Nicknames of chessplayers

by Bill Wall

Adams, Michael		Mickey
Alekhine, Alexander	Ale-and-Wine
Anand Viswanathan	Tiger of Madras; Vishy; Lightning Kid; Fast Breeder
Ashley, Maurice		Mo
Beliavsky, Alexander	Big Al
Blackburne, Joseph Henry  Black Death
Botvinnik, Mikhail	The Great Stone Face; The Engineer
Browne, Walter		Mr. 6-time
Byrne, Robert		Rapid Robert
Capablanca, Jose	The Chess Machine
Curdo, John		The Doctor
Doel, Erik van den	The flying Dutchman
Dokhyan, Yuri		Defcom Man
Dzindzichashvili, Roman	Dzindzy
Evans, Larry D		Larry "the other" Evans
Fedorowicz, John	Fed; Rocky
Fine, Reuben		Kid Gafaehrlich (Kid Dangerous)
Fraenkel, Heinrich	Assiac
Furman, Semyon		The Walking ECO
Greco, Gioacchino	The Calabrese
Gufeld, Eduard		Goofy
Helms, Hermann		Dean of American Chess
Ivanchuk, Vassily	 Chucky
Khalifman, Alexander	The Maestro; Sasha
Karpov, Anatoly		Baby Snake
Kashdan, Isaac		The Little Capablanca (der kleine Capablanca)
Kasparov, Garry		Beast of Baku; Gazza; Garry the Terrible
Keene, Raymond		The Penguin
Koltanowski, George	Dean of American Chess
Korchnoi, Victor	Iron Victor; Victor the Terrible
Kramnik, Vladimir	Vlad the Impaler; Vlady; Volodya; Ovik; The Iceberg
Leonardo, Giovanni	The Boy
Loyd, Sam		The Puzzle King
Matulovic, Milan	J'adoubovic
Miles, Tony		Beast of Birmingham
Morphy, Paul		The Pride and Sorrow of Chess
Morrison, William	The Terminator
Nimzovich, Aron		Crown Prince of Chess
Nunn, John		The Good Doctor
Owen, John		Alter
Petroff, Alexander	The Northern Philidor
Petrosian, Tigran	The Iron Tigran; The goalkeeper from Armenia; The Python
Pillsburr, Harry	Hero of Hastings
Polgar, Judith		Lassie
Polgar, Susan		Sugar
Portisch, Lajos		The Hungarian Petrosian; The Little Botvinnik
Richter, Kurt		Executioner of Berlin
Sarratt, Jacob		Professor of Chess
Schlechter, Karl	The Drawing Master
Seirawan, Yasser	Yaz
Sherzer, Alex		The Surgeon
Shirov, Alexei		Giraffe; The Matador
Showalter, Jackson	The Kentucky Lion
Smith, Ken		Top Hat
Spielmann, Rudolf	The Last Knight of the King's Gambit
Steinitz, Wilhelm	The Austrian Morphy
Tal, Mikhail		The Magician of Riga; Mischa
Tarrasch, Siegbert	Praeceptor Germaniae
Tate, Emory		E.T.
Teichmann, Richard	Richard the Fifth
Velimirovic, Dragoljub	Yugoslavian Tal
Wojtkiewicz, Alex	Wojt
Yermolinsky		The Yerminator
Yusupov, Mikhail	The Wall
Zuckerman, Bernard	The Book; Zuk