Famous players of failures

This article contains a list of players of famous failures . It gives an overall picture of the principal players and players of failures.

With

Gerald Abrahams (England, 1907 - 1980)
Michael Adams (England, 1971 -)
Utut Adianto (Indonesia, 1965 -)
Andras Adorjan (Hungary, 1950 -)
Simen Agdestein (Norway, 1967 -)
Vladimir Akopian (Arménie, 1971 -)
Semyon Alapine, (Lithuania 1856 - 1923)
Adolf Albin (Romania, 1848 - 1920)
Lev Alburt (Russia, the USA, 1945 -)
Alexander Alekhine (Russia, 1892 - 1946)
Hugh Alexander (England, 1899 - 1974)
Boris Alterman (Israel, 1970 -)
Friedrich Amelung (Latvia, 1842 - 1909)
Viswanathan Anand (India, 1969 -)
Adolf Anderssen (Germany, 1818 - 1879)
Ulf Andersson (Sweden, 1951 -)
Gilles Andruet (France, 1958 - 1995)
Alexander Areshchenko (Ukraine, 1986 -)
Levon Aronian (Arménie, 1982 -)
Konstantin Aseev (Russia, 1960 - 2004)
Maurice Ashley (Jamaica, the USA, 1966 -)
Have-Suli (Abbasside caliphate, approx. 880 - 946)
Henry Atkins (England, 1872 - 1955 )
Yuri Averbakh (Russia, 1922 -)
Zurab Azmaiparashvili (Georgia, 1960 -)

B

Etienne Bacrot (France, 1983 -)
Vladimir Bagirov
Gerardo Barbero (Argentinian, Hungary, 1961 - 2001)
Curt von Bardeleben (Germany, 1861 - 1924)
Leonard Barden (England, 1929 -)
Evgeny Bareev (Russia, 1966 -)
Thomas Wilson Barnes (England, 1825 - 1874)
Christian Bauer (France, 1977 -)
Anjelina Belakovskaia (Ukraine, the USA, 1969 -)
Alexander Beliavsky (Ukraine, Slovenia, 1953 -)
Joel Benjamin (the USA, 1964 -)
Pál Benkő (Hungary, the USA, 1928 -)
Hans Berliner (the USA, 1929 -)
Ossip Bernstein (Ukraine, France, 1882 - 1962)
Istvan Bilek (Hungary, 1932 -)
Henry Bird (England, 1830 - 1908)
Arthur Bisguier (the USA, 1929 -)
Roy Turnbull Black (the USA)
Joseph Henry Blackburne (England, 1841 - 1924)
Dr. Ludwig E Bledow (Germany, 1795 - 1846)
Claude Bloodgood (the USA, 1937 - 2001)
Samuel Boden, (England, 1826 - 1882)
Efim Bogoljubov (Ukraine, Germany, 1889 - 1952)
Paolo Boï (Italy, 1528 - 1598)
Julio Bolbochan (Argentinian, 1920 - 1996)
Isaac Boleslavsky (the USSR, 1919 - 1977)
Igor Bondaresky (Russia, 1913 - 1979)
Eero Böök (Finland, 1910 - 1990)
Mikhail Botvinnik (Russia, 1911 - 1995)
Louis Charles of Bourdonnais (France, 1795 - 1840)
Gyula Breyer (Hungary, 1893 - 1921)
David Bronstein (Russia, 1924 - 2006)
Walter Browne (Australia, the USA, 1949 -)
Xiangzhi Drunk (China, 1985 -)
Amos Burn (England, 1848 - 1925)
Donald Byrne (the USA, 1930 - 1976)
Robert Byrne (the USA, 1928 -)
Elizaveta Ivanovna Bykova (Russia, 1913 - 1989)

C

Esteban Canal (Peru, Italy, 1896 - 1981)
Jose Raúl Capablanca (Cuba, 1888 - 1942)
Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 1990 -)
Pietro Will square (Sicily, 1573 - 1647)
Murray Chandler (New Zealand, England 1960 -)
Rudolf Charousek (Hungary, 1873 - 1900)
Zhu Chen (China, 1976 -)
Irving Chernev (the USA, 1900 - 1981)
Maia Chiburdanidze (Georgia, the USSR, 1961 -)
Larry Christiansen (the USA, 1956 -)
John Cochrane (England, 1798 - 1878)
Edgard Sticks (Belgium, 1897 - 1932)
Juan Corzo (Cuba, 1873 - 1941)
Pia Cramling (Sweden, 1963 -)

D

Aleksandr Dybman (the USSR, 1962 -)
Arthur Dake (the USA, 1910 -)
Pedro Damiano (Portugal, - 1544)
Klaus Darga (Germany, 1934 -)
Nigel Davies (England, 1960 -)
Nick de Firmian (the USA, 1957 -)
Jean-Marc Degraeve (France, 1971 -)
Boris De Greiff (Colombia, 1930 -)
Adriaan of Groot (Netherlands, 1914 -)
Arnold Denker (the USA, 1914 - 2005)
Alexandre Deschapelles (France, 1780 - 1847)
Rune Djurhuus (Norway, 1970 -)
Sergey Dolmatov (the USSR, 1959 -)
" Jan Hein" To give (Netherlands, 1927 - 1988)
Iossif Dorfman (the USSR, France 1952 -)
Alexey Dreev (Russia, 1969 -)
Serafino Dubois (Italy, 1817 - 1899)
Jean Dufresne (Germany, 1829 - 1893)
Oldrich Had (Czechoslovakia, 1882 - 1957)
Mark Dvoretsky (Russia,)
Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia, 1987 -)
Novel Dzindzichashvili (Georgia, the USA, 1944 -)

E

Jaan Ehlvest (Estonia, 1962 -)
Erich Eliskases (Austria, Germany, Argentina, 1913 - 1997)
Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine, 1983 -)
John Emms (England, 1967 -)
Berthold Englisch (Austria, 1851 - 1897)
Jacob Estrine (the USSR, 1923 - 1987)
max Euwe (Netherlands, 1901 - 1981)
Larry Evans (the USA, 1932 -)
Captain William Davies Evans (Wales, 1790 - 1872)

F

Ernst Falkbeer (Austria, 1819 - 1885)
John Fedorowicz (the USA, 1958 -)
Miroslav Filip (Czech Republic, 1928 -)
Reuben Fine (the USA, 1914 - 1993)
Bobby Fischer (the USA, Iceland, 1943 -)
Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia, 1908 - 1983)
Gyozo Forintos (Hungary, 1935 -)
Laurent Fressinet (France, 1981 -)
Lubomir Ftacnik (Slovakia, 1957 -)
Semen Furman (the USSR, 1920 - 1978)

G

Joseph Gallagher (Great Britain, Switzerland, 1964 -)
Nona Gaprindashvili (Georgia, the USSR, 1941 -)
Timur Gareev (Ouzbékistan, 1988 -)
Einar Gausel (Norway, 1963 -)
Boris Gelfand (Bélarus, the USSR, Israel, 1968 -)
Efim To freeze (Ukraine, the USSR, 1925 - 1998)
Kiril Georgiev (Bulgaria, 1965 -)
Ehsan Ghaemmaghami (Iran, 1981 -)
Guilder Gheorghiu (Romania, 1944 -)
Aivars Gipslis (Latvia, 1937 - 2000)
Svetozar Gligoric (Yugoslavia, 1923 -)
Harry Golombek (England, 1911 - 1995)
Boris Goulko (the USSR, the USA, 1947 -)
Sonja Graf (Germany, Argentina, the USA, 1908 - 1965)
Gioacchino Greco (Italy, 1600 - C. 1634)
Gisela Kahn Gresser (the USA, 1906 - 2000)
Alexander Grischuk (Russia, 1983 -)
Richard Griffith (England, 1872 - 1955)
Ernst Grünfeld (Austria, 1893 - 1962)
Eduard Gufeld (Ukraine, the USA, 1936 - 2002)
Isidor Gunsberg (Hungary, England, 1854 - 1930)
Mikhail Gurevich (Russia, 1959 -)

H

Wilhelm Hanstein (Germany, 1811 - 1850)
Pentala Harikrishna (India, 1986 -)
max Harmonist (Germany, 1864 - 1907)
Daniel Harrwitz (Germany, France, 1823 - 1884)
William Hartston (England, 1947 -)
Jonny Hector (Sweden, 1964 -)
Julian Hodgson (England, 1963 -)
Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia, Germany, 1944 -)
Israel Horowitz (US, 1907 - 1973)
Bernhard Horwitz (Germany, England, 1807 - 1885)
Yifan Hou (China, 1994 -)
Robert Hübner (Germany, 1948 -)

I

Alexandre Ilyin-Genevsky (Russia, Soviet Union, 1898-1941)
Chick Ioseliani (Georgia, 1962 -)
Miguel Illescas Cordoba (Spain, 1965 -)
Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine, 1969 -)
Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov (Russia, Canada, the USA 1947 - 2005)
Sergey Ivanov (Russia, 1960 -)
Borislav Ivkov (Yugoslavia, 1933 -)

J

Carl Jaenisch (Russia, 1813 - 1872)
Dmitry Jakovenko (Russia, 1983 -)
David Janowski (Poland, France 1868 - 1927)
Darryl Johansen (Australia, 1959 -)
Paul Johner (Swiss, 1887 - 1938)

K

Gregory Kaidanov (Ukraine, Russia, 1959 -)
Spoiled Kamsky (Russia, the USA, 1974 -)
Mona May Karff (Palestine, the USA, 1914 - 1998)
Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine, 1990 -)
Anatoly Karpov (Russia, 1951 -)
Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Ouzbékistan, 1979 -)
Garry Kasparov (Russia, 1963 -)
Lubomir Kavalek (Czechoslovakia, US, 1943 -)
Raymond Keene (England, 1948 -)
Paul Keres (Estonia, 1916 - 1975)
Alexander Khalifman (Russia, 1966 -)
Lionel Kieseritzky (Poland, Germany, 1806 - 1853)
Ernst Klein (England, 1910 - 1990)
Janis Klovans (Latvia, 1935 -)
George Koltanowski (Belgium, the USA, 1903 - 2000)
Humpy Koneru (India, 1987 -)
Viktor Kortchnoï (the USSR, Switzerland, 1931 -)
Yona Kosashvili (Georgia, Israel, 1970 -)
Nadezhda Kosintseva (Russia, 1985 -)
Tatiana Kosintseva (Russia, 1986 -)
Alexandra Kosteniuk (Russia, 1984 -)
Borislav Kostic (Yugoslavia, 1887 - 1963)
Vassilios Kotronias (Greece, 1964 -)
Alexander Kotov (the USSR, 1913 - 1981)
Vladimir Kovacevic (Croatia, 1942 -)
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 1975 -)
Michal Krasenkow (Poland, 1963 -)
Irina Krush (Ukraine, the USSR, the USA, 1983 -)
Bojan Kurajica (Bosnia Herzégovine, 1947 -)

L

Kateryna Lahno (Ukraine, 1989 -)
Gary Lane (England, Australia 1964 -)
Bent Larsen (Denmark, 1935 -)
Baron Tassilo von Heydebrand und DER Wearied (Russia, 1818 - 1899)
Edward Lasker (Germany, the USA, 1885 - 1981)
Emanuel Lasker (Germany, the USA, 1868 - 1941)
Joel Lautier (France, 1973 -)
Legall de Kermeur (1702 - 1792)
Peter Lékó (Hungary, 1979 -)
Giovanni Leonardo (Italy, 1542 - 1587)
Alexandre Lesiège (Canada, 1975 -)
Grigory Levenfish (Poland, Russia, 1889 - 1961)
Kjetil Aleksander Binds (Norway, 1980 -)
Andor Lilienthal (Hungary, Russia, 1911 -)
Samuel Lipschütz (Hungary, the USA, 1863 - 1905)
Ljubomir Ljubojević (Yugoslavia, 1950 -)
William Lombardy (the USA, 1937 -)
Ruy López de Segura (Spain, approx. 1530 - approx. 1580)
Johann Löwenthal (Hungary, 1810 - 1876)
Shine Ramirez Lucena (Spain, approx. 1465 - approx. 1530)

M

David Marciano (France, (1969 -)
Georg Marco (Austria, 1863 - 1923)
Geza Maroczy (Hungary, 1870 - 1951)
Franck Marshall (the USA, 1877 - 1944)
Hermanis Matisons (Latvia, 1894 - 1932)
Karl Mayet (Germany, 1810 - 1868)
Alexander MacDonnell (Ireland, 1798 - 1835)
Hake McNab (Scotland, 1961 -)
Luke McShane (England, 1984 -)
Henrique Mecking (Brazil, 1952 -)
Susanto Megaranto (Indonesia, 1987 -)
Vera Menchik (Czech Republic, England, 1906 - 1944)
Jacques Mieses (Germany, England 1865 - 1954)
Vladas Mikenas (Lithuania, 1910 - 1992)
Tony Miles (England, 1955 - 2001)
Vadim Milov (Swiss),
Augustus Mongredien (England, 1807 - 1888)
Iván Morovic (Chile, 1963 -)
Alexander Morozevich (Russia, 1977 -)
Paul Morphy (the USA, 1837 - 1884)
Paul Motwani (Scotland, 1962 -)
Alexander Motylev (Russia, 1979 -)
Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine, Slovenia, 1990 -)

NR

Gia Nadareishvili (Georgia;)
Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany, 1985 -)
Miguel Najdorf (Poland, Argentina, 1910 - 1997)
Hikaru Nakamura (the USA, 1987 -)
Igor-Alexandre Nataf (France, 1978 -)
Parimarjan Negi (India, 1993 -)
Rashid Nezhmetdinov (Russia, 1912 - 1974)
Peter Heine Nielsen (Denmark, 1973 -)
Aaron Nimzowitsch (Latvia, Denmark, 1886 - 1935)
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Romania, 1976 -)
John Nunn (England, 1955 -)

O

Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland, 1935 -)
Alexander Onischuk (Ukraine, the USA, 1975 -)
Bank Ostenstad (Norway, 1964 -)
John Owen (England, 1827 - 1901)

P

Ludek Pachman (Czechoslovakia, Germany, 1929 - 2003)
Oscar Panno (Argentinian, 1935 -)
Vasily Panov (the USSR, 1906 - 1973)
Enrico Paoli (Italy, 1908 - 2005)
Mark Paragua (Filipino, 1984 -)
Bruno Parma (Slovenia, 1941 -)
Louis Paulsen (Germany, 1833 - 1891)
Jonathan Penrose (England, 1933 -)
Tigran Petrosian (Arménie, Georgia, the USSR, 1929 - 1984)
Alexander Petrov (Russia, 1794 - 1867)
Helmut Pfleger (Germany, 1943 -)
François-Andre Danican Philidor (France, 1726 - 1795)
Jeroen Piket (Netherlands, 1969 -)
Harry Nelson Pillsbury (the USA, 1872 - 1906)
Hermann Pilnik (Germany, Argentina, 1914 - 1981)
Vasja Pirc (Slovenia, 1907 - 1980)
Giulio Polerio (Italy, C. 1550 - C. 1610)
Judit Polgár (Hungary, 1976 -)
Susan Polgár (Hungary, the USA, 1969 -)
Zsófia Polgár (Hungary, Israel, 1974 -)
Lev Polougaevsky (the USSR, 1934 - 1995)
Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine, 1983 -)
Lajos Portisch (Hungary, 1937 -)
C.J.S. Purdy (Australia, 1906 - 1979)

Q

Miguel Quinteros (Argentinian, 1947 -)

R

Abram Rabinovich (Russia, 1878 - 1943)
Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaïdjan, 1987 -)
Viacheslav Ragozin (Russia, 1908 - 1962)
Yuri Razuvayev (Russia, 1945 -)
Hans Ree (Netherlands, 1944 -)
Fred Reinfeld (the USA, 1910 - 1964)
Olivier Renet (France, 1964 -)
Samuel Reshevsky (Poland, the USA, 1911 - 1992)
Richard Réti (Czechoslovakia, 1889 - 1929)
Zoltan Ribli (Hungary, 1951 -)
Jules Arnous de Rivière (France, 1830 - 1905)
Ian Rogers (Australia, 1960 -)
Kenneth Rogoff (the USA, 1953 -)
Michael Rohde (the USA, 1959 -)
Nicolas Rossolimo (France, the USA, 1910 - 1975)
Eugene Rousseau (France, C. 1810 - C. 1870)
Jonathan Rowson (Scotland, 1977 -)
Akiba Rubinstein (Poland, 1882 - 1961)
Serguei Roublevsky (Russia, 1974 -)
Olga Rubtsova (Russia, 1909 - 1994)
Ludmila Rudenko (Russia, 1904 - 1986)

S

Pierre Saint-Lover (France, 1800 - 1872)
Valery Salov (Russia, 1964 -)
Freidrich Sämisch (Germany, 1896 - 1975)
Jonathan Sarfati (Australia, New Zealand, 1964 -)
Krishnan Sasikiran (India, 1981 -)
Gyula Sax (Hungary, 1951 -)
Emmanuel Schiffers (Russia, 1850 - 1904)
Carl Schlechter (Austria, 1874 - 1918)
Marie Sebag (France, 1986 -)
Yasser Seirawan (Syria, the USA, 1960 -)
Alexander Shabalov (Latvia, the USA, 1967 -)
Jennifer Shahade (the USA, 1980 -)
Leonid Shamkovich (Russia, the USA, 1923 - 2005)
Alexei Shirov or Alexeï Chirov (Latvia, Spain, 1972 -)
Nigel Shorts (England, 1965 -)
Jackson Showalter (the USA, 1860 - 1935)
Yury Shulman (Bélarus, 1975
Almira Skripchenko (Moldavie, France, 1976 -)
Jan Smejkal (Czechoslovakia, 1946 -)
Vasily Smyslov (Russia, 1921 -)
Monika Socko (Poland, 1978 -)
Andrei Sokolov (the USSR, France, 1963 -)
Ivan Sokolov (Yugoslavia, Netherlands, 1968 -)
Andrew Soltis (the USA, 1947 -)
Boris Spassky (Russia, France, 1937 -)
Jon Speelman (England, 1956 -)
Rudolf Spielmann (Austria, 1883 - 1942)
Kevin Spraggett (Canada, 1954 -)
Gideon Stahlberg (Sweden, 1908 - 1967)
Philipp Stamma (Syria, England, France, 1705 - 1755)
Charles Stanley (England, the USA 1819 - 1901)
Nava Starr (Latvia, Canada, 1949 -)
Howard Staunton (England, 1810 - 1874)
Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria, 1979 -)
Leonid Stein (Ukraine, 1934 - 1973)
Hermann Steiner (the USA, 1905 - 1955)
Wilhelm Steinitz (Bohemian, the USA, 1836 - 1900)
Daniel Stellwagen (Netherlands, 1987 -)
Gosta Stoltz (Sweden, 1904 - 1963)
Alexey Suetin (the USSR, 1926 - 2001)
Mir Sultan Khan (Pakistan, 1905 - 1966)
Emil Sutovsky (Israel, 1977 -)
Evgeny Sveshnikov (Latvia, 1950 -)
Peter Svidler (Russia, 1976 -)
László Szabó (Hungary, 1917 - 1998)

T

Mark Taimanov (Russia, 1926 -)
Mikhail Tal (Latvia, the USSR, 1936 - 1992)
Siegbert Tarrasch (Germany, 1862 - 1934)
Ksawery Tartakower (Poland, France, 1887 - 1956)
Mikhail Tchigorine (Russia, 1850 - 1908)
Richard Teichmann (Germany, 1868 - 1925)
Jan Timman (Netherlands, 1951 -)
Sergei Tiviakov (Russia, Netherlands, 1973 -)
Vladislav Tkachiev (kazakhstan, France, 1973 -)
Alexander Tolush (Russia, 1910 - 1969)
Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 1975 -)
Eugenio Torre (Filipino, 1951 -)
Carlos Torre Repetto (Mexico, 1902 - 1978)
Karel Traxler (Czechoslovakia, 1866 - 1936)
Karel Treybal (Czechoslovakia, 1885 - 1941)
Petar Trifunovic (Croatia, 1910 - 1980)
VItalie Tseshkovsky (Russia, 1944 -)
Theodore Tylor (England, 1900 - 1968)

U

Wolfgang Uhlmann (Germany, 1935 -)
Wolfgang Unzicker (Germany, 1925 - 2006)
Richard Urwand (Egypt, France, 1914 - 2006)
Anna Ushenina (Ukraine, 1985 -)

V

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France, 1990 -)
Francisco Vallejo Pons (Spain, 1982 -)
Loek van Wely (Netherlands, 1972 -)
Milan Vidmar (Slovenia, 1885 - 1962)
Evgeny Vladimirov (Kazakhstan, 1957 -)
Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine, 1986 -)
Alexey Vyzmanavin (Russia, 1960 - 2000)

W

Hao Wang (China, 1995 -)
Yue Wang (China, 1987 -)
Peter Winston (the USA)
Szymon Winawer (Poland, 1838 - 1920)
William Winter (England)
Patrick Wolf (the USA, 1968 -)
Marmaduke Wyvill (England, 1814 - 1896)

X

Jun Xie (China, 1970 -)
Jun Xu (China, 1962 -)

Y

Daniel Yanofsky (Poland, Canada, 1925 - 2000)
Frederick Yates (England, 1884 - 1932)
Jiangchuan Ye (China, 1960 -)
Alex Yermolinsky (the USA, 1958 -)
Leonid Youdassine (the USSR, Israel, 1959 -)
Leonid Yurtaev (Kyrgyzstan, 1959 -)
Artur Yusupov (Russia, Germany, 1960 -)

Z

Alexander Zaitsev (the USSR, 1935 - 1971)
Zhong Zhang (China, 1978 -)
Xue Zhao (China, 1985 -)
Chen Zhu (China, Qatar, 1976 -)
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (Russia, France, 1884 - 1954)
Johannes Hermann Zukertort (Poland, 1842 - 1888)

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