
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 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 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 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 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 Paul Dreyer is a chess FIDE Master (FM).

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

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 Gratka is a Polish chess player who holds the title of FIDE Master (FM) (1992).
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 Hoen was a Norwegian chess FIDE Master (FM), three-times Norwegian Chess Championship winner, Nordic Chess Championship winner (1967).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Wayne Smith is a chess FIDE Master (FM).

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 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 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 Varnusz was a Hungarian chess Master and writer.

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 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.