Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She was the youngest player ever to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, ranking No. 55 in the January 1989 rating list, at the age of 12.
John Denis Martin Nunn is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician. He is one of England's strongest chess players and was formerly in the world's top ten.
Teimour Boris oghlu Radjabov is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster, ranked number 18 in the world as of July 2022.
Gata Kamsky is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion.
Hikaru Nakamura is a Japanese-American chess grandmaster, Twitch streamer, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he earned his Grandmaster title at the age of 15, the youngest American at the time to do so. Nakamura won the 2011 edition of Tata Steel Chess Tournament Group A and has represented the United States at five Chess Olympiads, winning a team gold medal and two team bronze medals. With a peak rating of 2816, Nakamura is the tenth-highest rated player in history. In May 2014, when FIDE began publishing official rapid and blitz chess ratings, Nakamura ranked No. 1 in the world on both lists.
Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin is a Russian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he previously held the record for the world's youngest ever grandmaster, having qualified for the title at the age of 12 years and 7 months.
Andrew Eden Soltis is an American chess grandmaster, author and columnist. He was inducted into the United States Chess Hall of Fame in September 2011.
Boris Gelfand is a Soviet-born Israeli chess player.
Enrico Paoli was an Italian International chess master.
Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and the second highest rated female player of all time. Once a chess prodigy, she was the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster and the youngest ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship.
Fabiano Luigi Caruana is an Italian-American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, Caruana became a grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, and 20 days—the youngest grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States at the time.
Vugar Gasim oghlu Hashimov, known internationally as Vugar Gashimov, was an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. He was a noted player of blitz chess. At his peak ranking, he was No. 6 in the world, achieved in November 2009.
Anish Kumar Giri is a Russian-born Dutch chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the title Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days. FIDE awarded him the title in 2009.
Eugenio "Eugene" Torre is a Filipino chess player. In 1974, at 22 years old, he became not just the first Filipino but also the first Asian to qualify for the title Grandmaster. Torre did this by winning the silver medal in the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice, France. He is considered the strongest chess player the Philippines produced during the 1980s and 1990s, and played for the Philippines on board 1 in seventeen Chess Olympiads. In 2021, Torre was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.
Viorel Iordachescu is a chess grandmaster from the Republic of Moldova, member of the Olympic Team of the Republic of Moldova, FIDE Senior Trainer, commentator, the President of the National Chess Academy of Moldova, and politician. He was awarded the title of grandmaster by FIDE in 1999.
Nihal Sarin is an Indian chess player and a chess prodigy. He achieved the title of Grandmaster at age 14. He is also the fourth youngest player in history to cross the Elo rating mark of 2600, accomplishing this feat at the age of 14. He is one of the youngest chess talents from India.
Stany G A is an Indian chess player and a chess grandmaster. In 2012, he became Karnataka's youngest international master at the time after completing his final norm in Rethymno International Open, Greece. In December 2018 he completed his final grand master norm in National Senior Chess Championship, Jammu and became India's fifty-eighth and Karnataka's second grandmaster. He was given the Ekalavya Award by the Govt of Karnataka in 2012. Stany is a B.Com. graduate and has done masters in business administration.
Alberto Mario Giustolisi was an Italian chess International Master (IM) (1962), four-time Italian Chess Championship winner.
Elio Romani was an Italian chess player, Italian Chess Championship medalist (1964).
Alvise Zichichi was an Italian chess International Master (IM) (1977), Italian Chess Championship winner (1984).
Esteban Canal (PER)
Moshe Czerniak (ISR)
Otto Marthaler (SUI)
Cveto Trampuz (YUG)
Péter Dely (HUN)
Alberto Mario Giustolisi (ITA)
Rudolf Teschner (GER)
Victor Ciocâltea (ROM)
Ladislav Mista (CZE)
Andrew Soltis (USA)
Luben Popov (BUL)
Gennadi Kuzmin (RUS)
Nils Renman (SWE)
Arne Dür (AUT)
Nona Gaprindashvili (URS)
Viswanathan Anand (IND)
Rafael Vaganian (ARM)
Michał Krasenkow (POL)
Dimitri Komarov (UKR)
Jean-Luc Chabanon (FRA)
Igor Miladinović (GRE)
Viorel Iordăchescu (MDA)
Ni Hua (CHN)
Vugar Gashimov (AZE) [2] 
Anish Giri (NED)
