List of International Masters (awarded 1972)

Eugenio Torre became the first Asian grandmaster in 1974 and is a record participant in the Chess Olympiads .

The list of the International Masters of 1972 lists all chess players who received the title of International Masters in 1972 from the World Chess Federation FIDE .

In April 2016, twelve of the 22 honored players were still alive. Nine of the 22 players later achieved 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 1972.
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). Association changes due to German reunification are not listed, other 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
Peter Biyiasas	Canada	1950	1978	United States (since 1980)
Hélder Câmara	Brazil	1937-2016
Lawrence Day	Canada	1949
Lutz Espig	German Democratic Republic	1949	1983
Guillermo Estévez Morales	Cuba	1947
Dumitru Ghizdavu	Romania	1949		United States (since 1975)
Romuald Grąbczewski	Poland	1932-2005
José Antonio Gutiérrez Herrera	Colombia	1943
Raymond Keene	England	1948	1976
Nino Kirov	Bulgaria	1945-2008	1975
George Kuprejanov	Canada	1938-1991		Yugoslavia
Hrvoje brass	Yugoslavia	1940-2012		Croatia (from 1992)
Mychajlo Pidhajez	Soviet Union	1947-2009		Ukraine (from 1992)
Josef Přibyl	Czechoslovakia	1947		Czech Republic (from 1993)
Jesús Rodríguez Gonzáles	Cuba	1939-1995
Orestes Rodríguez Vargas	Peru	1943	1978	Spain (since 1992)
Josip Rukavina	Yugoslavia	1942		Croatia (since 1992)
Gyula Sax	Hungary	1951-2014	1974
Jovan Sofrevski	Yugoslavia	1935-2005		Macedonia (from 1994)
Lyuben Spasov	Bulgaria	1943	1976
Eugenio Torre	Philippines	1951	1974
Dragoljub Velimirović	Yugoslavia	1942-2014	1973	Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006), Serbia (from 2006)