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For living grandmasters, this field is a weblink to the FIDE Chess Profile page which usually gives the year the GM title was awarded and the player's birth year. FIDE IDs for deceased grandmasters are retained in this table to aid matching with older FIDE records such as the FIDE rating lists.
- Evgeny Sveshnikov
- Carol Jarecki
- Shri K. Viswanathan
- Lubomir Kavalek
- Jonathan Penrose
- Yury Dokhoian
- Istvan CSOM
- Yrjo Rantanen
- Gildardo Garcia
Russian-Latvian GM Evgeny Sveshnikov, one of the best players in the 1970s, died in Moscow in August at the age of 71. He made significant contributions to chess theory, particularly the openings, and one is named for him. So strongly he felt about the importance of openings, he remarked: “An opening should result in an endgame.” (See my post earli...
The first woman to serve as the chief arbiter for a match in the cycle for a world championship died in June at the age of 86. Carol Jarecki, a trailblazer in many respects, established a new role for women in chess when she oversaw the quarterfinal match between GM Anatoly Karpov and GM Johann Hjartarson in Seattle in 1989. Later in 1995, she was ...
Shri K. Viswanathan, the father of five-time world champion GM Viswanathan Anand passed away in April at age 92. Although Anand learned to play chess from his mother when he was six years old, his father was an incredible supporter for his pursuit of the world championship. Anand’s wife Aruna described the father-son relationship this way: “A simpl...
Czech-American GM Lubomir Kavalek, a former number-10 in the world, died in January at the age of 77. Inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 2001, he was one of the first and most elite players to flee the Soviet bloc for the West. When Kavalek was playing in a tournament in Poland in August 1968, Soviet tanks rolled into his native Czechoslo...
English GM Jonathan Penrose, who won the British Chess Championship 10 times between 1958 and 1969, died in November at the age of 88. Born into a family where everyone played chess, he learned the game when he was four. When he defeated then-World Champion GM Mikhail Tal at the Leipzig 1960 Olympiad, he became the first British player to beat a re...
Russian GM Yury Dokhoian, described by Kasparov as “not only a student of the game itself and a skilled analyst and writer…” but “also an astute analyst of the psychology and habits of other players,” died in July at the age of 56 from Covid-19. Dokhoian was one of the world’s most successful chess coaches. For a decade, beginning in 1994, he was t...
GM Istvan Csom, who passed away in July at age 81, was the Hungarian champion in 1972 and 1973. He represented Hungary in seven Olympiads from 1968 to 1988, when he played 191 games for his country. He was a member of the victorious team in 1978 that sensationally won gold ahead of the heavily favored Soviet team in Buenos Aires, the only time from...
GM Yrjo Rantanen, one of the top Finnish players in the 1970s and 1980s, died in January at the age of 70. He became the second Finnish grandmaster after GM Heikki Westerinen. After learning to play chess at the age of six from his father, Rantanen rose to be the Finnish national champion twice and represented Finland nine times at Olympiads where ...
Another player who was his country’s second grandmaster was GM Gildardo Garcia of Colombia, who also died in January. He was 66. He won the Colombian national championship 10 times—initially in 1977 and as late as 2006 when he was 50), the same year that he represented Colombia in the Olympiad. The following game is one of his wins in 1974 in San J...
May 7, 2022 · GM Yuri Averbakh, the world’s oldest grandmaster, a trainer, international arbiter, chess composer, endgame theoretician, writer, historian, honorary member of FIDE, and the last living participant of the famous Zurich 1953 Candidates Tournament, has passed away, three months after turning 100.
Aug 27, 2020 · Max has been playing chess since he was 13. He lives in Hamilton Avenue, Earlwood, Sydney. In the picture Max is playing in the Benedictine International Chess tournament in Manchester in which he was equal fourth. The Benedictine Championship was won by Britain’s number 2 seeded Grandmaster John DM Nunn of Oriel College Oxford.
Photographs that awaken memories and keep them alive, pictures that allow views into the past. On 28 May 2019, Griffin published a photo that shows Max Blümich and Alexander Alekhine playing against each other in the 1941/1942 Krakow/Warsaw tournament.
Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Polish: ['jan ˌkʂɨʂtɔf ˈduda] ⓘ; born 26 April 1998) is a Polish chess grandmaster. A prodigy, he achieved the grandmaster title in 2013 at the age of 15 years and 21 days. As of August 2024, he is ranked No. 1 in Poland and No. 18 in the world.
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This list of top-ranked chess grandmasters is ordered by their peak Elo rating. The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above this value are colloquially known as super grandmasters) and 2500 for women.
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