| Click on underlined names to read biographies | |
| Charter members | |
| 2001 | Jose Raúl Capablanca, Robert (Bobbie) James Fischer, Emanuel Lasker, Paul Charles Morphy and Wilhelm (William) Steinitz |
| 2003 | Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Vasily Smyslov and Boris Spassky |