How many married to each other Grandmasters are there?

Has anyone bothered to investigate this? I bet it would take days and days to figure this out!

That is a cool question. I wondered that too. I know Sopiko is an IM and WGM. I don't see a GM title though. I think we should include couples/married couples who are at least IM or WIM.

Ok that works.

I know of two couples that are both Grandmasters.

Hikaru Nakamura and Atousa Pourkashiyan

Pia Cramling, and Juan Manuel Bellón López

Those are the two I was thinking of.

I found a list of married known chess players on Wikipedia!



Evgeny Agrest and Svetlana Agrest

Alexander Alekhine and Grace Alekhine

Mohammed Al-Modiahki and Zhu Chen

Keith Arkell and Susan Arkell

Sergey Arkhipov and Natalia Alekhina

Levon Aronian and Arianne Caoili

Suat Atalık and Ekaterina Atalik

Algirdas Bandza and Rasa Bandzienė

Mateusz Bartel and Marta Bartel

Robert Bellin and Jana Bellin

Juan Manuel Bellón López and Pia Cramping

István Bilek and Edit Bilek

Peter Biyiasas and Ruth Haring

Milko Bobotsov and Antonia Ivanova

Igor Bondarevsky and Valentina Kozlovskaya

Bu Xiangzhi and Huang Qian

Graeme Buckley and Susan Arkell-Salic

Pascal Charbonneau and Irina Krush

Egor Chukaev and Klavdiya Chukaeva

William John Donaldson and Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya

Pavel Eljanov and Olena Dvoretska

Lūcijs Endzelīns and Milda Lauberte

Vladimir Feldman and Irina Berezina

Alexandr Fier and Nino Maisuradze

Bobby Fischer and Miyoko Watai

Glenn Flear and Christine Flear

Ovidiu-Doru Foișor and Cristina Adela Foișor

Robert Fontaine and Kateryna Lahno

Laurent Fressinet and Almira Skripchenko

Daniel Fridman and Anna Zatonskih

Grzegorz Gajewski and Joanna Majdan-Gajewska

Valeriya Gansvind and Sergey Kalinitschew

Petar Genov and Lyubka Genova

Anish Giri and Sopiko Guramishvili

Alexander Grischuk and Natalia Zhukova

Boris Gulko and Anna Akhsharumova

Aidyn Guseinov and Elmira Alieva

Zoltan Gyimesi and Nóra Medvegy

Hichem Hamdouchi and Adina-Maria Hamdouchi

William Hartston and Jana Hartston

Helgi Grétarsson and Lenka Ptáčníková

Sergey Grigoriants and Petra Papp

Gilberto Hernández Guerrero and Claudia Amura

Miguel Illescas and Olga Alexandrova

Alexander Ivanov and Esther Epstein

Artur Jakubiec and Edyta Jakubiec

Paweł Jaracz and Barbara Jaracz

Sriram Jha and Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi

Gawain Jones and Sue Maroroa

Toms Kantans and Anna Kantane

Sergey Karjakin and Kateryna Dolzhykova

Andrei Kharlov and Elena Zaiatz

Jānis Klovāns and Astra Klovāne

Jānis Kļaviņš and Ilga Kļaviņa

Oleg Korneev and Tatiana Kononenko

Yona Kosashvili and Sofia Polgar

Leonid Kritz and Nadezhda Kosintseva

Erwin l'Ami and Alina l'Ami

Bogdan Lalić and Susan Lalic

Gary Lane and Nancy Lane

Vladimir Lazarev and Anda Šafranska

Christopher Lutz and Anke Lutz

Igor Lysyj and Olga Girya

Marat Makarov and Julia Demina

Vadim Malakhatko and Anna Zozulia

Vidmantas Mališauskas and Marina Mališauskienė

Rauf Mamedov and Nataliya Buksa

Robert Markuš and Ana Srebrnič

Reginald Pryce Michell and Edith Michell

Igor Miladinović and Anna-Maria Botsari

Tony Miles and Jana Miles

Sergei Movsesian and Julia Movsesian (formerly with Petra Krupková)

Martin Mrva and Alena Mrvová

Arkadij Naiditsch and Yuliya Shvayger

Jaan Narva and Regina Narva

Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn and Phạm Lê Thảo Nguyên

Peter Heine Nielsen and Viktorija Čmilytė

Srećko Nedeljković and Verica Nedeljković

John Nunn and Petra Fink

Suat Rıza Öney and Gülümser Öney

Arman Pashikian and Maria Kursova

Peng Xiaomin and Qin Kanying

Jovan Petronic and Sanja Petronic

Vasik Rajlich and Iweta Rajlich

Ramachandran Ramesh and Aarthie Ramaswamy

Igors Rausis and Olita Rause

Zoltán Ribli and Maria Grosch

Maxim Rodshtein and Tereza Olsarova

Ian Rogers and Cathy Rogers

Vidrik Rootare and Salme Rootare

Gennadij Sagalchik and Olga Sagalchik

Bjarke Sahl and Sheila Barth Berntsen

Gediminas Sarakauskas and Zivile Sarakauskiene

Yasser Seirawan and Yvette Nagel

Miron Sher and Alla Grinfeld

Alexei Shirov and Viktorija Čmilytė

Alexei Shirov and Olga Dolgova

Alexei Shirov and Anastasia Travkina

Yuri Shulman and Viktorija Ni

Luca Shytaj and Elisabeth Pähtz

Bartosz Soćko and Monika Soćko

Alexey Suetin and Kira Zvorykina

Praveen Thipsay and Bhagyashree Thipsay

Pavel Tregubov and Alexandra Kosteniuk

Paul Truong and Susan Polgar

Maxim Turov and Irina Slavina Turova

Dennis Wagner and Dinara Wagner

Radosław Wojtaszek and Alina Kashlinskaya

Wu Shaobin and Xie Jun

Wu Xibin and Lou Hongyu

Alex Yermolinsky and Camilla Baginskaite

Stanisław Zawadzki and Beata Zawadzka

Zhang Zhong and Li Ruofan

Georg Meier and Inna Agrest

Alexander Grischuk and Kateryna Lagno

Matthieu Cornette and Deimante Daulyte-Cornette

Jan Werle and Iozefina Paulet

Nijat Abasov and Khayala Abdulla

Misratdin Iskandarov and Narmin Kazimova

Twan Burg and Nargiz Umudova

Atousa Pourkashiyan and Hikaru Nakamura

Dragisa Blagojevic and Lidija Blagojevic

Richárd Rapport and Jovana Rapport

Raymond Song and Lei Tingjie

So the list shows as really jumbled on mobile but it looks good on a web browser 😆

Alexander Grischuk and Kateryna Lagno

And every person on both sides is a GM. Damn

No they aren’t all GM’s, just known chess people with a Wikipedia page.

FYI, another couple from Vietnam: GM Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn and IM Phạm Lê Thảo Nguyên.