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- Jacob Aagaard
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- Ron Harman
- Yuri Averbakh
- Larry Parr
- Boris Sergeevich Shashin
- Vlastimil Hort
- Colin Crouch
- David H. Levin
- Tony Kosten
- Alexei Suetin
- George Botterill
- Paul Langfield
- Angus Dunnington
- G.S. Botterill
- Efim Geller
- Vaidyanathan Ravikumar
- Mikhail Shereshevsky
- Anatoly Korpov