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Dr. Lim was a chess master and three times chess champion of Singapore (1949, 1960 and 1968). General Secretary-General of FIDE from 1982 to 1988, he ruled the World Chess Federation with an iron fist. Medical Doctor. Dr. Lim was dean of the medical faculty at the University of Singapore and headed what became the

English chess amateur. Stockbroker (1970-1988) and Director of the Capel-Cure-Myers Stock Brokers Capital Management. Chess collector. Director of Junior Chess for British Chess Federation 1978-1985, President of British Chess Federation 1985-1989, FIDE Delegate for British Chess Federation 1990-1996, Finance Director of the British Chess Federation 1990-1992, FIDE Treasurer 1996-2006, FIDE Executive Director 2006-2011. Honorary Life

English Academic and language professor. Author of De Ludis Orientalibus in 1694. He was the first person to establish beyond doubt that chess originated in India. Author of Mandragoria seu Historia Shahiludii (1694).

American educator, statesman and scientist.  Franklin was the author of the first American chess work The Morals of Chess (1779), published first in 1786 in the Colombian magazine.                                   Lady Howe playing Benjamin Franklin (1867) by Edward Harrison May

A leading member of the Modena School of theorists in Italy, Ercole del Rio was a lawyer by profession and was the first of his school to publish a work giving the principles and analytical pratice of the school. This was in 1750 and the book bore the title Sopra il giuoco degli Scacchi, Osservazioni

Russian International Arbiter (1997). Graduated from Sport Institute of Moscow (chess) in 1975. A member of FIDE Qualification Committee (1994-2004), ECU Board member (1998-2004), Deputy President of ECU (2003-2004), Vice-President of Russian Chess Federation (1995-2003). A member of the Organizing Committee of the Olympiads of Moscow (1994) and the Olympiads of Elista (1998), Women World

National French Master and one of the most famous artists of our time. Duchamp was the father of Dadaism and a pioneer of Surrealism.  Art and chess were his two passion in life. As the Times critic wrote in 1966: “Duchamp’s passion for chess may be thought an expression of his dislike for the trappings

Russian chess amateur, journalist and famous chess photographer. As a child, he became fond of chess and took lessons at the Pioneer Palace of Moscvoreck, where Vassily Smyslov used to play. A participant in the Moscow youth championships. Received the 1st category rank. Champion of the town of Zvenigorod, Moscow region (1957) where his family

Canadian Master, Professor of Mathematics (PHD at 24), historian and musician. President of CFC in 1954. Best results: In 1946 and 1952, he won the Manitoba championship. In 1959, he tied 1st-4th in the Manitoba open. He was 3rd in the Canadian Championship of 1945 and represented Canada as Captain in the Olympiads of Amsterdam 1954

Count Cozio was the author of a 2 volume chess book dated of 1766 Il Giuoco delgi Scacchi. Murray writes that Cozio’s work was the last piece of chess literature to appear in Italy before the center of European chess shifted to France and England. But in fact this book was written before those of