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This is a list of chess players. 1 Chess players by vocation
The people in this list are men and women who are primarily known as chess players.
1.1 A
- Michael Adams (England, 1971 - )
- Simen Agdestein (Norway, 1967 - )
- Vladimir Akopian (Armenia, 1971 - )
- Alexander Alekhine (Russia, 1892 - 1946)
- Friedrich Amelung (Latvia)
- Viswanathan Anand (India, 1969 - )
- Adolf Anderssen (Germany, 1818 - 1879)
- Ulf AnderssonUlf Andersson (born June 27 1951 ) is a leading Swedish chess grandmaster. At his peak, he reached number four on the FIDE Elo rating list. In recent years, he has turned more towards correspondence chess and in 2002 he reached the top of the corresponden (Sweden, 1951Events January events January 9 United Nations headquarters officially opens ( New York City). January 15 Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in We - )
- Konstantin AseevKonstantin Aseev ( October 20, 1960 August 22, 2004) was a Russian chess Grandmaster and trainer. Among his tournament successes were first at Leningrad 1989 with 9/13 (beating Leonid Yudasin and Alexander Khalifman among others) and second to Sergei Tivi (Russia, 1960Events January-February January 1 Independence of Cameroon January 9 Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 11 Chad declares its independence. January 14 Ralph Chubb, the gay poet and printer, dies at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire. January 23 - 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co)
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- Maurice Ashley (Jamaica, USA, 1966 - )
1.2 B
- Etienne Bacrot (France, 1983 - )
- Newell Banks (USA, 1887 - 1977)
- Curt von Bardeleben (Germany, 1861 - 1924)
- Leonard Barden (England, )
- Evgeny Bareev (Russia, )
- Alexander Beliavsky (Ukraine, Slovenia, 1953 - )
- Thomas Wilson Barnes (England, 1825 - 1874)
- Ossip Bernstein (Ukraine, 1882 - 1962)
- Istvan Bilek (Hungary, 1932 - )
- Henry Bird (England, 1830 - 1908)
- Arthur Bisguier (USA, 1929 - )
- Joseph Henry Blackburne (England, 1841 - 1924)
- Claude Bloodgood ( 1937 - )
- Samuel Boden, (England, 1826 - 1882)
- Efim Bogoljubov (Ukraine, 1889 - 1952)
- Paolo Boi (Italy, 1528 - 1598)
- Julio Bolbochan (Argentina, 1920 - 1996)
- Isaak Boleslavsky (Soviet Union, 1919 - ?)
- Mikhail Botvinnik (Russia, 1911 - 1995)
- Louis Charles de la Bourdonnais (France, 1795- 1840)
- David Bronstein (Russia, 1924 - )
- Walter Browne (Australia/USA, 1949 - )
- Elizaveta Ivanovna Bykova (Russia, 1913 - 1989)
- Amos Burn (England, 1848 - 1925)
- Donald Byrne (USA, 1930 - 1976)
- Robert Byrne (USA, 1928 - )
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