List of chess players

This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia.

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Famous people connected with chess

The people in this list are famous in other areas of activity, but are known to have played chess, or have declared an interest in the game, or created works of art and literature in which the game is prominently featured.

Fictional characters

The people in this list are characters in fictional media depicted playing chess.

Computers

  • Deep Blue, the IBM chess playing computer, was victorious in a 1997 match against then-world champion Garry Kasparov.
    • Deep Thought, an earlier version of Deep Blue, won many computer chess championships.
  • Deep Fritz achieved a draw in the 2002 match, "Brains in Bahrain", against Vladimir Kramnik. A variant, X3D Fritz, drew against Kasparov in 2004, and the version Deep Fritz 10 defeated the world champion Vladimir Kramnik in 2006.
  • Houdini (chess) Since the release of version 1.5 on 15 December 2010, it has taken the top spot in every rating list that includes it.
  • Hydra (chess) is a very strong machine which uses custom parallel hardware.
  • Junior is the winner of the 2006 World Computer Chess Championship, its third victory at this event.
  • Rybka is an engine. As of December 2006, Rybka has topped all chess engine rating lists and won the 2007 WCCC.
  • Shredder is another strong program, having won the WCCC twice.

See also

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References

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  3. ^ Winter, Edward. "Napoleon Bonaparte and Chess by Edward Winter". Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  4. ^ Routledge's Every Boy's Annual. 1877. p. 341.
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  6. ^ "Albert Einstein – physicist and chess player". Chess News. 2009-03-31. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  7. ^ "Benjamin Franklin: Diplomat, Libertine, Chess Master". HistoryNet. 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
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  11. ^ "Power in Check: Chess and the American Presidency". World Chess Hall of Fame. 2017-03-21. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
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  13. ^ Walker, George (1850). Chess and Chess-players: Consisting of Original Stories and Sketches. C.J. Skeet. p. 107.
  14. ^ Reinfeld, Fred (1963). Great Moments in Chess. Pitman. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-8128-2187-1.
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  17. ^ Murray, Harold James Ruthven (1913). A History of Chess. Clarendon Press. p. 839.
  18. ^ Murray, Harold James Ruthven (1913). A History of Chess. Clarendon Press. p. 862.
  19. ^ Innocenzi, Plinio (2018-06-27). The Innovators Behind Leonardo: The True Story of the Scientific and Technological Renaissance. Springer. p. 228. ISBN 978-3-319-90449-8.
  20. ^ Moote, A. Lloyd (1989-02-15). Louis XIII, the Just. University of California Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-520-91158-1.
  21. ^ Karpov, Anatoly; Phelizon, Jean-Fran; Kouatly, Bachar (2006-09-30). Chess and the Art of Negotiation: Ancient Rules for Modern Combat. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-313-08099-9.
  22. ^ Tracy, Kathleen (2005). Robert Koch and the Study of Anthrax. Mitchell Lane Publishers. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-58415-261-3.
  23. ^ Smith, Phillip R (21 August 2012). "William Windom (1923–2012)". uschess.org. Retrieved 7 June 2019.

External links

  • "World Chess Federation". FIDE. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  • "Home". US Chess. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  • "ICCF". iccf.com. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
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