Natalia Oleksandrivna Zhukova is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and two-time European women's champion. She won several age-group titles as a teenager, at both the European and world levels. She has also won several international women's tournaments. Zhukova has played for the Ukrainian women's national team since age 17 in 1996, the same year she won the Ukrainian women's championship in her debut. She played board one on the winning Ukrainian team at the 2006 Women's Chess Olympiad.
Dariusz Świercz is a Polish-American chess player playing for the United States. He was the youngest Polish player of all time to qualify for the title Grandmaster; he was 14 years and seven months when he achieved this title in 2009. In 2018 he switched his national federation to the United States.
Alexandra Sergeevna Obolentseva is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2018. Obolentseva has won the World Youth Chess Championships, the World Schools Chess Championships and the European Schools Chess Championships in her age girls category.
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.
Anastasia Mikhailovna Bodnaruk is a Russian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is the current women's World Rapid Chess Champion after winning the World Rapid Chess Championship 2023.
Robert Aghasaryan is an Armenian chess Grandmaster (2014). As of June 2018, he is rated by FIDE as with an Elo rating of 2537, his best until now.
Triin Narva is an Estonian chess player who holds the title of Woman FIDE Master (2016).
Laura Unuk is a Slovenian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and International Master. She has been twice world girls' champion in her age category, and was the Slovenian women's champion in 2013. Unuk is the top female player of Slovenia.
Lanita Igorevna Stetsko is a Belarusian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She won the Belarusian Women's Chess Championship in 2015.
Alan Pichot is an Argentine chess player who represents Spain. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2016.
Elizabete Limanovska is a Latvian chess player who holds the title of Woman FIDE Master. She won the Latvian Women Chess Championship in 2018.
Mónika Grábics is a Hungarian chess player who received the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2003. She won the Hungarian Women's Chess Championship in 1996. After retiring from professional chess playing Monika started gambling and gaming consulting business BettingSharks.
Govhar Beydullayeva is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster. She is the 2022 World Girls U-20 Champion as well as the World Girl's U18 Champion in 2021.
Anna Warakomska is a Polish chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster.
Cemil Can Ali Marandi is a Turkish chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster in 2017.
Filiz Osmanodja is a German chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.
Sergei Lobanov is a Russian chess player who holds the title of grandmaster.
Cristhian Cruz Sánchez is a Peruvian chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in September 2012.
Lara Schulze is a German chess Woman International Master who won the German Women's Chess Championship in 2022.
Grzegorz Nasuta is a Polish chess grandmaster.
