Almira Skripchenko is a Moldovan-French chess player who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won the European Women's Individual Chess Championship in 2001, and is a seven-time French Women's Chess Champion.
Andrei Istrățescu is a Romanian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 1998 and in the FIDE World Cup in 2005 and 2013. Istrățescu has played for the Romanian national team in the Chess Olympiad, the European Team Chess Championship and the Chess Balkaniads. He represented France from 2011 to 2017. In 2004 he finished in second place behind Anatoly Karpov in the rapid knockout tournament in Aix en Provence. Subsequently, a rematch was set up in Bucharest: four classical games and four rapid games. The final score was 6–2 in favour of Karpov.
Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was Women's World Chess Champion from November 2012 to September 2013.
Bachar Kouatly is a French chess grandmaster, journalist and activist. He is deputy president of FIDE.
Chantal Chaudé de Silans was a French chess player and Woman International Master. She also participated in the Men's/Open competitions.
Cécile Haussernot is a French chess player holding the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She was twice European champion in her age girls category.
Elena Sedina is a Ukrainian-Italian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She has won the Ukrainian Women's Chess Championship, the Australian Open Chess Championship, and is a Chess Olympiad and Mitropa Cup gold medalist.
Fiona Steil-Antoni is a Luxembourgish chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master by FIDE in 2010. Steil-Antoni won an individual gold medal at the Women's Chess Olympiad in 2006.
Dinara Saduakassova is a Kazakh chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
Mitra Hejazipour is an Iranian and French chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.
Sébastien Mazé is a French chess player and trainer. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 2007.
Roza Lallemand was a French chess player of South Korean origin who was raised in the Soviet Union. She was European chess champion in 2001 and represented France several times at the Chess Olympiad.
Céline Clairette Roos was a French and Canadian chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM).
Robert Fontaine is a French chess player and journalist. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002. He played under Monaco flag from 2016 to 2018 and now plays for Switzerland.
Dina Kagramanov, is an Azerbaijan-born Canadian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master. She won Canadian Women's Chess Championship twice.
Johanne Charest is a Canadian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master. She is a Canadian Women's Chess Championship winner (1996).
Aldo Haïk is a French chess International Master (IM) (1977), two-times French Chess Championship winner, Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner (1972), World Team Chess Championship individual bronze medal winner (1985).
Andreea Bollengier was a Romanian-born French chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) since 2000. She was a two-time French Women's Chess Championship medalist.
Andreea-Cristiana Navrotescu is a French chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She is a Women's Chess Olympiad individual silver medalist (2016).
Tilsia Carolina Varela La Madrid, is a Venezuelan chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master in 2013.
