1. Vassily Ivanchuk (1969)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Ukrainian chess Grandmaster who won the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in 1992 and 2010, respectively.

2. Vladimir Savon (1940)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Ukrainian chess player who won the Soviet National Championship in 1971.

3. Vladimir Tukmakov (1946)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Ukrainian chess player who became a Grandmaster in 1972 and has played for the Soviet Union as well as in the Ukraine.

4. Vereslav Eingorn (1956)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Ukrainian chess master, coach and writer who won gold in the 2001 World Team Chess Championship.

5. Zahar Efimenko (1985)

Ukrainian Chess Player

A Ukrainian chess master who is one of the world's most highly ranked chess players.

6. Yuri Vovk (1988)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Ukrainian chess Grandmaster who has played in international tournaments.

7. Oksana Vozovic (1985)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Oksana Vozovic is a Ukrainian chess Woman Grandmaster and kickboxer. In 2003 she finished 3rd behind Alexander Zubov and Yuriy Kuzubov in Mykolaiv. She tied for 1st–2nd with Tatiana Kostiuk...

8. Vladimir Eljanov (1951)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Vladimir Eljanov was a Ukrainian chess International Master Honoured Coach of Ukraine FIDE Senior Trainer and chess book publisher.

9. Sergey Fedorchuk (1981)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Sergey Fedorchuk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. In 1995 he won the European Youth Chess Championship. In 2006 he won at rapid tournament held in Banyoles and tied for 1st–3rd...

10. Tatiana Kostiuk (1982)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Tatiana Kostiuk is a Ukrainian chess player who has earned the Woman Grandmaster title.

11. Alexander Evenson (1892)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Alexandr Moyseyevich Evensohn was a Russian chess master.

12. Fedir Bohatyrchuk (1892)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Parfenovych Bohatyrchuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian International Master of chess and an International Master of correspondence chess.

13. Vitaly Halberstadt (1903)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Vitaly Halberstadt was a French chess player problemist and above all a noted endgame study composer. Born in Odessa Russian Empire he emigrated to France.

14. Anatoly Bannik (1921)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Anatoly Alexandrovich Bannik was a Ukrainian Chess Master. He was a five-time Ukrainian champion and qualified for the Soviet Chess Championship final seven times. He was among the top half-dozen...

15. Vladimir Baklan (1978)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Vladimir Baklan is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster. In 2000 he won with the Ukrainian team a gold medal in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. He was a member of...

16. Abram Khavin (1914)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Abram Leonidovich Khavin was a Ukrainian chess master. In 1937 he took 6th in Kiev. In 1938 he tied for 4-6th in Kiev. During World War II he won in...

17. Evgenij Miroshnichenko (1978)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Evgenij Miroshnichenko or Miro as he likes to be called is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster. In 2003 and 2008 he won the Ukrainian Chess Championship. In 2003 he tied for...

18. Abram Zamikhovsky (1908)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Abram Davidovich Zamikhovsky was a Ukrainian chess master and former national champion. In 1931 he won the 6th Ukrainian Championship in Kharkov ahead of Vsevolod Rauzerand took 14th in...

19. Vladimir Bron (1909)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Vladimir Akimovich Bron was a Soviet chess master and problemist. Born into a Jewish family in Nikolaev near Kherson he was one of the leading scientists of the refractory materials...

20. Iosif Pogrebyssky (1906)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Iosif Benediktovich Pogrebyssky was a Ukrainian chess master. He played several times in Ukrainian Chess Championship and took 3rd at Poltava 1927 took 5th at Odessa 1928 shared 1st...

21. Iosif Rudakovsky (Unknow)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Iosif Iosifovich Rudakovsky was a Ukrainian chess master. He took 8th at Moscow 1936 won at Rostov-on-Don 1939 shared 3rd at Kiev 1940 tied for 4-7th at Kiev 1940 took...

22. Yuri Sakharov (1922)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Yuri Nikolaevich Sakharov was a Soviet chess master. Sakharov was twice Ukrainian Champion in 1966 and 1968.

23. Mikhailo Oleksienko (1986)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Mikhailo Oleksienko is a chess player from Ukraine who reached the rank of Grandmaster in 2005. He took his first significant placements in 2002 ranking at #2 and #5 respectively...

24. Martyn Kravtsiv (1990)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Martyn Kravtsiv is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster. In 2006 he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team which won the U-16 Chess Olympiad in Turkey. His major success...

25. Roman Pelts (1937)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Roman Shlemovich Pelts is a Ukrainian-Canadian chess master born in Odessa. In 1959 he founded a chess school in Odessa. Seven of his early students became grandmasters: Lev Alburt Sam...

26. Anastasiya Karlovich (1982)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Anastasiya Karlovich is a Ukrainian chess player and chess journalist. Karlovich started to play chess at age eight. She was the women's chess champion of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and the...

27. Lidia Semenova (1951)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Lidia K Semenova is a Ukrainian chess Woman Grandmaster. In 1978 she won Women's Soviet Chess Championship. In 1981 she tied for 1st-4th in Leningrad. In 1982 she took 2nd...

28. Anton Kovalyov (1992)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Anton Kovalyov is a Ukrainian-Canadian Grandmaster.

29. Oleg Romanishin (1952)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Oleg Mikhailovich Romanishin is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and former European junior champion. Many honours and awards were bestowed on him as a young man. After winning the European Junior...

30. Ruslan Ponomariov (1983)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Ruslan Olegovich Ponomariov is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE World Champion.

31. Pavel Eljanov (1983)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Pavel Eljanov is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He has won two team gold medals and one individual silver medal at Chess Olympiads. In 1999 he was a member of the...

32. Olena Boytsun (1983)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Olena Boytsun is a University graduate and chess master from Ukraine. She has an MA in International Economics having graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk National University. She is currently doing research...

33. Mikhail Golubev (1970)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Mikhail Golubev is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster journalist and author.

34. Yuriy Kryvoruchko (1986)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Yuriy Kryvoruchko is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster. He came third in the 2004 European Youth Chess Championship in Ürgüp and in the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship in Yerevan. In...

35. Valeriy Aveskulov (1986)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Valeriy Aveskulov is a chess Grandmaster and Ukrainian Champion in 2007. In 2006 he won the Femida Tournament in Kharkiv and tied for 4th–6th with Mikhailo Oleksienko and Nazar Firman...

36. Vladimir Grabinsky (1974)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Vladimir Grabinsky is a Ukrainian chess International Master and coach of the Ukrainian youth team. Enrolled in the Lviv Institute of Physical Culture in 1990 and graduated in 1994.

37. Stanislav Bogdanovich (1993)

Ukrainian Chess Player

Stanislav Bogdanovich is a famous Ukrainian chess player, who was born on February 4, 1993 in Ukraine. Stanislav Eduardovich Bogdanovich (4 February 1993 – 5 March 2020) was a Ukrainian...