Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is held for life, though exceptionally the title can be revoked for cheating.
Alexander Genrikhovich Beliavsky is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Slovenian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1975. He is also a chess coach and in 2004 was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.
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.
Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman is a Russian chess player and writer. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990, he was FIDE World Chess Champion in 1999.
Alexander Anatolyevich Shabalov is an American chess grandmaster and a four-time winner of the United States Chess Championship. He also won or tied for first place seven times in the U.S. Open Chess Championship.
Alex Yermolinsky is an American chess player. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1992, he is a two-time U.S. champion.
Alexander Ivanov is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster. Born in Omsk, present-day Russia, he moved to the United States in 1988. FIDE awarded him his Grandmaster title in 1991. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, fellow chess player and Woman International Master Esther Epstein.
Alexander Areshchenko is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 2002. He has competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2021.
Alexander Onischuk is a Soviet-Ukrainian-American chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994, and won the 2006 U.S. championship.
Varuzhan Akobian is an Armenian-born American chess Grandmaster. Originally from Armenia, he now resides in St. Louis. He played on the bronze-medal-winning U.S. team in the 2006 and 2008 Chess Olympiads.
Alexander Moiseenko is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and the 2013 European champion. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the Chess Olympiads of 2004 and 2010.
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.
Oksana Vozovic is a Ukrainian chess Woman Grandmaster and kickboxer.
Alexander Zubarev is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (2002).
Alexander Anatolyevich Kovchan is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster (2002).
Alexander Ipatov is a Ukrainian-born Turkish chess grandmaster. He is the top ranked chess player of Turkey. Ipatov was world junior champion in 2012 and Turkish champion in 2014 and 2015. Since 2012, he has played for the Turkish national team in the Chess Olympiad, World Team Chess Championship and European Team Chess Championship.
Conrad William Holt is an American chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in September 2012.
Olexandr Bortnyk is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2015, at the age of 19. A former chess prodigy, Bortnyk is considered one of the strongest players according to his rating on the chess.com website in the "Blitz" and "Bullet" category. In 2018, Oleksandr left for the USA together with his wife Evgenia Bortnyk and founded the "Bortnik School of Chess" chess school. Oleksandr Bortnyk has an older brother, Mykola Bortnyk, who also plays chess and holds the title International Master. Bortnyk regularly streams on Twitch and puts up content on YouTube.
Alexander Anatolyevich Donchenko is a Russian-German chess grandmaster. He is the No. 2 ranked German player as of September 2023.
Marcel Kanarek is a Polish chess grandmaster (2016).
