Philippine Grandmaster (2007). Graduated in Business Management. Philippine Champion in 2004 and 2006. Silver medallist at the Asian U20 in 1999. Philippine U20 Champion in 2000. Best results: winner or first equal at Kuala Lumpur Open 2006, 1st; Zonal tournament in Ho Chi Minh 2009, 1st; Aeroflot B in 2011; 1-3rd; 2nd Chairman Prospero A. Pichay,

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

Latvian Grandmaster (1967) and Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, chess writer and editor. Champion of Latvia in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, and 1966. Gipslis participated in six USSR championships between 1958 and 1970. His best place was third equal with Viktor Korchnoi in 1969. Best results: Won or shared first at Bad Liebenstein 1963,

Greek Woman Grandmaster (1985) born in Romania. Greek Women Champion in 1990, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004,  2007 and 2011. Romanian Women’s Champion in 1984 and Romanian U20 Champion in 1976. Vice Women Senior  World Champion in 2015. Best results: Romanian women championship 1980 and 1983, 3rd; Women’s Zonal Bydgoszcz 1981, 1st; Guingamp 2005, 1st;

1924 16.04 The Belgian newspaper “La Nation Belge” published the copy of an invitation sent by the French Chess Federation to all national chess federations to attend a chess congress  in Paris on July 20. The main item on the agenda was the creation of an International Chess Federation. 1924 12.07 The 8th Olympic Chess

Serbian Grandmaster (1965), journalist and musician. FIDE Senior trainer. Yugoslavia Junior Champion in 1954. Best results were: equal 1st with Tal at Sarajevo 1966, equal first in Reggio Emilia 1967, equal 1st with Lein at Sarajevo 1968, equal 1st at Sant Felin de Guixols 1975, 1st at Bern 1976 and Marseilles 1981. Ciric represented Yugoslavia