1. Giambattista Lolli (1698)

Italian Chess Player

Giambattista Lolli was an Italian chess player. Lolli was one of the most important chess theoreticians of his time. He is most famous for his book Osservazioni teorico-pratiche sopra il...

2. Giovanni Martinolich (1884)

Italian Chess Player

Giovanni Martinolich was an Italian chess master. He was born in Trieste the son of Dr Giovanni Martinolich a lawyer Sec. of the Austrian Association of Maritime law and legal...

3. Federico Norcia (1904)

Italian Chess Player

Norcia was an Italian chess master. He played several times in Italian Chess Championship and took 2nd behind Mario Monticelli at Milan 1935 tied for 4-5th at Florence 1935 shared...

4. Pietro Carrera (1573)

Italian Chess Player

Pietro Carrera chess player historian priest and Italian author born in Sicily in Militello in Val di Catania located in the Valley of Noto; here he grew up in the...

5. Giorgio Porreca (1927)

Italian Chess Player

Giorgio Porreca was an Italian chess player and International Master. He won the Italian Chess Championship two times: at Sorrento in 1950 and at Rovigo in 1956. He was seven...

6. Davide Marotti (1881)

Italian Chess Player

Davide Marotti was an Italian chess master. He was a professor of literature and philosophy. In 1911 he took 5th in Rome. In 1919 he won in Naples. In 1920...

7. Alessandra Riegler (1961)

Italian Chess Player

Alessandra Riegler is an Italian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster. She was the sixth ICCF Women's World Champion a title she held from 2000-2005. In 2007 Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has...

8. Ignazio Calvi (1797)

Italian Chess Player

Ignazio Calvi was an Italian patriot and chess player. After taking part to a popular insurrection in Modena and participating to a military campaign of the Savoia army he was...

9. Max Romih (1893)

Italian Chess Player

Massimiliano Romi né Max Romih was an Italian chess master. Max Romih was of Slavonic origin and a citizen of Austria-Hungary Empire but after World War I the region of...

10. Carlo Cozio (Unknow)

Italian Chess Player

Carlo Cozio Count of Montiglio and Salabue was an Italian chess player and theorist. He is best remembered for the book Il giuoco degli scacchi and for the Cozio Defence.

11. Matteo Gladig (1880)

Italian Chess Player

Matteo Gladig was an Italian chess master. Born in Triest he won at Triest 1905 took 2nd behind Giovanni Martinolich at Triest 1909 and drew a short match with Oldřich...

12. Beniamino Vergani (1863)

Italian Chess Player

Beniamino Vergani was an Italian chess master. A businessman who learned the game in 1884 he soon distinguished himself in local tournaments. He took part in the Italian National Tournament...

13. Giovanni Cenni (1881)

Italian Chess Player

Giovanni Cenni was an Italian chess master. He won twice Bologna City championships took 4th at Rome 1911 tied for 2nd-3rd at Viareggio 1912 took 3rd at Bologna 1913 took...

14. Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona (Unknow)

Italian Chess Player

Giovanni Leonardo di Bona or Giovanni Leonardo da Cutri known as Il Puttino was an early Italian chess master. Giovanni Leonardo was born in Cutro Calabria. He studied law...

15. Clarice Benini (1905)

Italian Chess Player

Clarice Benini was an Italian chess master. She finished second in the Women's World Championship at Stockholm 1937 behind Vera Menchik but ahead of Sonja Graf Milda Lauberte Mary Bain...

16. Gioachino Greco (Unknow)

Italian Chess Player

Gioachino Greco was an Italian chess player and writer. He recorded some of the earliest chess games known. His games all against anonymous opponents were quite possibly constructs but served...

17. Vincenzo Nestler (1912)

Italian Chess Player

Vincenzo Nestler was an Italian chess master. He won twice Italian Chess Championship at Florence 1943 and Trieste 1954 and was four times Sub-Champion. During World War II Nestler took...

18. Antonio Sacconi (1895)

Italian Chess Player

Antonio Sacconi was an Italian chess master. Born into a noble family in Rome he won torneo del Caffè Balbo after play-off match against Bernheimer in 1917 drew a match...

19. Luigi Centurini (1820)

Italian Chess Player

Luigi Centurini was an Italian chess player and chess composer. In 1853 he published the pamphlet in Genoa titled Game of Chess. The endgame of rook and knight against rook...

20. Mario Napolitano (1910)

Italian Chess Player

Mario Napolitano was an Italian chess master. At the beginning of his career Napolitano took 5th place in Venice in 1928. Then he won at Milan 1934. He had played...

21. Arturo Reggio (1863)

Italian Chess Player

Arturo Reggio was an Italian chess master. He started playing chess as an engineering student at the Graz University of Technology and at the Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute of Vienna both...

22. Serafino Dubois (1817)

Italian Chess Player

Serafino Dubois was an Italian chess player. He was known for his writings on the game and for his promotion of chess in Italy.

23. Paolo Boi (Unknow)

Italian Chess Player

Paolo Boi was an Italian chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest chess players of the 16th century. He was born in Syracuse Sicily and...

24. Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (1719)

Italian Chess Player

Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani was an 18th-century Italian law professor priest chess player composer and theoretician. He is best known today for his chess writing.

25. Ercole del Rio (Unknow)

Italian Chess Player

Domenico Ercole del Rio was an Italian lawyer and author. He published an 110-page chess book in 1750 which was the basis of a work by Giambattista Lolli thirteen years...

26. Enrico Paoli (1908)

Italian Chess Player

Enrico Paoli was an Italian International chess master. He was born in Trieste Italy and learned chess when he was nine years old. He was winner of International Tournaments of...

27. Eros Riccio (1977)

Italian Chess Player

Eros Riccio is an Italian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster Freestyle Chess Champion and chess opening book author. He is FICGS World Champion and ICCF vice-European Champion and Olympic bronze with...

28. Michele Godena (1967)

Italian Chess Player

Michele Godena is an Italian chess player and many times the national champion. A resident of Finale Ligure he achieved the title of International Grandmaster in 1996 following a plus...

29. Stefano Rosselli del Turco (1877)

Italian Chess Player

Stefano Rosselli Del Turco marquis was an Italian chess master. He played in all first ten Italian championships and was twice Italian Champion.

30. Sergio Mariotti (1946)

Italian Chess Player

Sergio Mariotti is an Italian Grandmaster of chess and former national champion. He became the Italian junior champion in 1965 at Turin and in 1969 at San Benedetto the full...

31. Elena Sedina (1968)

Italian Chess Player

Elena Sedina is a Ukrainian-Italian chess Woman Grandmaster and open International Master. She has won the Ukrainian Women's Chess Championship the Australian Open Chess Championship and is a Chess...

32. Lexy Ortega (1960)

Italian Chess Player

Lexy Ortega is an Italian chess Grandmaster. Born in 1960 at Camagüey Cuba in 1991 he emigrated to Italy tranferring his nationality and playing for this country ever since. As...

33. Jacobus de Cessolis (Unknow)

Italian Chess Player

Jacobus de Cessolis was an Italian author of the most famous morality book on chess in the Middle Ages. On the second half of the 13th century Jacobus de...