List of International Masters (awarded 1974)

Gennady Sosonko was named International Master just a year after earning an Elo rating.

The list of International Masters of 1974 lists all chess players who received the title of International Masters in 1974 from the World Chess Federation FIDE .

In January 2016, twelve of the 19 honored players were still alive. 16 of the 19 players later reached the grandmaster title .

Legend

The table contains the following information:

Name : gives the name of the player.
Country : Name of the country for which the player was eligible to play in 1974.
Life data : states the year of birth and, if applicable, the year of death of the player.
GM : Indicates the year of award for players who were later promoted to grandmasters.
Other associations : For players who were sooner or later eligible to play for at least one other association, this indicates these associations with the periods of eligibility to play (if known). Changes to a successor state are taken into account if the player was still active in chess at that time.

Surname	country	Life dates	GM	other associations
Ridha Belkadi	Tunisia	1925-2012
Juan Manuel Bellón López	Spain	1950	1978	Sweden (since 2017)
Ivan Buljovcić	Yugoslavia	1936-2004
Evgeni Ermenkov	Bulgaria	1949	1976	Palestine (2003-2010)
Iván Faragó	Hungary	1946	1976
Guillermo García González	Cuba	1953-1990	1976
Krunoslav Hulak	Yugoslavia	1951-2015	1976	Croatia (from 1992)
Milorad Knežević	Yugoslavia	1936-2005	1976
Jiří Lechtýnský	Czechoslovakia	1947	1982	Czech Republic (since 1993)
Sergei Makarychev	Soviet Union	1953	1976	Russia (since 1992)
Edmar Mednis	United States	1937-2002	1980
Tony Miles	England	1955-2001	1976	United States (1988–1991)
Leif Øgaard	Norway	1952	2007
Dušan Rajković	Yugoslavia	1942	1977	Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006), Serbia (since 2006)
Kenneth S. Rogoff	United States	1953	1978
Andrew Soltis	United States	1947	1980
Gennady Sosonko	Netherlands	1943	1976
James Tarjan	United States	1952	1976
Bela Toth	Italy	1943		Hungary (until 1973)