Player	Born	Learned Chess	Age	How Learned
Adianto	1965	1971	6
Alburt	1945	1950	5
Albin	1893	1871	23
Alekhine	1892	1899	7	older brother
Anand	1969	1976	6	mother
Anderssen	1818	1827	9	father
Averbakh	1922			friends
Battell	1909	1913	6
Blackburne	1841	1860	19	book
Bogart	1899	1912	13
Bohatirchuk	1892	1905	15
Boleslavsky	1919	1928	9	House of Pioneers
Botvinnik	1911	1923	12
Bourdonnais	1795	1814	19	college
Browne	1949	1957	8
Byrne, Robert	1928			museum
Capablanca	1888	1892	4	watched father
Carlsen	1990	1998	8
Charles, Ray	1930	1965	35	hospital
Charousek	1873	1887	14
Chernev	1900	1912	12	father
Chigorin	1850	1866	16	schoolteacher
Dake	1910	1927	17
Denker	1914	1926	12	oldest brother
Donner	1927	1941	14	friends
Dzindzichashvili	1944	1954	10
Euwe	1901	1910	9	parents
Evans, Larry	1932	1944	12	father and brothers
Fedorowicz	1958	1972	14
Fine	1914	1922	8	cousin
Fischer	1943	1949	6	sister
Furman	1930	1935	15
Gaprindashvili	1941	1946	5	5 brothers
Geller	1925	1940	15
Gligoric	1923			boarder
Graf, Sonja	1914	1918	4
Granda	1967	1972	5	father
Grefe	1947	1957	10
Gresser	1906	1937	31	chess book
Gufeld	1936	1953	17
Gunsberg	1854	1866	12
Gurevich, Dmitry	1956	1962	6
Horowitz	1907	1913	6
Huebner	1948	1953	5	father
Ivanchuk	1969	1975	6	father
Ivanov, Igor	1947	1952	5	mother
Jarecki	1969	1975	6	father
Kalish	1937	1953	16	chess club
Karff	1914	1923	9	father
Karpov	1951	1955	4	Pioneers Palace
Kasparov	1963	1968	5	father
Keres	1916	1920	4
Khachiyan	1970	1978	8
Kogan	1940	1954	14
Koltanowski	1903	1917	14	father
Kosteniuk, Alexandra	1984	1989	5	father
Larsen	1935	1941	6
Lasker, Edward	1885	1891	6	father
Lasker, Emanuel	1868	1879	11	brother
Lombardy	1937	1946	9	neighbor
Loyd	1841	1855	14
Marache			26
Maroczy	1870	1885	15
Marshall	1877	1887	10	father
McDonnell	1798	1823	25
Mecking	1952	1958	6
Menchik	1906	1915	9	father
Morphy	1837	1845	8	father
Nakamura	1987	1994	7
Nimzovich	1886	1894	8
Palciauskas	1941	1946	5	uncle
Panno	1935	1941	6
Paulsen	1833	1838	5	father
Petrosian	1929	1937	8	parents
Philidor	1726	1736	10	musicians
Pillsbury	1872	1887	15
Polgar, Susan	1969	1973	4
Pomar	1931	1936	5
Rachels	1969	1977	8	older brother
Reshevsky	1911	1915	4
Rossolimo	1910	1917	7	mother
Rubinstein	1882	1901	19
Savereide, Diane	1954	1971	17	brother
Schwartzman	1976	1980	4
Seirawan	1960	1972	12
Shahade, Jennifer	1980	1986	6	father
Smyslov	1921	1927	6	father
Soltis	1947	1956	9
Spassky	1937	1942	5
Speelman	1956	1962	6	cousin
Staunton	1810	1829	19
Stein	1934	1947	13
Steinitz	1836	1848	12	friends
Sultan Khan	1905	1926	21
Tal	1936	1944	8	watched patients
Tarrasch	1862	1877	15	chess book
Thomas	1881	1894	13	mother
Topalov	1975	1983	8
Vasiukov	1933	1948	15
Vidmar	1885	1900	15
Vikcevich	1937	1943	6	parents
Wall	1951	1966	15	father
Webb, Simon	1949	1956	7
Whitaker	1890	1904	14	father
Wilder	1962	1968	6	father