1. Mary Rudge (1842)

British Chess Player

Female chess pioneer who was one of the first women to face top male competition.

2. Stuart Conquest (1967)

British Chess Player

English chess Grandmaster who has been particularly successful as a commentator and organizer.

3. Michael Basman (1946)

British Chess Player

Chess player who became known as an International Master in 1980. He is the author of several books on chess, including 1989's "The Killer Grob."

4. Gawain Jones (1987)

British Chess Player

English chess Grandmaster who lives and plays internationally and was the youngest player in the world to beat an International Master in a tournament game.

5. Tony Miles (1955)

British Chess Player

Controversial English chess player who was one of the major forces in a wave of highly skilled British players during the 1970s and 80s.

6. Luke McShane (1984)

British Chess Player

English chess Grandmaster and former prodigy who, in 2012, was ranked the number one chess player in the UK.

7. Matthew Sadler (1974)

British Chess Player

Matthew Sadler is a chess grandmaster and a chess writer. Sadler won the British Championship in 1995 at the age of 21 and again in 1997. He represented England in...

8. Nicholas Pert (1981)

British Chess Player

Nicholas Pert is an English chess player who holds the title Grandmaster. Pert was the World Under-18 Chess Champion in 1998 and British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 2004.

9. Stewart Haslinger (1981)

British Chess Player

Stewart Haslinger is an English chess Grandmaster and former British Junior champion.

10. Mark Hebden (1958)

British Chess Player

Mark Hebden is an English chess player who holds the title Grandmaster. Hebden was British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 1990 1994 2001 2005 2009 and 2013. He played for England...

11. Danny Gormally (1976)

British Chess Player

Danny Gormally is a British chess Grandmaster. On the April 2014 FIDE rating list his Elo rating was 2492. His peak rating was 2573 on the January 2006 rating list....

12. David Vincent Hooper (1915)

British Chess Player

David Vincent Hooper born in Reigate was a British chess player and writer. As an amateur he tied for fifth place in the 1949 British Championship at Felixstowe. He was...

13. Charles Henry Stanley (1819)

British Chess Player

Charles Henry Stanley was the first chess champion of the United States. When the first-ever U. S.

14. Charles Masson Fox (1866)

British Chess Player

Charles Masson Fox was a Cornish businessman who achieved international prominence in the world of chess problems and a place in the gay history of Edwardian England. Masson Fox was...

15. Frank Parr (1918)

British Chess Player

Parr was an English chess player born in Wandsworth. He was British Boys champion in 1935.

16. Agnes Stevenson (1873)

British Chess Player

Agnes Lawson-Stevenson was a British chess player. She was four-time British Ladies' Champion and married to Rufus Stevenson editor of the British Chess Magazine. She took 3rd at Meran 1924.

17. Cecil Valentine De Vere (1845)

British Chess Player

Cecil Valentine De Vere was the pseudonym of Cecil Valentine Brown the winner of the first official British Chess Championship in 1866. He played chess effortlessly and elegantly without recourse...

18. David S. Goodman (1958)

British Chess Player

David Simon Charles Goodman is an International Master of chess and a chess writer. Awarded the IM title in 1983 he won the World Youth Chess Championship in 1975. He...

19. Philip Walsingham Sergeant (1872)

British Chess Player

Philip Walsingham Sergeant was a British professional writer on chess and popular historical subjects. He collaborated on the fifth sixth and seventh editions of Modern Chess Openings an important reference...

20. Charles Ranken (1828)

British Chess Player

Charles Edward Ranken was a Church of England clergyman and a minor British chess master. He co-founded and was the first president of the Oxford University Chess Club. He was...

21. Victor Wahltuch (1875)

British Chess Player

Victor Lionel Wahltuch was an English chess master. He shared 1st with George Shories at Blackpool 1907 won at Blackpool 1908 tied for 3rd-4th at Blackpool 1910 and tied for...

22. Daniel Yarnton Mills (1849)

British Chess Player

Daniel Yarnton Mills was a Scottish chess master. He has won the Scottish Chess Championships on eight occasions and was British Amateur Champion in 1890.

23. Horatio Caro (1862)

British Chess Player

Horatio Caro was an English chess master. Caro was born in Newcastle upon Tyne England but spent most of his chess career in Berlin Germany. He played several matches. In...

24. Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841)

British Chess Player

Joseph Henry Blackburne nicknamed The Black Death dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century. He learned the game at the relatively late age of 18 but...

25. Samuel Boden (1826)

British Chess Player

Samuel Standidge Boden was an English professional chess master. The mating pattern Boden's Mate was named after the mate that occurred in one of his games Schulder-Boden London 1853. There...

26. Raymond Keene (1948)

British Chess Player

Raymond Dennis Keene OBE is an English chess Grandmaster a FIDE International Arbiter a chess organiser and a journalist and author. p196 He won the British Chess Championship in 1971...

27. Daniel J. King (1963)

British Chess Player

Daniel John King is an English chess grandmaster writer coach journalist and broadcaster.

28. Reginald Pryce Michell (1873)

British Chess Player

Reginald Pryce Michell was an English chess master. He was British Amateur Champion in 1902. He played in eight England vs. USA cable matches between 1901 and 1911 and twice...

29. Bernard Cafferty (1934)

British Chess Player

Bernard Cafferty is an English chess master columnist writer magazine editor and translator.

30. Murugan Thiruchelvam (1989)

British Chess Player

Murugan Thirumurugan Thiruchelvam is an English chess player. He was England's youngest player ever to gain an international chess rating. Having just passed his tenth birthday he played against the...

31. Brian Eley (1946)

British Chess Player

Brian Ratcliffe Eley is a former British Chess Champion. He has been a fugitive from the British police since 1991.

32. Francis Joseph Lee (Unknow)

British Chess Player

s Joseph Lee was an English chess master.

33. Emmanuel Rayner (1958)

British Chess Player

Dr Emmanuel Rayner is a British chess player and FIDE Master. He won the Welsh Chess Championship in 1976. Dr Rayner studied mathematics at Trinity College Cambridge and obtained a...

34. Miss Fatima (Unknow)

British Chess Player

Miss Fatima was an Indian-British Indian female chess master. Miss Fatima won the British Women's Chess Championship at Hastings in 1933. Earlier she took 12th place at London 1932. She...

35. Harold Saunders (1875)

British Chess Player

Harold Saunders was a British chess master and bridge player.

36. Eugene Ernest Colman (1878)

British Chess Player

Eugene Ernest Colman was an English chess master. He was a civil servant who graduated from Cambridge University with a law degree and entered service in the Malay States.

37. Harry Golombek (1911)

British Chess Player

Harry Golombek OBE was a British chess International Master and honorary grandmaster chess arbiter and chess author. He was three times British chess champion in 1947 1949 and 1955 and...

38. Edith Charlotte Price (1872)

British Chess Player

Edith Charlotte Price was an English female chess master. She enjoyed great success at the British Women's Chess Championship winning it five times. She first played the event in 1912...

39. Edward Guthlac Sergeant (1881)

British Chess Player

Edward Guthlac Sergeant was an English chess master. He participated many times in the British Chess Championship London City championship and Hastings International Chess Congress. In 1907 he tied for...

40. G. H. Diggle (1902)

British Chess Player

Geoffrey Harber Diggle was a British chess player and writer. Diggle contributed articles to the British Chess Magazine from 1933 to 1981 and to the British Chess Federation's publications Newsflash...

41. Gordon Crown (1929)

British Chess Player

Gordon Thomas Crown was a promising British chess player who died prematurely of appendicitis at the age of eighteen. He is best known for his win against the Russian Grandmaster...

42. Julius du Mont (1881)

British Chess Player

Julius du Mont was a pianist piano teacher chess player journalist editor and writer. He studied music at the Frankfurt Conservatoire and at Heidelberg and became a concert pianist. He...

43. Edith Holloway (1868)

British Chess Player

Edith Martha Holloway was one of the brightest names in British women's chess. She was the daughter of sculptor John Denton Crittenden who exhibited at the Royal Academy.

44. Elijah Williams (chess player) (1809)

British Chess Player

Elijah Williams was an eminent British chess player of the mid-19th century. The first president of the Clifton Chess Club and publisher of a book of games from the Divan...

45. Herbert William Trenchard (1857)

British Chess Player

Herbert William Trenchard was an English chess master. He took 11th and tied for 4-5th in London in 1886 shared twice 3rd at Cambridge 1890 and Oxford 1891 tied for...

46. Edith Michell (1872)

British Chess Player

Edith Mary Ann Michell was an English female chess master. At the beginning of her career she twice won Redhill Chess Club championships in 1906 and 1909. More than...

47. Stewart Reuben (1939)

British Chess Player

Stewart Reuben is a British chess player organiser arbiter and author. He has also been a professional poker player been called one of Britain's foremost poker players and one of...

48. Jacob Sarratt (1772)

British Chess Player

Jacob Henry Sarratt was one of the top English chess players of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Sarratt was renowned as a player and author and adopted the...

49. Joseph Henry Blake (chess player) (1859)

British Chess Player

Joseph Henry Blake was an English chess master. Blake won many tournaments played in England toward the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. He...

50. Thomas Wilson Barnes (Unknow)

British Chess Player

Thomas Wilson Barnes was an English chess master one of the leading British masters of his time. He went on a diet and lost 130 pounds in 10 months which...