Spouses of Chess Masters

by Bill Wall

Agrest, Evgenij (1966- ) Belarus Grandmaster living in Sweden. His peak FIDE
rating was 2616. He is married to Woman International Master (WIM) Svetlana
Agrest.

Akhmilovskaya, Elena (1957-2012)

Woman GM. Her mother qualified several time for the USSR Women’s
Championship. In 1988, she married International Master (IM) John Donaldson.
She later divorced him and married IM Georgi Orlov. She had a son and a
daughter.

Akhsharumova, Anna (1957- )

Woman GM. Her husband is GM Boris Gulko.

Al-Modiahki, Mohamad (1974- )

Grandmaster from Qatar. He married former world women’s champion and
grandmaster Zhu Chen in 1999.

Alekhina, Natasha (1954- )

Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM Sergei Archipov

Alekhine, Alexander (1892-1946)

Former world chess champion. In 1920, he married a Russian baroness several
years older than he. In 1921, he married Annelise Ruegg, a Swiss woman
journalist, who as 13 years older than he. His fourth wife, Grace Freeman Wishard
(1876-1956) was a chess player. They were married in 1934. She was 16 years
older than he.

Amura, Claudia (1970- )

Woman GM. She is married to GM Gilberto Hernandez of Mexico.

Andersson, Ulf (1951- )

Swedish grandmaster with a peak rating of 2655. After a tournament in Cuba in
1975, he married a Cuban and settled in Cuba for a year working as the national
trainer.
Arkell, Keith (1961- )
English Grandmaster. He was once married to Woman International Master
(WIM) Susan Walker. Susan Walker later married GM Bogdan Lalic.

Archipov (Arkhipov), Sergei (1954- )

Grandmaster. His wife is WGM Natasha Alekhina.

Atalik, Suat (1964- )

Turkish Grandmaster. In November, 2005, at the age of 41, he married 22-year old
WGM Ekaterina Polovnikova from Russia, rated 2434.

Baburin, Alexander (1967- )

Grandmaster. He married Elena in 1988. They have two children, Ivan and
Anastasia.

Baginskaite, Camilla (1967- )

Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM Alex Yermolinksy. They have a son
named Edward.

Barbero, Gerardo (1961-2001)

Argentine Grandmaster and former Argentine champion (1984). He played for
Argentina in 6 Olympiads. In 1986 he moved to Budapest, Hungary, where he
died of cancer in 2001. He was married to Dr. Katalin Molnar from 1986 until his
untimely death in 2001. She is a research scientist and member of the Hungarian
Academy of Scuences. Dr. Molnar was also married to Grandmaster Zoltan Ribli
between 1974 and 1983.

Barua, Dibyendu (1966- )

Grandmaster. He is married to WIM Saheli Dhar. They both run a chess academy
in Calcutta. She gave up competitive chess when they were married.

Battsetseg, Tsagaan
Woman International Master. She is married to FIDE Master (FM) Tegshuren
Enkhbat.

Belakovskaia, Anjelina (1969- )

Woman Grandmaster. She married Lawrence Bernstein and has one son, Brian.
She met her future husband at the Marshall Chess Club in 2001.

Bellin, Robert (1952- )

British IM. He is married to WGM Jana Malypetrova Hartston Miles Bellin (1947-
). They have two sons, Robert (born in 1988) and Christopher (born in 1991).

Bellon Lopez, Juan Manuel (1950- )

Spanish GM. He is married to GM Pia Cramling. They have one daughter, Anna.

Benjamin, Joel (1964- )

American Grandmaster. He is married to Deborah Quinn, a strong master from
Ireland. She played on the Irish Women’s Olympic Chess team.

Benko, Pal (1928- )

Grandmaster. His father was an engineer. His wife is also a chess player who
played in the national women’s championship. She is a former adjunct professor
of mathematics.

Bernstein, Sheila Barth

Woman International Master. She is married to IM Bjarke Sahl.

Bilek, Istvan (1932-2010)

Grandmaster. He was once married to one of the top female Hungarian chess
players, Edith Bilek. Both were champions of their country at the same time.

Biyiasas, Peter (1950- )

Canadian GM. He is married to IM Ruth Haring.

Blackburne, Joseph (1841-1924)

19th century chess master. He was married to Mary Jane Blackburne. They had
one son, Julius.

Milko Bobotsov (1931-2000)

The first Bulgarian GM, was married to WGM Antonia Ivanova.

Boleslavsky, Isaac (1919-1977)

Russian GM. He got married in 1943. His daughter, Tatiana, married GM David
Bronstein in 1982.

Botsari, Anna-Maria
Woman Grand Master. She was once married to GM Igor Miladinovic.

Botvinnik, Mikhail (1911-1995)

Former world chess champion. His wife was a famous ballet dancer at the Bolshoi
theater.

Bronstein, David (1924-2006)

Russian GM. He was married three times. His first wife was Olga Ignatieva, a
Soviet woman International Master, and they had one son. In 1984, he married
Tatiana Boleslavsky, the daughter of GM Isaac Boleslavsky. She was his third
wife.

Browne, Walter (1949- )

American Grandmaster. He was born to an American father and an Australian
mother. His wife, Racquel, is a clinical psychologist from Argentina.

Bruzon Batista, Lazaro

Cuban Grandmaster. He is married to National Master Yanet Cueto.

Capablanca, Jose (1888-1942)

Former world champion. In 1921, Jose married Gloria Simoni Beautucourt in
Havana. They had a son, Jose Raul, born in 1923, and a daughter, Gloria, born in
1925. They were divorced in 1937. In 1938, he married Olga Choubaroff
Chagodaeva (1898-1994), a Russian princess. They were married in Elktron,
Maryland. In 1967, Olga married her fourth husband, retired Admiral Joseph
James Clark.

Charbonneau, Pascal (1983- )

Grandmaster. He is married to IM Irina Krush.

Christiansen, Larry (1956- )

American Grandmaster. He married Natasha Christiansen, a strong chess player, in
1989.

Cmilyte, Victoria (1983- )

Lithuanian Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM Alexei Shirov. They have
two children.

Cramling, Pia (1963)

Swedish GM. She is married to GM Juan Bellon. Her brother, Dan, is an
international master.

Cueto, Yanet
Cuban National Master. She is married to GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista.

Dake, Arnold (1910-2000)

American Grandmaster. He met his wife, Helen, on an ocean liner coming home
from the chess Olympiad in Warsaw in 1935. They had a daughter, Marjorie
Metzger.

Divinsky, Nathan (1925- )

Canadian chess master. He was once married (from 1972 to 1983) to the Prime
Minister of Canada, Kim Campbell.

Dlugy, Maxim (1966- )

Grandmaster. He is married to Marina Dlugy and have two children, Michelle and
Matthew.

Dolzhikova, Kateryna (1988- ). Woman grandmaster from the Ukraine. In 2009

she married GM Sergey Karjakin.

Donaldson, John (1958- )

American IM. He married WGM Elena Akhmilovskaya in 1988. They later
divorced.

Eljanov, Pavel (1983- )

Ukrainian GM. He is married to WIM Olena Dvoretska.

Epstein, Esther (1954- )

Woman IM. She married GM Alexander Ivanov in 1977. Epstein’s brother,
Shmuel, was jailed for over three years. His crime was reading Solzhenitsyn and
meeting with Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov.

Fine, Reuben (1914-1993)

American Grandmaster. In 1942, he married Emma Thea Keesing. They were
divorced in 1944. In 1946, he married Sonya Lebeaux, with whom he had two
children. Reuben’s son, Benjamin, was a chess player. Together, they wrote The
Teenage Chess Book.

Finegold, Benjamin (1969- )

American IM. His wife, Kelly Cottrell, qualified for the 2006 US Championship.

Fink, Petra
Woman FIDE Master from Germany. She is married to GM John Nunn.

Fischer, Robert (1943-2007)

Former world chess champion. He had a wife and child living in the Philippines.
In 2004, Robert Fischer married Miyoko Watai of Japan. She is a former Japanese
women’s chess champion, and the general secretary of the Japan Chess
Association.

Flear, Glenn (1959- )

Grandmaster. He is married to WIM Christine Leroy. They have two sons, James
and Nathan.

Fountaine, Robert
French Grandmaster. In February 2009, he married GM Kateryna Lahno.

Fressinet, Laurent (1981- )

French grandmaster. He is married to International Master and WGM Almira
Skripchenko.

Fridman, Daniel (1976- )

Grandmaster. He is married to International Master and WGM Anna Zatonskih. In
2007, they had a daughter.

Galliamova, Alisa (1972- )

International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She was once married to GM
Vassily Ivanchuk.

Gretarsson, Helgi (1977 - ) GM from Iceland is married to WGM Lenka

Ptacnikova.

Grinfeld, Alla
Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM Miron Sher.

Grischuk, Alexander (1983- )

Russian Grandmaster. He is married to IM Natalia Zhukova.

Grosch, Maria
Woman International Master. She is married to GM Zoltan Ribli.

Gulko, Boris (1947- )

Grandmaster. He is married to WGM Anna Akhsumarova.

Gunsberg, Isidor (1854-1930)

19th century chess master. He was married to Agnes Jane Gunsberg. They had
three children, Alfred, Kathleen, Marium, Bertie, and Lionel.

Guseinov, Aidyn (1956-2003)

Russian GM married to WIM Elmira Alieva of Azerbaijan.

Gyimesi, Zoltan
Grandmaster. He is married to WGM Nora Medvegy.

Hamdouchi, Hichem (1972- )

Moroccan GM is married to WGM Adina-Maria Hamdouchi of France.

Haring, Ruth (1955- )

Woman International Master. She is married to GM Peter Biyiasas.

Hartston, William (1947- )

British IM. He was once married to WGM Jana Malypetrova.

Hernandez, Gilberto (1970- )

Mexican Grandmaster. He is married to WGM Claudia Amura of Argentina

Hund, Barbara (1959- )

Woman Grandmaster. In 1989, she married Peter Bolt, the editor of a Swiss chess
magazine. They have one daughter, Sarah, born in 1998.

Illescas, Miguel (1965- )

Spanish grandmaster. He is married to IM Olga Alexandrova.

Ivanchuk. Vassily (1969- )

Grandmaster. His peak rating was 2787. He was once married to IM (and Woman
Grandmaster) Alisa Galliamova. Her peak rating was 2554.

Ivanka, Maria (1950- )

Woman Grandmaster from Hungary. She was married to a fellow-chessplayer
named Budinsky who later became a computer engineer. They had 3 sons.

Ivanov, Alexander (1956- )

Grandmaster. He married WIM Esther Epstein in 1977.

Ivkov, Boris
Grandmaster. He is married to a former “Miss Argentina.”

Karff, Mona May Ratner (1914-1998)

7-time winner of the US Women’s Chess Championship. She married her cousin,
an attorney named Abe Karff, in the 1930s. She later divorced and was
romantically linked with Dr. Edward Lasker, International Master.

Karjakin, Sergey (1990- ). Youngest grandmaster (12 years, seven months). He is

married to WGM Kateryna Dolzhikova. They were married July 24, 2009.

Karpov, Anatoly (1951- )

Former world champion. He has a son from his first marriage. His second wife,
Natasha, was a librarian. They were married in 1987.

Kasparov, Garry (1963- )

Former world chess champion. He has been married three times (Masha, Yulia,
and Daria), and has three children.

Keene, Raymond (1948- )

In 1974, Keene married Annette, the sister of IM David Goodman. They have one
son, Alexander, born in 1991.

Kharlov, Andrei (1968- )

Russian grandmaster. He was married to WGM Elena Zaiatz.

Koltanowski, George (1903-2000)

Grandmaster (emeritus). He learned the game while watching his father play his
older brother. In 1944, he met and marred his wife, Leah.

Kononenko, Tatiana
Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM Oleg Korneev (1969- ).

Korchnoi, Viktor (1931- )

Grandmaster. He was married to Bella Korchnoi, but they were later divorced in
1983. His son, Igor, was sent to a Siberian labor camp for 30 months for refusing
military service.
Korneev, Oleg (1969- )
Chess Grandmaster. He is married to WGM Tatiana Kononenko.

Kosashvili, Yona (1970- )

Israeli Grandmaster, rated 2549. He married WGM Sofia Polgar, rated 2540, in
1999. They now have a son, Alon.

Koshnitsky, Gregory (1907-1999)

International master. In 1966 he won the championship of South Australia. His
wife, Evelyn, took the women’s title.

Kramnik, Vladimir (1975- )

World chess champion. In 2006, he married Marie-Laurie Germon of France.

Krupkova, Petra
Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM Sergei Movsesian.

Lawson, Agnes ( -1935)

Four-time British Ladies champion. She was married to Rufus Henry Streatfeild
Stevenson (1878-1943). When she died, he married world women’s chess
champion Vera Menchik.

Lalic, Bogdan (1964- )

Grandmaster. He is married to WIM Susan Walker Arkell Lalic. They have a son,
Peter, born in 1994.

Lasker, Emanuel (1868-1941)

Former world champion. In 1911, at the age of 42, he Emanuel married Martha
Bamberger Cohn (who died in 1937).

Lautier, Joel (1973- )

Grandmaster, rated 2687. He married WGM Almira Skripchenko, rated 2498, in
1997. They later divorced.

Leko, Peter (1979- )

Hungarian Grandmaster. In 2000, he married Sofia Petrosian of Armenia.

Leroy, Christine
Five time French Ladies’ Chess Champion. She is married to GM Glenn Flear.
They have two children, James and Nathan.
Levitt, Jonathan (1963- )
English Grandmaster. He is married to Tinni and they have one sone, Nicholas.

Li Ruofan
Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM Zhang Zhong.

Li Wenling
International Master. He is married to WIM Gao Zhiqian.

Makarov, Marat
Grandmaster. He is married to WGM Julia Demina.

Malakhatko, Vadim
Ukrainian grandmaster. He is married to IM Anna Zozulia.

Malypetrova, Jana (1947- )

Woman Grandmaster. She has been married to IM William Hartston and GM Tony
Miles. She is currently married to IM Robert Bellin. They have two sons, Robert
(born in 1988) and Christopher (born in 1991).

Markus, Robert
Serbian Grandmaster. He is married to WGM Ana Srebrnic from Slovenia.

Marshall, Frank (1877-1944)

Former U.S. chess champion. In 1905, he married Caroline (Carrie). She ran the
Marshall Chess Club until her death in 1971.

Medvegy, Nora
Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM Zoltan Gyimesa.

Menchik, Vera (1906-1944)

Former world women’s chess champion. In 1937, Vera married Rufus Streatfeild
Stevenson (1878-1943), the secretary of the British Chess Federation. In 1944, a
V-1 buzz bomb killed Vera, Olga, and their mother, when the bomb hit their home.

Miladinovic, Igor
Grandmaster. He was once married to WGM Maria Botsari.

Miles, Anthony (1955-2001)

British GM. He was once married to WGM Jana Malypetrova. He was divorced
twice and had no children.

Mitchell, Reginald Price

Former British Amateur chess champion. He is married to Edith Mitchell, who
won the British Women’s Chess Championship several times.

Movesian, Sergei (1978)

Grandmaster, rated 2751. He was married to WGM Petra Krupkova, rated 2362.

Nagel, Yvette (1964- )

Woman FIDE Master. She is married to GM Yasser Seirawan. She is the daughter
of former Leefbaar Nederland political party president and politician, Jan Nagel.

Najdorf, Miguel (1910-1997)

Polish-Argentine Grandmaster of Jewish origin. He married his second wife, Rita,
and had a daughter, Mirta.

Napier, William (1881-1952)

American chess master of English origin. He married Florence Gillespie, Harry
Pillsbury’s niece. They had two daughters.

Nunn, John
English Grandmaster. He is married to WFM Petra Fink.

Orlov, Georgi (1964- )

International Master. He was married to WGM Elena Akhmilovskaya.

Pachman, Ludek (1924-2003)

Grandmaster. His brother, Vladimir, was a grandmaster in chess composition.

Peng Xiomin (1973 - )

Grandmaster. He is married to WGM Qin Kanying.

Petronic, Jovan
Serbian International Master. He is married to Sanja, a Woman International
Master. They have one son, Djordje.

Plaskett, Jim (1960- )

British Grandmaster. He is married to the poet Fiona Pitt-Kethley, the author
of The Literary Companion to Sex.

Pogonina, Natalia (1985)

Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and three-times European champion. She is married
to Peter Zhdanov, rated 2038 by FIDE.

Polgar, Judit (1976- )

Grandmaster and considered the greatest woman chess player ever. Judit married
Gustav Fonts, a veterinary surgeon from Budapest.

Polgar, Susan (1969- )

Her oldest sister Susan (1969- ) is a Grandmaster. Susan married Jacob Shutzman
in 1994 and moved to New York. She as two sons, Tommy and Leeam. Susan
divorced her first husband in 2006 and married Paul Truong.

Polgar, Sofia (1974- )

Woman Grandmaster. Sofia is married to GM Yona Kosashvili. They were
married in 1999 and have a son, Alon.

Polovnikova, Ekaterina (1982- )

Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM Suat Atalik.

Purdy, Cecil (1906-1979)

Former world correspondence chess champion. In 1934, he married Anne
Crakenthorp. His daughter, Diana, was a keen chessplayer.

Qin Kanying (1974- )

Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM Peng Xiaomin.

Quinteros, Miguel (1947- )

Argentine GM. His wife is a former model from the Philippines.

Rajlich, Vaski (1971- ) International Master and author of Rybka. He is married to

WIM Iweta Radziewicz.

Ramaswami, Aarti
Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM R.B. Ramesh. They are India’s first
Grandmaster couple.
Ramesh, R.B.
Grandmaster. He is married to WGM Aarti Ramaswami. They are India’s first
Grandmaster couple.

Reshevsky, Samuel (1911-1992)

American Grandmaster. He married Norma Minkick in 1941 and had three
children.

Reti, Richard (1889-1929)

One of the strongest chess players in the world. Richard married Rogneda
Sergeivna Gorodetskaia, daughter of the Russian poet Sergei Gorodetsky (1884-
1967).

Ribli, Zoltan (1951- )

Hungarian Grandmaster. He is married to WIM Maria Grosch. He was previously
married to Dr. Katalin Molnar from 1974 to 1983. She later married GM Gerardo
Barbero (see Barbero) from 1986 to 2001.

Rogers, Ian (1960- )

Australian Grandmaster. He is married to Woman FIDE Master Cathy Rogers.
She is also an International Arbiter and a lawyer.

Root, Doug (1963- )

International Master. He married WIM Alexey Rudolph in 1989.

Rootare, Vidrik (1900-1985)

He was one of the top Estonian players. He was married to WIM Salme Rootare,
15-time Estonian Women's Champion.

Rubinstein, Akiba (1882-1961)

One of the strongest chess players in the world. He was married to the owner of
restaurant in Belgium. They had two sons. One son, Sami, was a chess master.

Rudolph, Alexey
Woman International Master. She married IM Doug Root in 1989.

Sagalchik, Gennady
Grandmaster. He is married to WIM Olga Sagalchik.

Sahl, Bjarke
International Master. He is married to Woman International Master Sheila Barth
Berntsen.

Sarakauskas, Gedimanas
Lithuanian International Master. He is married to WIM Zivile Sarakauskiene.

Saunders, Elaine (1926- )

Strong British woman chess player. She married David Brine Pritchard, a strong
chess master.

Seirawan, Yasser
Grandmaster. He is married to Woman FIDE Master Yvette Nagel. She is the
daughter of former Leefbaar Nederland political party president and politician, Jan
Nagel.

Shabalov, Alexander (1967- )

Grandmaster. He has a wife and two daughters in Pittsburgh.

Shamkovich, Leonid (1923-2005)

Russian-born Grandmaster. He was married and divorced three times. He had a
son, Andrei, and two half-sisters, Sofia and Tatiana.

Sher, Miron
Grandmaster. He is married to WGM Alla Grinfeld.

Shiber, Julia
Woman FIDE Master (WFM). She is married to GM Alexander Stripunsky.

Shirov, Alexei (1972- )

Grandmaster with a peak rating of 2755. In 1994, he married Veronica Alvarev
from Argentina. He was married to International Master and Woman Grandmaster
Victoria Cmilyte, rated 2512, from Lithuania. Cmilyte was Shirov’s third wife. He
has four children.

Skripchenko, Almira (1976- )

French Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Almira married GM Joel Lautier in 1997.
They later divorced. She is now married to GM Laurent Fressinet of France.

Socko, Bartosz (1978- )

Polish GM, rated 2660. He is married to grandmaster Monika Socko, rated 2505.

Solak, Dragan
Serbian Grandmaster. He is married to former Turkish female champion Yildiz
Cavusoglu. (thanks to Goran Urosevic for this information)

Spassky, Boris (1937- )

Former world chess champion. In 1975, Boris married Marina Stcherbatcheff, a
secretary at the French embassy in Moscow. This was his third marriage.

Srebrnic, Ana (1984- )

Slovene Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM Robert Markus.

Sriram, Jha
Indian International Master. He is married to WGM Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi.

Staunton, Howard (1810-1874)

World’s strongest chess player in the 1840s. In 1849, at the age of 39, he married
Frances Carpenter Nethersole, a widow of a London solicitor. His marriage
certificate says that he was the son of William Staunton, gentleman. They were
married in Brighton.

Steiner, Lajos (1903-1975)

International chess master. In 1939, Lajos married Augusta Edna Kingston, who
had won the New South Wales women’s chess championship 6 times. They had no
children.

Steinitz, William (Wilhelm) (1836-1900)

Former world chess champion. His wife, Caroline, and daughter, Flora, both died
in 1892. He re-married a few years later and had two more children. In 1900, his
wife committed him to the insane asylum at Ward’s Island, New York.

Stripunsky, Alexander
Grandmaster. He is married to WFM Julia Shiber.

Suetin, Alexey (1926-2001)

Russian GM who was married to WGM Kira Zvorykina. Together, they had a son,
Aleksandr, born in 1951.

Taimanov, Mark (1926- )

Russian Grandmaster. His first wife was Lyubov Bruk, his piano duet partner.
They married at age 19. Between the late 1950s and early 1970s, they were among
their country’s leading exponents of the two-piano repertoire. They divorced in the
early 1970s.

Tal, Mikhail (1936-1992)

Former world chess champion. His first wife was Sally Landau. They were
married from 1959 to 1971.

Tarrasch, Siegbert (1862-1934)

One of the strongest chess players in the world. He had five children. He lost two
sons in the early days of World War I. In 1924, he married Rosa Anna Tarrasch.
From his first marriage, he had five children, three sons and two daughters. His
oldest son, Fritz, was killed in action on May 14, 1915. He was a Lieutenant in the
15th Bavarian reserve infantry regiment. Siegbert’s second son committed suicide
in 1915. His third son was run over by a train in Munich in 1916 and died. He
married a second time in the 1930s.

Thipsay, Pravin
Grandmaster. He is married to International Woman Master (IWM) Bhagyashree
Sathe Thipsay.

Truong, Paul (1965- ) FIDE master. He is married to GM Susan Polgar.

Turov. Maxim (1979- )

Russian grandmaster, rated 2584. He is married to WGM Irina Turova (2415).

Unzicker, Wolfgang (1925-2006)

German Grandmaster. Wolfgang’s wife was Freia, and they had three sons,
Alexander, Ferdinand, and Stefan.

Vidmar, Milan (1885-1962)

Grandmaster. He was married twice and had several children. His son, Milan
Vidmar Jr. (1909-1980) was an International Master and an electrical engineer.

Vigorito, David.
International Master from Massachusetts. He married Heather Kroll in June, 2009.

Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman
India’s first Woman Grandmaster. She is married to IM Jha Sriram.

Walker, Susan (1965- )

Woman International Master. She was once married to GM Keith Arkell, She is
now married to GM Bogdon Lalic.

Wojtkiewicz, Aleksander (1963-2006)

Grandmaster. He had a son, Yosef, with Laima Domarkaite, a Lithuanian.

Wu Shaobin
Grandmaster. He is married to GM Xie Jun.

Wu Xibin
International Master. He is married to WIM Lou Hongyu.

Xie Jun (1970- )

Grandmaster and former world women’s chess champion. She is married to GM
Shaobin Wu.

Yermolinsky, Alex
Grandmaster. He is married to WGM Camilla Baginskaite. They have a son
named Edward.

Zhong Zhang (1978- )

Chinese Grandmaster, rated 2667. He is married to WGM Li Ruofan, rated 2433.

Zhu Chen (1976- )

Former world women’s chess champion. She married GM Mohamad al-Modiahki
in 1999.

Zhukova, Natalia
International Master. She is dating GM Alexander Grischuk and they may be
married.

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