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English editor of IM strength who won the British Championships in 1870 and 1872. He edited the Chess Player’s Chronicle during 1872-76. He also wrote a chess column in the Sporting Times. In 1877, he immigrated to Australia (hoping to cure his tuberculosis) where he wrote a chess column for the Australasian.

US lawyer, bibliophile and founder of the largest chess library in the world (32,568 volumes of books and serials, including 6,359 volumes of bound periodicals): the White Collection in the Cleveland Public Library, Ohio. He also left money to purchase new books and to keep the collection up to date.

Leading English chess player and writer on chess. In 1827, he was regarded as one of the strongest players in England. In 1831, he was one of the founders of the Westminster Club and eight years later, he founded the St. George’s Club. He was also the chess columnist of Bell’s Life from 1834 to

French chess amateur. General Secretary of the French Federation from 1924 until 1928. He was the organiser of the first Tournament of Nations (renamed later Chess Olympiad) in July 1924 in Paris and named the Father Founder of FIDE, a new international organisation representing 15 national chess federations which was created during the same event.

Italian humanist, a poet, Bishop of Alba since 1532. Author of the poem “Game of Chess” (Scacchia ludus, 1513 in Latin, was published in 1525 anonymously, later in 1527 under the author’s name. It tells about the chess game between Apollo and Mercury, in which new rules of chess were reflected, with a description of

French FIDE Master (3 IM norms). Technical Director of the FFE  since 2005, journalist, organiser and co-author. Champion of Paris 1993 and eight times a member of the team of Clichy which won the French Team Championship. Chief editor of Top Echecs (1988-90) and columnist of the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur (1992-98). Author (with

Armenian International Arbiter (1993), Vice President of the Armenian Chess Federation. Educational background – economist, urban-engineer and sociologist. Author more than 20 scientific books, urban standards and memoir. Chief Arbiter at the World Championship Match Anand-Gelfand in 2012, World Cup in 2005, 2009 and 2011, World Youth in 1997, European Junior in 1998, World Junior

Soviet and Kazakh chess Master who played in the 1947 Soviet Championship and won several times the Kazakh championship. Economist. A teacher and an expert in chess opening theory, he is one of the founders of the Pirc defence  when in the late 1930’s he contributed to the theory and practice of the Pirc Classical Defence (B08).

Czech Master and judge. Champion of Czechoslovakia in 1907 and (shared) in 1921 . Member of the National Team in the Olympiads of 1930, 1933 and 1935. Shared sixth in Carlsbad 1923. Died during World War II, a victim of the Nazis.

German player, one of the world’s best players at the beginning of the twentieth century. He played chess while studying medicine in Berlin and Halle. At the Congress of the German Chess Federation in Nuremberg in 1883, he received the title of Master, but he began to show great success in playing only in 1883.