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Chess Oscar
Chess Oscar is an international award given to the best chess player every year. The winner is selected by a poll of chess experts across the world, including Grandmasters. The award comprises a bronze statuette titled The Fascinated Wanderer. The award had its genesis in 1967 with journalists...
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Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Russian: Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов Anatolij Evgen'evič Karpov; born May 23, 1951) is a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was world champion from 1975 to 1985, played three more matches...
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Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov (Russian: Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров; Russian pronunciation: [ˈɡarʲɪ ˈkʲiməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsparəf], born Garry Kimovich Weinstein, on 13 April 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union; now Azerbaijan) is a Russian former World Chess...
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Boris Spassky
Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij) (Russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский) (born January 30, 1937) is a Soviet-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972.
Spassky won the Soviet Chess...
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Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник) (born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007.
In October 2000,...
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Viktor Korchnoi
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (also Korchnoy, Kortchnoy, Kortschnoi, etc.; pronounced in the original Russian as "karch NOY"; Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, born March 23, 1931, in Leningrad, USSR, defected to the Netherlands, and has resided in Switzerland...
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Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand (pronounced [ʋiɕˈʋəˌnɑːˌt̪ʰən ɑːnˌənd̪], Tamil: விசுவநாதன் ஆனந்த்) (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess Grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion.
Anand held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000 to 2002, at a...
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Bent Larsen
Jørgen Bent Larsen (born March 4, 1935, Thisted) is a Danish chess Grandmaster. He has been a six-time Danish champion, and a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on four occasions: 1965, 1968, 1971, and 1977. He won three Interzonal...
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Veselin Topalov
Veselin Topalov (pronounced [vɛsɛˈlin toˈpɑlof]; Bulgarian: Веселин Топалов) (born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world chess champion. He currently (October 2009) has the highest rating in the world.
Topalov became...
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Bobby Fischer
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Later in life he renounced his US...
