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This list of Russian chess players lists people from Russia, the Soviet Union, and the
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who are primarily known as
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players. The majority of these people are
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Vladimir Afromeev Vladimir Afromeev is a businessman and Chess player who was born in 1954 in the city of Magadan. In the mid-2000s Afromeev gained spectacular, apparently miraculous, improvements in his official FIDE Elo rating, leaving him at a rating of 2646 (67 ...
(born 1954) *
Evgeny Agrest Evgeny Agrest (born 15 August 1966 in Vitebsk) is a Soviet-born Swedish chess grandmaster (1997). In 1994, he graduated with a degree in Economics and in the same year emigrated to Sweden. He is four-time Swedish champion (1998, 2001, 2003, and ...
(born 1966) *
Georgy Agzamov Georgy Tadzhikhanovich Agzamov (September 6, 1954, Tashkent – August 27, 1986, Sevastopol) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, the first from Central Asia. He became an International Master in 1982 and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1984. ...
(1954–1986) *
Anna Akhsharumova Anna Akhsharumova (russian: Анна Марковна Ахшарумова; born 9 January 1957, Moscow) is a Woman Grandmaster of chess. She is married to chess grandmaster Boris Gulko. Akhsharumova and her husband became famous in the late-1970s ...
(born 1957) *
Vladimir Akopian Vladimir Akopian (russian: Владимир Акопян, hy, Վլադիմիր Հակոբյան; born December 7, 1971) is an Armenian-Americans, American chess Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster. Career Akopian was born in Baku, Azerbaijan Sov ...
(born 1971) *
Simon Alapin Semyon Zinovyevich Alapin (russian: Семён Зиновьевич Алапин; – 15 July 1923) was a Russian chess player, openings analyst, and puzzle composer. He was also a linguist, railway engineer and a grain commodities merchant. B ...
(1856–1923) *
Vladimir Alatortsev Vladimir Alexeyevich Alatortsev (russian: Влади́мир Алексе́евич Ала́торцев, pronounced "a LAH tart sev"; 14 May 1909 – 13 January 1987) was a Soviet chess player, author, and administrator. During his career ...
(1909–1987) *
Lev Alburt Lev Osipovich Alburt (born August 21, 1945) is a chess Grandmaster, writer and coach. He was born in Orenburg, Russia, and became three-time Ukrainian Champion. After defecting to the United States in 1979, he became three-time U.S. Champion ...
(born 1945) *
Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine, ''Aleksándr Aleksándrovich Alékhin''; (March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already a ...
(1892–1946), world champion *
Alexei Alekhine Alexei (Alexey) Alekhine (russian: Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Але́хин, ''Alekséy Aleksándrovich Alékhin'', 1888–1939) was a chess master and the brother of World Chess Champion Alexander Alekhine. He was a national o ...
(1888–1939) * Evgeny Alekseev (born 1985) *
Nana Alexandria Nana Alexandria ( ka, ნანა გიორგის ასული ალექსანდრია, ''Nana Giorgis asuli Aleksandria''; born 13 October 1949) is a Georgian chess player. A three-time Soviet women's champion, she was the ch ...
(born 1949) * Farrukh Amonatov (born 1978) *
Dmitry Andreikin Dmitry Vladimirovich Andreikin (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Андрейкин, born 5 February 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster, World Junior Chess Champion in 2010 and two-time Russian Chess Champion (2012 and 2018) ...
(born 1990) *
Vladimir Antoshin Vladimir Sergeyevich Antoshin (; 14 May 1929 in Moscow – 13 May 1994) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, a theoretician and a national champion of correspondence chess. Student Olympiad performances As a young man, he was a high achiever, princip ...
(1929–1994) *
Fricis Apsenieks Fricis is a Latvian masculine give name. It is derived from the name Frīdrihs (a cognate of Frederick Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Nobility Anhalt-Harzgerode *Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (161 ...
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Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (née Arakhamia) is a Georgian (former Soviet Union)-born Scottish Grandmaster of chess. Chess career In 1985, she won the World Junior Chess Championship for Girls, held in Dobrna (and taking silver in Adelaide three ...
(born 1968) *
Valentin Arbakov Valentin Mikhailovich Arbakov (28 January 1952 – 30 November 2003) was a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 1981, he shared first place in that year's Moscow City Chess Championship together with Andrei Sokolov. He was known for his skills in blitz ...
(1952–2004) *
Lev Aronin Lev Solomonovich Aronin (russian: Лев Соломонович Аронин; 20 July 1920, Kuibyshev – 4 October 1982, Moscow) was a Soviet International Master of chess. He was a meteorologist by profession. Early years Lev Solomonovich ...
(1920–1983) *
Vladislav Artemiev Vladislav Mikhailovich Artemiev (russian: Владисла́в Миха́йлович Арте́мьев; born 5 March 1998) is a Russian chess player and former chess prodigy. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 2014. Artemiev is the ...
(born 1998) *
Andreas Ascharin Andreas Ascharin (russian: Андрей Александрович Ашарин, ''Andrey Aleksandrovich Asharin''; in Pärnu – in Riga) was a Baltic German-Russian chess master. Ascharin's father was Russian, his mother was from a Baltic Ge ...
(1843–1896) *
Konstantin Aseev Konstantin Aseev (October 20, 1960 – August 22, 2004) was a Russian chess Grandmaster and trainer. Among his tournament successes were first at Leningrad 1989 with 9/13 (beating Leonid Yudasin and Alexander Khalifman among others) and second to ...
(1960–2004) *
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). She won the European Youth Chess Championship in the under-1 ...
(born 1982) *
Yuri Averbakh Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (russian: Ю́рий Льво́вич Аверба́х; 8 February 1922 – 7 May 2022) was a Russian chess grandmaster and author. He was chairman of the USSR Chess Federation from 1973 to 1978. He was the first centenaria ...
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Zurab Azmaiparashvili Zurab Azmaiparashvili ( ka, ზურაბ აზმაიფარაშვილი; born 16 March 1960) is a chess grandmaster from Georgia. His peak Elo rating was 2702, achieved in July 2003. Career Azmaiparashvili became a Grandmaster in ...
(born 1960)


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Alexander Baburin Alexander Evgenyevich Baburin (, ''Aleksandr Yevgen'yevich Baburin''; born 19 February 1967) is a Russian-Irish grandmaster of chess. He was born in Gorky, and has been living in Dublin, Ireland since 1993. He is editor-in-chief of the e-mail d ...
(born 1967) *
Camilla Baginskaite Camilla Baginskaite ( lt, Kamilė Baginskaitė; born 24 April 1967) is a Lithuanian and American chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 2002. Baginskate was born in Vilnius. Her mother is the painter Gint ...
(born 1967) *
Vladimir Bagirov Vladimir Konstantinovich Bagirov ( rus, Влади́мир Константи́нович Баги́ров; lv, Vladimirs Bagirovs; August 16, 1936 – July 21, 2000) was a Soviet- Latvian chess player, author, and trainer. He played in ten USS ...
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Yuri Balashov Yuri Sergeyevich Balashov (russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич Балашо́в; born 12 March 1949) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1973. Chess career Born in Shadrinsk, Balashov was awarded ...
(born 1949) *
Anatoly Bannik Anatoly Alexandrovich Bannik (December 1921, in Kyiv – 19 January 2013) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian chess Chess master, Master. He was a five-time Ukrainian champion, and qualified for the Soviet Chess Championship final seven times. He was among ...
(1921–2013) *
Evgeny Bareev Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev (russian: Евгений Ильгизович Бареев; born 21 November 1966) is a Russian-Canadian chess player and trainer. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989, he was ranked fourth in the FIDE world r ...
(born 1966) *
Anjelina Belakovskaia Anjelina Belakovskaia (russian: Анжелина Белаковская, translit=Anzhelina Belakovskaya; born May 17, 1969) is an American chess player holding the FIDE title of Woman grandmaster, Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a three-time U.S. ...
(born 1969) * Liudmila Belavenets (1940-2021) *
Sergey Belavenets Sergey Vsevolodovich Belavenets (russian: Серге́й Всеволодович Белавенец; 18 July 19106 March 1942) was a Soviet chess master, theoretician, and chess journalist. Early life Belavenets was born in Smolensk to a n ...
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Alexander Beliavsky Alexander Genrikhovich Beliavsky (, ua, Олександр Генріхович Бєлявський, sl, Aleksander Henrikovič Beljavski; also romanized ''Belyavsky''; born December 17, 1953) is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Slovenian chess play ...
(born 1953) * Vladimir Belov (born 1984) *
Benjamin Blumenfeld Benjamin Blumenfeld (24 May 1884, Vilkaviškis – 5 March 1947, Moscow) was a Russian chess master. He was born in Vilkaviškis, in the Suwałki Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania). In 1905/06 he tied for second/third wit ...
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Dmitry Bocharov Dmitry Bocharov (russian: Дмитрий Бочаров; born October 20, 1982) is a Russian chess grandmaster. In 2003 he tied for first with Vladimir Burmakin, Eduardas Rozentalis, Philipp Schlosser, Alexander Areshchenko, Jakov Geller and ...
(born 1982) *
Efim Bogoljubov Efim Bogoljubow ( or ), also known as Ewfim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow, ( (); also Romanized ''Bogoljubov'', ''Bogolyubov''; uk, Юхим Дмитрович Боголюбов, Yukhym Dmytrovych Boholiubov; April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952) ...
(1889–1952) *
Fedir Bohatyrchuk Fedir Parfenovych Bohatyrchuk (also ''Bogatirchuk'', ''Bohatirchuk'', ''Bogatyrtschuk'') ( uk, Федір Парфенович Богатирчук; , ''Fyodor Parfenyevich Bogatyrchuk''; 27 November 1892 – 4 September 1984) was a Ukrainian-Ca ...
(1892–1984) *
Isaac Boleslavsky Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky ( uk, Ісаак Єфремович Болеславський, russian: Исаак Ефремович Болеславский; 9 June 1919 – 15 February 1977) was a Soviet chess player and writer. Early caree ...
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Igor Bondarevsky Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky (russian: Игорь Захарович Бондаревский; May 12, 1913 – June 14, 1979) was a Soviet Russian chess player, trainer, and chess author. He held the title of Grandmaster in both over-the-board ...
(1913–1979) * Valentina Borisenko (1920–1993) *
Mikhail Botvinnik Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, ( – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an electrical engineer and computer scientist and was a pioneer in computer chess. Botvinnik ...
(1911–1995), world champion *
David Bronstein David Ionovich Bronstein (russian: Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet and Ukrainian chess player. Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narr ...
(1924–2006) *
Vladimir Burmakin Vladimir Burmakin (born 6 June 1967) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994. Chess career In 1994 he tied for 3rd-5th places in the Russian championship at Elista, with Sergei Rublevsky and Vasily ...
(born 1967) *
Algimantas Butnorius Algimantas Butnorius (20 February 1946 – 30 October 2017) was a Lithuanian chess grandmaster and world seniors champion in 2007. From 2014 he represented Monaco. Chess career He won the Lithuanian Chess Championship on ten occasions: in 1967 ...
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Elisabeth 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 a ...
(1913–1989)


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Valery Chekhov Valery Alexandrovich Chekhov (Russian: Валерий Чехов; born 27 November 1955) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Junior Chess Champion (1975). He was awarded the International Master title in 1975 and became a Grandmast ...
(born 1955) *
Vitaly Chekhover Vitaly Alexandrovich Chekhover (also spelled Tschechower or Czechower, pronounced "chekh a VYAIR") (russian: Вита́лий Алекса́ндрович Чехове́р) (December 22, 1908 – February 11, 1965) was a Soviet chess player and ch ...
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Alexander Cherepkov Alexander Vasilyevich Cherepkov (russian: Александр Васильевич Черепков, 30 October 1920 – 12 July 2009''. Championat.ru. July 13, 2009.) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian Federation, Russian International Master of ...
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Irving Chernev Irving Chernev (January 29, 1900 – September 29, 1981) was a chess player and prolific Russian-American chess author. He was born in Pryluky in the Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) and emigrated to the United States in 1905. Chernev was a nati ...
(1900–1981) *
Alexander Chernin Alexander Mikhailovich Chernin (russian: Александр Михайлович Чернин; born 6 March 1960) is a Soviet-born Hungarian chess grandmaster and trainer. Tournaments and championships Born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, as a youth ...
(born 1960) *
Konstantin Chernyshov Konstantin Valeryevich Chernyshov (russian: Константин Валерьевич Чернышов, born June 11, 1967) is a Russian chess grandmaster (2000). In 2008 he tied for 1st–8th with Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian, Yuriy Kryvoru ...
(born 1967) *
Maia Chiburdanidze Maia Chiburdanidze ( ka, მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. She is the sixth Women's World Chess Champion, a title she held from 1978 to 1991, and was the youngest one until 20 ...
(born 1961) *
Mikhail Chigorin Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great ...
(1850–1908) *
Vladimir Chuchelov Vladimir Chuchelov (russian: Владимир Чучелов; born 28 September 1969 in Moscow) is a Belgian chess grandmaster and professional trainer. He won the Belgian Chess Championship in 2000. He appeared four times in the FIDE top 100, ...
(born 1969)


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Rustem Dautov Rustem Hazitovich Dautov (, born 28 November 1965 in Ufa) is a German chess player of Tatar origin who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. In 1983 he won the USSR U18 youth championship and in 1986 the Belarusian Chess Championship. He compl ...
(born 1965) *
Yelena Dembo Yelena Dembo (born December 8, 1983) is a Greek chess player, who holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is also a chess teacher and author. Family background Dembo was born on December 8, 1983, in Penza, Russia. Sh ...
(born 1983) *
Andrei Deviatkin Andrei Deviatkin (russian: Андрей Девяткин; born October 7, 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian chess grandmaster (2008). Chess career * 2007 – tied for 1st–9th with Alexei Fedorov, Vladimir Potkin, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Viacheslav Za ...
(born 1980) *
Maxim Dlugy Maxim Alexandrovich Dlugy (born January 29, 1966) is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He was born in Moscow, USSR, and arrived with his family in the United States in 1977. He was awarded the International Master t ...
(born 1966) * Yosef Dobkin (1909–1977) *
Yury Dokhoian Yury Rafaelovich Dokhoian (russian: Юрий Рафаэлович Дохоян; 26 October 1964 – 1 July 2021) was a Russian Grandmaster of chess (1988) of Armenian origin. Career Dokhoian played several times in the first league of the USS ...
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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. Born in Kiselevsk in the former Soviet Union, Dolmatov's solid yet enterprising style of play was soon to launch hi ...
(born 1959) * Elena Donaldson (1957-2012) * Iosif Dorfman (born 1952) *
Alexey Dreev Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev (, also transliterated as Aleksey or Alexei; born 30 January 1969) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989. Career While being a promising young chess talent, he was for a period ...
(born 1969) *
Daniil Dubov Daniil Dmitrievich Dubov (russian: Даниил Дмитриевич Дубов; born 18 April 1996) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He achieved his final norm for the Grandmaster title at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 14 days in 2011. He is ...
(born 1996) *
Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky Fedor (Fyodor) Ivanovich Duz–Khotimirsky (sometimes transliterated Dus-Chotimirski, Khotymirsky etc.; Ukrainian: Фе́дір Іва́нович Дуз-Хотимирський; russian: Фёдор Дуз-Хотимирский; 25 September 1881 ...
(1879–1965) *
Mark Dvoretsky Mark Izrailevich Dvoretsky (russian: Марк Изра́илевич Дворе́цкий; December 9, 1947 – September 26, 2016) was a Russian chess trainer, writer, and International Master. Biography Dvoretsky was born in Moscow in 1947. ...
(1947-2016) *
Viacheslav Dydyshko Viacheslav Dydyshko (born 10 April 1949) is a Belarusian chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1995. He won eleven times the Belarusian Chess Championship (from 1965 to 2006) and played for Belarus in the Chess Olymp ...
(born 1949) *
Semen Dvoirys Semen Isaakovich Dvoirys (russian: Семён Исаакович Двойрис, Semyon Isaakovich Dvoyris; born 2 November 1958) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. Chess career Dvoirys competed ...
(born 1958) *
Roman Dzindzichashvili Roman Yakovlevich Dzindzichashvili ( ka, რომან იაკობის-ძე ჯინჯიხაშვილი; pronounced ''jin-jee-khash-VEE-lee''; born May 5, 1944) is a Soviet-born Israeli-American chess player. He was awarded th ...
(born 1944)


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Jaan Ehlvest Jaan Ehlvest (born 14 October 1962) is an Estonian-American chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster by FIDE in 1987. Ehlvest was Estonian champion in 1986. Since 2006, he has represented the United States. He was ...
(born 1962) *
Vladimir Epishin Vladimir Epishin (born 11 July 1965 in Leningrad) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He finished third in the 58th USSR Chess Championship in 1991. He won the 1987 St. Petersburg Championship. Other tournament successes include 3rd-4th with Vladimi ...
(born 1965) *
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 Inte ...
(1923–1987)


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Raphael Falk Raphael Alexandrovich Falk (1856 – 1913) was a Russian chess master. He took 12th at Moscow 1899 (the 1st Russian Chess Championship, Mikhail Chigorin won), shared 1st with Goncharov in Moscow City Chess Championship in 1901, and tied for 5-7 ...
(1856–1913) *
Alexei Fedorov Alexei Fedorov (russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Фёдоров, ''Aleksey Dimitriyevich Fyodorov'', be, Аляксей Фёдараў, ''Aliaksey Fyodarau''; born 27 September 1972) is a Belarusian chess player. He was awarded the ...
(born 1972) *
Vladimir Fedoseev Vladimir Vasilyevich Fedoseev (russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Федосе́ев; born 16 February 1995) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2015, 2017, and 2021. Career Fedoseev tied fo ...
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Salo Flohr Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (November 21, 1908 – July 18, 1983) was a Czechoslovak and Soviet chess player and writer. He was among the first recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Flohr dominated many tournam ...
(1908–1983) *
Sergey von Freymann Sergey von Freymann (Freyman, Frejman, Freiman) (1882–1946) was a Russian-Uzbekistani chess master. In 1906, von Freymann took 2nd, behind Semyon Alapin, in Sankt Petersburg. In 1907, he tied for 6-7th in St Petersburg (Eugene Znosko-Borovs ...
(1882–1946) *
Semyon Furman Semyon Abramovich Furman (December 1, 1920 – March 17, 1978) was a Soviet chess player and trainer of Belarussian Jewish origin. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1966. Furman is best known for developing Anatoly Karpov into a ...
(1920–1978)


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* Aleksandr Galkin (born 1979) *
Alisa Galliamova Alisa Mikhailovna Galliamova (russian: Алиса Михайловна Галлямова, tt-Cyrl, Алисә Михаил кызы Галләмова; born 18 January 1972 in Kazan) is a Russian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of Inte ...
(born 1972) *
Nona Gaprindashvili Nona Gaprindashvili ( ka, ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a former Soviet Union, Soviet and Georgia (country), Georgian chess player, and the first woman ever to be awarded the FIDE title Grandmaster (ch ...
(born 1941) *
Viktor Gavrikov Viktor Nikolaevich Gavrikov (; 29 July 1957 – 27 April 2016) was a Lithuanian-Swiss chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1984. Gavrikov shared first place with Gintautas Piešina in the 1978 Lithuanian Champion ...
(1957-2016) *
Boris Gelfand Boris Gelfand ( he, בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; be, Барыс Абрамавіч Гельфанд, Barys Abramavich Hel'fand; russian: Борис Абрамович Гельфанд, Boris Abramovich Gel'fand; born 24 June 1968) ...
(born 1968) *
Efim Geller Efim Petrovich Geller (russian: Ефим Петрович Геллер, uk, Юхим Петрович Геллер; 8 March 1925 – 17 November 1998) was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Champi ...
(1925–1998) *
Edward Gerstenfeld Edward (Eduard) Issakovich Gerstenfeld (January 1915 in Lemberg – December 1943 (?) in Rostov-on-Don, USSR) was a Polish chess master. Born into a Jewish family in Lviv, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary), he came 3rd, behind Henryk Friedman and ...
(1915–1943) *
Aivars Gipslis Aivars Gipslis (February 8, 1937 – April 13, 2000) was a Latvian chess player, writer, and editor, who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster and the ICCF title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster. Chess biography Born in Ri ...
(1937–2000) *
Anish Giri Anish Kumar Giri ( ne, अनीश कुमार गिरी; russian: Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Russian-born Dutch chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the title Grandmaster at t ...
(born 1994) *
Evgeny Gleizerov Evgeny Gleizerov (; born March 20, 1963) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1993. Together with 43 other Russian chess players, Gleizerov signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, prot ...
(born 1963) *
Igor Glek Igor Vladimirovich Glek (russian: Игорь Владимирович Глек; born 7 November 1961) is a Russian chess player, trainer, writer and theorist. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. Glek was born in Moscow. Com ...
(born 1961) *
Leonid Gofshtein Leonid Gofshtein (also known by his Hebrew name Zvulon Gofshtein he, זבולון גופשטיין ; 21 April 1953 – 25 December 2015) was an Israeli chess grandmaster. He emigrated from the Ukrainian SSR to Israel in 1990. In 1999 he tied fo ...
(1953-2015) * Alexander Goldin (born 1965) *
Vitali Golod Vitali Matveyevich Golod (; born 23 June 1971) is a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 1996. Chess career Golod was Ukrainian champion in 1991. He then moved to Israel. In 2004, he ...
(born 1971) * Aleksei Goncharov (1879–1913) *
Solomon Gotthilf Solomon Borisovich Gotthilf (Соло́мон Бори́сович Готгильф; 21 February 1903 11 July 1967) was a Russian chess master. Chess career He shared 3rd in the 1922 Leningrad City Chess Championship (Grigory Levenfish won), ...
(1903–1967) *
Boris Grachev Boris Pavlovich Grachev (russian: Борис Павлович Грачёв; born 27 March 1986) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Grachev competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2009, 2011, 2015, and ...
(born 1984) *
Karen Grigorian Karen Ashotovich Grigorian (7 September 1947 – 30 October 1989) was an Armenian chess master, and son of the poet Ashot Grashi. Born in Moscow, Russia, Grigorian won the Armenian Chess Championship three times (joint winner 1969, winner 197 ...
(1947–1989) *
Nikolay Grigoriev Nikalai (Nikolay) Dmitrievich Grigoriev (russian: Никола́й Дми́триевич Григо́рьев) was a Russian chess player and a composer of endgame studies. He was born on 14 August 1895 in Moscow, and he died there in 1938. His ...
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Alexander Grischuk Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Grischuk was the Russian champion in 2009. He is also a three-time world blitz chess champion (in 2006, 2012 and 2015). He has competed in five Candidates T ...
(born 1983) *
Eduard Gufeld Eduard Yefimovich Gufeld (russian: Эдуа́рд Ефи́мович Гу́фельд; 19 March 1936 – 23 September 2002) was a USSR, Soviet International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess author. Chess career Gufeld began participating in che ...
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Boris Gulko Boris Franzevich Gulko ( rus, Борис Францевич Гулько, p=bɐˈrʲis ɡʊlʲˈko; born February 9, 1947) is a Soviet-American Grandmaster in chess. Gulko is noted to be the only person to win both the Soviet Chess Championship a ...
(born 1947) *
Dmitry Gurevich Dmitry Gurevich (russian: Дмитрий Гуревич; born September 11, 1956) is a Russian-American chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. Born in Moscow, Gurevich emigrated to New York City in 1980 and earned the Grandmaste ...
(born 1956) * Bukhuti Gurgenidze (1933–2008)


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Grigory Helbach Grigory Helbach (also spelled Hellbach, Gelbach, or Gelbak) (13 January 1863, Zvenyhorodka – 3 August 1930) was a Russian chess master. He tied for 6-7th at Moscow 1899 (the 1st All-Russian Masters' Tournament, Mikhail Chigorin won), took 6th a ...
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Alexander Huzman Alexander Huzman (born 10 April 1962 in Zhytomyr, Soviet Union) is an Israeli (formerly Soviet) chess Grandmaster and trainer. He played in several Ukrainian championships. In 1985, he took 6th in Uzhgorod. In 1986, he tied for 4-5th in Kyiv. ...
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Ildar Ibragimov Ildar Ibragimov ( tt-Cyrl, Илдар Ибраһимов; russian: Ильдар Ибрагимов; born 16 August 1967) is a Russian chess player. He was ranked No. 72 in January 2000 with a rating of 2611, while his peak rating of 2637 was ach ...
(born 1967) *
Bella Igla Bella Gesser ( he, בלה גסר), Igla ( he, בלה איגלה; russian: Белла Игла; born June 2, 1985), is an Israeli chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). In 2004, she won the Israel Women's Chess Championship. ...
(born 1985) *
Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky Alexander Fyodorovich Ilyin (russian: 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 ...
(1894–1941) *
Ernesto Inarkiev Ernesto Inarkiev (russian: Эрнесто Инаркиев; born 9 December 1985) is a Russian chess grandmaster, the first ever from Kalmykia. He was European champion in 2016. Since July 2005, Inarkiev has continuously been among the 100 highe ...
(born 1985) *
Nana Ioseliani Nana Ioseliani ( ka, ნანა იოსელიანი; born 12 February 1962) is a Georgian chess player. She was awarded by FIDE the Woman Grandmaster title in 1980 and the International Master title in 1993. Already in 1978 she was su ...
(born 1962) * Alexander Ivanov (born 1956) *
Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov (January 8, 1947 – November 17, 2005) was a Russian-born Canadian grandmaster of chess and a concert pianist. Early life He was born in 1947 in Leningrad, USSR, and learned chess at age five. He studied music intensi ...
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Carl Jaenisch Carl Ferdinand von Jaenisch (russian: Карл Андреевич Яниш, ''Karl Andreyevich Yanish''; April 11, 1813 – March 7, 1872) was a Finnish and Russian chess player and theorist. In the 1840s, he was among the top players in the ...
(1813–1872) *
Charles Jaffe Charles Jaffé (Jaffe) (circa 1879, Dubroŭna, Russian Empire – 12 July 1941, Brooklyn, USA) was a Russian Empire born Chess master, master and chess writer. Early years, moves to U.S. Jaffé was born in a small town, Dubroŭna (now in Vitse ...
(1883–1941) *
Dmitry Jakovenko Dmitry Olegovich Jakovenko (russian: Дмитрий Олегович Яковенко; born 28 June 1983) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001. Jakovenko was European champion in 2012. He was a member ...
(born 1983) * Lora Jakovleva (born 1932)


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Victor Kahn Victor Kahn (russian: Виктор Кан; 1889 in Moscow – 6 October 1971 in Nice) was a Russian–French chess master. He was born in Moscow but left Russia in 1912 eventually ending up in France going via Sweden, Denmark and Germany. He won ...
(1889–1971) *
Gregory Kaidanov Gregory Kaidanov (russian: Григорий Зиновьевич Кайда́нов, ; born 11 October 1959) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster. He was inducted into the United States Chess Hall of Fame in 2013. His peak rating is 2646 ...
(born 1959) *
Gata Kamsky Gata Kamsky ( tt-Cyrl, Гата Камский, italics=no; russian: Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion. Kamsky reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Cham ...
(born 1974) *
Ilya Kan Ilya Abramovich Kan (russian: Илья Абрамович Кан; 4 May 1909 – 12 December 1978) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Master (IM) by FIDE in 1950. Kan was born in Samara. He played ten tim ...
(1909–1978) *
Albert Kapengut Albert Zinovievich Kapengut (born 4 July 1944, in Kazan, Tatarstan) is a Soviet chess master (since 1962). A holder of the International Master title, he is best known as a respected teacher, theoretician, writer, and member of the successful stud ...
(born 1944) * Nonna Karakashyan (born 1940) *
Mona May Karff Mona May Karff (née Minna Ratner; 20 October 1908 – 10 January 1998) was an American chess player. She dominated U.S. women's chess in the 1940s and early 1950s: she held seven U.S. Women's Chess Champion titles and four consecutive U.S. O ...
(1914–1998) *
Sergey Karjakin Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin, . (born 12 January 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster (formerly representing Ukraine). A chess prodigy, he previously held the record for the world's youngest ever grandmaster, (until it was eventually taken b ...
(born 1990) *
Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov ( rus, links=no, Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈkarpəf; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Ches ...
(born 1951), world champion *
Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist and commentator. His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by ...
(born 1963), world champion * Genrikh Kasparyan (1910–1995) *
Paul Keres Paul Keres (; 7 January 1916 – 5 June 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, and narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship match on five ...
(1916–1975) *
Alexander Khalifman Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman (russian: Алекса́ндр Вале́рьевич Халифма́н; born 18 January 1966) is a Russian chess player and writer. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990, he was FIDE World Chess Ch ...
(born 1966) *
Andrei Kharlov Andrei Vasilyevich Kharlov (russian: Андрей Васильевич Ха́рлов; November 20, 1968 – June 15, 2014) was a Russian chess grandmaster. Tournament results In 1992, he received the title of Grandmaster after tying for first p ...
(1968-2014) *
Igor Khenkin Igor Khenkin (born 21 March 1968 in Vladimir, Russia) is a German chess player. He achieved the FIDE title of grandmaster in 1992, and his peak rating is 2670. Igor Khenkin has been one of the top 100 FIDE players for eight out of the past nine ...
(born 1968) *
Denis Khismatullin Denis Rimovich Khismatullin (russian: Денис Римович Хисматуллин, born 28 December 1984) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He is the first grandmaster from Bashkiria. Khismatullin competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013 and ...
(born 1984) *
Ratmir Kholmov Ratmir Dmitrievich Kholmov (Russian: Ратмир Дмитриевич Холмов) (13 May 1925 in Shenkursk – 18 February 2006 in Moscow) was a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won many international tournaments in Eastern Europe during his c ...
(1925–2006) * Natalia Khoudgarian (born 1975) * R.K. Kieseritzky (1870-?) *
Viktor Knorre Viktor Karlovich Knorre russian: Виктор Карлович Кнорре(4 October 1840 – 25 August 1919) was a Russian astronomer of German ethnic origin. He worked in Nikolaev, Pulkovo and Berlin and is best known for having discovered 158 ...
(1840–1919) *
Mikhail Kobalia Mikhail Robertovich Kobalia (; born May 3, 1978) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (1997). Together with 43 other Russian elite chess players, Kobalia signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, protesting against the 2022 Russian in ...
(born 1978) *
Alexander Koblencs Alexander Koblencs ( lv, Aleksandrs Koblencs, russian: Александр Кобленц; 3 September 1916, Riga – 9 December 1993, Berlin) was a Latvian chess master, trainer, and writer. He is best known as the trainer of the 1960-61 World Ch ...
(1916–1993) * Dmitry Kokarev (born 1982) *
Alexander Kochyev Alexander Vasilyevich Kochyev (russian: Александр Васильевич Кочиев; born March 25, 1956 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (1977). In the 1970s, he was one of the youngest grandmasters in the world. In ...
(born 1956) *
Boris Kogan Boris Markovich Kogan ( he, בוריס קוגן; February 8, 1940 – December 25, 1993) was a Russian-born American chess master. Kogan was the Soviet Junior Champion in 1956 and 1957. He was a full-time chess teacher in the Soviet Union before ...
(1940–1993) *
Alexander Konstantinopolsky Alexander Markovich Konstantinopolsky (russian: Александр Маркович Константинопольский; 19 February 1910 – 21 September 1990) was a Soviet chess player, trainer and writer. He was a five-time champion of Ki ...
(1910–1990) * Nikolai Kopilov (1919–1995) *
N. Koppelman N. Kopelman (Koppelman) (1881 ? – 1944, Moscow?) was a Russian chess player. He participated in the Mannheim 1914 chess tournament. After the declaration of war against Russia, eleven "Russian" players (Alexander Alekhine, Bogoljubov, Bogatyrc ...
(1881–1944) *
Viktor Korchnoi Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi ( rus, Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, p=vʲiktər lʲvovʲɪtɕ kɐrtɕˈnoj; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (before 1976) and Swiss (after 1980) chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He ...
(1931–2016) * Alexey Korotylev (born 1977) *
Nadezhda Kosintseva Nadezhda Anatolyevna Kosintseva (russian: Надежда Анатольевна Косинцева; born 14 January 1985) is a Russian chess grandmaster. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team in the Women's Chess Olympiads of ...
(born 1985) *
Tatiana Kosintseva Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva (russian: Татьяна Анатольевна Косинцева; born 11 April 1986) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Kosintseva is a two-time European women's c ...
(born 1986) *
Alexandra Kosteniuk Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (russian: Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian chess grandmaster who is the former Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021, and the for ...
(born 1984) *
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 write ...
(1913–1981) * Boris Koyalovich (1867–1941) *
Valentina Kozlovskaya Valentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya (russian: Валенти́на Я́ковлевна Козло́вская; born 18 April 1938) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 1976. Chess career K ...
(born 1938) *
Vladimir Kramnik Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Cha ...
(born 1975), world champion *
Michał Krasenkow Michał Krasenkow (born 14 November 1963) is a Polish chess grandmaster, chess trainer and writer. He is one of the strongest Polish chess players since World War II. His playing style is aggressive and he has won many "best game" awards. Lif ...
(born 1963) *
Boris Kreiman Boris Kreiman (born June 7, 1976) is an American Grandmaster of chess. Kreiman a 3rd-place winner in a U.S. Chess Championship in Seattle is also a winner of the ''Frank P. Samford, Jr. Chess Fellowship''. Kreiman has retired from chess to hel ...
(born 1976) *
Ljuba Kristol Ljuba Danielovna Kristol ( he, לובה דניאלובנה קריסטול; russian: Любовь Даниэловна Кристол; born May 26, 1944, in Leningrad) is a Russian-born Israeli chess player who holds the ICCF title of Lady Grandma ...
(born 1944) *
Stanislav Kriventsov Stanislav G. "Stan" Kriventsov (russian: Станислав Кривенцов; born November 2, 1973, in Moscow, Russia) is a Canadian chess International Master and chess coach who resides in the United States. Between 1997 and 2007, he was a r ...
(born 1973) *
Nikolai Krogius Nikolai Vladimirovich Krogius (; 22 July 1930 – 14 July 2022) was a Russian chess Grandmaster, International Arbiter (1985), psychologist, chess coach, chess administrator, and author. He won several tournament titles at Sochi and in Easte ...
(1930-2022) *
Arvid Kubbel Arvid Kubbel (12 September 1889 – 11 January 1938) was a chess player and composer of chess problems and Endgame study, endgame studies from the Soviet Union. He was a brother of Evgeny and Leonid Kubbel; their father was born in Latvia, of Balti ...
(1889–1938) *
Leonid Kubbel Leonid Ivanovich Kubbel (russian: Леонид Иванович Куббель; 1891 or 1892 – 1942) was a Russian composer of chess endgame studies and problems. Life He was born in Saint Petersburg at the end of 1891, or beginning of 1892 ...
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Sergey Kudrin Sergey Kudrin (born September 7, 1959) is an American chess Grandmaster who was born in the Soviet Union. He achieved his Grandmaster title in 1984 going on to win chess tournaments at Copenhagen in 1983, and Beer-Sheva in 1984, and Torremolinos ...
(born 1959) *
Viktor Kupreichik Viktor Davidovich Kupreichik (russian: Ви́ктор Давыдо́вич Купре́йчик, be, Віктар Давыдавіч Купрэйчык, ''Viktar Davydavič Kuprejčyk''; 3 July 1949 – 22 May 2017) was a Belarusian chess grandm ...
(1949-2017) *
Igor Kurnosov Igor Kurnosov (russian: Игорь Курносов; 30 May 1985 – 8 August 2013) was a Russian chess grandmaster. In 2004 he won the 8th Open International Bavarian Chess Championship in Bad Wiessee edging out on tiebreak other five grand ...
(1985-2013) *
Alla Kushnir Alla Shulimovna Kushnir ( he, אלה שולימובנה קושניר; russian: Алла Шулимовна Кушнир; 11 August 1941 – 2 August 2013) was a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. She was awarded the FIDE titles of Woman Intern ...
(1941-2013) *
Gennady Kuzmin Gennady Pavlovich Kuzmin (, ; January 19, 1946 – February 28, 2020) was a Ukrainian chess player and trainer. He reached his peak strength in the early to mid-1970s and in 1973, was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE, the ...
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Konstantin Landa Konstantin Landa (; 22 May 1972 – October 2022) was a Russian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 and FIDE World Cup 2007. In 2011 he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer. Landa's best tournamen ...
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Emanuel Lasker Emanuel Lasker (; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Champ ...
(1868–1941, was born German but renounce German citizenship for Soviet citizenship later in life) *
Alexander Lastin Alexander Lastin (russian: Александр Ластин; 30 November 1976 – 23 January 2015) was a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1997. Lastin was born in Arkhangelsk and at three years old he move ...
(1976–2015) *
Anatoly Lein Anatoly Yakovlevich Lein (russian: Анатолий Яковлевич Лейн; March 28, 1931 – March 1, 2018) was a Soviet-born American chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1968. Chess career FIDE awarded Le ...
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Isaac Lipnitsky Isaac (Isaak) Oskarovich Lipnitsky (Lipnitski) (Russian: Исаак Оскарович Липницкий; 25 June 1923 – 25 March 1959)Lazarev, ''Questions of Modern Chess Theory'' (2008) p. 8 was a Ukrainian-Soviet chess master. He was a two ...
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Konstantin Lerner Konstantin Zaivelevich Lerner ( uk, Костантин Зайвелевич Лернер; 28 February 1950, Odessa, Ukraine, former USSR – 24 September 2011, Herzlia, Israel) was a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM). In 1978 and 1982, he w ...
(1950–2011) *
Grigory Levenfish Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish (russian: Григо́рий Я́ковлевич Левенфи́ш;  – 9 February 1961) was a Soviet chess player who scored his peak competitive results in the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice USSR Chess Champ ...
(1889–1961) *
Irina Levitina Irina Solomonovna Levitina (born June 8, 1954) is a Russian-American chess and bridge player. In chess, she has been a World Championship Candidate in 1984 and gained the title Woman Grandmaster. In contract bridge she has won five world champio ...
(born 1954) *
Stepan Levitsky Stepan (Stefan) Levitsky (Levitski, Lewitzki) (25 April 1876, in Serpukhov – 21 March 1924, in Glubokaya) was a Russian chess Grandmaster and Russian chess champion. In 1899 he took third place in Moscow (All Russian Masters’ Tournament, fi ...
(1876–1924) *
Vladimir Liberzon Vladimir Mikhailovich Liberzon ( he, ולדימיר מיכאילוביץ' ליברזון; russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Либерзо́н; 23 March 1937, in Moscow – 4 August 1996) was a Russian-born Israeli chess grandma ...
(1937–1996) *
Andor Lilienthal Andor (André, Andre, Andrei) Arnoldovich LilienthalReuben Fine, ''The World's Great Chess Games'', Dover Publications, 1983, p. 216. . (5 May 1911 – 8 May 2010) was a Hungarian and Soviet chess player. In his long career, he played against ten ...
(1911–2010) *
Georgy Lisitsin Georgy Mikhailovich Lisitsin or Lisitsyn (russian: Гео́ргий Миха́йлович Лиси́цын; 11 October 1909 – 20 March 1972) was a Russian chess master from Leningrad. After high school he entered the Leningrad Industrial Instit ...
(1909–1972) *
Marta Litinskaya-Shul Marta Ivanivna Litynska ( ua, Марта Іванівна Літинська; russian: Марта Ивановна Литинская, ''Marta Ivanovna Litinskaya''; born 25 March 1949 in Lviv) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian chess player holding the titl ...
(born 1949) *
Andrey Lukin Andrei Lukin (russian: Андрей Лукин, born August 28, 1948) is a chess International Master and a chess coach. Chess career He was one of the strongest junior chess players in the Soviet Union in the late 60s, qualified for the ''World ...
(born 1948) *
Anatoly Lutikov Anatoly Lutikov (5 February 1933 in Leningrad – 23 October 1989 in Tiraspol) was a Russian chess player. He was awarded the International Master title in 1967 and the Grandmaster title in 1974. He won the Moldovan championship six times (1963 ...
(1933–1989) *
Igor Lysyj Igor Ilyich Lysyj (; born 1 January 1987) is a Russian chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Lysyj was Russian champion in 2014. Together with 43 other Russian chess players, Lysyj signed an open l ...
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* Elmar Magerramov (born 1958) *
Sergey Makarichev Sergei Yuryevic Makarichev (russian: Серге́й Юрьевич Макарычев; born November 17, 1953) is a Russian chess player, who gained the Grandmaster title in 1976. Background In 1974 he won the European Junior Chess Championship ...
(born 1953) *
Vladimir Makogonov Vladimir Andreevich Makogonov ( rus, Влади́мир Андре́евич Макого́нов, August 27, 1904 – January 2, 1993) was a chess player from Azerbaijan SSR. He was born in Nakhchivan but lived in Baku for most of his life. He ...
(1904–1993) * Vladimir Malakhov (born 1980) *
Vladimir Malaniuk Vladimir Pavlovich Malaniuk (; 21 July 1957 –2 July 2017) was a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and three-time Ukrainian champion. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship 1998. In team events, Malaniuk played for Ukraine in three Chess O ...
(1957-2017) *
Boris Maliutin Boris Evgenievich Maliutin (Maljutin, Malyutin, Malutin) (1883–1920) was a chess master. Chess career He played many tournaments in Saint Petersburg. He took 4th in 1902, 8th in 1903, 13th, 5th, 2nd and 3rd in 1904, tied for 3-4th, tied for 4- ...
(1883–1920) *
Maria Manakova Maria Manakova (born 1 March 1974) is a Russian-born Serbian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Born in Kazan, she lived in Serbia for several years and played for the Yugoslav women's chess team. Manakova was first board ...
(born 1974) *
Svetlana Matveeva Svetlana Vladislavovna Matveeva (russian: Светлана Владиславовна Матвеева; born 4 July 1969) is a Russian chess player holding the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. In 1984, she tied for first w ...
(born 1969) *
Isaak Mazel Isaak Yakovlevich Mazel ( be, Ісак Якаўлевіч Мазэль; December 1911, Minsk – March 31, 1945, Tashkent) was a Belarusian–Russian chess master. He tied for 8-9th at Moscow 1931 (the 7th USSR Chess Championship, Mikhail Botvinn ...
(1911–1943) *
Olga Menchik Olga Menchik (Menčíková, Menčik) Rubery (1908, Moscow – 26 June 1944, Clapham, London) was a Czech–British female chess master. Born in Moscow to a Czech father and a British mother, she was younger sister to Vera Menchik. They all moved ...
(1908–1946) *
Vera Menchik Vera Francevna Mencikova (russian: Вера Францевна Менчик, ''Vera Frantsevna Menchik''; cz, Věra Menčíková; 16 February 1906 – 26 June 1944), was a Russian-born Czechoslovak chess player who primarily resided in En ...
(1906–1944) *
Vladas Mikėnas Vladas Mikėnas (17 April 1910 – 3 November 1992) was a Lithuanian chess player and journalist. He was awarded the titles of International Master and Honorary Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster by FIDE. Early career Vladas Mikėnas played for ...
(1910–1992) *
Adrian Mikhalchishin Adrian Bohdanovych Mikhalchishin (also Mihalcisin, Mihalčišin or Mykhalchyshyn, uk, Адріян Богданович Михальчишин, born November 18, 1954) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster now playing for Slovenia. Education: Lviv Un ...
(born 1954) *
Vadim Milov Vadim Milov (born 1 August 1972) is a Swiss chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1993. Early life Born in Ufa, following the collapse of the USSR, he moved to Israel in 1992, before finally settling in Switzerland in ...
(born 1972) *
Artashes Minasian Artashes Minasian (sometimes transliterated as Minasyan; hy, Արտաշես Մինասյան; born 21 January 1967) is an Armenian chess grandmaster. He won the USSR Chess Championship in 1991 and is a six-time Armenian Chess Champion. Chess ...
(born 1967) *
Leopold Mitrofanov Leopold Adamovich Mitrofanov (July 2, 1932November 26, 1992) was a Russian chess composer, an International Judge of Chess Composition (awarded 1971) and an International Master of Chess Composition (awarded 1980). He was born in Leningrad (now St ...
(1932–1992) *
Abram Model Abram Yakovlevich Model (russian: Абрам Яковлевич Моде́ль; 23 October 1896, Daugavpils – 16 February 1976, Leningrad) was a Russian chess master, although he had his master title taken away by the Soviet chess authorities d ...
(1896–1976) *
Alexander Morozevich Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich (russian: Александр Серге́евич Морозе́вич, translit=Aleksandr Sergéevich Morozévich; born July 18, 1977) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE ...
(born 1977) *
Alexander Motylev Alexander Anatolyevich Motylev (russian: Александр Анатольевич Мотылёв; born 17 June 1979) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was Russian champion in 2001 and European champion in 2014. Motylev is also Sergey Karjakin ...
(born 1979) *
Jacob Murey Jacob Isaacovich Murey (russian: Яков Исаакович Мурей, also transliterated Yakov Isaakovich Murei, born 2 August 1941 in Moscow) is a Russian-born Israeli chess player who holds the chess titles of Grandmaster (1987) and Correspon ...
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Ashot Nadanian Ashot Nadanian (sometimes transliterated as Nadanyan; hy, Աշոտ Նադանյան; born 19 September 1972) is an Armenian chess International Master (1997), chess theoretician and chess coach. His highest achievements have been in openin ...
(born 1972) *
Gia Nadareishvili Gia Nadareishvili ( Georgian გია ნადარეიშვილი; September 22, 1921 – October 3, 1991) was a Soviet chess composer of Georgian nationality (born in Tbilisi), and author of many books on chess studies. He was co-foun ...
(1921–1991) *
Evgeniy Najer Evgeniy Yuryevich Najer (russian: Евгений Юревич Наер, translit=Evgeniy Yuryevich Nayer; born 22 June 1977) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the European champion of 2015. He is also one of the coaches of the Russian women's n ...
(born 1977) * Vera Nebolsina (born 1989) *
Iivo Nei Iivo Nei (born 31 October 1931 in Tartu) is an Estonian chess master.NEI, IIVO
esbl.ee (biography in Estonian) In 1947, ...
(born 1931) *
Vladimir Nenarokov Vladimir Ivanovich Nenarokov (January 4, 1880 – December 13, 1953) was a Russian chess master and theoretician. Born in Moscow, he was one of the strongest masters in his home town around 1900. In 1899, he tied for 6-7th in Moscow (1st Russian ...
(1880–1953) *
Ian Nepomniachtchi Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi ( rus, Ян Алекса́ндрович Непо́мнящий, r=Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy, p=ˈjan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈpomnʲɪɕːɪj, a=Ru-Ian Alexandrovich Nepomnyashchij.ogg; born 14 J ...
(born 1990) *
Rashid Nezhmetdinov Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov (Tatar language, Tatar: , ; russian: Раши́д Гибя́тович Нежметди́нов; December 15, 1912 – June 3, 1974) was a Soviet Union, Soviet chess player, chess writer, and checkers player. Thou ...
(1912–1974) *
Yuri Nikolaevsky Yuri V Nikolaevsky (14 February 1937 – 2004) was a Russian chess player. He won the Ukrainian Chess Championship three times (1963, 1967 (jointly), and 1977), and represented the Soviet Union three times in international student team compe ...
(1937–2004) *
Nikolay Novotelnov Nikolay Novotelnov (russian: Николай Новотельнов; 9 December 1911, Saint Petersburg – 30 December 2006, Saint Petersburg) was Russian chess International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body ...
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Alexandra Obolentseva Alexandra Sergeevna Obolentseva (russian: Александра Серге́евна Оболенцева; born 21 June 2001) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2018. Obolentseva has won the World Yo ...
(born 2001) *
Tõnu Õim Tõnu Õim (born 16 June 1941) is an Estonian grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the first to have won the ICCF World Championship twice, in 1983 and 1999. In 1991 he won the Axelson Memorial.Vladimir Okhotnik (born 1950) *
Lembit Oll Lembit Oll (23 April 1966 – 16 May 1999) was an Estonian chess grandmaster. Chess career Born in Kohtla-Järve on 23 April 1966, Oll became Estonian Chess Champion in 1982 and U20 Soviet Chess Champion in 1984. FIDE awarded him the interna ...
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* Sam Palatnik (born 1950) * Alexander Panchenko (1953–2009) *
Vasily Panov Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy (Russian: Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to ''Basil''. It may refer to: *Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425 * Vasili II of Moscow Grand Prince fr ...
(1908–1976) * Vasily Papin (born 1988) * Nikolay Pavlov-Pianov * Jusefs Petkevich (born 1940) *
Arshak Petrosian Arshak B. Petrosian ( hy, Արշակ Պետրոսյան; born December 16, 1953) is an Armenian chess player and National Coach. FIDE awarded him the International Grandmaster title in 1984. He won the Armenian Chess Championship in 1974 and 1976. ...
(born 1953) *
Tigran Petrosian Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (, ; 17 June 1929 – 13 August 1984) was a Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his almost-impenetrable defensive playing style, ...
(1929–1984), world champion * Alexander Petrov (1774–1867) *
Vladimirs Petrovs Vladimirs Petrovs (russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Петро́в, translit=Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov; 27 September 1907 – 26 August 1943) was a Latvian Russian chess player. He was born in Riga, in the Governorate of L ...
(1907–1943) *
Evgeny Pigusov Evgeny Pigusov (russian: Евгений Пигусов; born March 31, 1961) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1987. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002, where he reached the third ro ...
(born 1961) *
Igor Platonov Igor Platonov (January 18, 1934 – November 13, 1994) was a Soviet Ukrainian chess player. He was active between 1958 and 1984, with his best years from 1967 to 1972, when he earned the title of Grandmaster of the Soviet Union (''Гросс ...
(1934–1994) *
Natalia Pogonina Natalia Andreevna Pogonina (russian: Ната́лья Андре́евна Пого́нина; born 9 March 1985) is a Russian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is the runner-up of the Women's World Chess Ch ...
(born 1985) *
Vladimir Potkin Vladimir Potkin (russian: Владимир Поткин; born 28 June 1982) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster (2001) and a former European champion. He is also Ian Nepomniachtchi's trainer and one of the coaches of the Russian nat ...
(Russia, born 1982) *
Lev Polugaevsky Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky ( rus, Лев Абрамович Полугаевский, p=pəlʊɡɐˈjefskʲɪj; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE i ...
(1934–1995) *
Peter Potemkine Peter Petrovich Potemkine (russian: Пётр Петрович Потёмкин, ''Pyotr Petrovich Potyomkin''; 1886–1926) was a Russian Empire chess master. He took 7th at St. Petersburg 1904 (Mikhail Chigorin won), took 5th at St Petersburg 190 ...
(1886–1926) * Svetlana Prudnikova (born 1967) *
Lev Psakhis Lev Borisovich Psakhis ( he, לב בוריסוביץ' פסחיס; ; born 29 November 1958 in Tver (then Kalinin), Russia) is a naturalised Israeli chess grandmaster, trainer and author. Born in Siberia, he is also a two-time former champion of th ...
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Abram Rabinovich Abram Isaakovich Rabinovich (5 January 1878 – 7 November 1943) was a Lithuanian–Russian chess player. He was champion of Moscow in 1926. Biography Rabinovich was born in Vilna, Lithuania (then the Russian Empire) into a Litvak family. ...
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Ilya Rabinovich Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich (russian: Илья Леонтьевич Рабинович; 11 May 1891 – 23 April 1942) was a Russian and later Soviet chess player, among the best ones in his country for three decades, from 1910 to 1940. His best ...
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Viacheslav Ragozin Viacheslav Vasilyevich Ragozin (russian: Вячесла́в Васи́льевич Раго́зин; 8 October 1908 – 11 March 1962) was a Soviet chess player, writer and editor. He was world champion in correspondence chess and held the title ...
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Maurice Raizman Maurice Raizman (né Miron Raizman) (26 February 1905, Bendery – 1 April 1974, Paris) was a French chess master. Born into a Jewish family in Bendery (then in Russian Empire), he emigrated to France. He was six-times French Champion (1932, 1936, ...
(1905–1974) *
Maaja Ranniku Maaja Ranniku (born 1 March 1941 in Abja-Paluoja - died 24 October 2004 in Tallinn) was an Estonian chess player (represented the Soviet Union until 1991). She was twice the winner of the Women's Soviet Championship: in 1963 (after beating at tie ...
(1941–2004) *
Nukhim Rashkovsky Nukhim (Naum) Nikolayevich Rashkovsky (born 18 April 1946, in Sverdlovsk) is a chess Grandmaster and coach from Russia. Life His first meaningful chess moves were played at the Sverdlovsk Palace of Pioneers, one of many training schools for t ...
(born 1946) *
Vsevolod Rauzer Vsevolod Alfredovich Rauzer (16 October 1908 – 29 December 1941, Leningrad) was a Soviet Ukrainian chess master known for his great contributions to chess opening theory, especially of the Sicilian Defence. Achievements Vsevolod Rauzer tied ...
(1908–1941) *
Yuri Razuvayev Yuri Sergeyevich Razuvaev russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич Разува́ев (also Razuvayev; 10 October 1945 – 21 March 2012) was a Russian chess player and trainer. Chess career Razuvaev became an International Master in 1973, a ...
(1945-2012) * Alexander Riazantsev (born 1985) *
Nikolai Riumin Nikolai (Nikolay) Nikolaevich Riumin (Ryumin, Rjumin, Rumin) (russian: Николай Николаевич Рюмин; 5 September 1908, Moscow – 1942, Omsk) was a Russian chess master, one of the strongest Soviet players of the 1930s. Riumin w ...
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Michael Roiz Michael Roiz (russian: Михаил Владимирович Ройз, translit=Mikhail Vladimirovich Royz, born 12 October 1983 in Russia) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster. He learned to play chess at the age of 7. At 9, he finished 2nd in the n ...
(born 1983) *
Oleg Romanishin Oleg Mikhailovich Romanishin ( uk, Олег Михайлович Романишин, translit=Oleh Mykhailovych Romanyshyn; born 10 January 1952) is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster and former European junior champion. Care ...
(born 1952) * Alexander Romanovsky (1880–1943) *
Peter Romanovsky Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky (russian: Пётр Арсеньевич Романо́вский; 29 July 1892 – 1 March 1964) was a Russian chess player and author. He won the Soviet Championship in 1923 and, jointly, 1927. Biography At the begi ...
(1892–1964) * Karl Wilhelm Rosenkrantz (1876–1942) *
Solomon Rosenthal Solomon (Shlomo) Konradovich Rosenthal (10 August 1890, in Vilnius, Lithuania – 18 November 1955, in Minsk, Belarusian SSR) was a Lithuanian–Belarusian chess master. In the beginning of his career, before World War I, he tied for 6-7th in the ...
(1890–1955) *
Nicolas Rossolimo Nicolas Rossolimo (russian: Николай Спиридонович Россоли́мо, translit=Nikolai Spiridonovich Rossolimo; February 28, 1910 – July 24, 1975) was a Russian Empire-born chess player. After acquiring Greek citizenship in 1 ...
(1910–1975) *
Sergei Rublevsky Sergei Rublevsky (born 15 October 1974) is a Russian chess grandmaster (1994). He has won four team gold medals and one individual bronze medal at Chess Olympiads. He won the prestigious Aeroflot Open in 2004, and became the 58th Russian chess ch ...
(born 1974) *
Olga Rubtsova Olga Nikolaevna Rubtsova (russian: О́льга Никола́евна Рубцо́ва; 20 August 1909 – 13 December 1994) was a Soviet chess player and the fourth women's world chess champion. In 2015, she was inducted into the World Chess ...
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Lyudmila Rudenko Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko (russian: Людми́ла Влади́мировна Руде́нко, uk, Людмила Володимирівна Руденко; 27 July 1904 – 4 March 1986) was a Soviet chess player and the second women' ...
(1904–1986) *
Nikoly Rudnev Nikoly (Nikolay) Nikolaevich Rudnev (Rudniev) (1895–1944) was a Ukrainian–Uzbekistani chess master. Born in Kharkiv, he played in the Mannheim 1914 chess tournament (''Hauptturnier B''). After World War I and Bolshevik Revolution, he was sent ...
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Peter Alexandrovich Saburov Peter Alexandrovich Saburov (22 March O.S./3 April 1835 – 28 March O.S./10 April 1918) was a Russian diplomat, collector of ancient Greek sculpture and antiquities, and an amateur chess player and patron of chess tournaments, as an honorary Pre ...
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Peter Petrovich Saburov Peter Petrovich Saburov (Sabouroff) (, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 26 March 1932, Geneva, Switzerland) was a Russian diplomat, chess master and organizer, and musical composer. He was a son of Peter Alexandrovich Saburov, a diplomat and chess or ...
(1880–1932) * Nikolai Sahzin (born 1988) *
Konstantin Sakaev Konstantin Rufovich Sakaev (russian: Константи́н Ру́фович Сака́ев; born 13 April 1974 in Leningrad) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (1993), chess author and Russian champion in 1999. Sakaev is on the staff of the Grandmas ...
(born 1974) *
Yuri Sakharov Yuri Nikolaevich Sakharov ( ua, Ю́рій Микола́йович Са́харов; 18 September 1922 – 26 September 1981) was a Ukrainian Chess Master (1958), International Correspondence Chess Master (1971), and Merited Coach of the Ukrain ...
(1922–1981) *
Valery Salov Valery Salov (born 26 May 1964) is a Russian chess grandmaster who was once ranked the third best player in the world. Competitive chess career Salov was awarded the International Master title in 1984 and the Grandmaster title in 1986. He was ...
(born 1964) *
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. He was the twelfth World Correspondence Chess Championship (1984–1991) and fin ...
(1935-2021) *
Vladimir Savon Vladimir Andreyevich Savon ( ua, Володи́мир Андрійович Саво́н; 26 September 1940 – 1 June 2005) was a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1973. Savon shared the Ukrainian C ...
(1940–2005) *
Emanuel Schiffers Emanuel (Emmanuel) Stepanovich Schiffers (russian: Эммануил Степанович Шифферс; – ) was a Russian chess player and chess writer. For many years he was the second leading Russian player after Mikhail Chigorin. Schiffe ...
(1850–1904) *
Alexey Selezniev Alexey (Alex) Sergeyevich Selezniev (russian: Алексе́й Серге́евич Селезнёв, alternative transliterations: Selesniev, Selesniew, Selesnev, Selesnieff; pronounced "selezNYOFF"; 1888June 1967) was a chess master and chess com ...
(1888–1967) *
Lidia Semenova Lidia Kostjantynivna Semenova (born November 22, 1951) is a Ukrainian chess player, who holds the title of woman grandmaster. Career In 1978, Semenova won Women's Soviet Chess Championship. In 1981, she tied for 1st–4th in Leningrad (zonal). ...
(born 1951) * Aleksandr Sergeyev (1897–1970) *
Gregory Serper Gregory Serper (russian: Григорий Юрьевич Серпер, translit=Grigory Yurievich Serper; born September 14, 1969) is a chess grandmaster. He was born in Tashkent, in the former Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union ...
(born 1969) *
Yuri Shabanov Yuri Fedorovich Shabanov (russian: Юрий Фёдорович Шабанов, 11 November 1937 Khabarovsk – 30 March 2010, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian chess Grandmaster (2003), arbiter of the republican category (1997). Two-time world ...
(1937–2010) *
Alexander Shakarov Alexander Shakarov (born 8 March 1948 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) is a Soviet-Azerbaijani chess player, coach and author of Armenian descent. He is best known for being Garry Kasparov's coach from 1976 to 2005.Leonid Shamkovich Leonid Aleksandrovich Shamkovich (Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Шамко́вич; June 1, 1923 – April 22, 2005) was a chess Grandmaster and chess writer. He was born in a Jewish family in Rostov-on-Don in Russia. Che ...
(1923–2005) * Andrey Shariyazdanov (born 1976) * Miron Sher (1952–2020) *
Sergei Shipov Sergei Shipov (born 17 April 1966) is a Russian chess player, trainer, journalist and writer. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1996. Career Shipov founded the chess website Crestbook where, among other services, he provides online ...
(born 1966) *
Ilya Shumov Ilya Stepanovich Shumov (russian: Илья́ Степа́нович Шу́мов, 28 June 1819 in Arkhangelsk – July 1881 in Sevastopol) was a Russian chess master. He served as an officer in the Russian Navy until 1847, then worked as a civil ...
(1819–1881) *
Vladimir Simagin Vladimir Simagin (June 21, 1919 in Moscow – September 25, 1968 in Kislovodsk) was a Russian chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster. He was three times Moscow City Chess Championship, Moscow champion (1947, 1956, and 1959), helped to train V ...
(1919–1968) * Sergey Smagin (born 1958) * Pavel Smirnov (born 1982) *
Vasily Smyslov Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov ( rus, Васи́лий Васи́льевич Смысло́в, Vasíliy Vasíl'yevich Smyslóv; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to ...
(1921–2010), world champion * Vasily Osipovich Smyslov (1881–1943) *
Andrei Sokolov Andrei Yurievich Sokolov (russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Соколо́в; born 20 March 1963, in Vorkuta, Komi ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. ...
(born 1963) *
Alexander Solovtsov Alexander Vladimirovich Solovtsov (russian: Александр Соловцов; 14 November 1847, in Kazan – 20 March 1923, in Moscow) was a prominent Russian chess master who made significant contributions to the chess world during the late 19t ...
(1847–1923) *
Evgeniy Solozhenkin Evgeniy Solozhenkin (born July 31, 1966 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster. Tournament results * 1986 : wins, at age 20, the 59th Leningrad City Chess Championship, Leningrad championship * 1993 : wins the c ...
(born 1966) *
Maxim Sorokin Maxim Sorokin (22 January 1968 – 30 June 2007) was a Russian chess Grandmaster (1992). In 1998–2002 he played for Argentina. In 2004 he tied for first with Saidali Iuldachev in the Murzagaliev Memorial in Uralsk, Kazakhstan. In 2007 he coached ...
(1968–2007) *
Genna Sosonko Gennadi "Genna" Sosonko (russian: Геннадий Борисович Сосонко, ''Gennady Borisovich Sosonk''o; born 18 May 1943) is a Soviet-born Dutch chess player and writer. He has been awarded the title Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE and is a ...
(born 1943) *
Victor Soultanbeieff Victor Ivanovich Soultanbéieff (also spelled Sultanbajew, Sultanbaev, Sultanbeev, Sultanbejeff, Sultanbaieff, etc.; 11 November 1895 – 9 February 1972) was a Belgian chess master. Life Born in Yekaterinoslav (Ukraine, then Russian Empire), So ...
(1895–1972) * Vladimir Sournin (1875–1942) *
Boris Spassky Boris Vasilievich Spassky ( rus, Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский, 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 ...
(born 1937), world champion *
Leonid Stein Leonid Zakharovich Stein (; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s (1963, 1965, and 1966), and was among the world's top ten players during that era. ...
(1934–1973) *
Mark Stolberg Mark Moiseevich Stolberg (1922 in Rostov-on-Don – 16 May 1942 in Novorossiysk) was a Russian chess master. Stolberg won the Rostov-on-Don City championship in 1938. The next year he finished in second place in a Soviet master candidates tourna ...
(1922–1943) *
Alexey Suetin Alexey Stepanovich Suetin (russian: Алексе́й Степа́нович Суэ́тин; November 16, 1926 – September 10, 2001) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster and author. He was the World Senior Chess Champion from 1996 to ...
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Olga Sukhareva Olga Mikhailovna Sukhareva (, born 15 March 1963 in Orenburg) is a Russian female chess player who holds the ICCF titles of International Master (IM, 2014) and Lady Grandmaster (LGM, 2006) and the FIDE titles of Woman FIDE Master (WFM) and FIDE ...
(born 1984) *
Emil Sutovsky Emil Sutovsky (born 19 September 1977) is an Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster by FIDE in 1996. Sutovsky is the FIDE CEO since 2022. Previously he served as FIDE Director-General (2018-22). He was the ...
(born 1977) *
Peter Svidler Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (russian: Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and an eight-time Russian Chess Champion who now frequently commenta ...
(born 1976) *
Evgeny Sveshnikov Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov ( rus, Евгений Эллинович Све́шников; lv, Jevgēņijs Svešņikovs; 11 February 1950 – 18 August 2021) was a Russian chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FID ...
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Mark Taimanov Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (russian: 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. A prolific ch ...
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Mikhail Tal Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal; rus, Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, ''Mikhail Nekhem'yevich Tal' '', ; sometimes transliterated ''Mihails Tals'' or ''Mihail Tal'' (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet-Latvian chess player ...
(1936–1992), world champion * Artyom Timofeev (born 1985) *
Sergei Tiviakov Sergei Tiviakov (russian: Серге́й Тивяков; born 14 February 1973) is a Russian–Dutch chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Dutch Champion and was European Champion in 2008. Chess career Tiviakov won the World Under-18 Champion ...
(born 1973) *
Vladislav Tkachiev Vladislav Tkachiev (, born Moscow November 9, 1973) is a Russian-born Kazakh-French chess player. Biography In 1982, he moved to Kazakhstan with his parents and learnt to play chess a year later. A winner of the Kazakhstani Youth Championship in ...
(born 1973) *
Alexander Tolush Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush (1 May 1910 – 3 March 1969) was a Soviet chess grandmaster. He was one of Boris Spassky's mentors. Tolush was born and died in Saint Petersburg (in 1969 called Leningrad). He earned the title of International Mast ...
(1910–1969) *
Evgeny Tomashevsky Evgeny Yuryevich Tomashevsky (russian: Евгений Юрьевич Томашевский; born 1 July 1987) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2005. Tomashevsky is a two-time Russian Chess Champion ...
(born 1987) * Pavel Tregubov (born 1971) *
Mark Tseitlin Mark Tseitlin ( he, מארק צייטלין; russian: Марк Данилович Цейтлин, translit=Mark Danilovich Tseitlin; 23 September 1943 – 25 January 2022) was a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title of Inte ...
(1943–2022) *
Mikhail Tseitlin Mikhail Semyonovich Tseitlin ( be, Міхаіл Сямёнавіч Цэйтлін; german: Michael Zeitlein; born 16 June 1947, in Babruysk) is a Belarusian chess Grandmaster, now resident in Germany. Tseitlin was twice Moscow Champion in 1976 ...
(born 1947) *
Vitaly Tseshkovsky Vitaly Valeryevich Tseshkovsky (russian: Виталий Валерьевич Цешковский; 25 September 1944, Omsk – 24 December 2011, Krasnodar) was a Russian chess Grandmaster and a former champion of the USSR. Tseshkovsky (Cieszkow ...
(1944–2011) *
Vladimir Tukmakov Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (, born March 5, 1946 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He gained the Grandmaster title in 1972. Career His career first blossomed when he helped and then led the USSR to consecutive wins of the World St ...
(born 1946) *
Maxim Turov Maxim Turov (; born 7 December 1979) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Turov participated in the 1st Children's Chess Olympiad, held in Linares in 1993, as part of Russia "A" team, which won the ...
(born 1979) * Olga Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya (1911–1970)


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Mikhail Ulibin Mikhail Vitalyevich Ulibin (russian: Михаил Витальевич Улыбин, links=no; born 31 May 1971) is a Russian chess player, who was awarded the title of grandmaster by FIDE in 1991. He played in the Soviet junior champion ...
(born 1971) *
Mikhail Umansky Mikhail Markovich Umansky (Russian: ; 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. He was also USSR Corre ...
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Rafael Vaganian Rafael Artemovich Vaganian ( hy, Ռաֆայել Արտյոմի Վահանյան, Rrafayel Artyomi Vahanyan, russian: link=no, Рафаэль Артёмович Ваганян, ''Rafael Artemovich Vaganyan''; born 15 October 1951) is an Armenian ...
(born 1951) *
Samuil Vainshtein Samuil Osipovich Vainshtein (Weinstein, Wainstein, Vainstein, Wajnsztejn) (1894–1942) was a Russian chess master, organizer, publisher and editor. In July/August 1914, he was playing in Mannheim at (the 19th DSB Congress, when it was interrupted ...
(1894–1942) *
Evgeni Vasiukov Evgeni Andreyevich Vasiukov (russian: Евгений Андреевич Васюко́в, March 5, 1933 – May 10, 2018) was a Russian chess player, one of the strongest in the world during his peak. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by ...
(1933–2018) *
Gavriil Veresov Gavriil Nikolayevich Veresov ( be, Гаўрыла Мікалаевіч Верасаў, russian: Гавриил Николаевич Вересов; 28 July 1912 – 18 November 1979) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of Intern ...
(1912–1979) *
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. He was one of the top Soviet players in the 1920s, and was Sovi ...
(1888–1950) *
Yakov Vilner Yakov Vilner (1899, Odessa – 29 June 1931, Leningrad) was a Ukrainian chess master. Biography Vilner won the Odessa chess championships four times (1918, 1923, 1925, and 1928). He won the Ukrainian championships three times; at Kiev 1924 (ahe ...
(1899–1931) *
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). Biography In 1930 ...
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Nikita Vitiugov Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov (russian: Никита Кириллович Витюгов; born 4 February 1987) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. He was a member of the victorious Russian team at th ...
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Alvis Vītoliņš Alvis Vītoliņš (sometimes anglicised as Alvis Vitolins or Vitolinsh; 15 June 1946, in Sigulda – 16 February 1997) was a Latvian chess master. Awarded the International Master title in 1980, he was Latvian Champion in 1973 (jointly), 1976, ...
(1946–1997) * Sergey Volkov (born 1974) *
Alexander Volzhin Alexander Volzhin (born 2 February 1971; Russian: Александр Волжин) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Chess career Alexander Volzhin was born on 2 February 1971 in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala. He started playing chess ...
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Evgeny Vladimirov Yevgeniy Vladimirov (russian: Евгений Владимиров; born 20 January 1957) is a chess player and trainer from Kazakhstan. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989. Career In 2004, during the 14th Abu Dhabi Chess Fe ...
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Larissa Volpert Larissa Ilinichna Volpert (russian: Лариса Ильинична Вольперт; 30 March 1926 – 1 October 2017) was a Soviet chess Woman Grandmaster and Russian and Estonian philologist. She was a three time Soviet women's chess champio ...
(1926–2017) * Konstantin Vygodchikov (1892–1941) * Alexey Vyzmanavin (1960–2000)


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Yuri Yakovich Yuri Rafailovich Yakovich (russian: Юрий Рафаилович Якович; born November 30, 1962) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. He was a member of the silver medal-winning Russian team ...
(born 1962) * Lora Yakovleva (born 1932) *
Leonid Yudasin Leonid Yudasin ( he, ליאוניד גריגורייביץ' יודסין; russian: Леонид Григорьевич Юдасин, translit=Leonid Grigoryevich Yudasin; born August 8, 1959) is a Soviet-born Israeli chess player and trainer. He ...
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Mikhail Yudovich Mikhail Mikhailovich Yudovich (8 June 1911 in Roslavl – 19 September 1987 in Moscow) was a Soviet chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objec ...
(1911–1987) * Peter Yurdansky (1891–1937) * Artur Yusupov (born 1960)


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Vladimir Zagorovsky Vladimir Pavlovich Zagorovsky (russian: 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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Alexander Zaitsev Alexander Zaytsev may refer to: *Alexander Zaytsev (artist), Alexander Dmitryevich Zaytsev (1903–1982), Russian painter and art educator *Alexander Zaytsev (pilot), Alexander Andreyevich Zaytsev (1911–1965), Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the ...
(1935–1971) * Igor Zaitsev (born 1938) *
Viacheslav Zakhartsov Viacheslav Vladimirovich Zakhartsov (; born March 30, 1968, in Omsk) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (2007). Chess career In 2007 he tied for 1st–9th with Alexei Fedorov, Vladimir Potkin, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Andrei Deviatkin, Alexander Evdok ...
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Tatiana Zatulovskaya Tatiana Zatulovskaya ( he, טטיאנה זטולובסקיה; russian: Татьяна Яковлевна Затуловская, ; 8 December 1935 – 2 July 2017) was an Israeli (formerly Soviet and Russian) chess player. She was three-time Sov ...
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Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Зноско-Боро́вский, Yevgeny Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky; 16 August 1884 – 31 December 1954) was a Russian chess player, music critic, music and drama ...
(1884–1954) * Nikolai Zubarev (1894–1951) *
Vadim Zvjaginsev Vadim Zvjaginsev (; born 18 August 1976 in Moscow) is a Russian chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1994. He played for the gold medal-winning Russian team in the 1997 World Team Chess Championship and in the 1998 Che ...
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Kira Zvorykina Kira Alekseyevna Zvorykina (, ; September 29, 1919 – September 6, 2014) was a Soviet chess player who spent many years living in Belarus. She was a three-time winner of the Women's Soviet Championship. In 2018, she was inducted into the World C ...
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List of chess players This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. A * Jacob Aagaard (Denmark, Scotland, born 1973) * Manuel Aaron (India, born 1935) * Nijat Abasov (Azerbaijan, bo ...
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List of chess grandmasters The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing body, FIDE. Other than world champion, it is the highest title a chess player can attain a ...
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Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
Chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...