This afternoon, a non-chess friend asked me if chess players date or marry each other? The obvious answer is yes but it wasn’t something I thought about until I was asked this question. Which are some of the most formidable chess couples in history? (ex or current, married or committed dating)

Some pairs that come to my mind are:

GM Ivanchuk – IM Galliamova (x)
GM Shirov – IM Cmilyte
GM Lautier – IM Skripchenko (x)
GM Grischuk – IM Zhukova (GM when rating = 2500)
GM Gulko – WGM Anna Akhsharumova Gulko
GM Shaobin Wu – GM Jun Xie
GM Kosashvili – IM Sofia Polgar
GM Al-Modiahki – GM Zhu Chen
GM Sergei Movsesian – WGM Petra Krupkova-Movsesianova
GM Atalik – WGM Polovnikova
GM Bellon – GM Pia Cramling
GM Bobby Fischer – Zita Rajcsanyi
GM Bobby Fischer – WIM Watai
GM Yermolinsky – WGM Baginskaite
GM Keith Arkell – IM Susan Arkell
GM Lalic – IM Susan Lalic
GM Ribli – WIM Maria Grosch
GM Seirawan – WFM Yvette Nagel Seirawan
GM Rogers – WFM Cathy Rogers
IM Charbonneau – IM Krush
GM R.B.Ramesh – WGM Aarti Ramaswami
GM Peng Xiaomin -WGM Qin Kanying
GM Zhang Zhong – WGM Li Ruofan
IM Orlov – WGM Elena Donaldson
GM D. Barua – WIM Saheli Dhar Barua
GM Nunn – WFM Petra-Fink Nunn
GM Stripunsky – WFM Julia Shiber
GM Sagalchik – WIM Olga Sagalchik
GM Alex Ivanov – WIM Epstein
GM Sher – WGM Grinfeld
GM Christiansen – wc Natasha Christiansen
IM Foisor – IM Foisor
IM Sriram Jha – IM Vijayalaxmi S.
IM William Hartston – WGM Jana Hartston
GM Bellin – WGM Jana Bellin
GM Miles – WGM Jana Miles
GM Peter Biyiasas – WIM Ruth Haring
IM Root – WIM Alexey Root
IM Wu Xibin – WIM Lou Hongyu
IM LiWenling – WIM Gao Zhiqian
FM Tegshuren Enkhbat – WIM Tsagaan Battsetseg
GM Kosteniuk – Diego Garces

Can you think of more names? I will continue to update this list.Posted by Picasa

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Susan Polgar January 3, 2006 Daily News 72 Comments
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