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chess players
48 notable chess players on file — 8 still here, 40 not.
still with us
Magnus Carlsen
aliveNorwegian chess player (born 1990)
born 1990
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Viswanathan Anand
aliveIndian chess grandmaster
born 1969
Judit Polgár
aliveHungarian chess player
born 1976
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Gukesh D
aliveIndian chess grandmaster
born 2006
Ding Liren
aliveChinese grandmaster and former World Chess Champion
born 1992
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Demis Hassabis
aliveBritish artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976)
born 1976
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Javokhir Sindarov
aliveUzbek chess grandmaster and 2026 Candidates Tournament winner
born 2005
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Hans Niemann
aliveAmerican chess grandmaster
born 2003
gone (30 of 40)
Boris Spassky
deadRussian chess player
1937 – 2025
Jan Timman
deadDutch chess grandmaster
1951 – 2026
Friðrik Ólafsson
deadIcelandic chess player and official
1935 – 2025
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Daniel Naroditsky
deadAmerican chess player
1995 – 2025
Vlastimil Hort
deadCzech-German chess player
1944 – 2025
Bruno Parma
deadSlovene chess player
1941 – 2026
Iivo Nei
deadEstonian chess player and sportsperson (born 1931)
1931 – 2026
Igors Rausis
deadLatvian-Czech chess player
1961 – 2024
Lidia Semenova
deadUkrainian chess player
1951 – 2025
Mihai Suba
deadRomanian and Spanish chess player
1947 – 2025
Valentina Kozlovskaya
deadRussian chess player
1938 – 2025
Joanna Dworakowska
deadPolish chess player
1978 – 2024
Zenón Franco Ocampos
deadParaguayan chess grandmaster
1956 – 2024
Vereslav Eingorn
deadUkrainian chess player
1956 – 2026
Ján Plachetka
deadSlovak chess player
1945 – 2026
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Jonathan Hawkins
deadBritish chess player
1983 – 2025
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Lisa Lane
deadAmerican chess player
1933 – 2024
Carlos Bielicki
deadArgentine chess player
1940 – 2024
Corry Vreeken
deadDutch chess player
1928 – 2025
Friedrich Baumbach
deadGerman chess player
1935 – 2025
Andreas Dückstein
deadAustrian chess player
1927 – 2024
Viesturs Meijers
deadLatvian chess player
1967 – 2024
Slavoljub Marjanović
deadSerbian chess player
1955 – 2026
Jacob Murey
deadIsraeli chess player
1941 – 2025
Juzefs Petkēvičs
deadSoviet and Latvian chess player
1940 – 2024
Krum Georgiev
deadBulgarian chess player
1958 – 2024
Ziaur Rahman
deadBangladeshi chess player
1974 – 2024
Orestes Rodríguez Vargas
deadPeruvian-Spanish chess player
1943 – 2024
Jan Adamski
deadchess player
1943 – 2026
Rachel Crotto
deadAmerican chess player
1958 – 2025