Slovakian Grandmaster (2005). Slovakian Champion in 1989. Best results: Open Pressburg 2005, 1st; Tatry Open 1997 and 2005, 1st. A participant in the Olympiads between 1994 and 2004. Peak rating: 2512 in 2005.

Slovenian Grandmaster (1953) and International Arbiter (1973). Yugoslav Champion in 1935 (joint), 1936 and 1937 and 1953. Best results in international tournaments: Budapest 1934, 2nd; (+7=7-1), a half point behind Lilienthal; Novi Sad 1936, 1st; Lodz 1938, 1st (+8=7), ahead of Tartakower, Petrov, Stahlberg, and Eliskases; Bad Haezburg 1938, 1st; Marianske Lazne 1948, equal first.

Israeli International Master (1952) born in Poland. In 1934 he emigrated to Palestine where he won the Palestine championship in 1937 and 1940. After the war, he won four times the Israeli championship in 1953, 1957, 1959 and 1963. Porath was the winner of the Zonal Tournament in Ulan-Bator in 1964, his best chess result.

Spanish Grandmaster (1962). Chess prodigy. Pomar started to play in chess competitions at 10. At 13 he drew with Alekhine in the tournament of Gijón, becoming the youngest player ever to draw with a reigning World Champion at a normal time control. The champion of Spain in 1946, 1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962 and 1966.

Slovenian Grandmaster (1963) and journalist. World Junior Champion in 1961. Slovenia Champion in 1959 and 1961? Best results: Beverwijk 1962, 1st; Torremolinos 1962, 1st-3rd; Malaga 1963, 1st; Polanica Zdroj 1964, 1st-2nd; Reggio Emilia 1965-66 and 1971, 1st; Bucharest 1968, 1st; Yugoslav championship 1968, 3rd; Solingen 1968, 2nd; Sarajevo 1970, Netanya 1971 and Vrsac 1973, 1st-2nd;

One of the great chess theoreticians and a player ranking among the world’s best half-dozen in the 1860s and 1870s. Born in Nassengrund, Germany, to a chess-playing family, he learned the game young but showed no special enthusiasm for it at the time. In 1854, he joined his brother Ernst’s tobacco business in Iowa, USA.

British International Master (1961), International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1983) and ten times British Champion. His father and mother both played chess and his father, Professor L.S. Penrose, in addition to being a geneticist of worldwide fame, was a strong chess player and a good endgame composer. Jonathan’s elder brother, Oliver, was also a fine player.

Polish strong Master and chess composer. Chief editor of the chess magazine Svyat Shakhovy during the period of 1926-33. Vice-President of the Polish Chess Union since 1926. FIDE Honorary member. Polish Champion in 1926. Active in tournament play from 1904-31, he obtained his best result at Munich in 1926 when he won the first prize

Israeli Grandmaster (1982) and FIDE Senior Trainer born in Russia, living in Israel since 1990. Israeli Champion in 1997 and co-Champion in 1999. Lev started to play chess at 4 years old. Studied law but became a chess professional in 1977 after winning the Championship of Russia. The following year he won also the USSR

Dutch Grandmaster (Honorary Grandmaster, 1982). International Arbiter 1960. Deputy Chief Arbiter at the match Karpov-Kasparov in 1985. Chess journalist and columnist at Het Parool. Netherlands Champion in 1965. Best results: Ebenze 1933, 2nd; Birmingham 1937 and 1939, 1st -2nd; Gijon 1947, 1st-2nd; Beverwijk 1948, 1st; Niemegen 1948, 1st; Madrid 1951, 1st; Tarragona 1954, 1st. A