional basketball player.
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Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright.
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Wolfgang Heidenfeld
Wolfgang Heidenfeld (29 May 1911 – 3 August 1981) was a German chess player and chess composer.
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Wolfgang Uhlmann
Wolfgang Uhlmann (29 March 193524 August 2020) was a German chess grandmaster.
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Wolfgang Unzicker
Wolfgang Unzicker (26 June 1925 – 20 April 2006) was one of the strongest German chess Grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970.
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Wolfgang von Kempelen
Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd (Kempelen Farkas; 23 January 1734 – 26 March 1804) was a Hungarian author and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine.
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Women's World Chess Championship
The Women's World Chess Championship is a chess match played to determine the Women's World Chess Champion.
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Woody Allen
Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades.
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Woody Harrelson
Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor.
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World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess.
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World Computer Chess Championship
World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an event held periodically since 1974 where computer chess engines compete against each other.
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World Junior Chess Championship
The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).
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Wu Shaobin
Wu Shaobin (born 4 February 1969) is a Singaporean chess Grandmaster.
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Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan is an American hip hop musical collective formed in Staten Island, New York City, in 1992.
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X3D Fritz
X3D Fritz was a version of the Fritz chess program, which in November 2003 played a four-game human–computer chess match against world number one Grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
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Xie Jun
Xie Jun (born October 30, 1970) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and is the first Asian woman to become a chess grandmaster.
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Xu Jun
Xu Jun (born September 17, 1962) is a Chinese chess player.
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Xu Yuhua
Xu Yuhua (born 29 October 1976) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and former Women's World Champion (2006–2008).
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Yakov Estrin
Yakov Borisovich Estrin (Russian: Я́ков Бори́сович Эстрин, April 21, 1923 – February 2, 1987) was a Russian chess player, chess theoretician, writer, and World Correspondence Chess Champion who held the chess titles of International Master and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.
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Yannick Pelletier
Yannick Pelletier (born September 22, 1976, in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland) is a Swiss chess Grandmaster and a six-time Swiss Champion currently living in Luxembourg.
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Yasser Seirawan
Yasser Seirawan (ياسر سيروان; born March 24, 1960) is a Syrian-born American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion.
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Ye Jiangchuan
Ye Jiangchuan (born November 20, 1960) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.
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Yevgeniy Vladimirov
Yevgeniy Vladimirov (Евгений Владимиров; born 20 January 1957) is a chess player and trainer from Kazakhstan.
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Yona Kosashvili
Yona Kosashvili (יונה קוסאשווילי; July 3, 1970) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster and surgeon.
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Yosef Dobkin
Yosef (Joseph) Dobkin (13 August 1909 – 9 April 1977) was an Israeli chess master.
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Yosef Porat
Yosef Porat (יוסף פורת; 7 June 1909, Breslau, Germany – 18 May 1996, Ramot HaShavim, Israel) was a German-Israeli chess player.
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Yuri Averbakh
Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (Ю́рий Льво́вич Аверба́х; 8 February 1922 – 7 May 2022) was a Russian chess grandmaster and author.
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Yuri Razuvaev
Yuri Sergeyevich Razuvaev Ю́рий Серге́евич Разува́ев (also Razuvayev; 10 October 1945 – 21 March 2012) was a Russian chess player and trainer.
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Yuriy Kuzubov
Yuriy Kuzubov (Юрій Кузубов; his first name is sometimes spelled "Yuri" or "Yury"; born 26 January 1990 in Sychyovka, Smolensk Oblast) chesspage.kiev.ua is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and Ukrainian champion of 2014.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński (March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017), known as Zbig, was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist.
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Zhang Pengxiang
Zhang Pengxiang (born 29 June 1980 in Tianjin) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and the 2007 Asian Chess Champion.
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Zhang Zhong
Zhang Zhong (born 5 September 1978) is a Chinese chess grandmaster, a twice Chinese champion and the 2005 Asian champion.
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Zhao Xue
Zhao Xue (born 6 April 1985) is a Chinese chess player.
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Zhu Chen
Zhu Chen (زو تشن; born March 13, 1976) is a Chinese-born Qatari chess Grandmaster.
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Ziaur Rahman (chess player)
Ziaur Rahman (1 May 1974 – 5 July 2024) was a Bangladeshi chess grandmaster.
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Zoltán Almási
Zoltán Almási (born August 29, 1976) is a Hungarian chess player.
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Zoltán Ribli
Zoltán Ribli (born September 6, 1951 in Mohács) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter (1995).
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Zoltán Varga (chess player)
Zoltán Varga (born July 12, 1970) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor (born Sári Gábor; February 6, 1917 – December 18, 2016) was a Hungarian-American socialite and actress. Her sisters were socialites and actresses Eva Gabor and Magda Gabor. Gabor competed in the 1933 Miss Hungary pageant, where she placed as second runner-up, and began her stage career in Vienna the following year.
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See also
Lists of chess players
- List of Armenian chess players
- List of Azerbaijani chess players
- List of FIDE chess world number ones
- List of FIDE federation player transfers
- List of Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR in chess
- List of Indian chess players
- List of Israeli chess players
- List of Jewish chess players
- List of Polish chess masters
- List of Russian chess players
- List of Spanish chess players
- List of amateur chess players
- List of chess families
- List of chess grandmasters
- List of chess players
- List of chess players by peak FIDE rating
- List of female chess grandmasters
- List of female chess players
References
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, Alexander Wittek, Alexander Zaitsev (chess player), Alexandra Kosteniuk, Alexandre Deschapelles, Alexei Shirov, Alexey Dreev, Alexey Suetin, Alexey Vyzmanavin, Alfonso X of Castile, Alfred Kreymborg, Alfred William Gyles, Alisa Galliamova, Almira Skripchenko, Amos Burn, Ana Srebrnič, Anatoly Karpov, Andor Lilienthal, András Adorján, Andrei Sokolov, Andrei Volokitin, Andrew Soltis, Andrey Lukin, Anjelina Belakovskaia, Anna Akhsharumova, Anna Muzychuk, Anna Zatonskih, Anthony Quinn, Antoaneta Stefanova, Anton Korobov, Anurag Dikshit, Anya Corke, Arianne Caoili, Arkadij Naiditsch, Arno Nickel, Arnold Denker, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Aron Nimzowitsch, Arpad Elo, Arthur Bisguier, Arthur Dake, Artur Yusupov (chess player), Atahualpa, Augustus II, Duke of Brunswick, Augustus Mongredien, Ava Gardner, Étienne Bacrot, Ľubomír Ftáčnik, Baruch Harold Wood, Basil Rathbone, Beatriz Marinello, Ben Affleck, Ben Finegold, Benjamin Franklin, Bent Larsen, Berge Østenstad, Bernard Zuckerman, Bernhard Horwitz, Berthold Englisch, Bertrand Russell, Billy Wilder, Bobby Darin, Bobby Fischer, Bono, Boris Alterman, Boris Gelfand, Boris Gulko, Boris Kostić, Boris Spassky, Boris Verlinsky, Borislav Ivkov, Brains in Bahrain, Braslav Rabar, Bruno Parma, Bu Xiangzhi, Cardinal Richelieu, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Carl Icahn, Carl Jaenisch, Carl Mayet, Carl Schlechter, Carlos Torre Repetto, Carmen Kass, Cecil Purdy, Charlemagne, Charles Boyer, Charles Henry Stanley, Charles Kalme, Charles Wreford-Brown, Charles XII of Sweden, Charlie Chaplin, Chess, Chess engine, Chris Ward (chess player), Christopher Lutz, Claude Akins, Claude Bloodgood, Cnut, Colin McNab, Computer chess, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Curt Hansen (chess player), Curt von Bardeleben, Dan Heisman, Daniel Gormally, Daniel Harrwitz, Daniel Negreanu, Daniel Yanofsky, Danny Kopec, Darja Kapš, Darryl Johansen, David Baramidze, David Bronstein, David Goodman (chess player), David Howell (chess player), David Hume, David Levy (chess player), David Navara, David Norwood, Davor Palo, Dawid Janowski, Dawid Przepiórka, Deep Blue (chess computer), Deep Thought (chess computer), Dimitrije Bjelica, Dmitri Mendeleev, Dominik Hašek, Donald Byrne, Dragoljub Minić, Duncan Suttles, Dustin Diamond, Edgard Colle, Edith Keller-Herrmann, Edmar Mednis, Edmund Landau, Eduard Gufeld, Eduardas Rozentalis, Edward Gerstenfeld, Edward Lasker, Eero Böök, Efim Bogoljubow, Efim Geller, Efstratios Grivas, Einar Gausel, Ekaterina Atalik, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Elisabeth Pähtz, Elisaveta Bykova, Elizabeth Shaughnessy, Elmārs Zemgalis, Emanuel Lasker, Emanuel Schiffers, Emil Sutovsky, Endre Steiner, English draughts, Ephraim Kishon, Erich Eliskases, Erik Estrada, Ernő Gereben, Ernest Klein (chess player), Ernest Meissonier, Ernst Falkbeer, Ernst Grünfeld, Esteban Canal, Eugène Delacroix, Eugène Rousseau (chess player), Eugene Delmar, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, Evgeny Bareev, Evgeny Sveshnikov, Fedir Bohatyrchuk, Ferdinand Foch, Fidel Castro, Florencio Campomanes, Florian Jenni, Florin Felecan, Florin Gheorghiu, François-André Danican Philidor, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Frank Anderson (chess player), Frank Lamprecht, Frank Marshall (chess player), Franz Brentano, Franz Kafka, Fred Reinfeld, Fred Yates (chess player), Frederic Friedel, Frederick the Great, Friðrik Ólafsson, Fricis Apšenieks, Friedrich Amelung, Friedrich Baumbach, Friedrich Sämisch, Fritz (chess), Gabriel Sargissian, Garry Kasparov, Gary Lane (chess player), Gastón Needleman, Gata Kamsky, Gauri Shankar (chess player), Géza Füster, Géza Maróczy, Gösta Stoltz, Gedeon Barcza, Gennadi Sosonko, Genrikh Kasparyan, Georg Kieninger, George Biddell Airy, George C. Scott, George Koltanowski, George Soros, George Washington, Georgi Tringov, Gerald Abrahams, Gerardo Barbero, Gerolamo Cardano, Gersz Rotlewi, Gersz Salwe, Gert Jan Timmerman, Gideon Ståhlberg, Gioachino Greco, Gisela Kahn Gresser, Glenn Flear, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gregor Piatigorsky, Gregory Kaidanov, Gregory Serper, Grigori Perelman, Grigory Levenfish, Grigory Potemkin, Grigory Sanakoev, Gunnar Friedemann, Gustave Doré, Guy West, Guy Williams (actor), Gyula Breyer, Gyula Sax, H. G. Wells, HAL 9000, Hans Berliner, Hans Frank, Hans Kmoch, Hans Müller (chess player), Hans Ree, Harry Golombek, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Héctor Rossetto, Heidi Fleiss, Helgi Ólafsson, Henri Matisse, Henrique Mecking, Henry Bird (chess player), Henry Darrow, Henry Ernest Atkins, Henry Fonda, Henry IV of France, Henry Thomas Buckle, Henryk Friedman, Herman Steiner, Hermanis Matisons, Hermann Pilnik, Hikaru Nakamura, Ho Chi Minh, Horst Rittner, Hou Yifan, Howard Staunton, Howard Stern, Hristos Banikas, Humphrey Bogart, Hydra (chess), Ian Rogers (chess player), Ignatz Kolisch, Ignatz von Popiel, Igor Bondarevsky, Igor Zaitsev, Iivo Nei, Ilmar Raud, Ingmar Bergman, Irina Krush, Irving Chernev, Isaac Asimov, Isaac Boleslavsky, Isaac Kashdan, Isaac Rice (businessman), Isakas Vistaneckis, Isidor Gunsberg, Israel Albert Horowitz, István Bilek, Ivan Radulov, Ivan Sokolov (chess player), Ivar Bern, Iván Morovic, Ivo Donev, Iweta Rajlich, Izaak Appel, Jaan Ehlvest, Jackson Showalter, Jacques Mieses, Jacques Villon, Jaime Sunye Neto, Jakob Rosanes, James Eade, James Macrae Aitken, James Mason (chess player), James Plaskett, James Sherwin, Jamie Foxx, Jan Foltys, Jan Hein Donner, Jan Smejkal, Jan Timman, Jana Bellin, Jaroslav Šajtar, Ján Plachetka, János Flesch, Józef Piłsudski, József Szén, Jørn Sloth, Jean Dufresne, Jean Taubenhaus, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jennifer Shahade, Jerry Mathers, Jessie Gilbert, Joël Lautier, Joel Benjamin, Johann Hermann Bauer, Johann Löwenthal, Johannes Minckwitz, Johannes Türn, Johannes Zukertort, John Barrymore, John Cage, John Cochrane (chess player), John Emms (chess player), John Fedorowicz, John Littlewood (chess player), John Nunn, John Owen (chess player), John Peters (chess player), John von Neumann, John W. Collins, John Wayne, Jon Speelman, Jonathan Mestel, Jonathan Penrose, Jonathan Rowson, Jonathan Sarfati, Jonathan Tisdall, Jonny Hector, José Ferrer, José Ortega y Gasset, José Raúl Capablanca, Josef Lokvenc, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Cukierman, Joseph Gallagher, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Joshua Waitzkin, Josip Broz Tito, Juan Corzo, Juan María Solare, Judah Halevi, Judit Polgár, Jules Arnous de Rivière, Julia Roberts, Julian Hodgson, Julio Bolbochán, Julius Perlis, Junior (chess), Kamil Mitoń, Kamran Shirazi, Karel Hromádka, Karel Traxler, Karel Treybal, Karen Asrian, Karl Marx, Karlis Ozols, Karol Irzykowski, Karsten Müller, Kate Jackson, Kateryna Lagno, Katharine Hepburn, Kazimierz Makarczyk, Keanu Reeves, Kenneth Rogoff, Kjetil Aleksander Lie, Klaus Junge, Koneru Humpy, Konstantin Aseev, Krishnan Sasikiran, Kurt Richter, Lajos Portisch, Lajos Steiner, Larissa Volpert, Larry Christiansen, Larry Evans (chess player), Laura Ross (chess player), Lauren Bacall, LaVar Arrington, László Szabó (chess player), Lázaro Bruzón, Lūcijs Endzelīns, Leó Forgács, Legall de Kermeur, Leif Øgaard, Leif Erlend Johannessen, Lenka Ptáčníková, Lennox Lewis, Leonard Barden, Leonardo da Vinci, Leonhard Euler, Leonid Kubbel, Leonid Shamkovich, Leonid Stein, Leonid Yudasin, Leroy Dubeck, Lev Alburt, Lev Polugaevsky, Lev Psakhis, Levon Aronian, Lew Ayres, Li Shilong, Lilit Mkrtchian, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Kieseritzky, Lisa Lane, List of female chess players, List of Israeli chess players, Liudmila Belavenets, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Ljuba Kristol, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Loek van Wely, Lora Yakovleva, Lothar Schmid, Louis Paulsen, Louis XIII, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Lubomir Kavalek, Luděk Pachman, Ludovico Carracci, Ludwig Bledow, Ludwig Engels, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Luke McShane, Lyudmila Rudenko, Madonna, Magnus Carlsen, Maia Chiburdanidze, Maimonides, Man Ray, Manuel Aaron, Marcel Duchamp, Marco Girolamo Vida, Maria Manakova, Mark Dvoretsky, Mark Paragua, Mark Taimanov, Markas Luckis, Marlene Dietrich, Marlon Brando, Marmaduke Wyvill (chess player), Martha Fierro, Martin Amis, Maurice Ashley, Maurice Benyovszky, Max Euwe, Max Harmonist, Max Weiss, Maxim Dlugy, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Mór Jókai, Mel Brooks, Menachem Begin, Menachem Oren, Michał Krasenkow, Michael Basman, Michael Valvo, Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel Najdorf, Miguel Quinteros, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Chigorin, Mikhail Tal, Mikhail Umansky, Milan Matulović, Milan Vidmar, Milan Vukcevich, Milko Bobotsov, Miroslav Filip, Miroslav Katětov, Miyoko Watai, Moishe Lowtzky, Mona May Karff, Morgan Fairchild, Moses Isserles, Moses Mendelssohn, Moshe Czerniak, Movsas Feigins, Murray Chandler, Murugan Thiruchelvam, Myrna Loy, Nadezhda Kosintseva, Nana Dzagnidze, Nana Ioseliani, Napoleon, Natalia Khoudgarian, Natan Sharansky, Nathan Divinsky, Nava Starr, Niaz Murshed, Nick de Firmian, Nicolas Cage, Nicolas Rossolimo, Nigel Short, Nino Khurtsidze, Nona Gaprindashvili, Norman T. Whitaker, Olaf Barda, Oldřich Duras, Oleg Romanishin, Olena Boytsun, Olga Rubtsova, Olivia de Havilland, Omar Khayyam, Ortvin Sarapu, Oscar Chajes, Oscar Panno, Ossip Bernstein, Ottó Bláthy, Pal Benko, Paolo Boi, Parimarjan Negi, Patrick Moore, Patrick Wolff, Paul Erdős, Paul Felix Schmidt, Paul Keres, Paul Michel (chess player), Paul Morphy, Paul Motwani, Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, Paul Saladin Leonhardt, Paul Truong, Paulino Frydman, Pedro Damiano, Peng Zhaoqin, Pentala Harikrishna, Petar Trifunović, Peter Falk, Peter Heine Nielsen, Peter Leko, Peter Svidler, Peter Thiel, Peter Winston (chess player), Philipp Stamma, Pia Cramling, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Pietro Carrera, Polly Bergen, Pope Innocent III, Pope John Paul II, Pope Leo XIII, Povilas Tautvaišas, Povilas Vaitonis, Preston Ware, Professor Moriarty, Pyotr Romanovsky, Qin Kanying, Queen Victoria, Rafael Vaganian, Rainn Wilson, Ramachandran Ramesh, Rani Hamid, Rashi, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Ratmir Kholmov, Ray Robson, Raymond Keene, Raymond Smullyan, Reefat Bin-Sattar, Rembrandt, Renato Naranja, Reuben Fine, Richard Farleigh, Richard Feynman, Richard Griffith (chess player), Richard K. Guy, Richard Réti, Richard Teichmann, Rico Mascariñas, Robert Byrne (chess player), Robert Hübner, Robert Koch, Robert Wade (chess player), Roland Topor, Roman Dzindzichashvili, Romanas Arlauskas, Ron Henley (chess player), Rosendo Balinas Jr., Roy Turnbull Black, Rudolf Charousek, Rudolf Spielmann, Rudolf Teschner, Rune Djurhuus, Ruslan Ponomariov, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Rusudan Goletiani, Ruy López de Segura, Ryan Palmer (chess player), Rybka, Saladin, Salo Flohr, Salo Landau, Sam Loyd, Sam Sloan, Samuel Boden, Samuel Factor, Samuel Lipschutz, Samuel Reshevsky, Samuel Rosenthal, Savielly Tartakower, Semyon Alapin, Serafino Dubois, Sergei Movsesian, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rublevsky, Sergei Tiviakov, Sergey Belavenets, Sergey Dolmatov, Sergey Karjakin, Sergey von Freymann, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Sherlock Holmes, Sholem Aleichem, Shredder (software), Siegbert Tarrasch, Simen Agdestein, Simon Webb (chess player), Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet, Sofia Polgar, Sonja Graf, Space Odyssey, Stanisław Lem, Stanislav Kriventsov, Stanley Kubrick, Stefan Mohr, Stepan Popel, Stephen Fry, Stephen J. 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