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Browse 783 chess players referenced in our opening guides
Magnus Carlsen
Garry Kasparov
Fabiano Caruana
Hikaru Nakamura
Bobby Fischer
Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Javokhir Sindarov
Vincent Keymer
Anish Giri
Arjun Erigaisi
Vugar Hashimov
Vladimir Kramnik
Wesley So
Wei Yi
Sergey Karjakin
Alireza Firouzja
Hans Niemann
Viswanathan Anand
Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Ding Liren
Praggnanandhaa
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Gukesh D
Leinier Domínguez
Lê Quang Liêm
Richárd Rapport
Jorden van Foreest
Levon Aronian
Nihal Sarin
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Amin Tabatabaei
Yu Yangyi
Dmitry Andreikin
Vidit Gujrathi
Parham Maghsoodloo
Mikhail Tal
Vladimir Fedoseev
Awonder Liang
Samuel Sevian
Viktor Korchnoi
Veselin Topalov
Matthias Blübaum
Matthew Sadler
Chithambaram Aravindh
Boris Spassky
Teimour Radjabov
Nodirbek Yakubboev
Andrey Esipenko
Wang Hao
Peter Svidler
Dmitry Yakovenko
Konstantin Landa
Zoltán Almási
Peter Leko
Judit Polgár
Zoltan Gyimesi
Alexey Sarana
David Howell
Bu Xiangzhi
Tigran Petrosian
Joël Lautier
Alexander Morozevich
Radosław Wojtaszek
Lev Polugaevsky
Valery Salov
Robert Hübner
Alexander Onischuk
David Navara
Zurab Azmaiparashvili
Sergei Rublevsky
Gadir Guseinov
Rauf Mamedov
Loek van Wely
Boris Gelfand
Vladimir Malaniuk
Lu Shanglei
Vasyl Ivanchuk
Bassem Amin
Étienne Bacrot
Yuri Razuvaev
Michael Adams
Efim Geller
Yasser Seirawan
Vasily Smyslov
Leonid Stein
Anatoly Karpov
Volodymyr Onyshchuk
Yuri Drozdovskij
Paul Keres
Alexander Chernin
Evgeny Bareev
Anton Demchenko
Ante Brkić
Gyula Sax
Evgeny Sveshnikov
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A
- Nodirbek Abdusattorov
- Michael Adams
- Jan Adamski
- Ahmed Adly
- András Adorján
- Yochanan Afek
- Evgenij Agrest
- Òscar de la Riva Aguado
- Vladimir Akopian
- Simon Alapin
- Vladimir Alatortsev
- Lev Alburt
- Alexander Alekhine
- Aleksej Aleksandrov
- Evgeny Alekseev
- Zoltán Almási
- Bassem Amin
- Viswanathan Anand
- Adolf Anderssen
- Ulf Andersson
- Eduard Andreev
- Dmitry Andreikin
- Gergely Antal
- Vladimir Antoshin
- Manuel Apicella
- Chithambaram Aravindh
- Keith Arkell
- Jon L Arnason
- Levon Aronian
- Konstantin Aseev
- Bibisara Assaubayeva
- Yuri Averbakh
- Sergei Azarov
- Zurab Azmaiparashvili
B
- Vladimir Babionyshev
- Vlastimil Babula
- Alexander Baburin
- Étienne Bacrot
- Jordi Magem Badals
- Vladimir Bagirov
- Witold Balcerowski
- Csaba Balogh
- Gedeon Barcza
- Leonard Barden
- Evgeny Bareev
- Alexei Barsov
- Berthold Bartsch
- Dibyendu Barua
- Herbert Bastian
- Tsegmed Batchuluun
- David Bekker-Jensen
- Simon Bekker-Jensen
- Alexander Beliavsky
- Robert Bellin
- Emanuel Berg
- Luc Bergez
- Ryszard Bernard
- Mario Bertok
- István Bilek
- Sumiya Bilguun
- Falko Bindrich
- Henry Bird
- Klaus Bischoff
- Arthur Bisguier
- Milan Bjelajac
- Joseph Henry Blackburne
- Dragiša Blagojević
- Frantisek Blatny
- Pavel Blatný
- Joerg Blauert
- Matthias Blübaum
- Milko Bobotsov
- Mihaly Bodrogi
- Uwe Boensch
- Efim Bogoljubov
- Julio Bolbochan
- Isaac Boleslavsky
- Victor Bologan
- Jay R Bonin
- Gyula Bordas
- Giulio Borgo
- Mikhail Botvinnik
- Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais
- Ante Brkić
- Michail Brodsky
- David Bronstein
- Walter Browne
- Petr Buchnicek
- Ann Matnadze Bujiashvili
- Vladimir Bukal
- Marat Burakovsky
- Vladimir Burmakin
- Amos Burn
- Robert Byrne
- Ján Báňas
C
- José Raúl Capablanca
- Magnus Carlsen
- Fabiano Caruana
- Thomas Casper
- Roi Reinaldo Castineira
- Mišo Cebalo
- Murray Chandler
- Boris Chatalbashev
- Valery Chekhov
- Vitaly Chekhover
- Alexander Chernin
- Maxim Chetverik
- Mikhail Chigorin
- Vladimir Chubar
- Vladimir Chuchelov
- Victor Ciocâltea
- Edgard Colle
- Dan Cramling
- Pia Cramling
- Alexandru Crișan
- Colin Crouch
- István Csom
- Ognjen Cvitan
- Moshe Czerniak
- Daniel Cámpora
- Hélder Câmara
D
- Gukesh D
- Mato Damjanović
- Branko Damljanović
- Elina Danielian
- Henrik Danielsen
- Georg Danner
- Alain Darrigues
- Lawrence Day
- Anton Demchenko
- Goran Dizdar
- Zbigniew Doda
- Leinier Domínguez
- Jan Hein Donner
- Vladimir Doroshkievich
- Andjelko Dragojlovic
- Milan Draško
- Alexey Dreev
- Harika Dronavalli
- Yuri Drozdovskij
- Jan-Krzysztof Duda
- Joaquim Durão
- Marc Dutreeuw
- Semen Dvoirys
- Joanna Dworakowska
E
F
- Lluís Comas i Fabregó
- William Fairhurst
- Sandor Farago
- Iván Faragó
- Steen Fedder
- Alexei Fedorov
- Vladimir Fedoseev
- Rubén Felgaer
- Martin Fette
- Jiří Fichtl
- Andrzej Filipowicz
- Nick de Firmian
- Alireza Firouzja
- Bobby Fischer
- Glenn Flear
- Salo Flohr
- Diego Flores
- András Flumbort
- Jorden van Foreest
- Győző Forintos
- Michael J Franklin
- Daniel Fridman
- Antonio Frois
- Ľubomír Ftáčnik
G
- Grzegorz Gajewski
- Luís Galego
- Joseph Gallagher
- Albéric O'Kelly de Galway
- Inna Gaponenko
- Ticia Gara
- Antonio Angel Medina Garcia
- Peter M Gayson
- Boris Gelfand
- Efim Geller
- Jakov Geller
- Kiril Georgiev
- Krum Georgiev
- Vladimir Georgiev
- Florin Gheorghiu
- Theodor Ghițescu
- Anish Giri
- Andrea Glaser
- Evgeny Gleizerov
- Igor Glek
- Svetozar Gligorić
- Philippe Glod
- Michele Godena
- Grigory Goldberg
- Vitali Golod
- Harry Golombek
- Werner Golz
- László Gonda
- Mirosław Grabarczyk
- Boris Grachev
- Roberto Grau
- Alon Greenfeld
- Efstratios Grivas
- Stefan Gross
- Joerg Gruenenwald
- Mihai-Lucian Grünberg
- Ernst Grünfeld
- Eduard Gufeld
- Carlos Enrique Guimard
- Vidit Gujrathi
- Sarhan Guliev
- Boris Gulko
- Eirik Gullaksen
- Valentina Gunina
- Dmitry Gurevich
- Mikhail Gurevich
- Vladimir Gurevich
- Gadir Guseinov
- Olga Gutmakher
- Lev Gutman
- Zoltan Gyimesi
- Guntram Gärtner
H
- Wang Hao
- Robert Hardarson
- József Harmatosi
- Vugar Hashimov
- Thorsten Michael Haub
- Ivan Hausner
- Aldo Haïk
- Mark Hebden
- Hans-Joachim Hecht
- Jonny Hector
- Carsten Hein
- Willy Hendriks
- Manfred Hermann
- Aarne Hermlin
- Roman Hernandez
- Owen M Hindle
- Thanh Trang Hoang
- Tri Hoang
- Károly Honfi
- Vlastimil Hort
- Ádám Horváth
- József Horváth
- Péter Horváth
- David Howell
- Viktor Hudecz
- Krunoslav Hulak
- Zdenek Husek
- Andreas Huss
- Petr Hába
- Robert Hübner
I
J
K
- Hansjürg Kaenel
- Evarth Kahn
- Aleksandar Kaminik
- Marian Kantorik
- Darja Kapš
- Nikola Karaklajić
- Sergey Karjakin
- Lars Karlsson
- Aleksandr Karpatchev
- Anatoly Karpov
- Isaac Kashdan
- Garry Kasparov
- Robert Kempiński
- Paul Keres
- Hans Guenther Kestler
- Vincent Keymer
- Alexander Khalifman
- Andrei Kharitonov
- Igor Khenkin
- Ratmir Kholmov
- Stefan Kindermann
- Petr Kiriakov
- Nino Kirov
- Pál Kiss
- Jānis Klovāns
- Gyula Kluger
- Rainer Knaak
- Milorad Knežević
- Kristóf Koczó
- Guenther Koksch
- Milan Kolesar
- Ponnuswamy Konguvel
- Viktor Korchnoi
- Oleg Korneev
- Goran Kosanovic
- Dragan Kosić
- Alexandra Kosteniuk
- Alexander Kotov
- Vasilios Kotronias
- Slobodan Kovacevic
- Ekaterina Kovalevskaya
- Vlatko Kovačević
- Milos Kozak
- Július Kozma
- Zdenko Kožul
- Matthias Krallmann
- Vladimir Kramnik
- Alexander Krapivin
- Michał Krasenkow
- Martyn Kravtsiv
- Wolfgang Kripp
- Jana Krivec
- Sergei Krivosheya
- Yuri Kruppa
- Robert Kuczyński
- Sergey Kudrin
- Marinus Kuijf
- Viktor Kupreichik
- Bojan Kurajica
- Daniel Rivera Kuzawka
- Anton Kuzin
- Aloyzas Kveinys
L
- Babu MR Lalith
- Bogdan Lalić
- Konstantin Landa
- Mikhail Langer
- Zigurds Lanka
- Bent Larsen
- Emanuel Lasker
- Boris Alexander Latzke
- Ralf Lau
- Joël Lautier
- Vladimir Lazarev
- Graham D Lee
- Heikki Lehtinen
- Peter Leko
- Béla Lengyel
- Levente Lengyel
- Paul Saladin Leonhardt
- Olaf Lermen
- Konstantin Lerner
- Felix Levin
- Jonathan Levitt
- Awonder Liang
- Tomáš Likavský
- Siegfried Limberg
- Ding Liren
- Lê Quang Liêm
- Ljubomir Ljubojević
- Valery Loginov
- Smbat Lputian
- Marcos Luckis
- Péter Lukács
- Thomas Luther
- Mark Lyell
- Juan Manuel Bellón López
- Alina l'Ami
M
- Bartłomiej Macieja
- Parham Maghsoodloo
- Bernardo Roselli Mailhe
- Vladimir Makogonov
- Branimir Maksimovic
- Vladimir Malaniuk
- Burkhard Malich
- Amir Mallahi
- Rauf Mamedov
- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
- David Marciano
- Georg Marco
- Mihail Marin
- Sergio Mariotti
- Slavoljub Marjanović
- Tomasz Markowski
- Frank Marshall
- Saša Martinović
- William Martz
- Géza Maróczy
- Hafizulhelmi Mas
- Aleksandar Matanović
- Evgeny Matorin
- Milan Matulović
- Leon Mazi
- Alexander McDonnell
- Colin McNab
- Eduard Meduna
- Viesturs Meijers
- Jonathan Mestel
- Zvonimir Meštrovič
- Paul Michel
- Jacques Mieses
- Normunds Miezis
- Alexander Mikhalevski
- Victor Mikhalevski
- Vladas Mikėnas
- Igor Miladinović
- Danilo Milanovic
- Stuart Milner-Barry
- Vadim Milov
- Romeo-Sorin Milu
- Azer Mirzoev
- Nikola Mitkov
- Georg Mohr
- Alexander Moiseenko
- Olivier Moor
- Olga Morachevskaya
- Javier B Campos Moreno
- Alexander Morozevich
- Paul Morphy
- Eva Moser
- Wiktor Moskalenko
- Alexander Motylev
- Clara Mourot
- Sergei Movsesian
- Karen Movsziszian
- Andrew J Muir
- Jacob Murey
- Illya Mutschnik
- Anna Muzychuk
- Ildikó Mádl
- Veijo Mäki
- Hans Müller
N
- NN
- Arkadij Naiditsch
- Miguel Najdorf
- Hikaru Nakamura
- William Ewart Napier
- Igor Naumkin
- David Navara
- Ivan Nemet
- Ian Nepomniachtchi
- Dejan Nestorovic
- Gustav Neumann
- Horst Neumann
- Vladislav Nevednichy
- Klaus Nickl
- Hans Niemann
- Walter Niephaus
- Julian Estrada Nieto
- Friso Nijboer
- Christer Niklasson
- Predrag Nikolić
- Aaron Nimzowitsch
- Jesus Nogueiras
- Igor Novikov
- Maxim Novikov
- John Nunn
O
P
- Luděk Pachman
- Laszlo Pacsay
- Nikola Padevsky
- Mladen Palac
- Carlos Garcia Palermo
- Oscar Panno
- Miguel Munoz Pantoja
- Levan Pantsulaia
- Srdjan Panzalovic
- Enrico Paoli
- Miša Pap
- Attila Parkanyi
- Bruno Parma
- Duško Pavasovič
- Milos Pavlovic
- Krzysztof Pańczyk
- Peicho Peev
- Jonathan Penrose
- Fernando Peralta
- Leandro Perdomo
- Francisco Jose Perez Perez
- Martin Petr
- Peter Petran
- Arshak Petrosian
- Tigran Petrosian
- Vladimirs Petrovs
- Lukas Petrzilek
- Tomáš Petrík
- Evgeny Pigusov
- Harry Nelson Pillsbury
- Herman Pilnik
- Gábor Pintér
- József Pintér
- Vasja Pirc
- Ján Plachetka
- Hagen Poetsch
- Natalia Pogonina
- Ruslan Pogorelov
- Jaroslav Polasek
- Dirk Poldauf
- Judit Polgár
- Lev Polugaevsky
- Arturo Pomar
- Dušan Popović
- Petar Popović
- Luben Popow
- Giorgio Porreca
- Lajos Portisch
- Evgeny Postny
- Pavel Potapov
- Atousa Pourkashiyan
- Joan Fluvià Poyatos
- Praggnanandhaa
- Eduard Prandstetter
- Grigorij Pres
- Craig Pritchett
- Éric Prié
- Jozef Puobis
- Elisabeth Pähtz
- Margeir Pétursson
- Dominik Pędzich
- Josef Přibyl
Q
R
- Robert Rabiega
- Teimour Radjabov
- Ivan Radulov
- Alexander Raetsky
- Viacheslav Ragozin
- Peter Rahls
- Vasik Rajlich
- Aleksandr Rakhmanov
- Davor Ramesa
- Richárd Rapport
- Nukhim Rashkovsky
- Vsevolod Rauzer
- Yuri Razuvaev
- Helmut Reefschläger
- Theresa Reh
- Brian Reilly
- Tim Reilly
- Ludwig Rellstab
- Christoph Renner
- Alexander Reprintsev
- Lucie Rerabkova
- Samuel Reshevsky
- Alexander Riazantsev
- Zoltán Ribli
- Lutz Riedel
- Wolfgang Riedel
- Dieter Riegler
- Herman C Van Riemsdijk
- Karl Robatsch
- Jorge A Gonzalez Rodriguez
- Frank Roeder
- Matthias Roeder
- Ian Rogers
- Dorian Rogozenko
- Oleg Romanishin
- Benjamin Abel Garcia Romero
- Leonardo Valdés Romero
- Héctor Rossetto
- Eduardas Rozentalis
- Akiba Rubinstein
- Sergei Rublevsky
- Róbert Ruck
- Karol Ruckschloss
- Richard Réti
S
- Matthew Sadler
- Valery Salov
- Chanda Sandipan
- Leonid Sandler
- Anthony Santasiere
- Marc Santo-Roman
- Marcus Vinicius M Santos
- Alexey Sarana
- Nihal Sarin
- Krishnan Sasikiran
- Boris Savchenko
- Gyula Sax
- Andreas Schenk
- Carl Schlechter
- Włodzimierz Schmidt
- Lars-Åke Schneider
- Wilfried Schroeder
- Georg Schuler
- Hans Juergen Schulz
- Christian Seel
- Yasser Seirawan
- Vladimir Sergeev
- Dražen Sermek
- Samuel Sevian
- Lu Shanglei
- Evgeny Shaposhnikov
- Sergei Shipov
- Alexei Shirov
- Nigel Short
- Yury Shulman
- Rainer Siegmund
- Jan Sikora-Lerch
- David Pardo Simón
- Javokhir Sindarov
- Péter Sinkovics
- Sergey Smagin
- Jan Smejkal
- Ilya Smirin
- Vasily Smyslov
- Ian Snape
- Wesley So
- Andrei Sokolov
- Ivan Sokolov
- Guillermo Soppe
- Ariel Sorin
- Gennadi Sosonko
- Bartosz Soćko
- Vasil Spasov
- Boris Spassky
- Jon Speelman
- Alan Spice
- Rudolf Spielmann
- Nikola Spiridonov
- Ilmārs Starostīts
- Howard Staunton
- Antoaneta Stefanova
- Hannes Stefansson
- Leonid Stein
- Herman Steiner
- Lajos Steiner
- Héðinn Steingrímsson
- Wilhelm Steinitz
- Paul van der Sterren
- Hrvoje Stević
- Jens Strathoff
- Aleksa Striković
- Kirill Stupak
- Gideon Ståhlberg
- Mihai Suba
- Alexey Suetin
- Nenad Sulava
- Viliam Sulek
- Daniel Summermatter
- Hrvoje Susovic
- Emil Sutovsky
- Evgeny Sveshnikov
- Peter Svidler
- Karel Svihel
- Krisztián Szabó
- László Szabó
- Emil Szalánczy
- Jorge Szmetan
- Aleksander Sznapik
- Péter Székely
T
- Amin Tabatabaei
- Boris Taborov
- Mark Taimanov
- Mikhail Tal
- Siegbert Tarrasch
- Savielly Tartakower
- Richard Teichmann
- Praveen Mahadeo Thipsay
- George Alan Thomas
- Manfred Thonig
- Jan Timman
- Georgi Timochenko
- Artyom Timofeev
- Sergei Tiviakov
- Goran Todorović
- Miodrag Todorčević
- Veselin Topalov
- Eugenio Torre
- Pavel Tregubov
- Petar Trifunović
- Vitaly Tseshkovsky
- Gennady Tunik
- Risto Tuominen
- Maxim Turov
U
V
- Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
- Rafael Vaganian
- Anatoly Vaisser
- Daniel Varela
- Zoltán Varga
- Milen Vasilev
- Aleksander Veingold
- Petar Velikov
- Dragoljub Velimirović
- Petr Velička
- Milan Vidmar
- Jesus Menendez Villar
- Dieter Villing
- Lothar Vogt
- Marek Vokáč
- Sergey Volkov
- Vladimir Volosin
- Margarita Voyska
- Milan Vukić
- Zdravko Vukovic
- Sava Vuković