Chess players

Giulio Cesare Polerio (Italy: 1548 – 1612)
Gioachino Greco (Italy: 1600 – 1634)
François Antoine de Legall de Kermeur (France: 1702–1792)
André Danican Philidor
(France: 7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795)
Wilhelm Steinitz (Austria: 14 May 1836 – 12 August 1900)
Paul Charles Morphy (America: 22 June 1837 – 10 July 1884)
Samuel Loyd (America: 30 January 1841 – 10 April 1911)
Чигорин Михаил Иванович (Russia: 31 October 1850 — 12 January 1908)
Siegbert Tarrasch (German: 5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934)
Emanuel Lasker (German: 24 December 1868 – 11 January 1941)
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera
(Cuba: 19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942)
Alexander Alekhine (Александр Александрович Але́хин)
(Russia: 31 October 1892 – 24 March 1946)
Mikhail Tal (Михаил Нехемьевич Таль)
(Latvia: 9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992)
Robert James Fischer (America: 9 March 1943 – 17 January 2008)
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров)
(Baku: 13 April 1963)
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (Norwegia: 30 November 1990)