Chess Personalities

Bermuda chess amateur born in England, M.A. in History and is the owner of a company which specialises in corporate administration, investment banking and other financial services. Freeman has been the President of the Bermuda Chess Federation since 1990, FIDE Treasurer (2006-2014) and FIDE Executive Director since the end of 2011. He was also the organiser

French FIDE Master (1989) with an IM norm (1996), FIDE International Organizer (2010). Former President of the French Chess Federation (2005-2011). President de Léonard and associated at Kaissa, Jean Claude is also  the founder and the president of the chess club Asnières Le Grand Echiquier. Captain of the French National Team which finished second in the European

English player, one of the leading English chess players of the late 1950s and 1960s. British Correspondence Champion in 1960. Prolific writer. Author of A Complete Defence to 1.K4: a Study of Petroff’s Defence with Hooper in 1967, Tal’s 100 Best Games, 1961-1973 with Tal, Spassky’s 100 best Games, with Barden, Play for Mate with

Israeli chess amateur. Between 1972-76 Burstein was the Secretary of the Israel Chess Federation and in 1976 – Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Haifa Chess Olympiad, which was the first Olympiad to be run according to the Swiss System. Ten times (more than anyone else) he was a member of the Olympiad Pairings

Amos Burn was born in Hull on the 31st December 1848. In his early teens, he was apprenticed to a firm in Liverpool cotton broker. He started to play chess when he was sixteen and became immediately recognize as a talented player. In 1870 he joined the London Chess Club and under the influence of Wilhelm

English Grand Master of Correspondence Chess for Blind, Blind World Champion in 1958 and Correspondence Blind World Champion in 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963 (joint) and in 1966. Teacher of mathematics for blind. He was one of the founders of the Braille Chess Association in 1951 and the Braille Chess Magazine. Bonham also had many victories

Belgian master and a player of enormous combinational ability. Unfortunately, ill-health was his constant handicap, as he was always on a diet. Colle won 6 times the Belgian championship. Best results: Scheveningen 1923, 3rd; Hastings 1924, 3rd; Paris 1924, 3rd; Amsterdam 1926, 1st; Weston-super-Mare 1926, 2nd; Meran 1926, 1st; Hastings 1927, 2nd; Scarborough 1930, 1st; Liege

Austrian master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor, one of the founders of the Old German School in chess problems. The founder and chairman of the Chess Society of Graz. The co-editor and editor of the chess magazine Deutsche Schachzeitung (1898-1907 and 1908-1911). . In September 1870, he won the first tournament in the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Filipino player, organizer and President of FIDE. Graduated from Brown University (USA) in 1951. Philippines Champion in 1956. University teacher. Asian Zone President (1966-1970), Deputy President of Asia Zone (1974-1982). President of FIDE (1982-1995). From 1956 to 1966 he took part in the Olympiads as the member (sometimes at the first board) of the Philippine chess team.

Soviet player born in Belarus, chess theorist and writer. A lawyer. Made a great contribution to the opening theory with deep analysis published in Soviet chess magazines. He was the initiator of the Blumenfeld Gambit (E10). One of the first who began to study the psychology of chess game. He received a doctorate for a