List of nationality transfers in chess

This is a list of chess players who have moved to compete for another country.

To countries in Africa

Name	From nation	To nation
Samy Shoker	France	Egypt
Kurt Dreyer	Germany	South Africa
Wolfgang Heidenfeld	Germany	South Africa  Ireland
Simon Rubinstein	Austria	South Africa
Bruno Edgar Siegheim	Germany	South Africa

To countries in the Americas

Name	From nation	To nation
Albert Becker	Austria  Germany	Argentina
Francisco Benko	Germany	Argentina
Moshe Czerniak	Poland  Palestine	Argentina  Israel
Erich Eliskases	Austria/ Germany	Argentina
Nicolas Engalicev	Latvia/ Italy	Canada
Movsas Feigins	Latvia	Argentina
Paulino Frydman	Poland	Argentina
Sonja Graf	Germany	Argentina  United States
Aristide Gromer	France	Argentina
Zelman Kleinstein	Palestine	Argentina
Markas Luckis	Lithuania	Argentina
Paul Michel	Germany	Argentina
Miguel Najdorf	Poland	Argentina
Jiri Pelikan	Czechoslovakia	Argentina
Herman Pilnik	Germany	Argentina
Meir Rauch	Poland  Palestine	Argentina  Israel
Ilmar Raud	Estonia	Argentina
Heinrich Reinhardt	Germany	Argentina
Chris de Ronde	Netherlands	Argentina
Paulette Schwartzmann	France	Argentina
Adolf Seitz	Germany	Argentina   Switzerland
Karel Skalička	Czechoslovakia	Argentina
Maxim Sorokin	Russia	Argentina
Gideon Ståhlberg	Sweden	Argentina  Sweden
Franciszek Sulik	Poland	Argentina  Australia
Victor Winz	Germany  Palestine	Argentina
Pablo Baender	Germany	Bolivia
Ludwig Engels	Germany	Brazil
Jacob Ascher	England	Canada
Evgeny Bareev	Russia	Canada
Fedor Bogatyrchuk	Soviet Union	Canada
Géza Füster	Hungary	Canada
Leonid Gerzhoy	Israel	Canada
Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov	Soviet Union	Canada  United States
Carlos Jauregui	Chile	Canada
Miervaldis Jursevskis	Latvia	Canada
Natalia Khoudgarian	Russia	Canada
Anton Kovalyov	Argentina	Canada
Stanislav Kriventsov	Russia  United States	Canada
Roman Pelts	Soviet Union	Canada
William H. K. Pollock	England/ Ireland	Canada
Edward Porper	Soviet Union  Israel	Canada
Alexander Rabinovich	Israel	Canada
Bator Sambuev	Russia	Canada
Artiom Samsonkin	Belarus	Canada
Zoltan Sarosy	Hungary	Canada
Stephen Francis Smith	United Kingdom	Canada
Yan Teplitsky	Russia  Israel	Canada
Dimitri Tyomkin	Israel	Canada
Povilas Vaitonis	Lithuania	Canada
Zvonko Vranesic	Yugoslavia	Canada
Qiyu Zhou	Finland	Canada
Alexis Cabrera	Cuba	Colombia  Spain
Neuris Delgado Ramírez	Cuba	Colombia  Paraguay
Daniel Tapia	United States	Colombia
Gerardo Budowski	Germany  Venezuela	Costa Rica
Francisco Perez	Spain	Cuba
Nelson Pinal Borges	Cuba	Dominican Republic
Lisandro Fernandez Reyes	Cuba	Ecuador
Paul Klein	Germany	Ecuador
Bruno Moritz	Germany	Ecuador
Lemnys Arias	Honduras	El Salvador
Alvaro Blanco Fernandez	Cuba	Mexico
Juan Carlos González Zamora	Cuba	Mexico
Neuris Delgado Ramírez	Cuba  Colombia	Paraguay
Tatev Abrahamyan	Armenia	United States
Anna Akhsharumova	Soviet Union	United States
Varuzhan Akobian	Armenia	United States
Lev Alburt	Soviet Union	United States
Babakuli Annakov	Turkmenistan	United States
Camilla Baginskaite	Lithuania	United States
Batchimeg Tuvshintugs	Mongolia	United States
Mikhail Baturyn	Belarus	United States
Julio Becerra Rivero	Cuba	United States
Anjelina Belakovskaia	Ukraine	United States
Pal Benko	Hungary	United States
Horace Bigelow	England	United States
Boris Blumin	Canada	United States
Walter Browne	Australia	United States
Oscar Chajes	Austria-Hungary	United States
Akshat Chandra	India	United States
Fidel Corrales Jimenez	Cuba	United States
Elena Donaldson	Soviet Union	United States
Leonids Dreibergs	Latvia	United States
Roman Dzindzichashvili	Soviet Union  Israel	United States
Louis Eisenberg	Ukraine	United States
Arpad Elo	Hungary	United States
Jaan Ehlvest	Estonia	United States
Esther Epstein	Soviet Union	United States
Sergey Erenburg	Russia  Israel	United States
Samuel Factor	Poland	United States
Florin Felecan	Romania	United States
Andrei-Costel Florean	Romania	United States
Sabina-Francesca Foisor	Romania	United States
Selim Franklin	England	United States
Timur Gareyev	Uzbekistan	United States
Samuel Gold	Austria-Hungary	United States
Alexander Goldin	Russia  Israel	United States
Rusudan Goletiani	Georgia	United States
Renier Gonzalez	Cuba	United States
Sonja Graf	Germany  Argentina	United States
Eduard Gufeld	Georgia	United States
Boris Gulko	Soviet Union	United States
Dmitry Gurevich	Soviet Union	United States
Anna Hahn	Latvia	United States
Holden Hernandez Carmenate	Cuba	United States
Ildar Ibragimov	Russia	United States
Alexander Ivanov	Soviet Union	United States
Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov	Soviet Union  Canada	United States
Zviad Izoria	Georgia	United States
Gregory Kaidanov	Russia	United States
Gata Kamsky	Soviet Union	United States
Albert Kapengut	Belarus	United States
Mona May Karff	Palestine	United States
Lubomir Kavalek	Czechoslovakia	United States
Hans Kmoch	Austria	United States
Boris Kogan	Soviet Union	United States
George Koltanowski	Belgium	United States
Boris Kreiman	Soviet Union	United States
Stanislav Kriventsov	Russia	United States  Canada
Edward Lasker	Germany	United States
Emanuel Lasker	Germany  Soviet Union	United States
Anatoly Lein	Soviet Union	United States
Irina Levitina	Soviet Union	United States
Theodor Lichtenhein	Germany	United States
Marlo Micayabas	Philippines	United States
Nikolay Minev	Bulgaria	United States
Elshan Moradi	Iran	United States
Katerina Nemcova	Czech Republic	United States
Viktorija Ni	Latvia	United States
Alexander Onischuk	Ukraine	United States
Georgi Orlov	Russia	United States
Nazi Paikidze	Georgia	United States
Sam Palatnik	Soviet Union	United States
Rudolf Pitschak	Czechoslovakia	United States
Joseph Platz	Germany	United States
Susan Polgar	Hungary	United States
Stepan Popel	Ukraine/ Poland  France	United States
Alejandro Ramirez	Costa Rica	United States
Samuel Reshevsky	Poland	United States
Katerina Rohonyan	Ukraine	United States
Jacob Rosenthal	Poland  Netherlands	United States
Nicolas Rossolimo	France	United States
Alexey W. Rudolph	Germany	United States
John William Schulten	Germany	United States
Gabriel Schwartzman	Romania	United States
Gregory Serper	Uzbekistan	United States
Alexander Shabalov	Latvia	United States
Leonid Shamkovich	Soviet Union  Israel	United States
Anna Sharevich	Belarus	United States
Miron Sher	Russia	United States
Kamran Shirazi	Iran	United States  France
Yury Shulman	Belarus	United States
Mikhail Shur	Azerbaijan	United States
Wesley So	Philippines	United States
Wilhelm Steinitz	Austrian Empire  United Kingdom	United States
Alexander Stripunsky	Ukraine	United States
Povilas Tautvaišas	Lithuania	United States
Oscar Tenner	Germany	United States
Myroslav Turiansky	Soviet Union  Austria	United States
Milan Vukcevich	Yugoslavia	United States
Alexander Wojtkiewicz	Soviet Union  Poland	United States
Alex Yermolinsky	Soviet Union	United States
Anna Zatonskih	Ukraine	United States
Elmārs Zemgalis	Latvia	United States
Yaroslav Zherebukh	Ukraine	United States
Raset Ziatdinov	Uzbekistan	United States
Luis Ernesto Rodi	Argentina	Uruguay
Jaime Bograd	Romania	Venezuela
Gerardo Budowski	Germany	Venezuela  Costa Rica
Ariel Marichal Gonzalez	Cuba	Venezuela
Antonio Medina	Spain	Venezuela
Wilson Palencia	Colombia	Venezuela
Laszlo Tapaszto	Hungary	Venezuela
Felix Jose Ynojosa Aponte	England	Venezuela

To countries in Asia

Name	From nation	To nation
Igor Rausis	Latvia	Bangladesh  Czech Republic
Paul Truong	United States	Cambodia
Izak Aloni	Poland	Palestine/ Israel
Boris Alterman	Soviet Union	Israel
Boris Avrukh	Kazakhstan	Israel
Valery Beim	Soviet Union	Israel  Austria
Abram Blass	Poland	Palestine/ Israel
Moshe Czerniak	Poland	Palestine/ Israel
Boruch Israel Dyner	Belgium	Israel
Roman Dzindzichashvili	Soviet Union	Israel  United States
David Enoch	Germany	Palestine/ Israel
Boris Gelfand	Belarus	Israel
Leonid Gofshtein	Soviet Union	Israel
Vitali Golod	Ukraine	Israel
Izaak Grynfeld	Poland	Israel
Andrei Gurbanov	Belarus	Israel
Lev Gutman	Soviet Union	Israel  Germany
Alexander Huzman	Ukraine	Israel
Bella Igla	Russia	Israel
Boris Kantsler	Kyrgyzstan	Israel
Michael Klenburg	Ukraine	Israel
Alla Kushnir	Soviet Union	Israel
Vladimir Liberzon	Soviet Union	Israel
Aleksandras Machtas	Lithuania	Palestine/ Israel
Houshang Mashian	Iran	Israel
Victor Mikhalevski	Soviet Union	Israel
Vadim Milov	Russia	Israel   Switzerland
Ariah Mohiliver	Poland	Palestine/ Israel
Jacob Murey	Soviet Union	Israel
Menachem Oren	Poland	Palestine/ Israel
Raaphi Persitz	United Kingdom	Israel   Switzerland
Yosef Porath	Germany	Palestine/ Israel
Edward Porper	Soviet Union	Israel  Canada
Lev Psakhis	Soviet Union	Israel
Meir Rauch	Poland	Palestine/ Israel
Salome Reischer	Austria	Palestine
Leonid Shamkovich	Russia	Israel  United States
Ilya Smirin	Soviet Union	Israel
Lazare Suchowolski	Poland  Australia	Israel
Emil Sutovsky	Soviet Union	Israel
Gedali Szapiro	Poland	Israel
Yan Teplitsky	Russia	Israel  Canada
Mark Tseitlin	Soviet Union	Israel
Isakas Vistaneckis	Lithuania	Israel
Victor Winz	Germany	Palestine/ Israel  Argentina
Leonid Yudasin	Russia	Israel
Tatiana Zatulovskaya	Russia	Israel
Yaacov Zilberman	Soviet Union	Israel
Domingo Ramos	Philippines	Japan
Yevgeniy Pak	Uzbekistan	Kazakhstan
Vladislav Tkachiev	Russia	Kazakhstan  France
Eva Repková	Slovakia	Lebanon
Evgenij Ermenkov	Bulgaria	Palestine
Christian Michel Yunis	Chile	Palestine
Zhu Chen	China	Qatar
Gong Qianyun	China	Singapore
Li Ruofan	China	Singapore
Enrique Paciencia	Philippines	Singapore
Olimpiu G. Urcan	Romania	Singapore
Buenaventura Villamayor	Philippines	Singapore
Wu Shaobin	China	Singapore
Zhang Zhong	China	Singapore
Jose Camacho Collados	Spain	South Korea
Alexey Kim	Russia	South Korea
Cemil Aghamaliyev	Azerbaijan	Turkey
Ekaterina Atalik	Russia	Turkey
Cemil Gulbas	Belgium	Turkey
Mikhail Gurevich	Soviet Union  Belgium	Turkey
Alexander Ipatov	Ukraine  Spain	Turkey
Ergin Mollaoglu	Bulgaria	Turkey
Dragan Šolak	Serbia	Turkey

To countries in Europe

Name	From nation	To nation
Vangjel Buli	Italy	Albania
Robert Aloma Vidal	Spain	Andorra
Oscar de la Riva Aguado	Spain	Andorra
Juan Mellado Triviño	Spain	Andorra
David Norwood	England	Andorra
Josep Oms Pallise	Spain	Andorra
Maria Kursova	Russia	Armenia
Sergei Movsesian	Georgia  Czech Republic  Slovakia	Armenia
Arsen Yegiazarian	Russia	Armenia
Valery Atlas	Soviet Union  Liechtenstein	Austria
Valery Beim	Soviet Union  Israel	Austria
Ivo Donev	Bulgaria	Austria
Alexander Halprin	Russia	Austria
Tunc Hamarat	Turkey	Austria
Stefan Kindermann	Germany  Australia	Austria
Julius Perlis	Poland	Austria
Davit Shengelia	Georgia	Austria
Regina Theissl Pokorna	Slovakia	Austria
Gadir Guseinov	Russia	Azerbaijan
Zaur Mammadov	Russia	Azerbaijan
Arkadij Naiditsch	Latvia  Germany	Azerbaijan
Stefan Beukema	Netherlands	Belgium
Vladimir Chuchelov	Russia	Belgium
Alexander Dgebuadze	Georgia	Belgium
Andrija Fuderer	Yugoslavia	Belgium
Mikhail Gurevich	Soviet Union	Belgium  Turkey
Mher Hovhannisyan	Armenia	Belgium
Vadim Malakhatko	Ukraine	Belgium
Ulvi Sadikhov	Azerbaijan	Belgium
Victor Soultanbeieff	Ukraine	Belgium
Anna Zozulia	Ukraine	Belgium
Suat Atalık	Turkey	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ivan Galić	Croatia	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Borki Predojević	FR Yugoslavia	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dalibor Stojanović	Serbia and Montenegro	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tatjana Lematschko	Soviet Union	Bulgaria   Switzerland
Emir Dizdarević	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Croatia
Valentina Golubenko	Estonia	Croatia
Esad Gorić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Croatia
Bojan Kurajica	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Croatia
Iván Morovic	Chile	Croatia
Drazen Muse	Germany	Croatia
Mladen Muse	Germany	Croatia
Dragan Novaković	Serbia and Montenegro	Croatia
Miroslav Pucovski	Serbia	Croatia
Dražen Sermek	Slovenia	Croatia
Vasilios Kotronias	Greece	Cyprus
Thomas Hinks-Edwards	England	Czech Republic
Alexey Kislinsky	Ukraine	Czech Republic
Epaminondas Kourousis	Greece	Czech Republic
Peter Michalik	Slovakia	Czech Republic
Sergei Movsesian	Georgia	Czech Republic  Slovakia  Armenia
Vitezslav Priehoda	Slovakia	Czech Republic
Igor Rausis	Latvia  Bangladesh	Czech Republic
Oleg Spirin	Russia	Czech Republic
Joanna Worek	Poland	Czech Republic
Kassa Korley	United States	Denmark
Aron Nimzowitsch	Russian Empire	Denmark
Jana Bellin	Czechoslovakia	England
Murray Chandler	New Zealand	England
Dagne Ciuksyte	Lithuania	England
Anya Corke	Hong Kong	England
Daniel Howard Fernandez	Singapore	England
David Friedgood	South Africa	England
Bogdan Lalić	Croatia	England
Sue Maroroa	New Zealand	England
Michael Rahal	Spain	England
Mihai Suba	Romania	England
Robert Wade	New Zealand	England
Alexander Alekhine	Soviet Union	France
Silvia Aleksieva	Bulgaria	France
Amir Bagheri	Iran	France
Abraham Baratz	Romania	France
Ossip Bernstein	Russian Empire	France
Josef Cukierman	Poland	France
Josif Dorfman	Soviet Union	France
Tigran Gharamian	Armenia	France
François Godart	Belgium	France
Hichem Hamdouchi	Morocco	France
Borya Ider	Mongolia	France
Andrei Istrățescu	Romania	France
Victor Kahn	Russia	France
Lionel Kieseritzky	Livonia	France
Anthony Kosten	England	France
Bachar Kouatly	Lebanon	France
Vladimir Lazarev	Russia	France
Nikolay Legky	Ukraine	France
Nino Maisuradze	Georgia	France
Léon Monosson	Soviet Union	France
Catalin Navrotescu	Romania	France
Vladimir Okhotnik	Ukraine	France
Stepan Popel	Ukraine/ Poland	France  United States
Anda Šafranska	Latvia	France
Andrei Shchekachev	Russia	France
Kamran Shirazi	Iran  United States	France
Almira Skripchenko	Moldova	France
Andrei Sokolov	Russia	France
Boris Spassky	Soviet Union	France
Savielly Tartakower	Poland	France
Vladislav Tkachiev	Russia  Kazakhstan	France
Miodrag Todorcevic	Yugoslavia	France  Spain
Anatoly Vaisser	Soviet Union	France
Levon Aronian	Armenia	Germany
Albert Becker	Austria	Germany  Argentina
Alexander Belezky	Ukraine	Germany
Aleksandar Berelovich	Ukraine	Germany
Igor Berezovsky	Russia	Germany  Monaco
Efim Bogoljubov	Soviet Union	Germany
Rustem Dautov	Russia	Germany
Michael Fedorovsky	Ukraine	Germany
Michael Feygin	Ukraine	Germany
Daniel Fridman	Latvia	Germany
Rafael Fridman	Latvia	Germany
Karl Gilg	Czechoslovakia	Germany
Igor Glek	Russia	Germany
Alexander Graf	Uzbekistan	Germany
Bernhard Gregory	Russian Empire	Germany
Lev Gutman	Soviet Union  Israel	Germany
Baldur Hönlinger	Austria	Germany
Vlastimil Hort	Czechoslovakia	Germany
Otto Junge	Chile	Germany
Ketino Kachiani	Georgia	Germany
Igor Khenkin	Russia	Germany
Jerzy Konikowski	Poland	Germany
Leonid Kritz	Russia	Germany
Jonas Lampert	Switzerland	Germany
Paul List	Russian Empire	Germany  United Kingdom
Jakov Loxine	Russia	Germany
Jakob Meister	Russia	Germany
Marta Michna	Poland	Germany
Leonid Milov	Ukraine	Germany
Paul Mross	Poland	Germany
Illya Mutschnik	Ukraine	Germany
Arkadij Naiditsch	Latvia	Germany  Azerbaijan
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	Romania	Germany
Ludek Pachman	Czechoslovakia	Germany
Sergej Salov	Russia	Germany
Sergiu Samarian	Romania	Germany
Massoud Amir Sawadkuhi	Iran	Germany
Paul Felix Schmidt	Estonia	Germany
Nikolai Shalnev	Ukraine	Germany
Igor Solomunović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Germany  Serbia
Eugen Tripolsky	Ukraine	Germany
Leon Tuhan-Baranowski	Poland	Germany
Roman Vidonyak	Ukraine	Germany
Artur Yusupov	Russia	Germany
Johannes Zukertort	Poland	Germany  United Kingdom
Yelena Dembo	Israel  Hungary	Greece
Atanas Dimitrov	Bulgaria	Greece
Andreas Kelires	Cyprus	Greece
Igor Miladinović	Yugoslavia	Greece
Cao Sang	Vietnam	Hungary
Alexander Chernin	Soviet Union	Hungary
Yelena Dembo	Israel	Hungary  Greece
Hoang Thanh Trang	Vietnam	Hungary
Oliver Mihok	Germany	Hungary
Szidonia Vajda	Romania	Hungary
Henrik Danielsen	Denmark	Iceland
Lenka Ptáčníková	Czech Republic	Iceland
Alexander Baburin	Russia	Ireland
Wolfgang Heidenfeld	Germany  South Africa	Ireland
Brian Reilly	France  United Kingdom	Ireland
Esteban Canal	Peru	Italy
Fabiano Caruana	United States	Italy
Alberto David	Luxembourg	Italy
Igor Efimov	Georgia	Italy  Monaco
Carlos Garcia Palermo	Argentina	Italy
Lexy Ortega	Cuba	Italy
Francesco Rambaldi	France	Italy
Elena Sedina	Ukraine	Italy
Eugenio Szabados	Hungary	Italy
Stefano Tatai	Hungary	Italy
Bela Toth	Hungary	Italy
Olga Zimina	Russia	Italy
Alexander Zlochevskij	Russia	Italy
Lucijs Endzelins	Estonia	Latvia  Australia
Igor Kovalenko	Ukraine	Latvia
Evgeny Sveshnikov	Russia	Latvia
Valery Atlas	Soviet Union	Liechtenstein  Austria
Vladas Mikėnas	Estonia	Lithuania
Michael Wiedenkeller	Sweden	Luxembourg
Kiril Georgiev	Bulgaria	Macedonia
Vladimir Georgiev	Bulgaria	Macedonia
Torben Sorensen	Denmark	Malta
Igor Berezovsky	Russia  Germany	Monaco
Algimantas Butnorius	Lithuania	Monaco
Igor Efimov	Georgia  Italy	Monaco
Robert Fontaine	France	Monaco
Damir Levacic	France	Monaco
David Marciano	France	Monaco
Tea Bosboom-Lanchava	Georgia	Netherlands
Iwona Bos-Swiecik	Poland	Netherlands
Roberto Cifuentes	Chile	Netherlands  Spain
Anish Giri	Russia	Netherlands
Alexandra van der Mije-Nicolau	Romania	Netherlands
Zhaoqin Peng	China	Netherlands
Ivan Sokolov	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Netherlands
Gennadi Sosonko	Soviet Union	Netherlands
Erika Sziva	Hungary	Netherlands
Hiong Liong Tan	Indonesia	Netherlands
Sergei Tiviakov	Russia	Netherlands
Maxim Devereaux	England	Norway
Bjarke Sahl	Denmark	Norway
Jonathan Tisdall	United States	Norway
Michał Krasenkow	Russia	Poland
Alexander Wojtkiewicz	Soviet Union	Poland  United States
Jurij Zezulkin	Belarus	Poland
Irina Bulmaga	Moldova	Russia
Roman Babici	Moldova	Russia
Alisa Galliamova	Ukraine	Russia
Ernesto Inarkiev	Kyrgyzstan	Russia
Sergey Karjakin	Ukraine	Russia
Kateryna Lagno	Ukraine	Russia
Svetlana Matveeva	Kyrgyzstan	Russia
Leonid Raikin	Ukraine	Russia
Elena Tairova	Belarus	Russia
Valeriy Yoshan	Ukraine	Russia
Kira Zvorykina	Belarus	Russia
Jacob Aagaard	Denmark	Scotland
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant	Georgia	Scotland
Andrew Greet	England	Scotland
Matthew Turner	England	Scotland
Dejan Pavlović	Montenegro	Serbia
Igor Solomunović	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Germany	Serbia
Ranko Szuhanek	Romania	Serbia
Sergei Movsesian	Georgia  Czech Republic	Slovakia  Armenia
Indira Babataeva	Kazakhstan	Slovenia
Alexander Beliavsky	Ukraine	Slovenia
Zvonimir Meštrović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Slovenia
Adrian Mikhalchishin	Ukraine	Slovenia
Anna Muzychuk	Ukraine	Slovenia
Salo Flohr	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union
Emanuel Lasker	Germany	Soviet Union  United States
Andor Lilienthal	Hungary	Soviet Union
Olga Alexandrova	Ukraine	Spain
Alexis Cabrera	Cuba  Colombia	Spain
Renier Castellanos Rodriguez	Chile	Spain
Roberto Cifuentes	Chile  Netherlands	Spain
Diego Del Rey	Argentina	Spain
Javier Gil Capape	Australia	Spain
Irisberto Herrera	Cuba	Spain
Alexander Ipatov	Ukraine	Spain  Turkey
Ibragim Khamrakulov	Uzbekistan	Spain
Oleg Korneev	Russia	Spain
Ana Matnadze	Georgia	Spain
Viktor Moskalenko	Ukraine	Spain
Miguel Muñoz Pantoja	Peru	Spain
Orelvis Perez Mitjans	Cuba	Spain
Daniel Rodriguez Pineda	Cuba	Spain
Horacio Saldano Dayer	Argentina	Spain
Alexei Shirov	Latvia	Spain
Miodrag Todorcevic	Yugoslavia  France	Spain
Elizbar Ubilava	Georgia	Spain
Renier Vazquez Igarza	Cuba	Spain
Arturo Vidarte Morales	Peru	Spain
Evgeny Agrest	Russia	Sweden
Leho Laurine	Estonia	Sweden
Jerzy Lewi	Poland	Sweden
Sebastian Bogner	Germany	Switzerland
Branko Filipović	Croatia	Switzerland
Joseph Gallagher	England	Switzerland
Viktor Gavrikov	Lithuania	Switzerland
Ernő Gereben	Hungary	Switzerland
Barbara Hund	Germany	Switzerland
Nedeljko Kelecevic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Switzerland
Viktor Korchnoi	Soviet Union	Switzerland
Tatjana Lematschko	Soviet Union  Bulgaria	Switzerland
Vadim Milov	Russia  Israel	Switzerland
Ivan Nemet	Yugoslavia	Switzerland
Raaphi Persitz	England  Israel	Switzerland
Artur Poplawski	Poland	Switzerland
Peter Petrovich Saburov	Russia	Switzerland
Adolf Seitz	Germany  Argentina	Switzerland
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kalinin	Belarus	Ukraine
Vladimir Makarov	Moldova	Ukraine
Sergey Smolin	Russia	Ukraine
István Fazekas	Czechoslovakia	United Kingdom
Isidor Gunsberg	Hungary	United Kingdom
Bernhard Horwitz	Germany	United Kingdom
Ernest Klein	Austria	United Kingdom
Imre König	Hungary/ Austria  Yugoslavia	United Kingdom  United States
Čeněk Kottnauer	Czechoslovakia	United Kingdom
Paul List	Russian Empire  Germany	United Kingdom
Johann Löwenthal	Hungary	United Kingdom
James Mason	United States	United Kingdom
Olga Menchik	Soviet Union  Czechoslovakia	United Kingdom
Vera Menchik	Soviet Union  Czechoslovakia	United Kingdom
Jacques Mieses	Germany	United Kingdom
Wilhelm Steinitz	Austrian Empire	United Kingdom  United States
Mir Sultan Khan	India	United Kingdom
Johannes Zukertort	Poland  Germany	United Kingdom
Nigel Davies	England	Wales
Lajos Asztalos	Hungary	Yugoslavia
Mirko Bröder	Hungary	Yugoslavia
Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov	Poland	Yugoslavia
Irina Chelushkina	Ukraine	FR Yugoslavia
Maria Manakova	Russia	FR Yugoslavia
Svetlana Prudnikova	Russia	FR Yugoslavia