Chess players

Here is a list of notable chess players who are not grandmasters. Players who have been awarded the International Grandmaster title will be found in the subcategory chess grandmasters.

A

* Gerald Abrahams
* Tatev Abrahamyan
* James Macrae Aitken
* Semyon Alapin
* Adolf Albin
* Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli
* Hipólito Asis Gargatagli

B

* Curt von Bardeleben
* Leonard Barden
* Thomas Wilson Barnes
* Denis Barry
* Leo Battesti
* Johann Bauer
* Hans Berliner
* Henry Bird
* Dimitrije Bjelica
* Roy Turnbull Black
* Joseph Henry Blackburne
* Ludwig Bledow
* Claude Bloodgood
* Samuel Boden
* Paolo Boi
* Geoffrey Borg
* Thomas Bowdler
* Olena Boytsun
* Frank Brady
* Gyula Breyer
* Henry Thomas Buckle
* Amos Burn
* Donald Byrne

C

* Ruth Cardoso
* Pietro Carrera
* Rudolf Charousek
* Russ Chauvenet
* John Cochrane
* Edgard Colle
* Moshe Czerniak

D

* Andria Dadiani
* Pedro Damiano
* Adriaan de Groot
* Michael De La Maza
* George Dean
* Alexandre Deschapelles
* Steven Doyle
* Leroy Dubeck
* Jean Dufresne

E

* James Eade
* Ed Edmondson
* Árpád Élő

F

* Glenn Flear

G

* Bill Goichberg
* Harry Golombek
* Mike Goodall
* David S. Goodman
* Sonja Graf
* Gioacchino Greco
* Gisela Kahn Gresser
* Walter Grimshaw
* Isidor Gunsberg

H

* Herman Hamers
* Max Harmonist
* William Hartston
* Wolfgang Heidenfeld
* Dan Heisman
* Ron Henley
* Al Horowitz
* Bernhard Horwitz
* David Howell

J

* Dawid Janowski
* Carol Jarecki

K

* Charles Kalme
* Mona May Karff
* Isaac Kashdan
* Raymond Keene
* Natalia Khoudgarian
* Lionel Kieseritzky
* Ernest Klein
* Hans Kmoch
* Danny Kopec

L

* Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais
* Frank Lamprecht
* Lisa Lane
* Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa
* Al Lawrence
* Legall de Kermeur
* Alex Lenderman
* Ignatius Leong
* David Levy (chess player)
* Samuel Lipschütz
* John Littlewood
* Johann Löwenthal
* Spencer G. Lucas
* Luis Ramirez Lucena

M

* Beatriz Marinello
* James Mason
* Alexander McDonnell
* Edmar Mednis
* Jacques Mieses
* Augustus Mongredien
* Paul Morphy
* Paul Morphy
* Faryel Mouria-Beji

N

* Gastón Needleman
* Rashid Nezhmetdinov
* Arno Nickel
* Carmine Nigro
* Frank Niro

O

* John Owen

P

* Ryan Palmer
* Bruce Pandolfini
* Larry Parr
* Louis Paulsen
* John Peters
* François-André Danican Philidor
* Harry Nelson Pillsbury
* Max Pomeranc
* Stepan Popel
* Ignatz von Popiel
* Barry Popik
* Cecil Purdy

R

* Hans Ree
* Fred Reinfeld
* Richard Réti
* Jules Arnous de Rivière
* Nancy Roos
* Eugéne Rousseau
* Olga Rubtsova
* Alexander Rueb
* Hanon Russell

S

* Ortvin Sarapu
* Jonathan Sarfati
* Eric Schiller
* Don Schultz
* Herbert Seidman
* Jennifer Shahade
* Elizabeth Shaughnessy
* James Sherwin
* Kamran Shirazi
* Jackson Showalter
* Julian Simpole
* Sam Sloan
* Rudolf Spielmann
* Pierre St. Amant
* Charles Stanley
* Howard Staunton
* Herman Steiner
* Mir Sultan Khan

T

* Aston Taminsyah
* Richard Teichmann
* George Alan Thomas
* Kenneth Thomas
* Paul Truong
* Batchimeg Tuvshintugs

V

* Michael Valvo
* Joop van Oosterom
* Milan Vukcevich

W

* Joshua Waitzkin
* Miyoko Watai
* John L. Watson
* Simon Webb
* Raymond Weinstein
* Max Weiss
* Charles Weldon
* Norman Tweed Whitaker
* Enos Wicher
* Peter Winston
* Edward G. Winter
* William Winter
* Baruch Harold Wood
* Marmaduke Wyvill

Y

* Frederick Yates

Z

* Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
* Bernard Zuckerman
* Johannes Zukertort