Espen AgdesteinW
Espen Agdestein

Espen Agdestein is the manager of current Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen. He is the brother of chess grandmaster and former coach of Magnus Carlsen, Simen Agdestein, and is himself a FIDE master, with a FIDE ranking of 2372.

Hossein AryanejadW
Hossein Aryanejad

Hossein Aryanejad is an Iranian chess FIDE Master and a FIDE Trainer. He won the Iranian Chess Championship two times and represented Iran in four Chess Olympiads.

Curt BrasketW
Curt Brasket

Curt Justin Brasket was an American chess player and US National Junior Chess Champion. He was also a sixteen-time state champion for his home state of Minnesota, and a FIDE Master. In 2013 he was granted the Outstanding Career Achievement Award by the US Chess Federation.

Suchart ChaivichitW
Suchart Chaivichit

Suchart Chaivichit, is a makruk and chess player from Thailand. He is a five-time makruk champion of Thailand. In chess he is a FIDE Master and three-time Chess Olympiad individual medalist.

Stanislav CifkaW
Stanislav Cifka

Stanislav Cifka is a Czech chess, poker, Magic: the Gathering and Hearthstone player. He is also an FIDE master in chess. His eSports alias is simply StanCifka, a contraction or anglicization of his name.

Martin DreyerW
Martin Dreyer

Martin Paul Dreyer is a chess FIDE Master (FM).

Stuart FancyW
Stuart Fancy

Stuart Fancy is a Papua New Guinean chess FIDE Master (FM).

Max FullerW
Max Fuller

Maxwell Leonard Fuller was an Australian chess FIDE Master (FM). He was born and died in Sydney, and represented Australia in nine Chess Olympiads between 1964 and 1990.

Krzysztof GratkaW
Krzysztof Gratka

Krzysztof Gratka is a Polish chess player who holds the title of FIDE Master (FM) (1992).

Yoshiharu HabuW
Yoshiharu Habu

Yoshiharu Habu is a professional shogi player and a chess FIDE Master. His master is Tatsuya Futakami. He is the only person to simultaneously hold seven major professional shogi titles at the same time and is also the only person to qualify as a lifetime title holder for seven major titles. In January 2018, Habu became the first professional shogi player to be awarded Japan's People's Honour Award.

Ragnar HoenW
Ragnar Hoen

Ragnar Hoen was a Norwegian chess FIDE Master (FM), three-times Norwegian Chess Championship winner, Nordic Chess Championship winner (1967).

Asa HoffmannW
Asa Hoffmann

Asa Hoffmann is a FIDE Master in chess, chess teacher and author from the United States of America. He is known as "the sparring partner of champions". His peak regular USCF rating is 2471, his peak quick rating is 2515 and his peak blitz rating is 2414.

Börje Jansson (chess player)W
Börje Jansson (chess player)

Börje Jansson, is a Swedish chess FIDE Master (2005), two-times Swedish Chess Championship winner.

Rupert JonesW
Rupert Jones

Rupert William Jones is a Papua New Guinean chess FIDE Master (FM) and FIDE International Arbiter (IA).

Carlos Armando Juárez FloresW
Carlos Armando Juárez Flores

Carlos Armando Juárez Flores is a Guatemalan chess International Master (IM) since 1987 and a FIDE master (FM) since 1983, and his highest rating was 2435. He is ranked best player in Guatemala.

Anna-Maja KazarianW
Anna-Maja Kazarian

Anna-Maja Kazarian is a Dutch chess player and Twitch streamer who holds the title of FIDE Master and Woman International Master.

Jerzy KonikowskiW
Jerzy Konikowski

Jerzy Konikowski is a Polish–German chess master, problemist and author.

Anna-Christina KopinitsW
Anna-Christina Kopinits

Anna-Christina Kopinits is an Austrian chess FIDE master since 2017, and a Woman International master since 2009. Her highest rating was 2306 and she is ranked 4th female player in Austria.

Martin KreuzerW
Martin Kreuzer

Martin Kreuzer is a German Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess and a Mathematics professor.

Aleksei KulashkoW
Aleksei Kulashko

Aleksei Kulashko is a New Zealand chess player holding the title of FIDE Master (FM).

Hans MulthoppW
Hans Multhopp

Hans Multhopp was a German aeronautical engineer/designer. Receiving a degree from the University of Göttingen, Multhopp worked with the famous designer Kurt Tank at the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG during World War II, and was the leader of the team responsible for the design of the Focke-Wulf Ta 183 lightweight jet fighter, which was the winner of the 1945 Emergency Fighter Competition. Emigrating to the United Kingdom after the war, he assisted in the advancement of British aeronautic science before moving to the United States, where his work for Martin Marietta on lifting bodies provided aerodynamic experience that proved instrumental in the development of the Space Shuttle.

Raül García PaolicchiW
Raül García Paolicchi

Raül García Paolicchi, is an Andorran chess FIDE Master (FM) (1993), two-times Andorran Chess Championship winner, Chess Olympiad individual gold medalist (1990).

Aaron PixtonW
Aaron Pixton

Aaron C. Pixton is an American mathematician at the University of Michigan. He works in enumerative geometry, and is also known for his chess playing, where he is a FIDE Master.

József PogátsW
József Pogáts

József Pogáts, was a Hungarian chess FIDE Master (1983) and chess composer, European Team Chess Championship two-times team bronze and individual silver medals winner.

Shaun PressW
Shaun Press

Shaun Press is a Papua New Guinean chess player and official. He holds the titles of FIDE Master (FM) and International Arbiter (IA).

Jonathan SarfatiW
Jonathan Sarfati

Jonathan David Sarfati is a young Earth creationist who writes articles for Creation Ministries International (CMI), a non-profit Christian Apologetics ministry. Sarfati has a PhD in chemistry, and was New Zealand national chess champion in 1987 and 1988.

Savitha Shri BW
Savitha Shri B

Savitha Shri B is an Indian chess Woman FIDE Master (2020) hailing from the state of Tamilnadu.

Manfred SchönebergW
Manfred Schöneberg

Manfred Schöneberg is a German chess FIDE Master (FM), East Germany Chess Championship winner (1972), European Team Chess Championship team bronze and individual gold medal winner (1970).

Petra SchuurmanW
Petra Schuurman

Petra Schuurman is a Dutch chess FIDE Master (FM) (2003), Dutch Women's Chess Championship medalist.

Ylon SchwartzW
Ylon Schwartz

Ylon Schwartz is a chess master and professional poker player from Brooklyn, New York, and a fourth-place finisher in the $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em Main Event of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP), played on November 9, 2008. Prior to the Main Event, Schwartz had 11 career WSOP cashes. He is also a World Series of Poker bracelet winner. He used to play poker professionally online under the screen name "TenthPlanet".

Hans-Elmar SchwingW
Hans-Elmar Schwing

Hans-Elmar Schwing is a German chess player. He was the 1997 Dähne-Pokal winner.

Sander SeverinoW
Sander Severino

Sander De Erit Severino is a Filipino chess player holding the title of FIDE Master. He participated at the 2018 Asian Para Games.

Jørn SlothW
Jørn Sloth

Jørn Sloth is a Danish chess FIDE Master and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the eighth ICCF World Champion, 1975–80.

Robert W. Smith (chess player)W
Robert W. Smith (chess player)

Robert Wayne Smith is a chess FIDE Master (FM).

Paul TruongW
Paul Truong

Paul Truong is an American chess player, trainer, and organizer. He was born Trương Hoài Nhân in Saigon, South Vietnam. Truong holds the USCF title of National Master and the FIDE title of FIDE Master.

Shinsaku UesugiW
Shinsaku Uesugi

Shinsaku Uesugi is a FIDE Master of Japan and played for Japan at the 38th Chess Olympic in Dresden, Germany in November 2008. He won the 40th Japan National Chess Championship in May 2007 and became youngest ever National Champion. He also became Co-Champion of the U.S. National High School Championship in April 2010.

Craig Van TilburyW
Craig Van Tilbury

Craig Van Tilbury was an American guitarist and FIDE Chess Master, known musically for his touring and guest work with artists such as Steve Winwood, Barry Gibb, Joey Dee and the Starliters, The Young Rascals, and The Shirelles. He was a founder of the St. Croix band, Green Flash and had played or substituted in several Tampa Bay area bands. He is best known in the world of chess for having played in 10 Chess Olympiads.

Egon VarnuszW
Egon Varnusz

Egon Varnusz was a Hungarian chess Master and writer.

Ivan VihorW
Ivan Vihor

Ivan Vihor Krsnik Cohar, known also as only Ivan Vihor, is a Croatian classical pianist and chess player. He is the winner of the 2017 "Premio delle Arti", the most important Italian piano competition.

Qiyu ZhouW
Qiyu Zhou

Qiyu Zhou, also known as Nemo Zhou and her online alias akaNemsko, is a Chinese-born Canadian chess player who holds the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and FIDE Master (FM), and a Twitch live streamer. She has been an under-14 girls' World Youth Champion, a Canadian women's national champion, and a Finnish women's national champion. Zhou has a peak FIDE rating of 2367 and a career-best ranking of No. 100 in the world among women. She is the first Canadian woman to earn the Woman Grandmaster or FIDE Master titles, and has represented Canada at the Women's Chess Olympiad since 2014.