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Alexander Alekhine
Russian-French chess player
Anatoly Karpov
Russian chess grandmaster (born 1951)
Bobby Fischer
American chess player and chess writer
Emanuel Lasker
World Chess Champion from 1894 to 1921
Garry Kasparov
Russian chess grandmaster (born 1963)
José Raúl Capablanca
Cuban chess player (1888–1942)
Judit Polgár
Hungarian chess player
Magnus Carlsen
Norwegian chess grandmaster (born 1990)
Mikhail Botvinnik
Soviet chess player
Mikhail Tal
Soviet-Latvian chess player
Paul Morphy
American chess player (1837–1884)
Wilhelm Steinitz
Austrian-American chess player