1. Almira Skripchenko (1976)

French Chess Player

French chess Grandmaster who is highly regarded in the world of female chess playing.

2. Gilles Andruet (1958)

French Chess Player

Gilles Andruet was a French chess player an International Master and a former national champion. He was the son of rally driver Jean-Claude Andruet.

3. Chantal Chaudé de Silans (1919)

French Chess Player

Chantal Chaudé de Silans was a French chess player and a pioneer of women's chess. She learned how to play the game when she was nine along with her brother...

4. Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800)

French Chess Player

Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant was a leading French chess master and an editor of the chess periodical Le Palamède. He is best known for losing a match against Howard...

5. Alexandre Deschapelles (1780)

French Chess Player

Alexandre Deschapelles was a French chess player who between the death of Philidor and the arrival of Louis de la Bourdonnais was probably the strongest player in the world. He...

6. Amédée Gibaud (1885)

French Chess Player

Amédée Gibaud was a French chess master. He won the French Chess Championship four times and won the French correspondence championship three times. He tied for fourth/fifth at Ramsgate 1929....

7. Frédéric Lazard (1883)

French Chess Player

édéric Lazard was a French chess master problemist and journalist. He lived in Paris where he played in many local tournaments. He took twice 4th place in 1905 shared 3rd...

8. William Schlumberger (Unknow)

French Chess Player

Schlumberger was a European chess master. He is known to have taughtPierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant to play chess and as the operator of The Turk a chess-playing machine which...

9. Josef Cukierman (1900)

French Chess Player

Josef Cukierman was a Polish-born French chess master.

10. Robert Crépeaux (1900)

French Chess Player

Robert Crépeaux was a French chess master. He won three French Chess Championship at Strasbourg 1924 Nice 1925 and Paris 1941. He also won Paris City Chess Championship in 1942....

11. Alphonse Goetz (1865)

French Chess Player

Alphonse Goetz was a French chess master. Born in Strasbourg France he was a refugee after the Franco-Prussian War and the annexation of Alsace–Lorraine to the German Empire. In...

12. Louis Betbeder Matibet (1901)

French Chess Player

Louis Betbeder Matibet was a French chess master born in Orléans. He took 2nd place in the French Chess Championships of 1928 and 1946. Betbeder represented France seven times in...

13. Georges Renaud (1893)

French Chess Player

Georges Renaud was a French chess master theoretician and organizer. He won the first French Chess Championship at Paris 1923.

14. Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1796)

French Chess Player

Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais was a French chess master possibly the strongest player in the early 19th century.

15. Legall de Kermeur (1702)

French Chess Player

çois Antoine de Legall de Kermeur was a French chess player. His name is variously written Kermur Sire de Legalle by Twiss and Kermur and Kermuy Sire de Legal by...

16. Moritz Billecard (1876)

French Chess Player

Maurice Billecard was a French chess master. He tied for 7-8th at Paris 1896 tied for 14-15th at Munich 1900 took 4th at Paris 1901 withdrew from the 1902 Monte...

17. Jean Taubenhaus (1850)

French Chess Player

Jean Taubenhaus was a Polish–born French chess master.

18. André Chéron (1895)

French Chess Player

André Chéron was a French chess player endgame theorist and a composer of endgame studies. He lived in Switzerland for many years. He was named a FIDE International Master of...

19. Aristide Gromer (1908)

French Chess Player

Aristide Gromer was a French chess master. Gromer was thrice French Champion. He tied for 5-6th at Paris 1923 took 3rd at Biarritz 1926 took 2nd behind Chéron at Saint-Cloude...

20. Gustave Lazard (1876)

French Chess Player

Gustave Lazard was a French chess master problemist and organizer. He was an elder brother of Frédéric Lazard. His chess career took place in Paris. He tied for 5-6th in...

21. Edward Chamier (1840)

French Chess Player

Edward Chamier was a French chess master. He was born into an English branch of a French Huguenot family. Chamier won at Paris 1874 and at Paris 1881. He played...

22. Christophe Léotard (1966)

French Chess Player

Christophe Léotard is a French correspondence chess grandmaster and the 19th World Champion in Correspondence Chess. He obtained 8. 5 points in the championship which started on 20 April 2004.

23. Jacques François Mouret (1787)

French Chess Player

Jacques François Mouret was a French chess master of the early 19th century who became chess tutor of the future Louis Philippe I and was one of the most successful...

24. Paul Journoud (Unknow)

French Chess Player

Paul Journoud was a French chess master and editor. He was a member of the Café de la Régence chess club in Paris and one of leading French masters in...

25. Jules Arnous de Rivière (1830)

French Chess Player

Jules Arnous de Rivière was the strongest French chess player from the late 1850s through the late 1870s. He is best known today for playing many games with Paul Morphy...

26. Leo Battesti (1953)

French Chess Player

Léo Battesti is a Corsican politician journalist and chess enthusiast.

27. Vladimir Okhotnik (1950)

French Chess Player

Vladimir Ilyich Okhotnik is a French chess Grandmaster of Ukrainian origin. In 1979 he won the 44th Ukrainian Championship at Dnipropetrovsk.

28. Éric Prié (1962)

French Chess Player

Éric Prié born 14 March 1962 in Paris is a French chess player International Grandmaster since 1996 currently playing for Montpellier Échecs. He won the title of French Champion in...

29. Cécile Haussernot (1998)

French Chess Player

Cécile Claude Haussernot is a French chess player and is four times French Youth Champion: U-8 Girls 2006 U-10 Girls 2007 U-14 Girls 2008 U-14 Girls 2011 and U-16 Girls...

30. Michel Caillaud (1957)

French Chess Player

Michel Caillaud is a French chess problemist. In 1993 Caillaud gained the title Grandmaster of the FIDE for Chess Compositions. He was with 36 years of age the youngest GM...

31. Sophie Milliet (1983)

French Chess Player

Sophie Milliet is a French chess player and four times national women's champion. She was raised in the French town of Castelnau-le-Lez and learned to play chess at the age...