Daniel Abraham (Abe) Yanofsky was a Canadian chess player, chess arbiter, writer, lawyer, and politician. An eight-time Canadian chess champion, Yanofsky was Canada's first grandmaster and the first grandmaster of the British Commonwealth.
Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek was a Czech-American chess player. He was awarded both the International Master and International Grandmaster titles by FIDE in 1965. He won two Czechoslovak and three U.S. championships, and was ranked as the world's No. 10 player in 1974. He was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 2001. Kavalek was also a chess coach, organizer, teacher, commentator, author and award-winning columnist.
Moshe Czerniak was a Polish-Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title of International Master (IM) by FIDE in 1952.
Miguel Ángel Quinteros is an Argentine chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1973.
Izak Aloni (Schächter) was an Israeli chess master.
Yair Kraidman is an Israeli chess grandmaster.
Shimon Kagan is an Israeli chess master.
Vladimir Mikhailovich Liberzon was a Russian-born Israeli chess grandmaster.
Victor Ciocâltea was a Romanian chess player. He was awarded the International Master title in 1957 and the International Grandmaster title in 1978. Among his notable games is the one at the 15th Chess Olympiad, held in Varna in 1962, where he defeated Bobby Fischer.
Raaphi Joseph Arie Persitz was an English–Israeli–Swiss chess master, financial analyst, financial journalist, and chess writer. Persitz was Israeli Junior Champion in 1951. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, then British Mandate of Palestine. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and represented Oxford University in the annual match against Cambridge University on three occasions. In 1954 he won his individual game in the Oxford-Cambridge match in the morning, playing very quickly in order to be able to travel by train to Swindon in time to play top board for his county (Oxfordshire) against Gloucestershire in the afternoon. He was paired against a former British champion, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, and managed to win this game as well.
Khosro (Hosrov) Sheikh Harandi was the first Iranian chess International Master and 3-time Iran chess champion. He was a member of the national team in five Chess Olympiads.
Zadok Domnitz is an Israeli chess master, born in Tel Aviv.
Uzi Geller is an Israeli chess master.
Mato Damjanović was a Croatian chess grandmaster who represented Yugoslavia in international team events. In 1964 he became the second Croatian grandmaster, after Mijo Udovčić.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Antipov is a Russian chess grandmaster.
Tal Baron is an Israeli chess Grandmaster. As of May 2021, he is ranked 15th in Israel.
Vladimir Isaakovich Alterman is an Israeli chess player who won the Moldovan Chess Championship in 1979. FIDE International Master (1994).
Lars-Åke Schneider is a Swedish chess International Master (IM) (1976), four time Swedish Chess Championship winner.
Leon David Piasetski is a Canadian chess player who holds the titles of International Master (IM) (1975).
Itchak Radashkovich is an Israeli chess International master (IM) (1976).
Milan Matulović (Yugoslavia)
Moshe Czerniak (Israel)
Robert James Fischer (United States)
Jan Timman (Netherlands)
Miguel Quinteros (Argentina)
