Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was born October 21, 1990 in Nogent-sur-Marne, just outside Paris. He plays 1.e4 and when playing Black, the Sicilian Najdorf or Dragon against it. Maxime prefers the Grunfeld against 1.d4 and 1...c5 or 1...Nf6 against 1.c4...
Ngoc Truongson Nguyen ('Son', born Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, February 23, 1990) is the top Vietnamese chess player. Son started playing chess at the age of four, and he competed in the National Junior Chess Tournament before he w...
Anna Muzychuk was born 28 February 1990 in Lviv, Ukraine. She is an International Master and a Woman Grandmaster with FIDE rating 2486. In 2004 she became a citizen of Slovenia, where she is the strongest female chess player. On t...
Koneru Humpy (born 31 March 1987 in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh) is a chess grandmaster from India. She was originally named Hampi but her father later changed it to Humpy, a more Russian-sounding name. She writes her family name (Koneru)...
Hou Yifan started playing chess at the age of 6. She was admitted to the National Chess Center in Beijing and has leading Chinese grandmaster Ye Jiangchuan as her trainer. She plays e4 as White and as Black, a variety of Sicilians (Dragon, N...