The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess.
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He tied for fourth/fifth at New York 1940 (US Chess Championship, Samuel Reshevsky won), tied for third/fourth at Ventnor City 1941 (Jacob Levin won), tied for third at New York 1942 (US championship, Reshevsky won), shared third at Ventnor City 1942 (Daniel Yanofsky won), took fifth place at New York 1944 (US championship, Arnold Denker won), and tied for second/third at Ventnor City 1944 (Levin won).
After his defeats of John Cochrane and William Lewis two years later, Deschapelles switched to playing Whist (the Deschapelles coup in Contract Bridge is named after him).
In September 2010, Shirov participated in the Grand Slam Chess Masters preliminary tournament in Shanghai from September 3 to 8, where he faced world No. 4 Levon Aronian, world No. 5 Vladimir Kramnik, and Wang Hao; the top two scorers qualified for the Grand Slam final supertournament from October 9 to 15 in Bilbao against world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and world champion Viswanathan Anand.
In the next four FIDE World Championship tournaments he was knocked out at the last sixteen stage: at Las Vegas 1999 by Michael Adams, at New Delhi 2000 to Veselin Topalov, at Moscow 2001 to Viswanathan Anand, and finally at Tripoli 2004 to Leinier Dominguez.
Arianne Caoili (born December 22, 1986) is an Australian chess player who achieved the FIDE Woman International Master title.
Jaenisch is best remembered for having analyzed and helped develop Petrov's Defence with Alexander Petrov, and for his work on the Schliemann–Jaenisch Gambit of the Ruy Lopez, which begins
He also played in cable chess matches New York vs. London in 1896 (won a game against Henry Edward Bird) and 1897 (lost a game to Henry Ernest Atkins).
The Danish Gambit was popular with masters of the attack including Alekhine, Marshall, Blackburne, and Mieses, but as more defensive lines for Black were discovered and improved, it lost favor in the 1920s.
He was 1st= in Vienna (1920) with Savielly Tartakower; 1st in Margate (1923); 1st in Meran (1924); 1st in Budapest (1926) with Mario Monticelli; 1st in Vienna (1927) and he shared first spot in the Vienna tournaments of 1928 and 1933 (Trebitsch Memorial)—the former with Sándor Takács and the latter with Hans Müller; and finally he was 1st in the tournament at Ostrava of 1933.
In 2003 he tied for 1st–3rd with Yuri Yakovich and Alexander Potapov in the Fakel Jamala tournament in Noyabrsk.
In other competition, he achieved outright or shared first place at Hastings 1973/74 (with Szabó, Tal and Timman), Baku 1977, Tallinn 1979, Kladovo 1980, Dortmund 1981 (with Speelman and Ftáčnik) and Bangalore 1981.
But Maróczy's defensive style was often more than sufficient to beat the leading attacking players of his day such as Joseph Henry Blackburne (+5−0=3), Mikhail Chigorin (+6−4=7), Frank Marshall (+11−6=8), David Janowski (+10−5=5), Efim Bogoljubov (+7−4=4) and Frederick Yates (+8−0=1).
Hillar Rootare is the nephew of Estonian chess player Vidrik Rootare, several of whose games against the world-renowned International Grand Master Paul Keres are published among Keres's most interesting games, and of Salme Rootare, a Women's International Master in chess, and 15-time Estonian women's chess champion, who once finished third in the world chess championship competition (1959).
Mouret was one of many strong players who played hidden in the Turk (others being Johann Baptist Allgaier, who defeated Napoleon in 1809, Schlumberger, Boncourt and Lewis).
At Dos Hermanas the following year, he shared third behind Fridman and Bu Xiangzhi (with Sergey Volkov) and at the 2005 Hengelo Stork Young Masters event, he finished one-half point behind the Russian grandmaster Alexander Riazantsev.
(Sam Sloan attempted to use this tactic to take the 2010 Libertarian gubernatorial nomination from party nominee Warren Redlich, but did not have enough signatures to successfully do so.
In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 in Tripoli, Libya, Kasimdzhanov unexpectedly made his way through to the final, winning mini-matches against Alejandro Ramírez, Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, Vasily Ivanchuk, Zoltán Almási, Alexander Grischuk and Veselin Topalov to meet Michael Adams to play for the title and the right to face world number one Garry Kasparov in a match.
His first success came when he became the youngest Expert in USCF history, an achievement that was featured in an article in the Los Angeles Times by International Master John Peters.
Previous winners of the United States Junior Invitational (est. 1966) include Larry Christiansen, Patrick Wolff, Joshua Waitzkin, Tal Shaked, Hikaru Nakamura, Robert Hess, and Ray Robson.
By December, 1966, the East Bay Sexual Freedom League, forced by competition from Sam Sloan's Campus Sexual Freedom League and also by the influence of an article in the September "Back to School" issue of Playboy which Sloan helped to write, started holding nude parties and sex orgies again.
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The non-sex branch was headed by Linda Lindvall and the pro-sex branch by Sam Sloan, a student at the University of California at Berkeley.
In the late 1930s he co-edited with Reinfeld a book on the Kemeri 1937 chess tournament, and in 1947 the two collaborated on a revision of James Mason’s The Art of Chess.
Chess tradition was highlighted by the 1914 international tournament, in which the title "Grandmaster" was first formally conferred by Russian Tsar Nicholas II to five players: Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tarrasch and Marshall, and which the Tsar had partially funded.
He tied for first at the 1929/30 Hastings Premier Reserves alongside George Koltanowski ahead of Salo Flohr, Josef Rejfiř, Ludwig Rellstab, C.H.O'D. Alexander, Daniël Noteboom, and Milan Vidmar.
He tied for 12-13th at Coburg 1904 (DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A, Augustin Neumann won), shared 1st at Bremen 1906 (Quadrangular), took 4th at Hannover 1907 (Quadrangular), won at Barmbek 1911 (Quadrangular), and took 13th at Mannheim 1914 (DSB-Congress, Hauptturnier A, B. Hallegua won).
Emanuel Lasker had virtually retired after retaining the Chess World Championship in 1897, in part due to his doctoral studies in mathematics, but defended his title against Frank J. Marshall from January 26 to April 6, 1907, in the USA, games being played in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago and Memphis.
June 27 – Endre Steiner (1901–1944), Hungarian chess player and older brother of André Steiner, is born in Budapest
December 6 – G. H. Diggle (1902–1993), British chess player and writer, is born in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England
Aditi Soondarsingh (born 1988) is a women’s chess player from Barataria, Trinidad and Tobago.
A particularly intriguing piece of faux mechanical technology (while presented as entirely automated, it in fact concealed a strong human chess player inside), it drew scores of thousands of spectators to its games, the opponents for which included Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, and O. Henry.
Alexander Beliavsky (b. 1953), Slovenian chess player of Ukrainian origin
Florencio Campomanes (1927–2010), Filipino chess player and President of FIDE.
Torre's meteoric rise and psychological disintegration at a young age strikingly recall fellow New Orleans chess player Paul Morphy.
Friedl Rinder (1905–2001), chess player, winner of the 1959 German Chess Women's Championship, which took place in Dahn
Pedro Damiano, a Portuguese chess player from the 15th and 16th centuries
Charles Masson Fox (6 November 1866 – 11 October 1935), chess player.
Nona Gaprindashvili (1941—present) — Georgian chess player, Grandmaster
Valeriane Gaprindashvili (1982—present) — Georgian chess player, Grandmaster
Hans Frank, the Governor-General of General Government, was the patron of those tournaments because he was an avid chess player.
He was also a renowned chess player whose skill for recording many games of his own and of other players, including François-André Danican Philidor, the leading master of his time, left a valuable historical record for future generations.
Ernst Grünfeld (1893-1962), Austrian chess player and author, specializing in opening theory, who, for a brief period, was one of the strongest chess players in the world.
A devoted and skilled chess player, he covered the championship match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer in Reykjavík, Iceland in 1972.
Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (1909–1974), British chess player and cryptanalyst
Jan Kleczyński, Sr. (1837–1895), Polish pianist, composer, music critic, and chess player
Andruet's son Gilles was a chess player and was murdered in 1995 in murky circumstances.
Jirayr Ohanyan Çakır (also known as Zhirayr Ohanian) (February 5, 1923 – 2003) was a chess player, coach and former president of the Turkish Chess Federation.
Houska married Norwegian chess player Arne Hagesaether on 14 March 2009 at the Ice Chapel in Alta, Norway.
Charles Kalme (1939–2002), American chess player and mathematician
Ekaterina Korbut (born 1985), Russian chess player, a Woman Grandmaster
Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795-1840), chess player and grandson of Bertrand-François
Hans Olav Lahlum (born 1973), Norwegian historian, writer, chess player and politician
Jan Smejkal (born 1946), International Grandmaster chess player
Leó Forgács (né Léo Fleischmann) (5 October 1881, Budapest – 17 August 1930, Berettyóújfalu, Hungary) was a Hungarian chess player.
Leon Tuhan-Baranowski (22 June 1907, St Petersburg – 27 April 1954, Frankfurt) was a Polish-Belarusian chess player and composer.
Dražen Marović (born 1938), Croatian chess player, trainer, journalist, writer and broadcaster
Konex Foundation granted him the Platinum Konex Award in 2000 as the most important chess player of the decade.
As a chess player, he holds the USCF title of National Master and Life Master, and the FIDE title of FIDE Master.
Richard Farleigh (1960s-1980s), now residing in London, a successful private investor, former hedge fund manager, international chess player representing Bermuda and Monaco, and "Dragon" on the BBC Two reality television program Dragons' Den.
Héctor Rossetto - Argentine chess player who became an International Grandmaster in 1960
Rusudan Goletiani (born September 8, 1980), Georgian-American chess player
Peter Alexandrovich Saburov (1835–1918), diplomat, collector of ancient Greek sculpture and antiquities, and a strong amateur chess player
Salo (Salomon) Landau (1 April 1903, Bochnia, Galicia, Austria-Hungary – 15 November 1943, Grodziszcze, Świdnica County, Poland) was a Dutch chess player, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.
Sam Sloan (Samuel Howard Sloan, born 1944), American chess player and publisher
Jon Speelman, an English chess player, a Grandmaster, a mathematician, and a chess writer
Rudolf Spielmann (1883–1942), Austrian chess player, known for the Spielmann Variation (see Nimzo-Indian Defence)
A keen chess player, Al-Fahim represented his country as a youth and is currently president of the UAE Chess Association (not to be confused with the UAE Chess Federation, the official body), and was ranked fifth in the world in his age group at the age of nine.
Khan has been described by noted Guyanese chess player and head of the Guyana Chess Federation, Errol Tiwari, as, "a person serious about his games, coming from a family of chess players and may have been the reason why he won 14 games and will be moving on to the senior level for the second tournament".
Vladimirs Petrovs (1907–1943), also known as Vladimir Petrov, Latvian chess player
Milan Vukcevich (1937–2003), Serbian-American scientist, chess player and writer
As Marcel Duchamp – who was an important artist and chess player as well – once said: “Not all artists are chess players, but all chess players are artists”.
In 1964 she wrote a short fantasy film, The Peaches, starring Juliet Harmer, with a small cameo role for her son, Adrian as a bespectacled chess player.