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This list of Russian chess players lists people from Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire who are primarily known as chess players. The majority of these people are chess grandmasters . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Pages in category "Russian chess players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 353 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Kasparov received a Chess Oscar eleven times as the best chess player of the year, in 1982–1983, 1985–1988, 1995–1996, 1999, and 2001–2002. [139] Between 1981 and 1991, he won or tied for first place in every tournament he entered. [ 140 ]
He is currently Russia's highest ranked active chess player. Nepomniachtchi won the 2010 and 2020 Russian Superfinal and the 2010 European Individual titles. He also won the 2016 Tal Memorial and both the 2008 and 2015 Aeroflot Open events. He won the World Team Chess Championship as a member of the Russian team in Antalya [1] (2013) and Astana ...
Aleksandra Goryachkina was born on 28 September 1998 in Orsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russia to Larisa Matvienko and Yuri Goryachkin, [a] both of whom are experienced chess players. [3] Her father in particular is a FIDE Master (FM) with a peak FIDE rating of 2395, [ 2 ] and her mother is a Russian Candidate for Master of Sports in chess with a peak ...
Dina Vadimovna Belenkaya (Russian: Дина Вадимовна Беленькая; born 22 December 1993) is a Russian-Israeli chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
Vladimir Vasilyevich Fedoseev (Russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Федосе́ев; born 16 February 1995) is a Russian chess grandmaster playing for Slovenia. [4] He is the reigning European champion in Rapid chess and Chess960. [5] He competed in the Chess World Cup in 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2023. [6]
Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (Russian: Марк Евгеньевич Тайманов; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971. A prolific chess author, Taimanov was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1952 and in 1956 won the USSR Chess ...