Jørgen Bent Larsen was a Danish chess grandmaster and author. Known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, he was the second-strongest non-Soviet player, behind only Bobby Fischer, for much of the 1960s and 1970s. He is considered to be the strongest player born in Denmark and the strongest from Scandinavia until the emergence of Magnus Carlsen.
Aivars Gipslis was a Latvian chess player, writer, editor and coach, who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster and the ICCF title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.
Ian Rogers is an Australian chess player, trainer and writer. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1985.
Peter Heine Nielsen is a Danish chess trainer and player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994. He has won a record nine consecutive World Chess Championship titles as a coach, working with Viswanathan Anand in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012; then with Magnus Carlsen in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2021.
Ljubomir Ljubojević is a Serbian chess grandmaster. He won the Yugoslav Chess Championship in 1977 (tied) and 1982.
Curt Hansen is a Danish chess grandmaster and a former World Junior Champion. He is a six-time Danish Champion.
Kevin Spraggett is a Canadian chess grandmaster. He was the first Canadian-born player and fourth Canadian overall to earn the grandmaster title, after Abe Yanofsky, Duncan Suttles and Peter Biyiasas.
Alexander Gregory Fishbein is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).
Artashes Minasian is an Armenian chess grandmaster. He tied for first in the 1991 USSR Chess Championship and is a six-time Armenian Chess Champion.
Alexei Barsov is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster.
Viacheslav Dydyshko is a Belarusian chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1995.
Marc Santo-Roman is a French chess grandmaster, born in Toulouse.
Helmut Pfleger is a German chess grandmaster and author. He was one of the most promising chess players in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1977 until 2005, Pfleger hosted a series of chess programs on German public TV, including Chess of the Grandmasters, often together with grandmaster Vlastimil Hort. By profession, he is a doctor of medicine.
Tomi Nybäck is a Finnish chess grandmaster and poker player. He won the Finnish Chess Championship in 2008 and is the No. 1 ranked Finnish player as of September 2023.
Normunds Miezis is a Latvian chess Grandmaster (1997).
Dimitri Tyomkin is a Canadian chess grandmaster (2001).
Saidali Iuldachev is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster (1997).
Isa Kasimi, born Igor Kondylev and known as Igors Rausis until 2020, was a Latvian chess International Master. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1992, but the title was stripped away after he was caught cheating in 2019. He won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1995. He represented Bangladesh from 2003 to 2007, when he switched to the Czech Republic.
Markus Ragger is an Austrian chess grandmaster. He won the Austrian Chess Championship in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and has played the first board for Austria in the Chess Olympiads since 2008. In October 2016, he became the first Austrian to reach a FIDE rating of 2700. His peak rating is 2703, which he reached in February 2017.
Daniel Alsina Leal is a Spanish chess Grandmaster.
