Super Grandmasters

The title Super Grandmaster is not an official title. We use this title here to separate very strong players who dominated in their time but never won the World Championship from the average grandmasters. Current players qualify with a rating of over 2700 for our list.

Our list of Super Grandmasters since 1850:

Harry Pillsbury
Géza Maróczy
Viktor Korchnoi
Siegbert Tarrasch
Vassily Ivanchuk
Akiba Rubinstein
Samuel Reshevsky
Miguel Najdorf
Johannes Zukertort
Paul Keres
Aron Nimzowitsch
David Bronstein
Gata Kamsky
Mikhail Chigorin
Frank Marshall
Peter Leko
Dawid Janowsky
Reuben Fine
Valery Salov
Boris Gelfand
Alexei Shirov
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Geller
Alexander Morozevich
Michael Adams
Lev Polugaevsky
Alexander Beliavsky
Jan Timman
Carl Schlechter
Lajos Portisch
Leonid Stein
Rafael Vaganian
Artur Jussupow
Bent Larsen
Salo Flohr
Evgeny Bareev
Alexander Kotov
Peter Svidler
Joseph Blackburne
Isaak Boleslavsky
Isaac Kashdan
Gideon Ståhlberg
Nigel Short
Ulf Andersson
Svetozar Gligoric
Mark Taimanov
Alexander Grischuk
Oldrich Duras
Richard Teichmann
Judit Polgar
Gustav Neumann
Vladimir Makogonov
Mikhail Gurevich
Robert Hübner
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Jonathan Speelman
Andrey Sokolov
Milan Vidmar
Isidor Gunsberg
Jaan Ehlvest
Ratmir Kholmov
Amos Burn
Zoltán Ribli
Henrique Mecking
Vlastimil Hort
Erich Eliskases
Alexey Dreev
László Szabó
Leonid Yudasin
Oleg Romanishin
Predrag Nikolic
Rudolf Spielmann
Sergei Rublevsky
John Nunn
Simen Agdestein
Yury Averbakh
Vitaly Tseshkovsky
Rezsö Charousek
Boris Gulko
Magnus Carlsen
Levon Aronian
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Yue Wang
Pavel Eljanov
Teimour Radjabov
Sergey Karjakin
Vugar Gashimov
Hikaru Nakamura
Zoltan Almasi
Dmitry Jakovenko
Vladimir Malakhov
Hao Wang
David Navara
Sergei Movsesian
Baadur Jobava
Leinier Dominguez Perez
Etienne Bacrot
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Evgeny Tomashevsky
Nikita Vitiugov
Francisco Vallejo Pons
Evgeny Alekseev

Last Updated on Sunday, 13 June 2010 22:55