Henrique Costa Mecking, also known as Mequinho, is a Brazilian chess grandmaster who reached his zenith in the 1970s and is still one of the strongest players in Brazil. He was a chess prodigy, drawing comparisons to Bobby Fischer, although he did not achieve the International Grandmaster title until 1972. He won the Interzonals of Petropolis 1973 and Manila 1976. His highest FIDE rating is 2635, achieved in 1977, when he was ranked number four in the world. He became the 3rd best in the world in 1977, behind only World Champion Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi. He is the first Brazilian to become a grandmaster. Despite winning his first national championship at the age of 13, he played in very few tournaments. He won at Vršac in 1971 and finished third with Robert Byrne at Hastings in 1971–72. In 1975, he twice shared second place behind Ljubomir Ljubojević, firstly at Las Palmas with Ulf Andersson and Mikhail Tal and then at Manila with Lev Polugaevsky, Bent Larsen and Helmut Pfleger.
Harry Golombek OBE was a British chess player, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished second in 1948.
Larry Mark Christiansen is an American chess player of Danish ancestry. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1977. Christiansen was the U.S. champion in 1980, 1983, and 2002. He competed in the FIDE World Championship in 1998 and 2002, and in the FIDE World Cup in 2013.
Jana Bellin is a British, formerly Czechoslovak chess player. She was awarded the Woman International Master chess title in 1969 and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1982.
Győző Victor Forintos was a Hungarian chess player and by profession, an economist. He was awarded the titles International Master, in 1963, and Grandmaster, in 1974, by FIDE.
Peter Biyiasas is a Canadian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He was Canadian champion in 1972 and 1975, represented Canada with success on four Olympiad teams, and played in two Interzonals. He moved to the United States in 1979, settling in California. He retired from competitive play in the mid-1980s to work as a computer programmer. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was a frequent training partner of Bobby Fischer, who stayed at his home in San Francisco for extended periods.
George Steven Botterill is a Welsh chess player, writer and philosopher.
Katarina Blagojević, also known as Katarina Blagojević-Jovanović was a Serbian chess player who held the title of Woman Grandmaster. She shared 4th–5th place in the Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament in 1964. She was a three-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship and won a team silver medal and bronze individual medal at the Women's Chess Olympiads in 1963 and 1966, respectively.
Juan Manuel Bellón López is a Spanish and Swedish chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (1978). He is a five-time Spanish Chess Champion, Chess Olympiad individual silver medal winner (1978), and European Team Chess Championship (1989) individual bronze medal winner.
Heinz Schaufelberger was a Swiss chess FIDE Master who won the Swiss Chess Championship twice.
Börje Jansson is a Swedish chess FIDE Master (2005) and two-time Swedish Chess Championship winner.
Arthur Howard Williams is a Welsh chess FIDE Master (FM), British Chess Championship medalist (1974), eighteen-times Welsh Chess Championship winner.
Karl Röhrl was an Austrian chess player who held the FIDE title of FIDE Master (FM). He was a two-time Austrian Chess Championship winner.
Orestes Rodríguez Vargas is a Peruvian Grandmaster (GM) (1978), who representing Spain since 1982, five-times Peruvian Chess Championship winner, Chess Olympiad individual silver medal winner (1978), Pan American Chess Championship medalist (1970).
Hansruedi Glauser was a Swiss chess player who held the FIDE title of FIDE Master (FM). He was a Swiss Chess Championship medalist and Clare Benedict Cup winner (1969).
Andreas Huss is a Swiss chess International Master (IM), Swiss Chess Championship winner (1983), Chess Olympiads individual medalist.
Carlos Silva Sánchez is a Chilean chess FIDE master (FM) and five-time Chilean Chess Championship winner.
Ilkka Juhani Sarén was a Finnish chess FIDE master (FM), Finnish Chess Championship winner (1971).
Roderick McIntosh McKay is a Scottish chess player, International Master, seven-times Scottish Chess Championship winner.
Jacek Bielczyk is a Polish chess International Master (1979).
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