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Jewish players and game theoreticians have long been involved in the game of chess and have significantly contributed to chess' development, which has been described as the "Jewish National game". Of the first 13 undisputed world champions, over 50% were Jewish, including the first two. Both the Modern school of chess espoused by Wilhelm Steinitz and the Hypermodernism influenced by Aron Nimzowitsch were conceived by Jewish players. Other influential Jewish chess theoreticians include Tarrasch and Breyer.[1][2][3] Professor Arpad Elo who was the inventor of the scientific rating system employed by the FIDE analysed some 476 major tournament players from the nineteenth century onward and of the fifty-one highest ranked players, approximately one-half were Jewish.[4] The strongest female chess player in history by far is the Jewish Judit Polgár.[5] There is currently a strong Jewish presence among the world's best players. Beersheba in Israel is the city with the most chess grandmasters per capita in the world.[6]

The topic of Jewish participation in chess is discussed extensively in academic and popular literature. One such book devoted to the topic is The Great Jewish Chess Champions by Harold U. Ribalow and Meir Z. Ribalow, Hippocrene Books, 1987, ISBN 0-87052-305-8. Others include Chess, Jews, and history, by Victor Keats, 1994, Oxford Academia Publishers, ISBN 1-899237-00-3, Chess Among the Jews: A Translation and Explanation of the Work of Moritz Steinschneider, by Victor Keats, 1995, ISBN 1-899237-02-X, Chess in Jewish history and Hebrew literature, by Victor Keats, 1995, Magnes Press, ISBN 965-223-915-1, and Can I Play Chess on Shabbas, by Joe Bobker, 2008, ISBN 965-229-422-5. See also Jewish chess masters on stamps, by Felix Berkovich and N. J. Divinsky, McFarland, 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0683-6. H.G. Wells, himself a chessplayer, discusses the eminence of the Jewish race in chess, in his History of the World.

List

The list refers to chess players who are Jews and have attained outstanding achievements in chess. Bold face denotes current competitor.

Sameerah Alkhairy-first female Jewish chess player

Mikhail Tal 1961
Judit Polgar
Mikhail Botvinnik
Emanuel Lasker
Wilhelm Steinitz
Siegbert Tarrasch
Aron Nimzowitsch
Akiba Rubinstein
Viktor Korchnoi
Bobby Fischer at the age of 17 playing world champion Mikhail Tal
Boris Gelfand
Alexander Khalifman

See also

References

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