Lázaro Bruzón Batista is a Cuban-American chess grandmaster. He is a former World Junior Champion, two-times American Continental champion, two-time Iberoamerican champion and five-time Cuban champion.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, often referred to by his initials, MVL, is a French chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Champion. With a peak rating of 2819, he is the seventh-highest rated player in history.
Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and the second highest rated female player of all time. Once 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.
Yannick Pelletier is a Swiss chess Grandmaster and a six-time Swiss Champion currently living in Luxembourg.
Wang Hao is a Chinese chess grandmaster. In November 2009, Wang became the fourth Chinese player to break through the 2700 Elo rating mark.
The Danish Chess Championship was organised by the Danish Chess Union (DSU) and first held in 1910. A masterclass was first introduced in 1915. But it is only from 1922 that the title of Danish chess champion was introduced, this was the first year also players from Copenhagen joined.
Radosław Wojtaszek is a Polish chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Polish champion.
The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships. The current world blitz champion is the Norwegian Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen. Bibisara Assaubayeva from Kazakhstan is the current women's blitz world champion. Magnus Carlsen has won the event a record six times.
Lê Quang Liêm is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster, the top-ranked of his country. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Liêm won the Asian Chess Championship in 2019 and was the World Blitz Chess Champion in 2013.
The Lublin Grandmaster Tournament is an annual chess tournament, set up primarily as part of the city's bid to become the 2016 European Capital of Culture, which eventually went to Wroclaw instead. The venue is the Crown Tribunal in Lublin.
Boris Pavlovich Grachev is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Grachev competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2009, 2011, 2015, and 2017.
Arturs Neiksans is a Latvian chess player who has held the FIDE title of Grandmaster since 2012. He is a four-time Latvian champion, one of the leading Latvian chess players, an FIDE-accredited chess trainer, author and a commentator of high-level chess tournaments.
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi is an Indian chess grandmaster. He attained the title of grandmaster in January 2013, becoming the 30th player from India to do so. As of July 2023, he is the third highest rated player in India. He is the fourth Indian player to have crossed the Elo rating threshold of 2700.
Sébastien Mazé is a French chess player and trainer. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 2007.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Antipov is a Russian chess grandmaster.
Arjun Kalyan, is an Indian chess player. He has the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in April 2021.
Luka Budisavljević is the youngest Grandmaster in the history of Serbian chess. Budisavljević fulfilled requirements for achieving highest chess title Grandmaster on 29 November 2020 when he was exactly 16 years, 10 months and 7 days old, becoming the first Serbian who managed to get such an achievement before 17th birthday.
Prithu Gupta is an Indian chess grandmaster from Gurgaon. He reached this milestone in July 2019, at the age of 15 years and 4 months, 31 years after Viswanathan Anand became India's first GM. He began playing chess when he was nine years old, which is relatively late compared to most other grandmasters.
Abhimanyu Puranik is an Indian chess player who holds the title of chess grandmaster.
Edwin Bhend (Switzerland)
Jan Timman (Netherlands)
Predrag Ostojic (Yugoslavia)
János Flesch (Hungary)
Bela Soos (Romania)
John Pigott (England)
David Parr (Australia)
Bent Larsen (Denmark) (Interzonal)
Miguel Quinteros (Argentina)
Yehuda Gruenfeld (Israel)
Jean Hébert (Canada)
Israel Zilber (United States)
Eric Lobron (West Germany)
Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia)
Jaan Eslon (Sweden)
Rafael Vaganian (Soviet Union) (Interzonal)
Alexei Shirov (Latvia)
Anatoly Karpov (Russia)
Boris Gelfand (Belarus) (Interzonal)
Utut Adianto (Indonesia)
Alexey Dreev (Russia)
Zurab Sturua (Georgia)
Viswanathan Anand (India)
Mladen Palac (Croatia)
Christian Bauer (France)
Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine)
Bartosz Soćko (Poland)
Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
Fabiano Caruana (Italy)
Ni Hua (China)
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)
Amin Tabatabaei (IRI)
Salem Saleh (United Arab Emirates)
Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)
