List of International Masters (awarded 1973)

Alexander Beliavsky won the Soviet championship four times .

The list of International Masters of 1973 lists all chess players who received the title of International Masters in 1973 from the World Chess Federation FIDE .

In February 2020, seven of the 16 players honored at the time are still alive. Eight of the 16 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 1973.
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
Alexander Beliavsky	Soviet Union	1953	1980	Ukraine (1992–1995), Slovenia (since 1996)
Jozef Boey	Belgium	1934-2016
Ricardo Calvo Mínguez	Spain	1943-2002
Jürgen Dueball	Federal Republic of Germany	1943-2002
Bertus Enklaar	Netherlands	1943-1996
William Hartston	England	1947
Ole Jakobsen	Denmark	1942-2010
Rainer Knaak	German Democratic Republic	1953	1975
Hennadij Kuzmin	Soviet Union	1946-2020	1973	Ukraine (from 1992)
Pejtscho Peew	Bulgaria	1940-2007
Ján Plachetka	Czechoslovakia	1945	1978	Slovakia (since 1993)
Yuri Razuvayev	Soviet Union	1945–2012	1976	Russia (from 1992)
Oleh Romanyschyn	Ukraine	1952	1976	Ukraine (since 1992)
Tan Lian Ann	Singapore	1947
Lothar Vogt	German Democratic Republic	1952	1976
Vitaly Zeschkowski	Soviet Union	1944-2011	1976	Russia (from 1992)