Chess officials

Nana Alexandria (Georgian: ნანა გიორგის ასული ალექსანდრია, Nana Giorgis asuli Aleksandria; born 13 October 1949) is a Georgian chess Woman Grandmaster (1976) and International Arbiter (1995).

Efstratios Grivas (born March 30, 1966) is a Greek chess Grandmaster.

Enrico Paoli (January 13, 1908 – December 15, 2005) was an Italian International chess master.

Silvio Danailov (Bulgarian: Силвио Данаилов; born 21 April 1961) is a former Bulgarian chess player and International Master.

George Walker (13 March 1803 – 23 April 1879) was an English chess player and author of The Celebrated Analysis of A D Philidor (London, 1832), The Art of Chess-Play: A New Treatise on the Game of Chess (London, 1832), A Selection of Games at Chess played by Philidor (London, 1835), Chess Made Easy (London, 1836), and Chess Studies (London, 1844).

Vladimir Pavlovich Zagorovsky (June 29, 1925 in Voronezh, Russia, formerly USSR – November 6, 1994) was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess.

Andrey Vasilievich Filatov (Russian: Андре́й Васи́льевич Фила́тов; born 18 December 1971) is a Russian entrepreneur.

Max Lange (August 7, 1832, Magdeburg – December 8, 1899, Leipzig) was a German chess player and problem composer.

Kārlis Bētiņš (Karlis Betins, Karl Behting) (27 October 1867, Bērzmuiža – 28 March 1943, Riga) was a Latvian chess master and composer of studies.

Friðrik Ólafsson (born 26 January 1935) is an Icelandic chess Grandmaster and former president of FIDE.

George Koltanowski (also "Georges"; 17 September 1903 – 5 February 2000) was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer.

Sergio Mariotti (born August 10, 1946 in Florence) is an Italian Grandmaster of chess and former national champion.

Daniel Willard Fiske (November 11, 1831 – September 17, 1904) was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York.

Vladimir Alexeyevich Alatortsev (Russian: Влади́мир Алексе́евич Ала́торцев, pronounced "a LAH tart sev") (May 14, 1909 in Turki, Saratov oblast, Russian Empire – January 13, 1987 in Moscow, Soviet Union), was a Russian chess grandmaster, organizer, teacher, author, and administrator.

Jaroslav Šajtar (December 3, 1921 – February 4, 2003) was a Czech chess master and an honorary grandmaster, born in Ostrava.

Samuil Osipovich Vainshtein (Weinstein, Wainstein, Vainstein, Wajnsztejn) (1894–1942) was a Russian chess master, organizer, publisher and editor.

Vladimir Vuković (26 August 1898, Zagreb – 18 November 1975, Zagreb) was a Croatian Jewish chess writer, theoretician, player, arbiter, and journalist.

Nikolai Vladimirovich Krogius (first name sometimes written Nikolay) (born July 22, 1930 in Saratov) is a Russian Chess Grandmaster, International Arbiter (1985), psychologist, chess coach, chess administrator, and author.

Zurab Azmaiparashvili (Georgian: ზურაბ აზმაიფარაშვილი; born 16 March 1960) is a chess Grandmaster from Georgia.

Alexander Moroz (Ukrainian: Олександр Мороз; Russian: Александр Мороз; 18 January 1961, Dnipropetrovsk – 17 January 2009) was a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster (1999).

Raymond Dennis Keene OBE (born 29 January 1948) is an English chess Grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author.

Bernhard Kagan (15 August 1866 – 27 November 1932, Berlin) was a German chess player, writer, publisher, editor, and organizer.

Vincent (Vincenz, Vince) Grimm (1800, Vienna – 15 January 1872, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess master.

Maxim Dlugy (born January 29, 1966) is a chess Grandmaster.

Gábor Kállai (born February 21, 1959) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster.

Alfred Brinckmann (3 January 1891 – 30 May 1967) was a German chess International Master, author and functionary from Kiel.

William Albert Fairhurst CBE (21 August 1903, Alderley Edge, England – 13 March 1982, Howick, New Zealand) was an English-born bridge designer and international chess master.

Igor Vladimirovich Glek (Russian: Игорь Владимирович Глек; born 7 November 1961) is a Russian chess Grandmaster, coach, theorist, writer and organiser.

Yosef (Joseph) "Tommy" Lapid (Hebrew: יוסף "טומי" לפיד‎‎, born as Tomislav Lampel (Serbian Cyrillic: Томислав Лампел); 27 December 1931 – 1 June 2008) was an Israeli radio and television presenter, journalist, politician and government minister known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit.

Andrey Selivanov (Russian: Андрей Владимирович Селиванов; born July 9, 1967) is a Soviet and Russian politician and chess problemist.

Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as "Baron von der Lasa", 17 October 1818, Berlin – 27 July 1899, Storchnest near Lissa, Greater Poland, then German Empire) was an important German chess master, chess historian and theoretician of the nineteenth century, a member of the Berlin Chess Club and a founder of the Berlin Chess School (the Berlin Pleiades).

Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov (Russian: Вита́лий Ива́нович Севастья́нов; 8 July 1935 – 5 April 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.

Vladimir M. Palikhata (born 23 September 1967 in Zolotniki Village of Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) is a Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist, President of Rosenergomash Group (electrical engineering), Legacy Capital investment firm and President of the Moscow Chess Federation.

Michael Roy Freeman (born 9 December 1960) is a New Zealand chess player.

Nilüfer Çinar Çorlulu (born Nilüfer İpek Çınar in 1962) is a Turkish female Woman International Master (WIM) of chess.

William "Bill" Goichberg (born November 11, 1942) is a chess master and former president of the United States Chess Federation (USCF).

Dr. Leroy William Dubeck (born March 1, 1939, in Orange, NJ) is a chess master and a chess politician and a retired Professor of Physics.

Machgielis "Max" Euwe, PhD (Dutch: [ˈøːwə]; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, author, and chess administrator.

Paul Baender, also known in Spanish as Pablo Baender, (November 30, 1906, Rosdzin, now part of Katowice (now Polish: Roździeń, part of Szopienice-Burowiec (German: Schoppinitz)) – 18 December 1985, Berlin) was a German–Bolivian chess master and functionary.

Faiq Hasanov (transliterated as Gasanov; Azerbaijani: Faiq Həsənov; born November 15, 1940 in Ganja, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) is an Azerbaijani chess International Arbiter (1980), coach, television presenter, author and vice-president of Azerbaijan Chess Federation.

Martha Lorena Fierro Baquero (born September 6, 1977) is an Ecuadorian chess player holding the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster, and International Organizer.

Nathan Joseph Harry Divinsky (October 29, 1925 – June 17, 2012) was a Canadian mathematician, university professor, chess master, chess writer, and chess official.

István Abonyi (18 August 1886 – 5 June 1942) was a Hungarian chess master, who was born and died in Budapest.

William John Donaldson (born September 24, 1958, in Los Angeles) is an International Master of chess.

Alfred M. Ehrhardt Post (23 September 1881 in Cottbus – 1 August 1947 in Berlin) was a German chess master and functionary.

CJ de Mooi (pronounced [də moːi̯]; born Joseph Connagh, 6 November 1969) is a professional quizzer, best known as a panellist on the BBC television show Eggheads.

James Eade (born March 23, 1957) is an American chess master, chess administrator, chess tournament organizer, and chess book publisher.