Étienne Bacrot is a French chess grandmaster, and as a child, a chess prodigy.
Ratmir Dmitrievich Kholmov was a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won many international tournaments in Eastern Europe during his career, and tied for the Soviet Championship title in 1963, but lost the playoff. Kholmov was not well known in the West, since he never competed there during his career peak, being confined to events in socialist countries. His chess results were impressive, so this may have been for security reasons, as Kholmov had been a wartime sailor. But he was one of the strongest Soviet players from the mid-1950s well into the 1970s, and was ranked as high as No. 8 in the world by Chessmetrics.com from August 1960 to March 1961. Kholmov stayed active in competitive chess right to the end of his life, and maintained a high standard of play past the age of 80.
Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and the second highest rated female player of all time. A chess prodigy, she was the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster and the youngest ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship.
The Women's World Chess Championship is a chess match played to determine the Women's World Chess Champion. It has been administered by FIDE since its inception in 1927, unlike the absolute World Chess Championship, which only came under FIDE's control in 1948.
Lone Pine International was a series of chess tournaments held annually in March or April from 1971 through 1981 in Lone Pine, California. The tournaments were formally known as the Louis D. Statham Masters, named after sponsor Louis D. Statham (1907–1983), an engineer and millionaire inventor of medical instruments who was also a Los Angeles based chess aficionado. The events were seven- to ten-round Swiss system tournaments, with entrance requirements that made them the strongest recurring Swiss tournaments in the U.S. in the 1980s. Grandmaster Isaac Kashdan served as the tournament director.
The 27th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between November 14 and December 2, 1986, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Below is a list of events in chess during the year 2008, and a list of the top ten players during that year:
Below is a list of events in chess during the year 2007:
Below is a list of events in chess in 1997, as well as the top ten FIDE rated chess players at the start of that year.
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi was a Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and norms. Once awarded, titles are held for life except in cases of fraud or cheating. Open titles may be earned by all players, while women's titles are restricted to female players. Many strong female players hold both open and women's titles. FIDE also awards titles for arbiters, organizers and trainers. Titles for correspondence chess, chess problem composition and chess problem solving are no longer administered by FIDE.
Tamar Khmiadashvili was a Georgian chess player, who was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 1998 for winning Women's Senior Chess Championship. She won the Georgian Women's Championship in 1972, 1975 and 1978, the European Women's Senior Championship in 2010, and the World Women's Senior Championship in 1998, 1999, 2003, 2010 and 2017. She placed second in the latter event in 1995–1997. In 2007 she was also accorded the FIDE Arbiter title.
The major chess events of 1981 were the final match of the Candidates Tournament and the second Karpov–Korchnoi World Chess Championship match.
Marina Makropoulou is a Romanian and Greek chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. Her peak Elo rating is at 2330 in 1994. She is a Romanian Women's Chess Champion (1984) and nine time Greek Women's Chess Champion - which is the record for most Greek Women's Chess Championships. With her 2022 win, she tied Viktor Korchnoi's record for winning an Individual National Championship in 5 different decades.
Bad Wörishofen (Germany)
Vasily Smyslov (Russia)
Eva Ladanyine-Karakas (Hungary)
Biel/Bienne (Switzerland)
Mark Taimanov (Russia)
Nona Gaprindashvili (Georgia)
Jānis Klovāns (Latvia)
Grieskirchen (Austria)
Rowy (Poland)
Arco (Italy)
Marta Litinskaya (Ukraine)
Liuben Spassov (Bulgaria)
Algimantas Butnorius (Lithuania)
Larry Kaufman (USA) and 
Mihai Suba (Romania)
Mišo Cebalo (Croatia)
Nona Gaprindashvili (Georgia)
Anatoly Vaisser (France)
Kamena Vourla (Greece)
Jens Kristiansen (Denmark)
Yelena Ankudinova (Kazakhstan)
Predrag Nikolic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (50+)
Marianske Lazne (Czech Republic)
Julio Granda (Peru) (50+)
Elvira Berend (Luxembourg) (50+)
Bled (Slovenia)
Karen Movsziszian (Armenia) (50+)
John Nunn (England) (65+) 
Monica Calzetta Ruiz (Spain) (50+)
