Well known German chess journalist, book author, and photographer who lives in Berlin. The author of more than 20 chess books over World Champions, Olympiads, tournaments etc. The translator of 50 chess books (Karpov, Korchnoi, Smyslov, Jussupow, Dvoretsky, Suetin, Neistadt, Nesis etc.) from Russian to the German language. Organizer of the Millennium tournament 1996 in

A Hungarian who was more commonly known by the German version of his name, Wolfgang von Kempelen.  Kempelen invented the first chess-playing ‘automation’ and was extremely proud of the mechanism which controlled its arm, which later became of major importance in prosthetics.  It was originally created as an amusement tool for the court of the

An American chess expert born in Poland who immigrated to America in 1862.  Judd was also the U.S. consul in Vienna. Best results: Philadelphia 1876 and Vienna 1897, 2nd; Chicago 1874, 3rd; Cleveland 1871, 4th and Western Chess Congress, 1st. In 1881 Judd lost a chess match against George Henry Mackenzie held in St. Louis

Romanian Women Grandmaster (2005). She is a three-times silver medalist at the European U16 in 1999, World U18 in 2001 and World U20 in 2003. Romanian U18 Champion in 2001. Best results: Spring Cup Women Bucharest 2005, 1st, Winter Cup Bucharest 2005, 1st. A participant in the 2002 and 2006 Women Olympiads. Peak rating: 2334

Born in Tartu, Kieseritsky was supposed to follow his father as an advocate, but instead, he became a teacher of mathematics. He was becoming increasingly devoted to chess and sailed to France in 1839 just in time to meet Louis Bourdonnais, who struggled to give him knight odds.  Settled in the Cafe de la Régence,

Carlos Juárez has the record of the most wins in a national championship. He has won the national championship of Guatemala 26 times. From the same country,  Silvia Carolina Mazariegos won the Guatemala Women’s Championship 21 times.

In 2017, Russia is holding the record for greatest number of grandmasters. with 237 of the 1586 grandmasters.

Georgian Grandmaster (1995). Kacheishvili was the Georgian Champion 1997 and 2006, bronze medallist at the 1994 World U18 championship. Best results: Won or shared first at New York Master 2002, Muenster Cup 2002, Edward Levy Memorial 2002, North American Open and Liberty Bell Open 2003 (shared), Pittsburgh Open 2003 and North American Open 2004 (shared), Istanbul

Yugoslavian chess player, International Arbiter, author and journalist.  Kazic has been the Chairman of the Rules of Chess Commission between 1978 and 1994, Zonal President between 1978 and 1982 and he is an Honored Member of FIDE since 1975. He was the General Secretary of the Yugoslavian Chess Union for the periods 1951-1964 and 1971-1976,

English Grandmaster (1976), British Champion (1971) and International Arbiter (1981).  Keene won the silver medal at the World Junior 1967 and w  as a member of the team who collected a bronze medal at the 1976 Olympiad.  He won the individual gold medal at the European Team Championship 1980, the Western European Team Championship 1970 and