Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and Women's World Champion from 2004 to 2006. She has represented Bulgaria in the Chess Olympiad in 2000 and the Women's Chess Olympiad since 1992.
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.
Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn is a Vietnamese chess player. He is the youngest Vietnamese ever to become a Grandmaster, and one of the youngest grandmasters in the history of the game, having qualified for the title at the age of fourteen.
Rusudan Goletiani is a Georgian-American chess player with the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She was three-time world girls' champion in her age category, the 2003 American continental women's champion and the 2005 U.S. women's championship.
Tatev Abrahamyan is an Armenian-American chess player. She currently holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
Darmen Sadvakasov is a Kazakhstani chess player. He is a five-time national champion and a former world junior champion.
Artyom Timofeev is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2003. Timofeev was born in Kazan. He, Zahar Efimenko and Andrei Volokitin tied for first place in the Under 14 section of the World Youth Chess Championships in 1999; Timofeev finished second on tiebreak. The next year, he won the Under 18 division of the European Youth Chess Championships.
Giovanni Portilho Vescovi is a Brazilian chess player. He was awarded the title of International Master in 1993 and the Grandmaster title in 1998. Vescovi is a seven-time national champion.
Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen is a Lithuanian politician and chess player who is currently the speaker of the Seimas. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2010, she was European women's champion in 2011, and is a two-time Lithuanian champion.
Igor Ilyich Lysyj is a Russian chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Lysyj was Russian champion in 2014.
Zeinab Hamid qizi Mamedyarova is an Azerbaijani chess player holding the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
Elena Tairova was a Belarusian and Russian chess player. She was awarded the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2006 and International Master (IM) in 2007.
Kaido Külaots is an Estonian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001.
Nidjat Mamedov is an Azerbaijani chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006.
Maxim Turov is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999.
Dana Reizniece-Ozola is a Latvian politician and chess player. She has been managing director of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) since 2021. She also served as minister of Economics (2014–2016) and minister of Finance (2016–2019) of the Republic of Latvia. Reizniece-Ozola was elected as a member of the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th Saeima of the Republic of Latvia and worked as the chairperson of the Commission on Education, Culture and Science, Member of the Legal Affairs Commission and Member of the European Affairs Commission. In chess, Reizniece-Ozola was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001. She is presently vice-president of the European Chess Union.
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.
Sopiko Guramishvili is a Georgian and Dutch chess player, author, and commentator who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Having represented Georgia for the bulk of her playing career, she has been an under-16 girls' World Youth Champion and an under-18 girls' Georgian national champion. She has a peak FIDE rating of 2441 and has been ranked as high as No. 42 in the world among women.
Irina Iosifovna Turova, née Irina Slavina, is a Russian chess player who holds the titles of Woman Grandmaster (2001) and International Master (2004). She won the Russian Women's Chess Championship in 2003.
Maka Purtseladze is a Georgian chess player. She received the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and International Master (IM) in 2005.
