Gregory Kaidanov, born Oct 11, 1959, is a Grandmaster (1988) who was Russian Boys under-14 champion in 1972. He won the New York Open in 1990. In 1992 he won the World Open, the US Open, the National Open, and the Novag Grand Prix.&nbs... Read more »
In 1974, winner of the first World Computer Chess Championship, held in Stockholm. The program was written at the Institute of Control Science in Moscow. It scored 100% ahead of 11 other entries. In 1975, the KAISSA programmers w... Read more »
John Kalish, born in 1937, is an International Master postal player. Kalish has won the championship of Okinawa 25 consecutive times (from 1959 to 1984). In 1976 he tied for first with Victor Palciauskas in the 2nd North American Invit... Read more »
Charles Kalme (1939-2002) was the U.S. Junior Champion in 1954 and 1955. In 1957 he was the U.S. Intercollegiate Chess Champion. In 1960 he was on the winning U.S. Student Olympiad team (Lombardy, Kalme, R Weinstein, Mednis, Saidy, and... Read more »
Gata Kamsky, born June 2, 1974, is a Grandmaster (1990) who was born in Siberia, Gata Kamsky won the USSR Junior Championship (under 18) at the age of 12. Gata and father Rustam defected from the Soviet Union after playing in the 1989 ... Read more »
Mona Karff (1914-1998) played in 18 U.S. Women’s chess championships, winning 7 times , from 1938 to 1974. She spoke 8 languages fluently and became a millionaire playing the stock market. She married her cousin, but later divorc... Read more »
Sergey Karjaki is a Ukrainian Grandmaster, born in Kramatorsk, Ukraine on January 12, 1990. On August 20, 2002, at the age of 12 years and 7 months, he was the youngest grandmaster in history. He was the world champion under 12.&... Read more »
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov, born May 23, 1951, in Zlatoust, Russia, was the 12th World Chess Champion (1975-1985).
Karpov was the first world champion to win the title without playing a chess match. He was awarded the title in 1975 when Bobby ... Read more »
Isaac Kashdan (1905-1985) was an American Grandmaster who was one of the best players in the world at his peak in the 1930's. He was also a chess writer, founding the popular magazine Chess Review in 1933 and editing a chess column in the Los ... Read more »
Rustam Kasimdzhanov, born Dec 5, 1979, was the World FIDE champion from Uzbekistan who won the FIDE knockout in Tripoli in 2004. He won the Asian Championship in 1998. He took 2nd place in the World Junior Championship in 1... Read more »