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.
Mark Bluvshtein is a Soviet-born Canadian chess player. He became the youngest Canadian ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster in 2004, at the age of 16. He previously achieved the title International Master at the age of 13.
Kevin Spraggett is a chess grandmaster. He was the fourth Canadian to earn the grandmaster title, after Abe Yanofsky, Duncan Suttles and Peter Biyiasas. Spraggett is the only Canadian ever to have qualified for the world championship Candidates Tournament, having done so in 1985 and 1988. He has won a total of eight Canadian Open Chess Championships, seven Closed Canadian Chess Championships, and has represented Canada eight times in Olympiad play. Spraggett has also written for Canadian chess publications and published a chess blog.
Rubén Felgaer is an Argentine chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2002. He is a five-time Argentine Chess Champion.
Daniel Hugo Cámpora is an Argentine chess grandmaster and a twice Argentine champion, in 1986 and 1989. He finished runner-up in 1978 and 1987.
Bartłomiej (Bartek) Macieja is a Polish chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).
Lawrence Alexander Day is a Canadian chess player, author, and journalist who holds the FIDE title of International Master. He represented Canada at 13 Chess Olympiads.
Jonathan Berry is a Canadian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a FIDE Master, and a chess administrator, writer and editor. He is the only Canadian to hold international titles for over-the-board chess, correspondence chess, and chess arbiter.
Peter Biyiasas is a Canadian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He was Canadian champion in 1972 and 1975, represented Canada with success on four Olympiad teams, and played in two Interzonals. He moved to the United States in 1979, settling in California. He retired from competitive play in the mid-1980s to work as a computer programmer. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was a frequent training partner of Bobby Fischer, who stayed at his home in San Francisco for extended periods.
Deen Hergott is a Canadian International Master of Chess. By profession, he is a mathematician, computer programmer, and chess journalist.
Pascal Charbonneau is a Canadian chess grandmaster and a financial analyst. He has won two Canadian Chess Championships, in 2002 and 2004, and has represented Canada in five Chess Olympiads: 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.
Zhao Zong-Yuan is an Australian chess Grandmaster. As of September 2019, he was the third-ranked active chess player in Australia.
Jean Hébert is a Canadian chess player, writer, journalist, and commentator who holds the ICCF title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and the FIDE title of International Master. He is the 2009 Canadian chess champion, a title he first won in 1978. He tied for this title in 2007 as well, but lost in playoffs. He represented Canada at the 1979 Interzonal tournament, as well as seven times in chess Olympiads. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2009 and was knocked out by Peter Svidler in the first round.
Bruce Murray Amos is a Canadian chess master.
Božidar Ivanović is a chess Grandmaster who now represents Montenegro, a politician, and a chess official. He has served as Minister of Sport and Tourism in Montenegro. He won the Yugoslav Chess Championship three times, in 1973, 1981, and 1983 (shared). He also won the championship of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1996. His FIDE rating is 2444 as of January 2008.
Dimitri Tyomkin is a Canadian chess grandmaster (2001).
Aloyzas Kveinys was a Lithuanian chess player who was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1992.
Maili-Jade Ouellet is a Canadian chess player, who holds the title Woman Grandmaster.
Dinara Khaziyeva is a Canadian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master. She won the Women's Canadian Chess Championship in 2004.
Virginia Justo is an Argentine chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (1982). She is a four-time winner of the Argentine Women's Chess Championship and a Women's Chess Olympiad individual silver medalist (1984).
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