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Rogelio Antonio Jr. is a Filipino chess grandmaster, who was awarded the title in 1993. He is affectionately known as "Joey" Antonio or GM Joey. Antonio finished tied for 3rd-8th places in the 2009 Asian Chess Championship and became the first player in the Philippines' history to qualify for the World Cup later in 2009.
Mirosława Litmanowicz was a Polish chess player who won the Polish Women's Chess Championship in 1968. FIDE Woman International Master (1967).
Stefka Savova is a Bulgarian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1983 an is a Bulgarian Women Chess Champion (1986).
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 eight time Greek Women's Chess Champion - which is the record for most Greek Women's Chess Championships. In 1982 she won two Chess Olympiad medals in the 25th Chess Olympiad, a team silver and an individual bronze for her performance in the second board. In the same year she reached her highest ever ranking in the world, placed 18th in the Women's FIDE elo rating charts. She has had a career of 40 years as a professional player, remaining at the top-20 women players rating for 2 years, at the top-50 for over 6 years and at the top-100 for over 13 years. In her career she has won or drawn 5 Women's World Chess Champions Nona Gaprindashvili, Susan Polgar, Maia Chiburdanidze, Ju Wenjun and Anna Ushenina which makes a record of 2 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses against five Women's World Chess Champions. She has participated overall in 15 Chess Olympiads and 11 European Team Championships representing either the Romanian or Greek national women's teams. In 2015 she became a World Vice-Champion winning the silver medal in the World Women's Senior Championship, a feat she repeated in the 2017 World Women's Senior Championship.
Suzana Maksimović is a Serbian and Yugoslav chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She is a two-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship. She won her first Yugoslav Chess Championship national title in 1983 jointly with her fellow counterpart Marija Petrović.
Wissam Toubal is an Algerian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master.
Heinz Wirthensohn, is a Swiss chess International Master (1977), three-times Swiss Chess Championship winner, European Team Chess Championship individual silver medal winner (1973).
Börje Jansson is a Swedish chess FIDE Master (2005) and two-time Swedish Chess Championship winner.
Giorgi Giorgadze is a Georgian chess Grandmaster (GM) (1993), two-times Georgian Chess Championship winner, Chess Olympiad individual bronze medalist (1996).
József Horváth is a Hungarian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) (1990). He is a Hungarian Chess Championship medalist (1992), World Team Chess Championship individual bronze medalist (1989), FIDE International Arbiter (1998), and FIDE Senior Trainer (2011).
Vlasta Maček is a Croatian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master. She won Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship (1980) and twice won Croatian Women's Chess Championship. She is Women's Chess Olympiad individual bronze medalist (1974) and first European Senior Chess Championship (women) winner (2003).
Franz Stoppel was an Austrian chess player who holds the FIDE title of FIDE Master (FM). He was an Austrian Chess Championship medalist and Mitropa Chess Cup winner (1977).
Guy Mazzoni, was a French physician and chess player, two-times French Chess Championship winner.
Louis Roos is a French chess player who holds the FIDE title of International Master. He won the French Chess Championship in 1977.
Max Arie Wotulo was an Indonesian chess player. He received the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) in 1969 and International Arbiter in 1978.
Ardiansyah was an Indonesian chess Grandmaster (GM) (1986) and five-time Indonesian Chess Championship winner. FIDE rating lists from 1975 to 2017 give his name as "Ardiansyah, H", the H being an abbreviation for the honorific Haji.
Carlos Silva Sánchez is a Chilean chess FIDE master (FM) and five-time Chilean Chess Championship winner.
Hélder Câmara was a Brazilian chess International Master (IM) (1972), two times Brazilian Chess Championship winner.
Erling Mortensen, is a Danish chess International Master (IM) (1980), four-times Danish Chess Championship winner.
Carla Wettstein is a Swiss and Australian chess player who two times won the Swiss Women's Chess Championship. Women's Chess Olympiad individual bronze medalist (1976).
