1. Vladimir Simagin (1919)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Soviet chess master who was the Moscow Champion in 1947, 1956, and 1959. He also helped to train Vasily Smyslov to the World Championship.

2. Boris Spassky (1937)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Russian chess champion who was famously the 1972 World Chess Championship Bobby Fischer in a match that has come to be known as the Cold War Confrontation.

3. Vladimir Kramnik (1975)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Chess-playing legend who was the Classical World Chess Champion for every year between 2000 and 2006.

4. Alexander Grischuk (1983)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Russian chess Grandmaster and former child chess prodigy. He won the World Blitz Chess Championship in 2006.

5. Peter Svidler (1976)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

One of the greatest chess players in the world who won the Russian Chess Championship in 1994, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2011 and 2013.

6. Sergey Karjakin (1990)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Chess Grandmaster and former child prodigy who is one of the top players in the world.

7. Evgeny Alekseev (chess player) (1985)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Evgeny Vladimirovich Alekseev is a Russian chess grandmaster. In 2006 he won the Russian Chess Championship defeating Dmitry Jakovenko in a playoff match.

8. Igor Kurnosov (1985)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Igor Kurnosov was a Russian chess grandmaster. In 2008 he won the Arctic Chess Challenge. He was also the winner of 2008/9 Hastings Masters tournament. On the August 2013 FIDE...

9. Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov (1947)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov was a Russian-born Canadian Grandmaster of chess and a concert pianist.

10. Igor Zakharevich (1963)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Igor Zakharevich was a Russian chess Grandmaster. In October 2005 he tied for 1st–2nd with Roman Ovetchkin in the Chigorin Memorial.

11. Vladimir Zagorovsky (1925)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Vladimir Pavlovich Zagorovsky was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess. He is most famous for being the fourth ICCF World Champion between 1962 and 1965. He won the 1952...

12. Evgeni Vasiukov (1933)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Evgeni Andreyevich Vasiukov is a Russian chess Grandmaster. During his career he won the Championship of Moscow on six occasions and scored many victories in international tournaments such as Belgrade...

13. Sergey Smagin (1958)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Sergey Smagin is a Russian chess grandmaster. He played in the Soviet championships of 1985 and 1986 obtaining his best result at Riga 1986 where he place 3rd-6th in a...

14. Anatoly Lutikov (1933)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Anatoly Lutikov was a Russian chess player. He was awarded the International Master title in 1967 and the Grandmaster title in 1974. He came 3rd in the USSR Chess Championship...

15. Alexander Zaitsev (chess player) (1935)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Alexander Nikolayevich Zaitsev was a leading Soviet chess grandmaster. He was born in Vladivostok Russia. Perhaps his finest achievement was a share of first place at the 1968/69 USSR Chess...

16. Evgeny Tomashevsky (1987)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Evgeny Yurievich Tomashevsky is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2001 he won the U18 Russian championship in Rybinsk with 9/10 and in 2004 he became second in the U18 World...

17. Nikita Vitiugov (1987)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov is a Russian chess grandmaster. Vitiugov is 2006 World Junior Chess Vice-Champion and participant of the Russian Chess Championship. He was a member of the gold-medal-winning Russian...

18. Evgeny Romanov (chess player) (1988)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Evgeny Romanov is a Russian chess Grandmaster. He is the 2013 European Individual Chess Championship's bronze medalist.

19. Pavel Smirnov (1896)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Pavel Smirnov is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2004 he reached the 4th round of the FIDE World Chess Championship but lost to Teimour Radjabov. In the same year he...

20. Alexander Panchenko (1953)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Alexander Panchenko was a Russian chess Grandmaster.

21. Valery Salov (1964)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Valery Salov is a Russian chess grandmaster. Salov was awarded the International Master title in 1984 and the Grandmaster title in 1986. He was the World under-17 Champion in 1980...

22. Vladimir Epishin (1965)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Vladimir Epishin is a Russian chess grandmaster. He finished third in the 58th USSR Chess Championship.

23. Maxim Matlakov (1991)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Maxim Matlakov is a Russian chess grandmaster. He won the Saint Petersburg City Chess Championship in 2009.

24. Konstantin Landa (1972)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Konstantin Landa is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2011 he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer. His best tournament results include: =1st with Zahar Efimenko at Fürth 2002...

25. Alexander Rustemov (1973)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Alexander Rustemov is a Russian chess grandmaster and trainer. He gained the grandmaster title in 1998 and managed to take second place in the 2000 Russian Championship. Rustemov is a...

26. Sanan Sjugirov (1993)

Russian Chess Grandmaster

Sanan Sjugirov is a famous Russian chess Grandmaster, who was born on January 31, 1993 in Russia. Sanan Sjugirov (Russian: Санан Сюгиров ; born 31 January 1993) is a Russian...