WIuri 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.
WYuri Lvovich Averbakh is a Russian chess player and author. He is the oldest living chess grandmaster. He was chairman of the USSR Chess Federation from 1973 to 1978.
WHrvoje (Vojko) Bartolović, was a Croatian chess problemist.
WMichel Caillaud is a French chess problemist.
WHarold van der Heijden is a Dutch composer of chess endgame studies. He was born in Veghel, The Netherlands, on 18 December 1960. By profession, after finishing his PhD in 2009, he is head of the Research and Development laboratory of a veterinary institute.
WMarko Klasinc is Slovenian chess problemist.
WFranz Pachl is a German chess grandmaster of the FIDE. He was also German champion of minigolf.
WArthur John Roycroft is an English chess endgame study composer and author.
WAndrey Selivanov is a Soviet and Russian politician and chess problemist. Russian State Duma deputy (1993-2003).
WErich Ernst Zepler, later known as Eric Ernest Zepler, was a German-born electronics expert, lecturer, and chess problem composer. A Jew, he fled Germany in 1935, leaving behind all his possessions, and settled in England, dropping the H in his first name, and adding an E to his middle name, to become Eric Ernest Zepler.