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1. 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) » « Shrink index

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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

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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

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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

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Karlis Ozols

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Simon Webb (chess player)

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Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet

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Sofia Polgar

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Sonja Graf

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Space Odyssey

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Stanisław Lem

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Stanislav Kriventsov

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Stanley Kubrick

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Stefan Mohr

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Stepan Popel

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Stephen Fry

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Stephen J. Gordon

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Steve Davis

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Steve Martin

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Sting (musician)

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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

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Sultan Khan (chess player)

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Susanto Megaranto

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Svein Johannessen

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Svetlana Matveeva

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Svetozar Gligorić

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Szymon Askenazy

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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

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Tatev Abrahamyan

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Tatiana Kosintseva

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Tatiana Zatulovskaya

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Tõnu Õim

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Teimour Radjabov

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Teodor Regedziński

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Teresa of Ávila

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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

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Thomas Luther

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Thomas Wilson Barnes

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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

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Timur Gareyev

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Tommy Lapid

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Tony Buzan

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Tony Dow

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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

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United States Chess Federation

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Utut Adianto

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Vadim Zvjaginsev

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Valery Salov

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Vasilios Kotronias

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Vasily Smyslov

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Vasja Pirc

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Vasyl Ivanchuk

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Vera Menchik

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Veselin Topalov

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Viacheslav Ragozin

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Victor Bologan

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Victor Niederhoffer

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Victor Palciauskas

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Victor Winz

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Viktor Knorre

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Vincenz Hruby

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Viswanathan Anand

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Vitaly Tseshkovsky

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Vladas Mikėnas

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Vladimir Akopian

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Vladimir Kramnik

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Vladimir Malakhov (chess player)

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Savon

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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

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Vlastimil Hort

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Walter Browne

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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

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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

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William Hartston

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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

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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

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Women's World Chess Championship

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Woody Allen

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Woody Harrelson

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World Chess Championship

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World Computer Chess Championship

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World Junior Chess Championship

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Wu Shaobin

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Wu-Tang Clan

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X3D Fritz

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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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_players

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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. 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