Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007. He has won three team gold medals and three individual medals at Chess Olympiads.
Ruslan Olehovych Ponomariov is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was FIDE World Chess Champion from 2002 to 2004. He won the Ukrainian Chess Championship in 2011.
Koneru Humpy is an Indian chess player best known for winning the FIDE Women's rapid chess championship in 2019. In 2002, she became the youngest woman ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster (GM) at the age of 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, beating Judit Polgár's previous record by three months. In October 2007, Humpy became the second female player, after Polgár, to exceed the 2600 Elo rating mark, being rated 2606.
Leonid Yudasin is a Soviet-born Israeli chess player and trainer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. Yudasin was part of the USSR team that won the gold medal in the 1990 Chess Olympiad. He competed in the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship twice, in 1991 and 1994.
IlyaSmirin is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990.
Bartłomiej (Bartek) Macieja is a Polish chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).
Zhao Zong-Yuan is an Australian chess Grandmaster. As of September 2019, he was the third-ranked active chess player in Australia.
Rafael Duailibe Leitão is a Brazilian chess grandmaster. He is a grandmaster in both over-the-board chess and correspondence chess. Leitão is a seven-time Brazilian champion. He competed in the FIDE World Championship in 1999, 2000 and 2004 and in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2015.
Bobby Cheng is a New Zealand-Australian chess player. Cheng was world champion in the under 12 category in 2009, the only Australian in history to win a world over-the-board title. Cheng won Australian Open championship in 2013 and Australian chess Championship in 2016. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2019.
Irina Berezina is an Australian chess International Master and trainer, and five-time Oceania women's chess champion. She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Laura Moylan is an Australian chess Woman International Master (WIM).
Russell John Dive is a New Zealand chess International Master (IM).
Anthony Fergus Ker is a chess International Master (IM).
Helen Milligan is a Scottish-New Zealand chess player holding the FIDE titles of Candidate Master (CM) and Woman FIDE Master (WFM), and three-time Asian senior women's champion.
Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky is a Vietnamese-Australian chess player holding the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She is now known as Ngan Nadalin.
Robert Wayne Smith is a chess player who holds the title of FIDE Master (FM).
Paul Anthony Garbett is a chess International Master (IM).
Igor Bjelobrk is an Australian chess International Master (IM). He gained the International Master title after winning the 2013 Oceania Zonal Chess Championship held on Sonaisali Island, Fiji.
Max Illingworth is an Australian former chess player, and current chess trainer and writer. In 2022 he started playing poker professionally. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2016, becoming the fifth Australian to achieve this. Illingworth won the Steiner Medal in 2011, 2012 and 2015. His current FIDE rating is 2493. He retired from competitive chess in 2019, to concentrate on coaching and writing.
Từ Hoàng Thông is a Vietnamese chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Từ is a six-time national champion.
