Jewish Chess Players
and Chess Masters
- Aaron
Alexandre, German-born French-English
- Evgeny Agrest, Belarusian-born Swedish grandmaster, Highest Rating
through April 2007=2561
- Simon Alapin, Lithuanian
- Boris Alterman, Ukrainian-born Israeli grandmaster, 2615
- Arnold Aurbach, Polish-born French
- Yuri Averbakh, Russian grandmaster, 2445
- Boris Avrukh, Israeli grandmaster & World U-12 champion, 2652
- Abraham Baratz, Romanian-born French
- Liudmila Belavenets, Russian woman grandmaster
- Alexander Beliavsky, Ukrainian-born Slovenian grandmaster & World
junior champion, 2710
- Joel Benjamin, U.S. grandmaster, 2662
- Hans Berliner, German-born U.S. World correspondence chess champion
- Ossip Bernstein, Ukrainian-born French grandmaster
- Arthur Bisguier, U.S. grandmaster, 2455
- Benjamin Blumenfeld, Belarusian-born Russian
- Mark Bluvshtein, Russian-born Canadian grandmaster, 2544
- Jácobo Bolbochán, Argentinian
- Julio Bolbochán, Argentinian grandmaster, 2485
- Isaac Boleslavsky, Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster
- Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian/Soviet grandmaster & World champion
- Gyula Breyer, Hungarian
- David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster, 2590
- Agnieszka Brustman, Polish woman grandmaster, 2383
- Oscar Chajes, Ukrainian/Polish/Austrian-born U.S.
- Rudolph Charousek, Hungarian
- Vitaly Chekhover, Russian
- Erich Cohn, German
- Wilhelm Cohn, German
- Josef Cukierman, Polish-born French, committed suicide during
Holocaust
- Moshe Czerniak, Polish-born Palestinian/Israeli
- Arnold Denker, U.S. grandmaster, 2293
- Maxim Dlugy, Russian-born U.S. grandmaster, 2531
- Josif Dorfman, Ukrainian-born French grandmaster, 2610
- Arthur Dunkelblum, Polish-born Belgian
- Roman Dzindzichashvili, Georgian-born Israeli American grandmaster
- Berthold Englisch, Austrian
- Yakov Estrin, Russian grandmaster, CC WC 1972-76
- Larry Evans, U.S. grandmaster, 2530
- Samuel Factor, Polish-born U.S.
- Ernst Falkbeer, Austrian
- Movsas Feigins, Latvian-born Argentinian
- Ruben Felgaer, Argentine grandmaster, 2624
- Reuben Fine, U.S. grandmaster
- Robert Fischer, U.S. grandmaster & World champion, 2785
- Alexander Flamberg, Polish
- Salo Flohr, Ukrainian-born Czech & Soviet grandmaster
- Maurice Fox, Ukrainian-born Canadian
- Gunnar Friedemann, Estonian
- Paulino Frydman, Polish-born Argentinian
- Semen Furman, Belarusian-born Russian grandmaster
- Boris Gelfand, Belarusian-born Israeli grandmaster
- Efim Geller, Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster
- Vitali Golod, Ukrainian-born Israeli grandmaster
- Harry Golombek, English
- Alon Greenfeld, U.S.-born Israeli grandmaster
- Gisela Kahn Gresser, U.S. woman master
- Yehuda Gruenfeld, Polish-born Israeli grandmaster, 2550
- Eduard Gufeld, Ukrainian grandmaster, 2565
Boris Gulko, German-born Russian U.S. grandmaster, 2643
Isidor Gunsberg, Hungarian-born English
Ilya Gurevich, Russian-born U.S. grandmaster & junior World champion,
2575
Mikhail Gurevich, Ukrainian-born Russian Turkish grandmaster, 2694
Lev Gutman, Latvian-born Israeli German grandmaster, 2530
Daniel Harrwitz, Prussian/Polish/German-born English French
Israel Horowitz, U.S.
Bernhard Horwitz, German-born English
Alexander Huzman, Ukrainian-born Israeli grandmaster
Dawid Janowski, Belarusian/Polish-born French grandmaster
Gregory Kaidanov, Ukrainian-born Russian U.S. grandmaster, 2695
Julio Kaplan, Argentine-born Puerto Rican U.S. grandmaster & World
junior champion
Mona May Karff, Moldovan-born U.S. woman master
Isaac Kashdan, U.S. grandmaster
Garry Kasparov, Azerbaijani-born Soviet/Russian grandmaster & World
champion, 2851
Alexander Khalifman, Russian grandmaster & World champion, 2702
Alexander Koblencs, Latvian
Artur Kogan, Ukrainian-born Israeli grandmaster, 2580
Alexander Konstantinopolsky, Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster
Ignatz von Kolisch, Hungarian/Slovakian-born Austrian grandmaster
George Koltanowski, Belgian-born U.S. grandmaster
Viktor Korchnoi, Russian-born Dutch Swiss grandmaster, 2695
Yona Kosashvili, Georgian-born Israeli grandmaster, 2580
Borislav Kostić, Austrian-born Serbian grandmaster
Yair Kraidman, Israeli grandmaster, 2455
Ljuba Kristol, Russian-born Israeli woman grandmaster, 2415
Abraham Kupchik, Belarusian/Polish-born U.S.
Alla Kushnir, Russian Israeli woman grandmaster
Salo Landau, Polish-born Dutch, killed by the Nazis
Edward Lasker, Polish/German-born U.S.
Emanuel Lasker, Prussian/German/Polish-born U.S. grandmaster & World
champion
Anatoly Lein, Russian-born U.S. grandmaster, 2555
Konstantin Lerner, Ukrainian grandmaster, 2575
Grigory Levenfish, Polish/Russian-born grandmaster
Irina Levitina, Russian-born U.S. woman grandmaster
Vladimir Liberzon, Russian-born Israeli grandmaster
Andor Lilienthal, Russian-born Hungarian/Soviet grandmaster
Johann Löwenthal, Hungarian-born U.S. English
Moishe Lowtzky, Ukrainian-born Polish, killed by Nazis
Gyula Makovetz, Hungarian
Jonathan Mestel, British grandmaster & World U-16 champion, 2540
Jacques Mieses, German-born English grandmaster
Victor Mikhalevski, Belarusian-born Israeli grandmaster
Vadim Milov, Russian-born Israeli Swiss grandmaster, 2683
Jacob Murey, Russian-born Israeli grandmaster
Miguel Najdorf, Polish-born Argentine grandmaster
Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born Danish
Menachem Oren, Polish-born Palestinian/Israeli
Julius Perlis, Polish-born Austrian
Isaias Pleci, Argentinian
Judit Polgár, Hungarian grandmaster, 2735
Susan Polgár, Hungarian-born U.S. grandmaster & World champion, 2577
Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born Israeli international master, 2500
Lev Polugaevsky, Belarusian/Soviet grandmaster, 2640
Yosef Porath, German-born Palestinian/Israeli
Lev Psakhis, Russian-born Israeli grandmaster, 2625
Dawid Przepiórka, Polish, killed by Nazis
Abram Rabinovich, Lithuanian-born Russian
Ilya Rabinovich, Russian
Vyacheslav Ragozin, Russian grandmaster
Teymour Radjabov, Azerbaijani grandmaster
Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-born U.S. grandmaster
Richard Réti, Slovakian/Hungarian-born Czech
Maxim Rodshtein, Israeli U-16 World champion
Kenneth Rogoff, U.S. grandmaster
Michael Rohde, U.S. grandmaster, 2585
Michael Roiz, Russian-born Israeli grandmaster, 2611
Samuel Rosenthal, Polish-born French
Gersz Rotlewi, Polish
Eduardas Rozentalis, Lithuanian grandmaster, 2688
Akiba Rubinstein, Polish grandmaster
Gersz Salwe, Polish grandmaster
Emanuel Schiffers, Russian
Adolf Schwarz, Hungarian-born Austrian
Gregory Serper, Uzbekistani-born Russian U.S. grandmaster
Leonid Shamkovich, Russian Israeli U.S. grandmaster
Yury Shulman, Belarusian-born U.S. grandmaster
Ilya Smirin, Belarusian-born Israeli grandmaster, 2702
Vasily Smyslov, Soviet/Russian grandmaster & World champion, 2620
Gennady Sosonko, Russian-born Dutch grandmaster
Jon Speelman, English grandmaster
Rudolf Spielmann, Austrian-born Swedish
Leonid Stein, Ukrainian-born Russian grandmaster
Endre Steiner, Hungarian
Herman Steiner, Slovakian/Hungarian-born U.S.
Lajos Steiner, Romanian/Hungarian-born Australian
Wilhelm Steinitz, Czech-born Austrian & U.S. grandmaster & World
champion
Emil Sutovsky, Israeli grandmaster, 2697
Peter Svidler, Russian grandmaster
László Szabó, Hungarian grandmaster
Mark Taimanov, Soviet/Russian grandmaster
Mikhail Tal, Soviet/Latvian grandmaster & World champion, 2645
Siegbert Tarrasch, Polish/German grandmaster & Senior World champion
Savielly Tartakower, Russian-born Austrian/Polish/French grandmaster
Jean Taubenhaus, Polish-born French
Mark Tseitlin, Israeli grandmaster
Anatoly Vaisser, Kazakhstani-born French grandmaster
Boris Verlinsky, Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster
Vladimir Vuković, Croatian
Max Weiss, Slovakian/Hungarian-born Austrian
Michael Wilder, U.S. grandmaster
- Simon Winawer, Polish
- Heinrich Wolf, Austrian, killed by Nazis
- Daniel Yanofsky, Polish/Ukrainian-born Canadian grandmaster
- Leonid Yudasin, Russian-born Israeli grandmaster, 2692
- Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Azeri-born Russian Israeli woman grandmaster
- Johannes Zukertort, Polish-born German English
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