WEspen 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 rating of 2372.
WHossein Aryanejad is an Iranian chess FIDE Master and a FIDE Trainer. He won the Iranian Chess Championship in 1992 and 1995 and represented Iran in four Chess Olympiads.
WCurt 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.
WSuchart 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.
WStanislav Cifka is a Czech chess, poker, Magic: the Gathering, Hearthstone, and Artifact player. He is also a FIDE master in chess. His esports alias is simply StanCifka, a contraction or anglicization of his name.
WMartin Paul Dreyer is a chess FIDE Master (FM).
WStuart Fancy is a Papua New Guinean chess FIDE Master (FM).
WMaxwell 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.
WLeontxo García Olasagasti is a Spanish lecturer, presenter, commentator and journalist specialized in chess. He is also featured in a popular internet meme, depicting a still of him in a video showing a winning chess move, usually with the text “Outstanding move” shown in front of the image.
WKrzysztof Gratka is a Polish chess player who holds the title of FIDE Master (FM) (1992).
WYoshiharu 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.
WRagnar Hoen was a Norwegian chess FIDE Master (FM), three-time Norwegian Chess Championship winner, and Nordic Chess Championship winner (1967).
WAsa 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.
WBörje Jansson, is a Swedish chess FIDE Master (2005) and two-time Swedish Chess Championship winner.
WRupert William Jones is a Papua New Guinean chess FIDE Master (FM) and FIDE International Arbiter (IA).
WAnna-Maja Kazarian is a Dutch chess player who holds the titles of FIDE Master (FM) and Woman International Master (WIM), and a Twitch live streamer. She is the reigning Dutch Women's Internet Chess Champion and has also been an under-16 girls' European Youth Champion. Kazarian has a peak FIDE rating of 2320, which she achieved in 2016. She has represented the Netherlands at the Chess Olympiad and the European Team Chess Championship.
WJerzy Konikowski is a Polish–German chess master, problemist and author.
WAnna-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.
WMartin Kreuzer is a German Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess and a Mathematics professor.
WAleksei Kulashko is a New Zealand chess player holding the title of FIDE Master (FM).
WJean-Claude Letzelter, is a French chess FIDE Master (FM) and three times French Chess Championship winner.
WHans 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.
WRaül García Paolicchi, is an Andorran chess FIDE Master (FM) (1993), two-time Andorran Chess Championship winner and Chess Olympiad individual gold medalist (1990).
WAaron 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.
WJózsef Pogáts, was a Hungarian chess FIDE Master (1983) and chess composer who twice won team bronze and individual silver medals in the European Team Chess Championship.
WShaun Press is a Papua New Guinean chess player and official. He holds the titles of FIDE Master (FM) and International Arbiter (IA).
WJonathan 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.
WJana Schneider is a German chess player. She was awarded the title of FIDE Master in 2016.
WManfred Schöneberg is a German chess FIDE Master (FM), East Germany Chess Championship winner (1972) and European Team Chess Championship team bronze and individual gold medal winner (1970).
WPetra Schuurman is a Dutch chess FIDE Master (FM) (2003) and Dutch Women's Chess Championship medalist.
WYlon 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".
WHans-Elmar Schwing is a German chess player. He was the 1997 Dähne-Pokal winner.
WSander De Erit Severino is a Filipino chess player holding the title of FIDE Master. He participated at the 2018 Asian Para Games.
WJørn Sloth is a Danish chess FIDE Master and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the eighth ICCF World Champion, 1975–80.
WRobert Wayne Smith is a chess FIDE Master (FM).
WPaul 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.
WShinsaku 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 the youngest ever National Champion. He also became Co-Champion of the U.S. National High School Championship in April 2010.
WCraig 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.
WEgon Varnusz was a Hungarian chess Master and writer.
WIvan 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.
WQiyu 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 is 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.