Famous Chess Players

Famous chess players from Paul Morphy to Garry Kasparov have outshined all the other chess players to become true legends of the game. Each one of them have their own styles and personalities. They have all produced exceptional games for leisure or for study. They come from many different backgrounds and countries. From young to old, their ages differ.

There have been many great players in the history of chess, but only a few have obtained the elite title of World Champion, men and women. These famous individuals will forever be remembered as some of the world's most famous players of chess. And many more Chess champions will continue to make their reputation in the chess world. Links to some famous chess players.

The first modern chess tournament was held in London in 1851 and won, surprisingly, by German Adolf Anderssen, relatively unknown at the time.

Anderssen was hailed as the leading chess master and his brilliant, energetic attacking style became typical for the time, although it was later regarded as strategically shallow.

Sparkling games like Anderssen's Immortal game or Morphy's Opera game were regarded as the highest possible summit of the chess art. "The Immortal Game"

To read about famous women chess players, I have included a link. Famous Women Chess Players

World Famous Chess Players

Michael Adams, Andras Adorjan, Alexander Alekhine,Adolf Anderssen, Ulf Andersson, Levon Aronian,Etienne Bacrot, Evgeny Bareev, Alexander Beliavsky,Pal Benko, Henry Bird, Joseph Henry Blackburne,Mikhail Botvinnik, David Bronstein, Robert Byrne,Amos Burn, Jose Capablanca, Maya Chiburdanidze,Mikhail Chigorin, Larry Christiansen, Edgard Colle,Max Euwe, Larry Evans, Reuben Fine,Robert Fischer, Yefim Geller, Sonja Graf,Boris Gulko, Robert Huebner, Vassily Ivanchuk,Xie Jun, Gata Kamsky, Anatoly Karpov,Garry Kasparov, Paul Keres, Alexandra Kosteniuk,Alexander Kotov, Bent Larsen, Emanuel Lasker,Peter Leko, Ruy López, Frank Marshall,Alexander McDonnell, Paul Morphy, Alexander Morozevich,Miguel Najdorf, Aron Nimzovitch, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu,Harry Pillsbury, Andre Danican Philidor, Judit Polgar,Susan Polgar, Lajos Portisch, Richard Reti,Akiba Rubinstein, Alexei Shirov, Nigel Short,Boris Spassky, Jonathan Speelman, Rudolf Spielmann,Howard Staunton, Antoaneta Stefanova, Wilhelm Steinitz,Emil Sutovsky, Peter Svidler, Mark Taimanov,Mikhail Tal, Siegbert Tarrasch, Milan Vidmar,Szymon Winawer, Artur Yusupov, Johannes Zukertort More Info

Magnus Carlsen

Famous chess player Magnus Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy currently ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list. He has achieved a rating exceeded only by Garry Kasparov.

On 26 April 2004 Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 148 days, making him the third youngest Grandmaster in history. On 1 January 2010 the new FIDE rating list was published, and at the age of 19 years, 32 days he became the youngest chess player in history to be ranked world number one, breaking the record previously held by Vladimir Kramnik. Carlsen is also the 2009 World blitz chess champion. (Wikipedia) M.Carlsen Chess Grandmaster

Robert (Bobby) Fischer

Famous chess player Robert (Bobby) Fischer is considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. He was the 11th World Chess Champion and also a chess writer.

(Wikipedia) Widely considered a "chess legend", at age 13 Fischer won a “brilliancy” that became known as the Game of the Century. Starting at age 14, he played in eight United States Championships, winning each by at least a point. At 15½, he became both the youngest Grandmaster and the youngest Candidate for the World Championship up until that time. He won the 1963–64 US championship 11–0, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. In the early 1970s he became the most dominant player in modern history - winning the 1970 Interzonal by a record 3½-point margin and winning 20 consecutive games, including two unprecedented 6–0 sweeps in the Candidates Matches. According to research by Jeff Sonas, in 1971 Fischer had separated himself from the rest of the world by a larger margin of playing skill than any player since the 1870s. He became the first official World Chess Federation (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) (FIDE) number one rated chessplayer in July 1971, and his 54 total months at number one is the third longest of all-time. Wikipedia article on Bobby Fischer

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