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Chess Champions
Our guide to the champions -- Famous players, world champions, and winners of national championships.

FIDE Top-10 Players (1975-2004)
Since 1970, chess has used the Elo rating system to rank world class players. Using FIDE historical ratings we identify world Top-10 players over a 30 year period.

American Chess Champions
The 2003 U.S. Championship was the 48th since 1936. 24 players have won the title at least once, 15 players more than once. Here are their names.

British and Canadian Chess Champions
Rounding out the ABCs of chess champions : America, Britain, and Canada. Watch for more lists of the champions of other English speaking countries.

ChessChicks.com
'The most beautiful chess players of the world'. Hundreds of photos of the world's top women players. Vote on your favorite. (Mais oui, c'est un site français!)

ChessGames.com
Index to games by hundreds of players, organized by last name. Comments on each player by fans.

ChessLive.de
Search the ChessBase player database.

Chesspics by Pufichek
'Best chess portraits and photos of chess grandmasters.'

FIDE.com
Search FIDE players database.

Geocities.com (Bill Wall)
Profiles of Chess Masters. Biographical sketches of the greats from the Web's own Bill Wall.

Geometry.net
Chess Athletes. Links to info on chess champions with extracts from linked pages.

JouwPagina.nl (Edwin Meyer)
SchaakLinks. This page won't win any prizes for design, but who cares. The chess content is hundreds of links to other online resources, organized by player's last name. In Dutch and English.

Muljadi.org
'First-Class Chess Masters' with games in online viewer.

StarfireProject.com
'The Game Is Afoot' by Terry Crandall and Claudia Carlson. Biographies of famous historical players.

Sympatico.ca (Glenn Giffen)
Chess player biographies 'A-E'. Follow the links for other biographies 'F-Ka', 'Ke-P', 'R-Z'.

TheChessDrum.net
The Chess Drum. 'All-purpose chess site which champions the success of Black chess players, or those of African ancestry. Includes interviews, playble chess games, puzzles, essays, and current chess news from around the world.'

Wikipedia.org
Wikipedia - Chess players. Biographies from A (Michael Adams) to Z (Johannes Zukertort).

Tournament, Match, and Exhibition Records
Comprehensive game collections of some great players. Maintained offsite by your About Chess Guide.

Anand, Viswanathan (Geocities.com)
'The Comprehensive Vishwanathan Anand ChessSite. Look here for news, updates and tournament coverage of his games.'

Anand, Viswanathan (NIIT.com)
'Welcome to Vishy Anand's Home Page'.

Fischer, Robert (About.com)
Finding Bobby Fischer. An index of About Chess articles on Robert James Fischer, especially blog entries stemming from his detention July 2004 in Japan.

Fischer, Robert (BobbyFischer.net)
'This web site is a Fischer fan site.' Excellent site, now defunct, still available on web.archive.org.

Fischer, Robert (Bobby-Fischer.net)
The Bobby Fischer Unofficial Home Page. "All I want to do, ever, is just play chess..." - Bobby Fischer

Ilyumzhinov, Kirsan (FIDE.com)
Book download: 'The President`s Crown of Thorns'.

Kasparov, Garry
All About Garry : An index of About Chess articles on Garry Kasparov.

Kosteniuk, Alexandra
Runnerup in the 2001 FIDE Women's World Championship and very photogenic.

Kramnik, Vladimir (Homestead.com)
'The best chess player on the planet. Here you find a celebration of his victories and little else.'

Kramnik, Vladimir (Kramnik.com)
News, biography, games, interviews, photos.

Larsen, Bent
'Bent Larsen is the greatest chess player Denmark have ever had. Larsen has won so many international tournaments that it is almost impossible to count them all!'

Leko, Peter
'Official website' of the Hungarian grandmaster.

Morozevich, Alexander
'Here you will find lots of information about Alexander Morozevich, games, photos, game analysis, interviews and news.'

Morphy, Paul
'The Life and Chess of Paul Morphy - a biography and collection of Morphy's games and other Morphy-obilia.'

Polgar Family
An index of About Chess articles on the first family of chess.

Polgar, Susan
Former Women's World Champion 'is available for simultaneous exhibitions, lectures, special appearances, summer camps, training, etc.'

Polgar, Susan
Susan Polgar Foundation • 'Not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation supported by charitable donations. Its mission is to promote chess, with all its social, educational and competitive benefits throughout the United States, for young people of all ages, especially girls.'

Ponomariov, Ruslan
Archive for Ukrainian Chess Online. Has lots of info on the 2002-2003 FIDE World Champion.

Shahade, Jennifer
U.S Women's Champion and author of 'Chess Bitch'. News, photos, press, bio, games.

Svidler, Peter
Official Site of the Russian GM.

Topalov, Veselin
News site for the Bulgarian GM, 2005-2006 FIDE World Champion.