45 Chess writers

Evgeny Agrest is a Soviet-born Swedish chess grandmaster (1997).

Iuri Akobia was a Georgian composer of chess endgame studies and chess problems. For most of his working life he was a radio communications engineer in the National Center for Radio and TV of Georgia, and was Chief Engineer from 1975 until 1996.

Viswanathan Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster and former world chess champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating of 2800, a feat he first achieved in 2006.

Zaven Andriasian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster and former World Junior Chess Champion.

John Bartlett was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century after his death.

Victor (Viorel) Bologan is a Moldovan chess player and author. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1991.

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he is widely renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play.

Murray Graham Chandler is a chess grandmaster who has played internationally for New Zealand and for England, after he gained British citizenship in the early 1980s. Chandler is also known as a chess writer and occasional organiser of chess tournaments. He is also the only NZ chess grandmaster.

Pedro Damiano was a Portuguese chess player. A native of Odemira, he was a pharmacist by profession. He wrote Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti, published in Rome, Italy, in 1512; it went through eight editions in the sixteenth century. Damiano describes the rules of the game, offers advice on strategy, presents a selection of chess problems, and analyses a few openings. It is the oldest book that definitely states that the square on the right of the row closest to each player must be white. He also offers advice regarding blindfold chess, principally focused on the need to master notation based on numbering the squares 1–64.

Aleksander Delchev is a Bulgarian chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1997. Delchev won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 1994, 1996 and 2001. He played for the Bulgarian national team in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 with a performance of 64.6% (+36=34-12).

Yelena Dembo is a Greek chess player, who holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is also a chess teacher and author.

Ernst Karl Falkbeer was an Austrian chess master and journalist.

Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr 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 tournaments of the pre-World War II years, and by the late 1930s was considered a contender for the World Championship. However, his patient, positional style was overtaken by the sharper, more tactical methods of the younger Soviet echelon after World War II.

Ľubomír Ftáčnik is a Slovak chess grandmaster and a former European Junior Champion.

Efstratios Grivas is a Greek chess Grandmaster, FIDE Senior Trainer, International Arbiter, and International Organizer.

Ernst Franz Grünfeld was an Austrian chess player and writer, mainly on opening theory. He was among the inaugural recipients of the grandmaster title in 1950.

Mikhail Gurevich is a Soviet-born Belgian chess player. He was a top ten ranked player from 1989 to 1991. Gurevich became an International Grandmaster in 1986, and is currently an FIDE arbiter and senior trainer.

Tigger Christopher Robin Hillarp-Persson is a Swedish chess grandmaster. He is a two-time Swedish Chess Champion. In 2015 he attained the level of 1-Dan in Go.

Vlastimil Jansa is a Czech chess player. He was awarded the titles of International Master, in 1965, and Grandmaster, in 1974, by FIDE.

Genrikh Kasparyan is considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies. Outside Armenia, he is better known by the Russian version of his name Genrikh Moiseyevich Kasparyan or Kasparian.

Paul Keres was an Estonian-Soviet chess player and writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s and in 1950, was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE on its inaugural list.

Johann "Hans" Joseph Kmoch was an Austrian-American chess player, chess journalist and author, for which he is best known. He was awarded the title of International Master in 1950 at its inauguration and in 1951, he also received the title of International Arbiter.

George Koltanowski was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. He was informally known as "Kolty". Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record on 20 September 1937, in Edinburgh, by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, making headline news around the world. He also set a record in 1960 for playing 56 consecutive blindfold games at ten seconds per move.

Vasilios Kotronias is a Greek chess player and writer. He is ten-time Greek champion. Kotronias was awarded the titles of International Master in 1986 and Grandmaster in 1990 by FIDE.

Jørgen Bent Larsen was a Danish chess grandmaster and author. Known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, he was the first Western player to pose a serious challenge to the Soviet Union's dominance in chess. He is considered to be the strongest player born in Denmark and the strongest from Scandinavia until the emergence of Magnus Carlsen.

Elena Maksimova, née Klimets, also Maksimova-Klimets, is a Belarusian chess Women FIDE Master (WFM) (2005) and chess journalist.

Mihail Marin is a Romanian chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE. Marin's first major success in international chess was in qualifying for the Interzonal in 1987. He has won three Romanian Championships and has played in the Chess Olympiads ten times, winning a bronze individual medal in 1988. For several years he was editor of the magazine Chess Extrapress.

Ján Markoš is a Slovak chess grandmaster and three-time national champion.

Borislav Milić was a Yugoslav Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer, organizer, promoter, and administrator.

Sergei Movsesian is an Armenian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1997. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Armenian team at the 2011 World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo.

Ashot Nadanian is an Armenian chess International Master (1997), chess theoretician and chess coach.

Parimarjan Negi is an Indian chess grandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 20 days, which makes him the sixth youngest grandmaster in history.

Aron Nimzowitsch was a Latvian-born Danish chess player and writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns and wrote a very influential book on chess theory: My System. In the late 1920s, he was one of the best chess players in the world.

Albéric Joseph Rodolphe Marie Robert Ghislain O'Kelly de Galway was a Belgian chess Grandmaster (1956), an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1962), and the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess (1959–1962). He was also a chess writer.

Richard Selig Réti was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies.

Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk is a Brazilian chess player. He was awarded the title International Master by FIDE in 1978. Van Riemsdijk was also granted the title of International Arbiter in 1981.

Dorian Rogozenko is a Romanian chess grandmaster (2002) and champion of Moldova in 1994.

Rudolf Spielmann was an Austrian-Jewish chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer.

Anders Gideon Tom Ståhlberg was a Swedish chess player. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950.

William Steinitz was an Austrian and later American chess player, and the first official World Chess Champion, from 1886 to 1894. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician.

Mihai Șubă is a Romanian and Spanish chess player. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1975 and the International Grandmaster title in 1978.

Dmitry Svetushkin was a Moldovan chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002.

Karel Traxler was a Czech chess master and composer of chess problems.

Milan Vidmar was a Slovene electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE. Vidmar was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky was a Russian chess player, music and drama critic, teacher and author. Born in Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg Governorate, he settled in Paris in 1920, and lived there for the rest of his life.