Donald Byrne was an American university professor and chess player. He held the title International Master, and competed for his country in the Chess Olympiad on several occasions.
The Vienna Game is an opening in chess that begins with the moves:
Gisela Kahn Gresser was an American chess player. She dominated women's chess in the United States, winning the U.S. Women's Chess Championship nine times from 1944 to 1969.
Murray Graham Chandler is a New Zealand chess grandmaster. In the 1980s he gained British citizenship and represented England at six Chess Olympiads. He has since returned to New Zealand. Chandler is also known as a chess writer, chess publishing executive and occasional organiser of chess tournaments. He remains the only New Zealand player to gain the title of grandmaster for over the board chess.
Wolfgang Uhlmann was a German chess grandmaster. He was East Germany's most successful chess player between the mid 1950's and the late 1980's, reaching the 1971 Candidates Tournament. During his career, Uhlmann played many of the top players of the time and won the East Germany Chess Championships 11 times. Uhlmann continued to play chess into his later years, before dying at the age of 85 in Dresden.
IlyaSmirin is a Belarusian-born Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990.
Anatoly Yakovlevich Lein was a Soviet-born American chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1968.
Viktors Pūpols is an American chess master. Known by many local players as "Uncle Vik," he frequently plays at the Tacoma Chess Club. He was the Club Champion in 1955, and some of his games can be viewed online at the club's website. Pupols is currently married to Deborah Petzal-Pupols.
Zhao Zong-Yuan is an Australian chess Grandmaster. As of September 2019, he was the third-ranked active chess player in Australia.
Baadur Jobava is a Georgian chess grandmaster and three-time Georgian champion. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2004 and in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017 where he reached round of 16 after defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi in 2021. He also participated in FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 where he finished joint 4th out of 12 participants in Tashkent Leg after beating Sergey Karjakin. He won the individual board performance gold medals in Chess Olympiad 2004 and 2016.
Friso Nijboer is a Dutch chess player. He achieved the title of Grandmaster in 1996.
Mišo Cebalo was a Croatian chess Grandmaster. He won the 19th World Senior Chess Championship at Condino 2009. In 2011 he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.
Robert Wayne Smith is a chess player who holds the title of FIDE Master (FM).
Stuart Fancy is a Papua New Guinean chess FIDE Master (FM).
Mikhail Gluzman is a Ukrainian-Australian chess International Master and an experienced chess coach.
Shaun Press is a Papua New Guinean chess player and official. He holds the titles of FIDE Master (FM) and International Arbiter (IA).
Sue Yuchan Maroroa Jones was a New Zealand-English chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM). She represented New Zealand in five Chess Olympiads and England at the 2014 Chess Olympiad.
Emma Guo is an Australian chess player holding the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM). She won the Oceania Women's Chess Championship in 2015.
The World Chess Championship 2023 was a chess match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match took place in Astana, Kazakhstan, from 9 April to 30 April 2023, and was a best of 14 games, plus tiebreaks.
Douglas Gibson Hamilton is an Australian chess player who holds the titles of FIDE Master and International Correspondence Chess Master (2001). He is a three-time Australian Chess Championship winner.
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