langs: 18 апреля [ru] / april 18 [en] / 18. april [de] / 18 avril [fr] / 18 aprile [it] / 18 de abril [es]
days: april 15 / april 16 / april 17 / april 18 / april 19 / april 20 / april 21
#1 Daniil Dubov
Daniil Dmitrievich Dubov ( Russian : Даниил Дмитриевич Дубов ; born 18 April 1996) is a Russian chess grandmaster . He achieved his final norm for the Grandmaster title at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 14 days in 2011. [1] He is a former world rapid champion, winning the World Rapid Chess Champion
Jonathan Rowson (born 18 April 1977) is a Scottish chess player and philosopher. [1] [2] He is a three-time Scottish chess champion and was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. As Director of the Social Brain Centre at the United Kingdom's Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Ma
Horace Ransom Bigelow (6 March 1898 – 18 April 1980) was an American chess master and organizer. For the United States Army officer, see Horace F. Bigelow .
Nukhim (Naum) Nikolayevich Rashkovsky (born 18 April 1946, in Sverdlovsk ) is a chess Grandmaster and coach from Russia. Nukhim Rashkovsky Full name Nukhim Nikolayevich Rashkovsky Country Russia Born ( 1946-04-18 ) 18 April 1946 (age 76) Yekaterinburg , Russia (then Sverdlovsk, USSR) Title Gra
Albin Planinc (also spelled Planinec ) (8 or 18 April 1944 – 20 December 2008) [1] [2] was a Slovenian - Yugoslavian chess Grandmaster . Slovenian chess grandmaster Albin Planinc Planinc in 1974 Born April 18, 1944 Briše , Slovenia Died December 20, 2008 (aged 64) Ljubljana , Slovenia. Title Grandma
Leonid Ivanovich Kubbel ( Russian : Леонид Иванович Куббель ; 1891 or 1892 – 1942) was a Russian composer of chess endgame studies and problems . This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Leonid Ivanovich Kubbel
Matthias Blübaum (born 18 April 1997) is a German chess grandmaster . He is the second-ranked German player as of July 2022, behind Vincent Keymer . [1] German chess player Matthias Blübaum Blübaum in 2021 Country Germany Born ( 1997-04-18 ) 18 April 1997 (age 25) Lemgo , Germany Title Grandmaster
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen [lower-alpha 1] (born 30 November 1990) [1] [2] is a Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the reigning five-time World Chess Champion . He is also a three-time World Rapid Chess Champion and five-time World Blitz Chess Champion . He has held the No. 1 position in the FIDE wor
#9 Juan Iliesco
Juan Traian Iliesco (born Ion Traian Iliescu ) (18 April 1898 in Brăila , Romania – 2 February 1968 in La Plata [1] ) was a Romanian Argentine chess master. [2] He played several times in Argentine championships ( Torneo Mayor ). [3] In 1931, he took 12th place ( Jacobo Bolbochán won); took 4th in 1
#10 Philip Hogarty
Philip David Hogarty (18 April 1988 – 1 January 2008) was chairman of the Irish Chess Union from September 2006 until his death in January 2008. [ citation needed ] Irish chess player This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and
#11 Alireza Firouzja
Alireza Firouzja ( Persian : علیرضا فیروزجا , Persian pronunciation: [æliːɾezɑː fiːɾuːzˈdʒɑː] ; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian-French chess grandmaster . Firouzja is the youngest ever 2800- rated player, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months. Iranian-French
#12 Rudolf Charousek
Rudolf Charousek ( Hungarian : Charousek Rezső ; 19 September 1873 – 18 April 1900) was a Czech born Hungarian chess player. [1] One of the top ten players in the world during the 1890s, [2] [3] he had a short career, dying at the age of 26 from tuberculosis . Reuben Fine wrote of him "Playing over
Bożena Sikora-Giżyńska (born 18 April 1960) is a Polish chess player who won the Polish Women's Chess Championship in 1990. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1986. Polish chess player Bożena Sikora-Giżyńska Country Poland Born ( 1960-04-18 ) 18 April 1960 (age 62)
Valentina Yakovlevna Kozlovskaya ( Russian : Валенти́на Я́ковлевна Козло́вская ; born 18 April 1938) is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 1976. Russian chess player In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions , the patronymic is Y
#15 William Watson (chess player)
William Nicholas Watson (born 18 April 1962 in Baghdad , Iraq ) is an English chess Grandmaster titleholder. English chess player Watson was British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 1992 and British Chess Champion in 1994. Boris Spassky once described his style of play as that of a drunk with a machine g
#16 Yuriy Ajrapetjan
Yuriy Ajrapetjan ( Armenian : Յուրի Հայրապետյան ; born 18 April 1988 in Yerevan ) is a Ukrainian chess player of Armenian descent. [1] Ukrainian chess player (born 1988) He studied at Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University in Simferopol and works at a bank. He was awarded the FIDE International
#17 Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky ( Tatar : Гата Камский ; Russian : Гата Камский ; born June 2, 1974) is a Soviet -born American chess grandmaster , and a five-time U.S. champion . American chess player Gata Kamsky Kamsky in 2006 Full name Gataulla Rustemovich Kamsky Country Soviet Union (until 1989) United States (si