Chess Grandmaster is a title awarded by FIDE, the world chess organization. Currently there are over 1.300 players listed by FIDE who are holding (or held) this title. We will list here all the grandmasters of whom we know about. ( Should we forget someone please drop us a note )
Players who were active before FIDE awarded the title and who have shown grandmaster like results in the past are listed here too.
Players who are already listed as World Champions or Super Grandmasters aren't listed here.
List of Grandmasters
( the list is sorted by the date of receiving the title - uncomplete so far )
- Ossip Bernstein
- Igor Bondarevsky
- Ernst Grünfeld
- Boris Kostić
- Grigory Levenfish
- Andor Lilienthal
- Jacques Mieses
- Viacheslav Ragozin
- Friedrich Sämisch
- Savielly Tartakower
- Herman Pilnik
- Vasja Pirc
- Nicolas Rossolimo
- Alexander Tolush
- Petar Trifunović
- Gedeon Barcza
- Luděk Pachman
- Gösta Stoltz
- Wolfgang Unzicker
- Miroslav Filip
- Borislav Ivkov
- Aleksandar Matanović
- Oscar Panno
- Albéric O'Kelly de Galway
- Arthur Bisguier
- Larry Evans
- Pal Benko
- Friðrik Ólafsson
- Jan Hein Donner
- Lothar Schmid
- Wolfgang Uhlmann
- Carlos Guimard
- Ratmir Kholmov
- William Lombardy
- Héctor Rossetto
- Milko Bobotsov
- Karl Robatsch
- Evgeni Vasiukov
- István Bilek
- Arturo Pomar
- Vladimir Simagin
- Mijo Udovčić
- Bruno Parma
- Georgi Tringov
- Vladimir Antoshin
- Robert Byrne
- Mato Damjanović
- Klaus Darga
- Nikolai Krogius
- Levente Lengyel
- Nikola Padevsky
- Daniel Yanofsky
- Dragoljub Čirić
- Florin Gheorghiu
- Dragoljub Janošević
- Vladimir Liberzon
- Milan Matulović
- Wolfgang Pietzsch
- Leonid Shamkovich
- Alexey Suetin
- Semyon Furman
- László Barczay
- Aivars Gipslis
- Eduard Gufeld
- Alexander Zaitsev
- Anatoly Lein
- Walter Browne
- Bukhuti Gurgenidze
- Albin Planinc
- Igor Platonov
- Ivan Radulov
- Jan Smejkal
- Vladimir Tukmakov
- András Adorján
- Yuri Balashov
- István Csom
- Hans-Joachim Hecht
- Gennady Kuzmin
- Miguel Quinteros
- Vladimir Savon
- Duncan Suttles
- Dragoljub Velimirović
- Jesus Diez Del Corral
- Győző Forintos
- Vlastimil Jansa
- Bojan Kurajica
- Anatoly Lutikov
- Sergio Mariotti
- Gyula Sax
- Eugenio Torre
- Silvino Garcia Martinez
- Nino Kirov
- Rainer Knaak
- Burkhard Malich
- Dražen Marović
- Predrag Ostojić
- Helmut Pfleger
- Guðmundur Sigurjónsson
- Vitaly Tseshkovsky
- Milan Vukić
- Heikki Westerinen
- Rosendo Balinas, Jr.
- Enver Bukić
- Iván Faragó
- Guillermo Garcia Gonzales
- Krunoslav Hulak
- Raymond Keene
- Milorad Knezevic
- Vlatko Kovačević
- Yair Kraidman
- Sergey Makarichev
- Tony Miles
- Vladimir Raicevic
- Yuri Razuvayev
- Włodzimierz Schmidt
- Gennadi Sosonko
- Liuben Spassov
- James Tarjan
- Laszlo Vadasz
- Lothar Vogt
- Igor Zaitsev
- Lev Alburt
- Julio Bolbochán
- Esteban Canal
- Larry Christiansen
- Roman Dzindzichashvili
- Evgenij Ermenkov
- Tamaz Giorgadze
- Božidar Ivanović
- Alexander Kochyev
- Borislav Milic
- Stanimir Nikolic
- Dusan Rajkovic
- Amador Rodriguez
- Michael Stean
- Evgeny Sveshnikov
- Carlos Torre Repetto
- Vladimir Bagirov
- Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez
- Peter Biyiasas
- Josif Dorfman
- Nona Gaprindashvili
- Román Hernández Onna
- Slavoljub Marjanovic
- Adrian Mikhalchishin
- Ivan Nemet
- Sam Palatnik
- Ján Plachetka
- Orestes Rodriguez Vargas
- Kenneth Rogoff
- Dragutin Sahovic
- Mihai Suba
- Herman Suradiradja
- Victor Ciocâltea
- Slobodan Martinovic
- Juraj Nikolac
- Jesus Nogueiras
- Nikola Spiridonov
- János Flesch
- Ľubomír Ftáčnik
- Yehuda Gruenfeld
- Adam Kuligowski
- Viktor Kupreichik
- Edmar Mednis
- Alexander Panchenko
- Nukhim Rashkovsky
- Hans Ree
- Yasser Seirawan
- Andrew Soltis
- Gennadij Timoscenko
These are the player who got the title awarded until 1980.
To be continued .....
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