Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, often referred to by his initials, MVL, is a French chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Champion. With a peak rating of 2819, he is the seventh-highest rated player in history.
Tiger Hillarp Persson is a Swedish chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Swedish Chess Champion. In 2015 he attained the level of 1-Dan in Go.
Vitali Matveyevich Golod (Russian: Виталий Матвеевич Голод; born 23 June 1971) is a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 1996.
Leinier Domínguez Pérez is a Cuban and American chess grandmaster. A five-time Cuban champion, Domínguez was the world champion in blitz chess in 2008. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2002 and 2004, and the FIDE World Cup in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015.
Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the victorious Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship in 2009 and 2013. Vitiugov won the Gibraltar Masters tournament in 2013 and the Grenke Open in 2017. Vitiugov won the 2021 Russian Chess Championship.
Anish Kumar Giri is a Dutch chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the grandmaster title in 2009 at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days. Giri is a four-time Dutch champion and won the Corus Chess B Group in 2010. He has represented the Netherlands at six Chess Olympiads. He has also won major international tournaments, including the 2012 Reggio Emilia tournament, 2017 Reykjavik Open, 2023 Tata Steel Chess, and shared 1st place in the 2015 London Chess Classic. In 2019 he won clear first at the Third Edition of the Shenzhen Masters, deemed by some to be his first supertournament victory.
Evgeny Gleizerov is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1993.
Jorge Moisés Cori Tello is a Peruvian chess grandmaster. A former chess prodigy, he was twice world champion and four-time Pan American champion in his age category. Cori competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019 and 2021. He has played for the Peruvian team in the Chess Olympiad since 2010.
Tigran Gharamian is an Armenian-French chess grandmaster. He won the French Chess Championship in 2018.
Sébastien Mazé is a French chess player and trainer. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 2007.
Arturs Bernotas is a Latvian chess player. He was awarded the FIDE Master title in 2015.
Rasmus Svane is a Danish chess grandmaster living in Lübeck, Germany. He has represented Germany at the European Team Chess Championship and Chess Olympiad. He is the No. 8 ranked German player as of July 2020.
Maxime Lagarde is a French chess grandmaster. He won the French Chess Championship in 2019.
Seyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei is an Iranian chess grandmaster (2018).
Alireza Firouzja is an Iranian and French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2800, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months.
Pierre-Benoist Varoclier is a French actor and theatre director. He made his film debut as a child in Volker Schlöndorff's The Ogre (1996).
Jonas Buhl Bjerre is a Danish chess player. He holds the title of grandmaster.
Trần Tuấn Minh is a Vietnamese chess Grandmaster (GM) (2017), five-times Vietnamese Chess Championships winner.
Ilja Sirosh is an Estonian chess International Master (2019), Estonian Chess Championship winner (2017).
Praveen Balakrishnan is an American chess grandmaster from Centreville, Virginia. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2021, and he is a recipient of the 2021 Samford Fellowship. As of January 2022, he is ranked the 35th best player in the United States.
