Player Index

GAME ARCHIVES OF THE GREAT PLAYERS

Chess game archives for the strongest players in history. Replay any game move by move, search by opponent, event, opening or ECO code, and download PGN. New to chess? Start with the For Beginners guide.

Pre-1850s

Gioachino Greco
IL CALABRESE
80 CURATED GAMES · 1620
François-André Philidor
THE PAWNS ARE THE SOUL OF CHESS
23 CURATED GAMES · 1749 — 1795
Louis de La Bourdonnais
THE STRONGEST MAN IN EUROPE
59 CURATED GAMES · 1830 — 1840
Alexander McDonnell
THE BELFAST MERCHANT
47 CURATED GAMES · 1830 — 1834
Howard Staunton
THE ENGLISH CHAMPION
195 CURATED GAMES · 1840 — 1859

1850s–Early 1900s

Alexander Petrov
THE NORTHERN PHILIDOR
14 CURATED GAMES · 1836 — 1864
Daniel Harrwitz
THE BLINDFOLD MASTER OF PARIS
129 CURATED GAMES · 1845 — 1863
John Cochrane
ATTACK AT EVERY COST
461 CURATED GAMES · 1820 — 1860
Moheschunder Bannerjee
THE BRAHMIN
127 CURATED GAMES · 1849 — 1860
Adolf Anderssen
THE ROMANTIC KING
491 CURATED GAMES · 1846 — 1878
Paul Morphy
THE PRIDE AND SORROW OF CHESS
309 CURATED GAMES · 1847 — 1869
Louis Paulsen
MASTER OF DEFENSE
232 CURATED GAMES · 1857 — 1889
Henry Bird
THE ORIGINAL
215 CURATED GAMES · 1848 — 1899
Joseph Blackburne
THE BLACK DEATH
488 CURATED GAMES · 1861 — 1914
Johannes Zukertort
THE FIRST CHALLENGER
244 CURATED GAMES · 1862 — 1888
William Steinitz
THE FATHER OF MODERN CHESS
445 CURATED GAMES · 1859 — 1899
Mikhail Chigorin
THE LAST ROMANTIC
377 CURATED GAMES · 1874 — 1907
Emanuel Lasker
THE PHILOSOPHER KING
585 CURATED GAMES · 1889 — 1940
Siegbert Tarrasch
PRAECEPTOR GERMANIAE
379 CURATED GAMES · 1879 — 1932
Dawid Janowski
THE TWO BISHOPS
400 CURATED GAMES · 1892 — 1926
Richard Teichmann
RICHARD THE FIFTH
240 CURATED GAMES · 1892 — 1924
Carl Schlechter
THE MAN WITHOUT STYLE
319 CURATED GAMES · 1893 — 1918
Oldřich Duras
THE FIRST CZECH GRANDMASTER
213 CURATED GAMES · 1903 — 1923
Jacques Mieses
THE FIRST BRITISH GRANDMASTER
309 CURATED GAMES · 1887 — 1949
Géza Maróczy
MASTER OF RESTRAINT
378 CURATED GAMES · 1894 — 1936
Harry Pillsbury
THE WIZARD OF HASTINGS
321 CURATED GAMES · 1892 — 1905
Milan Vidmar
ENGINEER AND GRANDMASTER
202 CURATED GAMES · 1902 — 1953
Ossip Bernstein
HE PLAYED FOR HIS LIFE
162 CURATED GAMES · 1902 — 1959
Rudolf Spielmann
THE MASTER OF ATTACK
527 CURATED GAMES · 1903 — 1939
Frank Marshall
THE GREAT SWINDLER
517 CURATED GAMES · 1896 — 1941
Gyula Breyer
HYPERMODERN PIONEER
86 CURATED GAMES · 1911 — 1921
Akiba Rubinstein
THE POSITIONAL MORPHY
437 CURATED GAMES · 1903 — 1931
Edward Lasker
THE OTHER LASKER
131 CURATED GAMES · 1908 — 1957
Ilya Rabinovich
LENINGRAD'S ENDGAME TEACHER
138 CURATED GAMES · 1912 — 1940
Alexander Alekhine
THE COMBINATION ARTIST
1282 CURATED GAMES · 1906 — 1946
Jose Raul Capablanca
THE HUMAN CHESS MACHINE
620 CURATED GAMES · 1901 — 1941
Savielly Tartakower
THE HYPERMODERN WIT
615 CURATED GAMES · 1905 — 1956
Aron Nimzowitsch
PROPHET OF PROPHYLAXIS
353 CURATED GAMES · 1896 — 1934
Peter Romanovsky
MASTER OF THE MIDDLEGAME
144 CURATED GAMES · 1909 — 1956
Efim Bogoljubov
THE ETERNAL CHALLENGER
593 CURATED GAMES · 1912 — 1952
Friedrich Sämisch
THE SÄMISCH VARIATION
281 CURATED GAMES · 1919 — 1968
Vera Menchik
THE FIRST WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPION
118 CURATED GAMES · 1927 — 1942
Kurt Richter
THE EXECUTIONER OF BERLIN
224 CURATED GAMES · 1918 — 1952
Richard Reti
THE HYPERMODERN
336 CURATED GAMES · 1907 — 1928
Ernst Grünfeld
THE WALKING ENCYCLOPEDIA
266 CURATED GAMES · 1913 — 1961
Sultan Khan
THE GREATEST NATURAL
99 CURATED GAMES · 1928 — 1933
Max Euwe
THE PROFESSOR
823 CURATED GAMES · 1918 — 1980
Reuben Fine
THE ONE WHO WALKED AWAY
333 CURATED GAMES · 1932 — 1963

Mid-1900s

Grigory Levenfish
THE SOVIET OUTCAST
150 CURATED GAMES · 1909 — 1954
Gösta Stoltz
A SWEDISH MUSKETEER
267 CURATED GAMES · 1923 — 1954
Karel Opočenský
MAESTRO OPO
240 CURATED GAMES · 1913 — 1972
Ilia Kan
THE ADVOCATE OF THE DEFENCE
158 CURATED GAMES · 1926 — 1974
Vitaly Chekhover
THE KNIGHT ENDGAME MASTER
107 CURATED GAMES · 1927 — 1960
Erich Eliskases
FROM INNSBRUCK TO CÓRDOBA
561 CURATED GAMES · 1929 — 1972
Gideon Stahlberg
THE SWEDISH LION
465 CURATED GAMES · 1927 — 1966
Viacheslav Ragozin
THE DOUBLE GRANDMASTER
261 CURATED GAMES · 1927 — 1959
Vasja Pirc
SLOVENIA'S FIRST PROFESSIONAL
278 CURATED GAMES · 1927 — 1968
Harry Golombek
CHAMPION AND CODEBREAKER
213 CURATED GAMES · 1932 — 1971
Petar Trifunović
FIVE-TIME YUGOSLAV CHAMPION
296 CURATED GAMES · 1935 — 1967
Albéric O'Kelly de Galway
WORLD CORRESPONDENCE CHAMPION
536 CURATED GAMES · 1934 — 1978
Gedeon Barcza
THE BARCZA SYSTEM
502 CURATED GAMES · 1936 — 1977
Rashid Nezhmetdinov
SUPER NEZH
232 CURATED GAMES · 1929 — 1973
Salomon Flohr
THE LOST CHALLENGER
445 CURATED GAMES · 1927 — 1967
Vasily Panov
THE TEACHER OF MILLIONS
138 CURATED GAMES · 1925 — 1970
Miguel Najdorf
DON MIGUEL
888 CURATED GAMES · 1928 — 1994
Alexander Konstantinopolsky
THE TEACHER
110 CURATED GAMES · 1931 — 1966
Genrikh Kasparian
THE KING OF STUDIES
84 CURATED GAMES · 1931 — 1956
Laszlo Szabo
A HUNDRED THOUSAND MOVES
809 CURATED GAMES · 1933 — 1989
Andre Lilienthal
THE LAST OF THE FIRST
274 CURATED GAMES · 1930 — 1980
Vladas Mikėnas
LITHUANIA'S FIRST BOARD
257 CURATED GAMES · 1929 — 1980
Alexander Kotov
THINK LIKE A GRANDMASTER
328 CURATED GAMES · 1930 — 1977
Paul Keres
THE CROWN PRINCE
972 CURATED GAMES · 1931 — 1975
Aleksandrs Koblencs
THE MAESTRO
78 CURATED GAMES · 1935 — 1971
Alexander Tolush
THE ATTACKING CAVALIER
265 CURATED GAMES · 1931 — 1968
Mikhail Botvinnik
THE PATRIARCH
578 CURATED GAMES · 1924 — 1983
Samuel Reshevsky
THE ETERNAL PRODIGY
596 CURATED GAMES · 1920 — 1991
Iosif Rudakovsky
THE ENGINEER FROM VORONEZH
16 CURATED GAMES · 1936 — 1945
Igor Bondarevsky
THE TRAINER OF CHAMPIONS
161 CURATED GAMES · 1936 — 1964
Vladimir Simagin
THE CHESS PHILOSOPHER
271 CURATED GAMES · 1936 — 1968
Isaac Boleslavsky
THE QUIET REVOLUTIONARY
310 CURATED GAMES · 1938 — 1970
Lev Aronin
THE MOSCOW METEOROLOGIST
183 CURATED GAMES · 1940 — 1969
Herman Pilnik
THE GLOBETROTTER
405 CURATED GAMES · 1938 — 1975
Donald Byrne
THE PENN STATE PROFESSOR
117 CURATED GAMES · 1945 — 1972
Larry Evans
FIVE-TIME U.S. CHAMPION
312 CURATED GAMES · 1946 — 1980
Miroslav Filip
TWICE A CANDIDATE
358 CURATED GAMES · 1949 — 1995
David Bronstein
THE UNCROWNED KING
883 CURATED GAMES · 1938 — 1997
Vasily Smyslov
THE HAND
991 CURATED GAMES · 1935 — 2001
Ludek Pachman
GRANDMASTER AND DISSIDENT
591 CURATED GAMES · 1943 — 1996
Semen Furman
THE WORLD CHAMPION WITH WHITE
312 CURATED GAMES · 1946 — 1977
Nikolai Krogius
THE CHESS PSYCHOLOGIST
260 CURATED GAMES · 1949 — 1997
Arthur Bisguier
DEAN OF AMERICAN CHESS
595 CURATED GAMES · 1946 — 2013
Aleksandar Matanovic
THE FATHER OF THE INFORMANT
510 CURATED GAMES · 1947 — 2002
Raymond Keene
THE FIRST ENGLISH NORM
298 CURATED GAMES · 1965 — 1984
Alexei Suetin
PETROSIAN'S TRAINER
638 CURATED GAMES · 1947 — 2001
Ratmir Kholmov
THE CENTRAL DEFENDER
814 CURATED GAMES · 1947 — 2005
Nicolas Rossolimo
THE ARTIST OF GREENWICH VILLAGE
252 CURATED GAMES · 1925 — 1975
Georgy Borisenko
THE POSTAL GRANDMASTER
146 CURATED GAMES · 1949 — 1998
Borislav Ivkov
BORA
993 CURATED GAMES · 1949 — 2013
Milan Matulovic
THE THIRD MAN
721 CURATED GAMES · 1949 — 2007
Yuri Averbakh
THE RENAISSANCE MAN
383 CURATED GAMES · 1940 — 1993
Tigran Petrosian
IRON TIGRAN
812 CURATED GAMES · 1942 — 1983
Wolfgang Unzicker
WORLD CHAMPION OF AMATEURS
546 CURATED GAMES · 1946 — 2004
Pal Benko
TWICE A CANDIDATE
596 CURATED GAMES · 1945 — 1997
Fridrik Olafsson
ICELAND'S FIRST
413 CURATED GAMES · 1950 — 2016
Svetozar Gligorić
I PLAY AGAINST PIECES
1186 CURATED GAMES · 1939 — 2004
Efim Geller
FATHER OF THE KING'S INDIAN
916 CURATED GAMES · 1946 — 1995
Robert Byrne
PROFESSOR, CANDIDATE, COLUMNIST
399 CURATED GAMES · 1945 — 2000
Karl Robatsch
THE ROBATSCH DEFENCE
248 CURATED GAMES · 1953 — 1998
Mark Taimanov
THE GRANDMASTER PIANIST
997 CURATED GAMES · 1944 — 2005
Florin Gheorghiu
ROMANIA'S FIRST GRANDMASTER
960 CURATED GAMES · 1960 — 2008
Oscar Panno
THE SOUTHERN GRANDMASTER
884 CURATED GAMES · 1952 — 2008
William Lombardy
FATHER BILL
340 CURATED GAMES · 1953 — 1994
Boris Spassky
THE UNIVERSAL CHAMPION
893 CURATED GAMES · 1948 — 2009
Eduard Gufeld
THE MONA LISA
531 CURATED GAMES · 1954 — 2002
Lajos Portisch
THE HUNGARIAN BOTVINNIK
1165 CURATED GAMES · 1955 — 2014
Jan Smejkal
THE LENINGRAD INTERZONAL
764 CURATED GAMES · 1962 — 2000
Anatoly Lein
THE LENINGRAD TECHNICIAN
486 CURATED GAMES · 1955 — 2009
Vlastimil Hort
THE SPORTSMAN
1420 CURATED GAMES · 1959 — 2021
Evgeni Vasiukov
SIX-TIME CHAMPION OF MOSCOW
910 CURATED GAMES · 1953 — 2018
Vladimir Bagirov
THE THEORETICIAN
580 CURATED GAMES · 1955 — 2000
Bobby Fischer
THE AMERICAN METEOR
540 CURATED GAMES · 1955 — 1972
Leonid Stein
MASTER OF RISK
418 CURATED GAMES · 1956 — 1973
Mikhail Tal
THE MAGICIAN FROM RIGA
1209 CURATED GAMES · 1949 — 1992
Walter Browne
SIX-TIME U.S. CHAMPION
852 CURATED GAMES · 1966 — 2015
Ljubomir Ljubojević
WORLD NUMBER THREE
744 CURATED GAMES · 1966 — 2019
Igor Zaitsev
REFLECTED LIGHT
361 CURATED GAMES · 1956 — 2011
Lubomir Kavalek
TWO FLAGS
545 CURATED GAMES · 1958 — 1998
Wolfgang Uhlmann
MASTER OF THE FRENCH
1392 CURATED GAMES · 1951 — 2015
Vladimir Savon
CHAMPION AND MENTOR
549 CURATED GAMES · 1958 — 2004
Lev Polugaevsky
HEAD OF THE SICILIAN CLAN
801 CURATED GAMES · 1950 — 1994
Bent Larsen
THE GREAT DANE
1205 CURATED GAMES · 1948 — 2004
Yuri Razuvaev
GRANDMASTER AND TRAINER
505 CURATED GAMES · 1963 — 2002
Tony Miles
ENGLAND'S FIRST GRANDMASTER
1295 CURATED GAMES · 1967 — 2001
Vladimir Tukmakov
GRANDMASTER AT WORK
1053 CURATED GAMES · 1962 — 2018
Viktor Korchnoi
THE ETERNAL CHALLENGER
2200 CURATED GAMES · 1945 — 2015
Nona Gaprindashvili
THE FIRST WOMAN GRANDMASTER
864 CURATED GAMES · 1956 — 2024
Gennadi Kuzmin
GRANDMASTER OF LUHANSK
705 CURATED GAMES · 1963 — 2010
Boris Gulko
CHAMPION OF TWO NATIONS
759 CURATED GAMES · 1963 — 2020
Ulf Andersson
THE ENDGAME GRINDER
934 CURATED GAMES · 1968 — 2025
Zoltán Ribli
THE LAS PALMAS INTERZONAL
818 CURATED GAMES · 1967 — 2024
Henrique Mecking
MEQUINHO
330 CURATED GAMES · 1965 — 2023
Vitaly Tseshkovsky
SIBERIAN TACTICIAN
923 CURATED GAMES · 1963 — 2011
Gyula Sax
THE BUENOS AIRES GOLD
1173 CURATED GAMES · 1968 — 2013
John Nunn
THE DOUBLE GRANDMASTER
819 CURATED GAMES · 1967 — 2025
Eugenio Torre
ASIA'S FIRST GRANDMASTER
740 CURATED GAMES · 1968 — 2024
Lev Psakhis
TWO-TIME SOVIET CHAMPION
794 CURATED GAMES · 1976 — 2023
Viktor Kupreichik
D'ARTAGNAN OF CHESS
1182 CURATED GAMES · 1964 — 2017
Robert Hübner
THE SCHOLAR
1004 CURATED GAMES · 1961 — 2019
Rafael Vaganian
THE PERPETUAL OPTIMIST
1307 CURATED GAMES · 1967 — 2025
Anatoly Karpov
THE BOA CONSTRICTOR
1712 CURATED GAMES · 1961 — 2022
Jan Timman
THE BEST OF THE WEST
1441 CURATED GAMES · 1964 — 2024
Yuri Balashov
THE THEORIST FROM SHADRINSK
1089 CURATED GAMES · 1959 — 2023
Oleg Romanishin
THE FIGHTER FROM LVIV
1516 CURATED GAMES · 1967 — 2025
Evgeny Sveshnikov
THE SICILIAN'S LAST GREAT DISCOVERY
1123 CURATED GAMES · 1967 — 2021

Late 1900s–Present

Valery Salov
WORLD NUMBER THREE
312 CURATED GAMES · 1979 — 1999
Calvin Blocker
THE KING OF OHIO
79 CURATED GAMES · 1972 — 2006
Maia Chiburdanidze
CHAMPION AT SEVENTEEN
539 CURATED GAMES · 1973 — 2019
Alexander Beliavsky
BIG AL
1483 CURATED GAMES · 1967 — 2025
Larry Christiansen
The American Master of Attack
801 CURATED GAMES · 1971 — 2025
Garry Kasparov
THE THIRTEENTH
1440 CURATED GAMES · 1973 — 2021
Andrei Sokolov
CANDIDATES FINALIST 1987
839 CURATED GAMES · 1978 — 2025
Artur Yusupov
THE TEACHER OF CHAMPIONS
863 CURATED GAMES · 1975 — 2025
Evgeny Bareev
WIJK AAN ZEE 2002
843 CURATED GAMES · 1982 — 2024
Ivan Sokolov
THE NEW DUTCHMAN
1364 CURATED GAMES · 1986 — 2026
Gata Kamsky
THE AMERICAN CHALLENGER
3584 CURATED GAMES · 1986 — 2026
Vassily Ivanchuk
PLANET IVANCHUK
1893 CURATED GAMES · 1984 — 2025
Michael Adams
THE SPIDER
1468 CURATED GAMES · 1984 — 2026
Viswanathan Anand
TIGER OF MADRAS
1621 CURATED GAMES · 1982 — 2026
Boris Gelfand
HEIR TO RUBINSTEIN
1213 CURATED GAMES · 1982 — 2026
Judit Polgar
THE STRONGEST OF ALL
747 CURATED GAMES · 1986 — 2015
Vladimir Kramnik
BIG VLAD
1253 CURATED GAMES · 1987 — 2024
Alexei Shirov
FIRE ON BOARD
2153 CURATED GAMES · 1983 — 2026
Veselin Topalov
THE DESTROYER
914 CURATED GAMES · 1988 — 2025
Peter Leko
A HALF-POINT FROM THE CROWN
707 CURATED GAMES · 1989 — 2026
Vladimir Malakhov
THE PHYSICIST FROM DUBNA
906 CURATED GAMES · 1992 — 2025
Alexander Morozevich
THE LAST ROMANTIC
1216 CURATED GAMES · 1991 — 2025
Marc Esserman
MASTER OF MAYHEM
147 CURATED GAMES · 2000 — 2018
Levon Aronian
THE SOUL OF THE ARMENIAN TEAM
1549 CURATED GAMES · 1992 — 2026
Magnus Carlsen
THE MOZART OF CHESS
2270 CURATED GAMES · 1999 — 2026