Timur Gareyev is an Uzbekistani and American chess grandmaster.
Ronald Watson Henley is an American chess grandmaster, writer, narrator and producer of chess videos, as well as financial funding trader. For highschool, he went to Lamar High in Arlington Texas. He now works at Miami Country Day School and manages a chess club there.
Emory Andrew Tate Jr. was an American chess player who held the title of International Master. He was the father of the Internet personality Andrew Tate.
Ray Robson is an American chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2010. Robson fulfilled the requirements for the title in 2009 at the age of 14 years, 11 months and 16 days, making him the youngest ever United States Grandmaster at the time.
Alexander Vasylovych Onischuk born September 3, 1975) is a chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994, and won the 2006 U.S. championship.
Elshan Moradi Abadi is an Iranian-American chess grandmaster.
Varuzhan Akobian is an Armenian-born American chess Grandmaster. Originally from Armenia, he now resides in St. Louis. He played on the bronze-medal-winning U.S. team in the 2006 and 2008 Chess Olympiads.
Bartłomiej (Bartek) Macieja is a Polish chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).
Yuri Markavich Shulman is a Belarusian American chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). He is married to the Woman International Master (WIM) Viktorija Ni.
Vinay Subrahmanya Bhat is an American chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM)
Daniel Fridman is a Latvian-German chess player. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001, he was Latvian champion in 1996 and German champion in 2008, 2012 and 2014.
Susan Polgar is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster. Polgár was Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. On FIDE's Elo rating system list of July 1984, at the age of 15, she became the top-ranked female chess player in the world. In 1991, she became the third woman to be awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE. She won eleven medals at the Women's Chess Olympiad.
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.
Rauf Mamedov is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster and a three-time national champion. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2015.
Conrad William Holt is an American chess grandmaster who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in September 2012.
Marc Tyler Arnold is an American chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in September 2012.
Mauricio Flores Rios is a Chilean chess player who holds the Grandmaster title. As of January 2015 he has a FIDE rating of 2531, is number 1 in Chile among active players.
Hovhannes Gabuzyan is an Armenian chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in September 2012. He won the 77th Armenian Chess Championship in 2017 and 81st Armenian Chess Championship in 2021.
Mackenzie "Mac" Molner is an American chess grandmaster and chess instructor. Chess coach Michael Khodarkovsky helped Molner develop his competitive chess play. Molner won the Denker Tournament of High School Champions as a sophomore in 2004. He completed his final grandmaster norm in 2013, tying for first in the U.S. Open Chess Championship, held near Madison, Wisconsin that year.
Kacper Drozdowski is a Polish chess player who holds the title of International Master.
