List of Jewish chess players - Player

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Jewish players and theoreticians have long been involved in the game of chess and have significantly contributed to the development of chess, which has been described as the "Jewish National game". Chess gained popularity amongst Jews in the twelfth century.[1] The game was privileged by distinguished rabbis,[2] as well as by women.[3]

Of the first 13 undisputed world champions, over half were Jewish, including the first two. The Modern School of Chess espoused by Wilhelm Steinitz and Siegbert Tarrasch; the Hypermodernism influenced by Aron Nimzowitsch and Richard Réti; and the Soviet Chess School promoted by Mikhail Botvinnik were all strongly influenced by Jewish players. Other influential Jewish chess theoreticians, writers and players include Johannes Zukertort, Savielly Tartakower, Emanuel Lasker, Akiba Rubinstein, Gyula Breyer, Rudolf Spielmann, Samuel Reshevsky, Reuben Fine, David Bronstein, Miguel Najdorf, Mikhail Tal and Bobby Fischer.[4][5][6]

Professor Arpad Elo, the inventor of the scientific rating system employed by FIDE, analysed some 476 major tournament players from the nineteenth century onward, and of the fifty-one highest ranked players, approximately one-half were Jewish.[7] One of the strongest ever players is Garry Kasparov, who was world No. 1 from 1985 until his retirement in 2005; or the considered strongest female chess player in history Judit Polgár.[8]

Beersheba in Israel is the city with the most chess grandmasters per capita in the world.[9] Israel has also won one silver and one bronze medal at Chess Olympiads.[10]

List

The list refers to chess players who are Jewish and have attained outstanding achievements in chess.

Aaron (Albert) Alexandre (c. 1765–1850), German-born French-English[11]
Simon Alapin (1856–1923), Lithuanian[12][13]
Lev Alburt (born 1945), Russian/American[14]
Izaak Appel (1905–1941), Polish, killed by the Nazis
Lev Aronin (1920–1982), Russian/Soviet[14]
Levon Aronian (born 1982), Armenian grandmaster, World Cup champion twice[15]
Arnold Aurbach (c. 1888–1952), Polish-born French^{[citation needed]}
Yuri Averbakh (1922–2022), Russian, 2445[16]
Mary Weiser Bain (1904–1972), born in Hungary (now sub-Carpathian Ukraine), immigrated to the United States as a teenager, first American woman to represent the U.S. in an organized chess competition, won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 1951, awarded the Woman International Master title in 1952
Anjelina Belakovskaia (born 1969), Ukrainian-born US woman grandmaster^{[citation needed]}
Alexander Beliavsky (born 1953), Ukrainian-born Soviet/Slovenian grandmaster[14]
Joel Benjamin (born 1964), American grandmaster
Ossip Bernstein (1882–1962), Ukrainian-born French grandmaster[12]
Arthur Bisguier (1929–2017), US grandmaster, 2455[17]
Abram Blass (1896–1971), Polish
Isaac Boleslavsky (1919–1977), Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster[18]
Mikhail Botvinnik (1911–1995), Russian/Soviet grandmaster and World champion[17]
Gyula Breyer (1893–1921), Hungarian, pioneer of the hypermodern school, important chess theorist, blindfold simultan record holder
David Bronstein (1924–2006), Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster, 2590[12]
Oscar Chajes (1873–1928), Ukrainian/Polish/Austrian-born US[19]
Vitaly Chekhover (1908–1965), Russian^{[citation needed]}
Erich Cohn (1884–1918), German[20]
Wilhelm Cohn (1859–1913), German[21]
Moshe Czerniak (1910–1984), Polish-born Israeli[22]
Arnold Denker (1914–2005), US grandmaster, 2293[23]
Arthur Dunkelblum (1906–1979), Polish-born Belgian[24]
Mark Dvoretsky (1947–2016), noted Russian trainer and international master[25]
Roman Dzindzichashvili (born 1944), Georgian-born Israeli American grandmaster, 2550^{[citation needed]}
Vereslav Eingorn (born 1956), Ukrainian grandmaster
Berthold Englisch (1851–1897), Austrian[26]
Larry Evans (1932–2010), US grandmaster, 2530[17]
Rafał Feinmesser (1895–?), Polish, killed in Warsaw during Holocaust
Reuben Fine (1914–1993), US grandmaster[27]
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008), US grandmaster and World champion[17]
Alexander Flamberg (1880–1926), Polish[28]
Salo Flohr (1908–1983), Ukrainian-born Czech and Soviet grandmaster[29]
Henryk Friedman (1903–1942), Polish, killed by the Nazis
Paulino Frydman (1905–1982), Polish-born Argentine[12]
Boris Gelfand (born 1968), Belarusian-born Israeli grandmaster, World Cup champion[14]
Efim Geller (1925–1998), Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster[17]
Harry Golombek (1911–1995), English[17]
Eduard Gufeld (1936–2002), Ukrainian grandmaster, 2565[30]
Boris Gulko (born 1947), German-born Russian US grandmaster, 2644[31]
Isidor Gunsberg (1854–1930), Hungarian-born English[17]
Ilya Gurevich (born 1972), Russian-born US grandmaster and junior World champion, 2575[32]
Mikhail Gurevich (born 1959), Ukrainian-born Russian Turkish grandmaster, 2694[14]
Dmitry Gurevich Born in 1956, Russian/American grandmaster
Lev Gutman (born 1945), Latvian-born Israeli German grandmaster, 2547[33]
Daniel Harrwitz (1821–1884), Prussian/Polish/German-born English French[34]
Israel Horowitz (1907–1973), US[17]
Bernhard Horwitz (1807–1885), German-born English[17]
Dawid Janowski (1868–1927), Belarusian/Polish-born French grandmaster[29]
Max Judd (1851–1906), US[17]
Gregory Kaidanov (born 1959), Ukrainian-born Russian US grandmaster, 2695[35]
Julio Kaplan (born 1950), Argentine-born Puerto Rican US grandmaster and World junior champion[12]
Mona May Karff (1908–1998), Moldovan-born US woman master[17]
Isaac Kashdan (1905–1985), US grandmaster[12]
Garry Kasparov (born 1963), Russian grandmaster, former World Chess Champion

Alexander Khalifman (born 1966), Russian grandmaster and World champion, 2702[36]
Stanisław Kohn (1895–1940), Polish, killed by the Nazis
Ignatz von Kolisch (1837–1889), Hungarian/Slovakian-born Austrian grandmaster[17]
George Koltanowski (1903–2000), Belgian-born US grandmaster[17]
Viktor Korchnoi (1931–2016), Russian-born grandmaster
Yair Kraidman (born 1932), Israeli grandmaster, 2455[37]
Leon Kremer (1901–1941), Polish
Abraham Kupchik (1892–1970), Belarusian/Polish-born US[17]
Alla Kushnir (1941–2013), Russian Israeli woman grandmaster, 2430[17]
Salo Landau (1903–1944), Polish-born Dutch, killed by the Nazis[38]
Berthold Lasker (1860–1928), Prussian/German/Polish-born master, elder brother of Emanuel Lasker
Edward Lasker (1885–1981), Polish/German-born US[39]
Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941), Prussian/German/Polish-born US grandmaster and World champion[17]
Anatoly Lein (1931–2018), Russian/Soviet/American grandmaster[14]
Konstantin Lerner (1950–2011), Ukrainian/Israeli grandmaster
Grigory Levenfish (1889–1961), Polish/Russian-born grandmaster[40]
Irina Levitina (born 1954), Russian-born US woman grandmaster[17]
Vladimir Liberzon (1937–1996), Russian-born Israeli grandmaster[41]
Andor Lilienthal (1911–2010), Russian-born Hungarian/Soviet grandmaster[42]
Samuel Lipschütz (1863–1905), Austria-Hungary/American[14]
Johann Löwenthal (1810–1876), Hungarian-born US English[17]
Moishe Lowtzky (1881–1940), Ukrainian-born Polish, killed by Nazis^{[citation needed]}
Gyula Makovetz (1860–1903), Hungarian^{[citation needed]}
Jonathan Mestel (born 1957), English grandmaster and World U-16 champion, 2540^{[citation needed]}
Houshang Mashian (born 1938), Iranian-Israeli chess master
Jacques Mieses (1865–1954), German-born English grandmaster[17]
Miguel Najdorf (1910–1997), Polish-born Polish/Argentine grandmaster[17]
Daniel Naroditsky (born 1995), American grandmaster and chess streamer[43]
Ian Nepomniachtchi (born 1990), Russian grandmaster[42]
Aron Nimzowitsch (1886–1935), Latvian-born Danish[29]
Isaías Pleci (1907–1979), Argentine[44]
Judit Polgár (born 1976), Hungarian grandmaster, 2735[17]
Susan Polgár (born 1969), Hungarian-born US grandmaster and World champion, 2577[45]
Zsófia Polgár (born 1974), Hungarian-born Israeli international master, 2500[17]
Lev Polugaevsky (1934–1995), Belarusian/Soviet grandmaster, 2640[46]
Dawid Przepiórka (1880–1940), Polish, killed by Nazis[12]
Lev Psakhis (born 1958), Russian/Soviet/Israeli grandmaster[14]
Abram Rabinovich (1878–1943), Lithuanian/Russian[14]
Ilya Rabinovich (1891–1942), Russian[14]
Teimour Radjabov (born 1987), Azerbaijani grandmaster[14]
Nukhim Rashkovsky (born 1946), Russian grandmaster[14]
Éloi Relange (born 1976), French grandmaster[14]
Samuel Reshevsky (1911–1992), Polish-born US grandmaster[47]
Richard Réti (1889–1929), Slovakian/Hungarian-born Czech[29]
Maxim Rodshtein (born 1989), Israeli U-16 World champion^{[citation needed]}
Kenneth Rogoff (born 1953), US grandmaster^{[citation needed]}
Samuel Rosenthal (1837–1902), Polish-born French[21]
Eduardas Rozentalis (born 1963), Lithuanian grandmaster[14]
Akiba Rubinstein (1880–1961), Polish grandmaster[47]
Gersz Salwe (1862–1920), Polish grandmaster[12]
Leonid Shamkovich (1923–2005), Soviet/Israeli/Canadian/American grandmaster
Yury Shulman (born 1975), Belarusian/Soviet/American grandmaster
Gennady Sosonko (born 1943), Russian-born Dutch grandmaster[48]
Jon Speelman (born 1956), English grandmaster[12]
Rudolf Spielmann (1883–1942), Austrian-born Swedish[29]
Leonid Stein (1934–1973), Ukrainian-born Russian grandmaster[49]
Endre Steiner (1901–1944), Hungarian^{[citation needed]}, killed by the Nazis
Herman Steiner (1905–1955), Slovakian/Hungarian-born US[50]
Lajos Steiner (1903–1975), Romanian/Hungarian-born Australian[51]
Wilhelm Steinitz (1836–1900), Czech-born Austrian and US grandmaster and World champion[12]
Emil Sutovsky (born 1977), Israeli grandmaster, 2697[52]
Peter Svidler (born 1976), Russian grandmaster, World Cup champion[14]
László Szabó (1917–1998), Hungarian grandmaster[53]
Mark Taimanov (1926–2016), Soviet/Russian grandmaster[54]
Mikhail Tal (1936–1992), Soviet/Latvian grandmaster and World champion, 2645[12]
Siegbert Tarrasch (1862–1934), Polish/German grandmaster and Senior World champion[55]
Savielly Tartakower (1887–1956), Russian-born Austrian/Polish/French grandmaster[47]
Anna Ushenina (born 1985), Ukraine-born Women's World Champion[56]
Anatoly Vaisser (born 1949), Kazakh-born Soviet/French grandmaster[14]
Joshua Waitzkin (born 1976), American Junior Champion and martial arts champion
Max Weiss (1857–1927), Slovakian/Hungarian-born Austrian[17]
Simon Winawer (1838–1919), Polish[17]
Leonid Yudasin (born 1959), Russian-born Israeli grandmaster, 2692[57]
Tatiana Zatulovskaya (1935–2017), Azerbaijani-born Russian Israeli woman grandmaster[12]
Mark Stolberg (1922–1942) Russian
Johannes Zukertort (1842–1888), Polish-born German English[17]

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External links

JEWISH WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONS (44% of undisputed world champions) JINFO.org

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