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Anupama Abhyankar-Gokhale, born on May 17, 1969, is a chess master from India. She was awarded the Women’s International Master title in 1985. She married chess master Raghunandan Gokhale, chairman of the Mumbai Chess Association and Anupama...
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Enrico Paoli was born in Trieste on January 13, 1908. He learned chess at the age of nine. In 1938, he won the Italian championship. He won it again in 1957, and in 1968, at the age of 60. He became an International Master ...
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Klaus Junge (1924-1945) was a German player who was born in Chile and moved to Germany in the 1930s. In 1941, at the age of 17, he tied for first place in the German championship. In Prague 1942, he tied for first with Alekhine. ...
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In 1960, Janos Flesch (1933-1983) played 52 games simultaneously blindfolded in Budapest – a world record. He won 31 games, lost 18 games, and drew 3 games in 12 hours of play. During the simul, he was allowed to have the mo...
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Max Euwe (1901-1981) was a former FIDE President (1970-1978) who was twice world champion - 1935-37 and for one day in 1947. In July 1947, the FIDE Congress, held in The Hague, voted for Euwe to be world champion since Alekhine died. However...
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Wolfgang Heidenfeld (1911-1981) was a German-born (Berlin) Jewish chess author who was forced to emigrate to South Africa in the 1930s and then settled in Ireland in 1957. He was South African Champion in 1939, 1945-46, 1947, 1949, 1951, 195...
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Borislav Ivkov, born Nov 12, 1933, is a Yugoslav (Serbia and Montenegro) Grandmaster (1955). He was the winner of the first World Junior Championship, held in England, in 1951. In 1965 he lost to Bent Larsen in the Candidates match quarterfi...
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George Walker was the writer of the first chess column to appear in a magazine, the Lancet, in 1823. The column lasted less than a year. In 1831 he formed the Westminster Chess Club, which was the leading club in England. In...
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Jon Loftur Arnason, born Nov 13, 1960, is an Icelandic grandmaster (1986). He was winner of the first World Championship for juniors under 17, in 1977 (ahead of Jay Whitehead and Kasparov). He won the championship of Iceland in 1977, a...
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Arnold Sheldon Denker (1914-2005 was a onetime boxer and boxing manager (won three successive Golden Gloves bouts by knockouts). He won the New York State championship in 1938 and 1939. He won the Manhattan Chess Club Championsh...
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