American Chess Player
1. Paul Morphy (1837)
American Chess Player
19th century American chess master and one of the first unofficial World Champions of chess who retired from the game when he was very young.
2. Jackson Showalter (1860)
American Chess Player
Early American chess champion who was known as "The Kentucky Lion".
3. Samuel Reshevsky (1911)
American Chess Player
Polish born chess prodigy who later became a United States Chess Champion for the first time in 1936. He was known for his talent at positional play.
4. Arnold Denker (1914)
American Chess Player
American chess Grandmaster and chess author who was a two time U.S. Chess Champion.
5. Hans Berliner (1929)
American Chess Player
Chess Grandmaster and university professor who is best known for being a former correspondence chess champion.
6. Donald Byrne (1930)
American Chess Player
American chess legend who played for five U.S. Chess Olympiad teams from 1962 to 1972 and is best known for losing to Bobby Fischer in the 'Game of the Century'.
7. Viktors Pupols (1934)
American Chess Player
Charismatic American chess master who is well known among fellow American chess players.
8. William Lombardy (1937)
American Chess Player
American chess Grandmaster and former Catholic priest who had one of the most successful careers in modern American chess.
9. Vinay Bhat (1984)
American Chess Player
American chess Grandmaster who is one of the highest rated players in the United States.
10. Emory Tate (1958)
American Chess Player
American chess player known for his daring, creative style. He won multiple United States Armed Forces Championships during his career.
11. Ray Robson (1994)
American Chess Player
American chess Grandmaster who was one of the youngest players in history to become a Grandmaster, when was awarded the rank at age 14.
12. Samuel Sevian (2000)
American Chess Player
Chess prodigy who became famous for being the youngest person ever to become a U.S. International Master. He accomplished this feat as the world champion of the Under-12 age group.
13. Yasser Seirawan (1960)
American Chess Player
A Syrian-born American chess player who won the US Championship in 1981, 1986, 1989, and 2000.
14. Abby Marshall (1991)
American Chess Player
Woman FIDE master chess player who became the 1st young woman to win the Denker Tournament of High School Champions in 2009. She had previously become the first female two-time...
15. Greg Shahade (1978)
American Chess Player
International Master chess player and teacher who has taught at the U.S. Chess School and posted educational videos at ChessVideos.tv. He also founded the U.S. Chess League and has served...
16. Robert Hess (chess player) (1991)
American Chess Player
Robert Lee Hess is an American chess Grandmaster. In May 2012 his FIDE rating was 2635 fifth in the United States.
17. Evan Ju (1991)
American Chess Player
Evan David Ju is a former American chess prodigy from New Jersey. At the age of 15 Ju became the youngest ever New Jersey state chess champion and the first...
18. Kenneth Clayton (1938)
American Chess Player
Kenneth Clayton is an American chess master. He won US Amateur Chess Championship in 1963. He attended Harvard University but did not finish. His picture was on the cover of...
19. Carmine Nigro (1910)
American Chess Player
Carmine Nigro was former World Champion Bobby Fischer's first chess teacher from 1951-1956.
20. Charles Jaffe (1879)
American Chess Player
Charles Jaffé was a Belarusian-American chess master. Jaffe was also a chess writer.
21. Curt Brasket (1932)
American Chess Player
Curt Justin Brasket was an American chess player and US National Junior Chess Champion. He was also a sixteen-time state champion for his home state of Minnesota and a FIDE...
22. George Treysman (1881)
American Chess Player
George Treysman was an American chess Master.
23. Albert Pinkus (1903)
American Chess Player
Albert Sidney Pinkus was an American chess master and author. In 1943 and 1944 he published an analysis of the Two Knights Defense in Chess Review.
24. Albert Simonson (1914)
American Chess Player
Albert Simonson was an American chess master. He was one of the strongest American players of the 1930s and was part of the American team which won the gold medals...
25. Leon Rosen (1869)
American Chess Player
Leon Rosen was an American chess master. Born in Warsaw Poland he left for Paris France and next emigrated to the United States. He took 4th at Paris 1896 and...
26. Charles Moehle (1859)
American Chess Player
Charles Moehle was an American chess master. He took 3rd at New York 1880 and shared 2nd behind Jackson Whipps Showalter at Cincinnati 1888. He participated in several matches;...
27. William Addison (chess player) (1933)
American Chess Player
Grady Addison was an American chess International Master. He played in the U. S. Chess Championships of 1962–63 1963–64 1965 1966 and 1969. He took second place with 7. 5/11...
28. William John Donaldson (1958)
American Chess Player
John Donaldson is an International Master of chess. He has been an IM since 1983. He is also an author organizer journalist and chess politician. He was Captain of the...
29. Max Pavey (1918)
American Chess Player
Max Pavey was an American chess master and medical doctor.
30. Max Judd (1851)
American Chess Player
Max Judd was an American chess master. Born in southern Poland he emigrated to America in 1862. He was an American cloak manufacturer. He was founder and president of...
31. Leroy Dubeck (1939)
American Chess Player
Dr. Leroy William Dubeck is a chess master and a chess politician and a retired Professor of Physics. He was president of the US Chess Federation from 1969-1972. Dubeck also...
32. William Ewart Napier (1881)
American Chess Player
Ewart Napier was an American chess master of English birth.
33. Leon Stolzenberg (1895)
American Chess Player
Leon Stolzenberg was an American chess player. Stolzenberg had been a medic in the hospital at Tarnopol in World War I. Entering the United States after the war he became...
34. Preston Ware (1821)
American Chess Player
Preston Ware Jr. was a U. S. chess player. He is best known today for playing unorthodox chess openings. Ware was born in Wrentham Massachusetts and died in Boston...
35. Abraham Kupchik (1892)
American Chess Player
Abraham Kupchik was an American chess master. Abraham Kupchik was born into a Jewish family in Brest. His family emigrated to the USA in 1903. He was an accountant by...
36. Bill Goichberg (1942)
American Chess Player
Bill Goichberg is a chess master and former president of the United States Chess Federation. He is a USCF Life Master and FIDE Master. He is National Tournament Director and...
37. Stuart Wagman (1919)
American Chess Player
Stuart Wagman was an American chess player and FIDE Master. Though a citizen of the United States he spent much of his life in Italy.
38. Constant Ferdinand Burille (1866)
American Chess Player
Constant Ferdinand Burille was an American chess master. He was a Bostonian born in Paris Burille was a member of a group of Boston chess players and theoreticians who formed...
39. Hugh Myers (1930)
American Chess Player
Hugh Edward Myers was an American chess master and author. He won or tied for first in the state chess championships of Illinois Wisconsin Missouri and Iowa as well as...
40. Napoleon Marache (1818)
American Chess Player
Napoleon Marache was born in France and moved to the United States at about age 12. He learned the game of chess around 1844 and immediately became a devotee. He...
41. Victor Palciauskas (1941)
American Chess Player
Dr Victor Palciauskas is an American International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster most famous for being the tenth ICCF World Champion 1978–84. He tied for second place behind Mikhail Umansky in a...
42. Tal Shaked (1978)
American Chess Player
Tal Shaked is an American chess grandmaster who is best known for winning the World Junior Championship in 1997. Shaked learned the game at the age of seven and developed...
43. John Washington Baird (1852)
American Chess Player
John Washington Baird was a minor American chess master who played in a number of American and international chess tournaments between 1880 and 1906. He was the brother of David...
44. Robin Smith (chess player) (1952)
American Chess Player
Robin Smith was an American chess Grandmaster of correspondence chess a two-time U. S. US Correspondence Chess Champion and an author of a chess book.
45. Claude Bloodgood (1937)
American Chess Player
Claude Frizzel Bloodgood was a controversial American chess player. As a young man he got into trouble with the law and was arrested several times. He was sentenced to death...
46. Hermann Helms (1870)
American Chess Player
Helms Hermann was an American chess player writer and promoter.
47. Nicholas Nip (1998)
American Chess Player
Nicholas Nip is a United States Chess Federation National Master. In 2008 he became the youngest USCF Master in history obtaining a rating of 2207 at the age of 9...
48. Eveline Burgess (1856)
American Chess Player
Eveline Allen Burgess of Lamoni Iowa was the American women's chess champion from 1907 to 1920.
49. Bernard Zuckerman (1943)
American Chess Player
Bernard Zuckerman is an International Master of chess. Zuckerman competed in seven U. S. Chess Championships his best result being a tie for fourth place with William Addison in 1965....
50. David Graham Baird (1854)
American Chess Player
David Graham Baird was an American chess master. He was the brother of John Washington Baird who was also an American chess master. A writer in the New York Times...
