List of American chess players

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In addition to the historical master players, the list includes master players who were once masters of the United States, who have an IM or GM title (of both sexes), who have achieved an Elo of at least 2400 or who are outstanding correspondence chess players.

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  1. ↑ Tatev Abrahamyan played for the Armenian Chess Federation until 2002.
  2. ↑ Viktor Adler played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 2002.
  3. ↑ Anna Aksharumova played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1986.
  4. ↑ Varuzhan Akobian played for the Armenian Chess Federation until 2001.
  5. ↑ Lev Alburt played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1979.
  6. ↑ Levon Altounian played for the Armenian Chess Federation until 1995.
  7. ↑ Armen Ambartsoumian played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Armenian Chess Federation from 1992 to 2002.
  8. ↑ Babakuli Annakov played in 1992 for the Russian Chess Federation and from 1993 to 2005 for the Turkmen Chess Federation.
  9. ↑ Camilla Baginskaite played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1991 and from 1992 to 1997 and then again from 2019 for the Lithuanian Chess Federation.
  10. ↑ Tsagaan Battsetseg played for the Mongolian Chess Federation until 2001.
  11. ↑ Mihail Baturyn played for the Belarusian Chess Federation until 2010.
  12. ↑ Julio Becerra Rivero played for the Cuban Chess Federation until 2003.
  13. ↑ Anjelina Belakovskaia played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Ukrainian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1993.
  14. ↑ Pál Benkő played at the 1956 Chess Olympiad for the Hungarian Chess Federation.
  15. ↑ Salvijus Bercys played for the Lithuanian Chess Federation until 2003.
  16. ↑ Peter Biyiasas played for the Canadian Chess Federation until 1979.
  17. ↑ Walter Browne played for the Australian Chess Federation until 1972.
  18. ↑ Lázaro Bruzón played for the Cuban Chess Federation until 2020.
  19. ↑ Omar Cartagena played for the Philippine Chess Federation until 2001.
  20. ↑ Fabiano Caruana played for the Italian Chess Federation from 2005 to 2015.
  21. ↑ Thalia Cervantes Landeiro played for the Cuban Chess Federation until 2015.
  22. ↑ Akshat Chandra played for the Indian Chess Federation until 2012.
  23. ↑ Jorge Mario Clavijo has been playing for the Colombian Chess Federation since 1992.
  24. ↑ Fidel Corrales Jiménez played for the Cuban Chess Federation until 2014.
  25. ↑ Ronald Cusi played for the Philippine Chess Federation until 2001.
  26. ↑ Deng Kong Liang played for the Chinese Chess Federation until 1996.
  27. ↑ Dorsa Derakhshani played for the Iranian Chess Federation until 2017.
  28. ↑ Leinier Domínguez played for the Cuban Chess Federation until 2018.
  29. ↑ Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1989.
  30. ↑ Leonid Dreiberg, from Latvia, lived as a displaced person in Germany after World War II and emigrated to the United States in 1949.
  31. ↑ Roman Dzindzichashvili played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1976 and for the Israeli Chess Federation from 1977 to 1979.
  32. ↑ Jaan Ehlvest played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1991 and for the Estonian Chess Federation from 1992 to 2006.
  33. ↑ Tegshsuren Enkhbat played for the Mongolian Chess Federation until 2002.
  34. ↑ Esther Epstein played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1990.
  35. ↑ Sergey Erenburg played for the Russian Chess Federation until 1998 and for the Israeli Chess Federation from 1999 to 2013.
  36. ↑ Samuel Factor, originally from Poland, emigrated to the United States via the Netherlands in 1919.
  37. ↑ Ali Farahat played for the Egyptian Chess Federation until 2019.
  38. ↑ Florin Felecan played for the Romanian Chess Federation until 1998.
  39. ↑ Gina Finegold played for the Belgian Chess Federation from 1989 to 1992.
  40. ^ Andrei-Costel Florean played for the Romanian Chess Federation until 2006.
  41. ↑ Sabina-Francesca Foișor played for the Romanian Chess Federation until 2008.
  42. ↑ Igor Foygel played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1993.
  43. ↑ Victor Frias played for the Chilean Chess Federation until 1979 and from 1996.
  44. ↑ Timur Gareyev played for the Uzbek Chess Federation until 2012.
  45. ↑ Anna Gershnik played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1990 and for the Israeli Chess Federation from 1991 to 2005.
  46. ↑ Dumitru Ghizdavu played for the Romanian Chess Federation until 1974.
  47. ↑ Alexander Goldin played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992, for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1998 and for the Israeli Chess Federation from 1999 to 2001.
  48. ↑ Rusudan Goletiani played for the Georgian Chess Federation until 2001.
  49. ↑ Renier González played for the Cuban Chess Federation until 2001.
  50. ↑ Sonja Graf played in Germany until 1939 and then in Argentina before she was active in the United States under the name Graf-Stevenson.
  51. ↑ Alla Grinfeld played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 2001.
  52. ↑ James Grundy is referred to as an English-American chess player.
  53. ↑ Eduard Gufeld played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Georgian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1997.
  54. ↑ Boris Gulko played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1986.
  55. ↑ Anna Hahn played for the Latvian Chess Federation until 1993.
  56. ↑ Luke Harmon-Vellotti played under the name Luke Harmon until 2008.
  57. ↑ Holden Hernández Carmenates played for the Cuban Chess Federation until 2013.
  58. ↑ Gregory Hjorth played for the Australian Chess Federation until 2000.
  59. ↑ Ildar Ibragimow played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 2002, for which he has played again since 2015.
  60. ↑ Swiad Isoria played for the Georgian Chess Federation until 2013.
  61. ↑ Alexander Ivanov played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1988.
  62. ↑ Igor Ivanov played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1979 and from 1980 to 1989 and again from June 2005 for the Canadian Chess Federation.
  63. ↑ Gregory Kaidanov played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1993.
  64. ↑ Charles Kalme was born in Riga and emigrated in 1951 to the United States. He played for the US Chess Federation and returned to Latvia in 1991.
  65. ↑ Gata Kamsky played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1989.
  66. ↑ Albert Kapengut played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Belarusian Chess Federation from 1992 to 2008.
  67. ↑ Julio Kaplan played for the Puerto Ricos Chess Federation until 1974.
  68. ↑ Raymond Kaufman has played for the Canadian Chess Federation since 2019.
  69. ↑ Lubomir Kavalek played for the Czechoslovak Chess Federation until 1970.
  70. ↑ Emil Kemény was born in Budapest and played in the United States in the 1890s and 1900s. He returned to Hungary in the 1910s.
  71. ↑ Melikset Khachiyan played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992, for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1994 and for the Armenian Chess Federation from 1995 to 2003.
  72. ↑ Igor Khmelnitsky played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1996.
  73. ↑ Hans Kmoch was an Austrian who lived in the United States from 1939.
  74. ↑ Boris Kogan played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1979.
  75. ↑ Imre König played for Hungary until 1917, for Yugoslavia until 1949 and for England until 1953.
  76. ↑ Kassa Korley has been playing for the Danish Chess Federation since 2015.
  77. ↑ Stanislav Kriventsov played for the Russian Chess Federation until 1998 and has played for the Canadian Chess Federation since 2008.
  78. ^ Edward Lasker played for the German Chess Federation until around 1914.
  79. ↑ Anatoli Lein played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1976.
  80. ↑ Jacob Levin was born in Latvia.
  81. ↑ Yuliya Levitan played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992.
  82. ↑ Irina Levitina played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1991.
  83. ↑ Bruci Lopez played for the Cuban Chess Federation until 2002.
  84. ↑ Blas Lugo played for the Cuban Chess Federation until 1995.
  85. ↑ Dion Martinez was originally from Cuba.
  86. ↑ Malo Micayabas played for the Philippine Chess Federation until 2006.
  87. ↑ Tony Miles played for the English Chess Federation until 1987 and again from 1992.
  88. ↑ Rade Milovanovic played until 1994 and from 1996 to 2002 for the Yugoslav Chess Federation, 1995 for the Chess Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  89. ↑ Minev played for the Bulgarian Chess Federation until 1985.
  90. ↑ Alejandro Moreno played for the Cuban Chess Federation until 2017.
  91. ↑ Walter Morris played for the Norwegian Chess Federation until 1979.
  92. ↑ Kateřina Němcová played for the Czech Chess Federation until 2013.
  93. ↑ Viktorija Ni played for the Latvian Chess Federation until 2011.
  94. ↑ Igor Novikov played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Ukrainian Chess Federation from 1992 to 2002.
  95. ↑ Alexander Onischuk played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Ukrainian Chess Federation from 1992 to 2002.
  96. ↑ Ciarán O'Hare used to play for the Irish Chess Federation.
  97. ↑ Georgi Orlov played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1995.
  98. ↑ Nasi Paikidze played for the Georgian Chess Federation until 2014.
  99. ↑ Semon Palatnik played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Ukrainian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1997.
  100. ↑ Olga Podraschanskaja played for at least 1968 and at most until 1974 for the Soviet Chess Federation and then until 1984 for the Israeli Chess Federation, for which she has played again since 1989.
  101. ↑ Zsuzsa Polgár played for the Hungarian Chess Federation until 2002, for which she was registered again in 2019.
  102. ↑ Stephan Popel first played in Poland, from 1944 in France and from 1956 in the United States.
  103. ↑ Quan Zhe played for the Chinese Chess Federation until 2001 and has been playing for the Canadian Chess Federation since 2002.
  104. ↑ Yuniesky Quesada played for the Cuban Chess Federation until 2019.
  105. ↑ Alejandro Ramirez played for the Costa Rican Chess Federation until 2010.
  106. ^ Salomon Ricardo-Rocamora played for the German Chess Federation until 1893.
  107. ↑ Katerina Rohonyan played for the Ukrainian Chess Federation until 2006.
  108. ^ Jacob Carl Rosenthal was born in Białystok , became a Dutch citizen and emigrated to the United States.
  109. ↑ Nicolas Rossolimo played at the Chess Olympiads in 1950 and 1972 for the French Chess Federation.
  110. ↑ Guillermo Ruiz played for the Peruvian Chess Federation until 1978.
  111. ↑ Gennadij Sagalchik played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1993.
  112. ↑ Jorge Sammour-Hasbun played for the Lebanese Chess Federation from 2000 to 2004 and for the Palestinian Chess Federation from 2004 to 2009.
  113. ↑ Leonid Shamkowitsch played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1974 and for the Israeli Chess Federation from 1975 to 1978.
  114. ↑ Anna Sharevich played for the Belarusian Chess Federation until 2014.
  115. ↑ Jaroslaw Scherebuch played for the Ukrainian Chess Federation until 2015.
  116. ↑ Paul Felix Schmidt played for the Estonian chess federation until 1939 and for the German chess federation from 1939 to 1950.
  117. ↑ Gabriel Schwartzman played for the Romanian Chess Federation until 1995.
  118. ↑ Grigori Serper played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992, for the Russian Chess Federation in 1992 and for the Uzbek Chess Federation from 1993 to 1996.
  119. ↑ Enrico Sevillano played for the Philippine Chess Federation until 2002.
  120. ↑ Alexander Shabalov played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1991 and for the Latvian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1993.
  121. ↑ Miron Sher played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 2001.
  122. ↑ Kamran Shirazi played for the Iranian Chess Federation until 1983 and has been playing for the French Chess Federation since 2006.
  123. ↑ Yury Shulman played for the Belarusian Chess Federation until 2002.
  124. ↑ Mikhail Shur played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992, for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1993 and for the Azerbaijani Chess Federation from 1993 to 2005.
  125. ↑ Wesley So played for the Philippine Chess Federation until 2014.
  126. ↑ Leonid Sokolin played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Russian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1993.
  127. ↑ Wilhelm Steinitz first played in Austria-Hungary, then in England and moved to the United States 21 years later.
  128. ↑ Alexander Stripunsky played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Ukrainian Chess Federation from 1992 to 1997.
  129. ↑ Dariusz Świercz played for the Polish Chess Federation until 2018.
  130. ↑ Daniel Tapia has been playing for the Colombian Chess Federation since 2005.
  131. ↑ Povilas Tautvaišas was born in Mahiljou , played for Lithuania, played in Germany from 1945 to 1948 and emigrated to the United States in 1949.
  132. ↑ Jonathan Tisdall has been playing for the Norwegian Chess Federation since 1981.
  133. ↑ Isador (Isaac) Samuel Turover was born in Belgium and immigrated to the United States.
  134. ↑ Batchimeg Tuvshintugs played for the United States between 2005 and 2009, before and after for Mongolia.
  135. ↑ Julia Tverskaya played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992.
  136. ↑ Olaf Ulvestad switched to the Andorran Chess Federation in the 1960s.
  137. ↑ Yanira Vigoa Apecheche played for the Cuban Chess Federation until 2019.
  138. ↑ Anatoly Volovich played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1979.
  139. ↑ Mladen Vucic played for the Yugoslav Chess Federation until 1991.
  140. ↑ Aleksander Wojtkiewicz played in 1988 for the Soviet Chess Federation and from 1989 to 2002 for the Polish Chess Federation.
  141. ↑ Alex Yermolinski played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1990.
  142. ↑ John Yoos has been playing for the Canadian Chess Federation since 1996.
  143. ↑ Yacob Yuchtman emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel and then to the United States in the early 1970s.
  144. ↑ Gennadi Zaichik played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992 and for the Georgian Chess Federation from 1992 to 2002.
  145. ↑ Vitaly Zaltsman played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1977.
  146. ↑ Anna Zatonskih played for the Ukrainian Chess Federation until 2003.
  147. ↑ Elmars Zemgalis came from Latvia and lived as a displaced person in Germany after World War II before emigrating to the United States in 1951.
  148. ↑ Murat Zhunusov has been playing for the Kazakh Chess Federation since 1996.
  149. ↑ Raset Ziatdinaov played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1992, for the Russian Chess Federation in 1992 and for the Uzbek Chess Federation from 1993 to 1997.
  150. ↑ Israel Zilber played for the Soviet Chess Federation until 1972 and for the Israeli Chess Federation from 1979 to 1986.