List of FIDE federation player transfers

This is an incomplete list of chess players who have represented more than one nation in FIDE-sanctioned tournaments. These players underwent a change in national federation affiliation but may not necessarily changed their citizenship in the process but may have to satisfy residency requirements. This excludes players which did not compete in any FIDE-sanctioned event for their previous federation.

To countries in the Americas

Name	Previous federation	New federation	Year	Ref.
Albert Becker	Germany	Argentina
Francisco Benkö	Germany	Argentina
Erich Eliskases	Germany	Argentina
Nicolas Engalicev	Latvia/Italy	Canada
Movsas Feigins	Latvia	Argentina
Paulino Frydman	Poland	Argentina
Sonja Graf	Germany	Argentina United States
Aristide Gromer	France	Argentina
Zelman Kleinstein	Palestine	Argentina
Markas Luckis	Lithuania	Argentina
Paul Michel	Germany	Argentina
Miguel Najdorf	Poland	Argentina
Jiri Pelikan	Czechoslovakia	Argentina
Hermann Pilnik	Germany	Argentina
Meir Rauch	Palestine Poland	Argentina Israel
Ilmar Raud	Estonia	Argentina
Heinrich Reinhardt	Germany	Argentina
Chris de Ronde	Netherlands	Argentina
Paulette Schwartzmann	France	Argentina
Adolf Seitz	Germany	Argentina Switzerland
Karel Skalička	Czechoslovakia	Argentina
Maxim Sorokin	Russia	Argentina
Gideon Ståhlberg	Sweden	Argentina Sweden
Franciszek Sulik	Poland	Argentina Australia
Victor Winz	Germany Palestine	Argentina
Paul Baender	Germany	Bolivia
Ludwig Engels	Germany	Brazil
Jacob Ascher	England	Canada
Evgeny Bareev	Russia	Canada
Fedir Bohatyrchuk	Soviet Union	Canada
Géza Füster	Hungary	Canada
Leonid Gerzhoy	Israel	Canada
Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov	Soviet Union	Canada United States
Carlos Jauregui	Chile	Canada
Miervaldis Jurševskis	Latvia	Canada
Natalia Khoudgarian	Russia	Canada
Anton Kovalyov	Argentina	Canada
Stanislav Kriventsov	Russia United States	Canada
Roman Pelts	Soviet Union	Canada
William H. K. Pollock	England/Ireland	Canada
Edward Porper	Israel Soviet Union	Canada
Alexander Rabinovich	Israel	Canada
Bator Sambuev	Russia	Canada
Artiom Samsonkin	Belarus	Canada
Zoltan Sarosy	Hungary	Canada
Stephen Francis Smith	United Kingdom	Canada
Yan Teplitsky	Israel Russia	Canada
Dimitri Tyomkin	Israel	Canada
Povilas Vaitonis	Lithuania	Canada
Zvonko Vranesic	Yugoslavia	Canada
Yang Kaiqi	China	Canada
Qiyu Zhou	Finland	Canada
Alexis Cabrera	Cuba	Colombia Spain
Neuris Delgado Ramírez	Cuba	Colombia Paraguay
Daniel Tapia	United States	Colombia
Gerardo Budowski	Germany Venezuela	Costa Rica
Francisco Perez	Spain	Cuba
Nelson Pinal Borges	Cuba	Dominican Republic
Lisandro Fernandez Reyes	Cuba	Ecuador
Paul Klein	Germany	Ecuador
Bruno Moritz	Germany	Ecuador
Lemnys Arias	Honduras	El Salvador	2001
Alvaro Blanco Fernandez	Cuba	Mexico
Juan Carlos González Zamora	Cuba	Mexico
Neuris Delgado Ramírez	Colombia Cuba	Paraguay
Tatev Abrahamyan	Armenia	United States
Anna Akhsharumova	Soviet Union	United States
Varuzhan Akobian	Armenia	United States
Lev Alburt	Soviet Union	United States
Babakuli Annakov	Turkmenistan	United States
Camilla Baginskaite	Lithuania	United States
Batchimeg Tuvshintugs	Mongolia	United States
Mikhail Baturyn	Belarus	United States
Julio Becerra Rivero	Cuba	United States
Anjelina Belakovskaia	Ukraine	United States
Pal Benko	Hungary	United States
Horace Bigelow	England	United States
Boris Blumin	Canada	United States
Walter Browne	Australia	United States
Lázaro Bruzón	Cuba	United States
Oscar Chajes	Austria-Hungary	United States
Akshat Chandra	India	United States
Fidel Corrales Jimenez	Cuba	United States
Dorsa Derakhshani	Iran	United States
Leinier Domínguez	Cuba	United States
Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya	Soviet Union	United States
Leonids Dreibergs	Latvia	United States
Roman Dzindzichashvili	Israel Soviet Union	United States
Louis Eisenberg	Ukraine	United States
Arpad Elo	Hungary	United States
Jaan Ehlvest	Estonia	United States
Esther Epstein	Soviet Union	United States
Sergey Erenburg	Israel Soviet Union	United States
Samuel Factor	Poland	United States
Ali Farahat	Egypt	United States
Florin Felecan	Romania	United States
Andrei-Costel Florean	Romania	United States
Sabina-Francesca Foisor	Romania	United States
Selim Franklin	England	United States
Timur Gareyev	Uzbekistan	United States
Samuel Gold	Austria-Hungary	United States
Alexander Goldin	Israel Soviet Union	United States
Rusudan Goletiani	Georgia	United States	2001
Renier Gonzalez	Cuba	United States
Sonja Graf	Argentina Germany	United States
Eduard Gufeld	Georgia	United States
Boris Gulko	Soviet Union	United States
Dmitry Gurevich	Soviet Union	United States
Anna Hahn	Latvia	United States
Holden Hernandez Carmenate	Cuba	United States
Ildar Ibragimov	Russia	United States
Alexander Ivanov	Soviet Union	United States
Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov	Canada Soviet Union	United States
Zviad Izoria	Georgia	United States
Gregory Kaidanov	Russia	United States
Gata Kamsky	Soviet Union	United States
Albert Kapengut	Belarus	United States
Mona May Karff	Palestine	United States
Lubomir Kavalek	Czechoslovakia	United States
Hans Kmoch	Austria	United States
Boris Kogan	Soviet Union	United States
George Koltanowski	Belgium	United States
Boris Kreiman	Soviet Union	United States
Stanislav Kriventsov	Russia	Canada United States
Edward Lasker	Germany	United States
Emanuel Lasker	Germany Soviet Union	United States
Anatoly Lein	Soviet Union	United States
Irina Levitina	Soviet Union	United States
Theodor Lichtenhein	Germany	United States
Marlo Micayabas	Philippines	United States
Nikolay Minev	Bulgaria	United States
Elshan Moradi	Iran	United States
Alejandro Moreno	Cuba	United States
Kateřina Němcová	Czech Republic	United States
Viktorija Ni	Latvia	United States
Alexander Onischuk	Ukraine	United States
Georgi Orlov	Russia	United States
Nazí Paikidze	Georgia	United States
Sam Palatnik	Soviet Union	United States
Rudolf Pitschak	Czechoslovakia	United States
Joseph Platz	Germany	United States
Susan Polgar	Hungary	United States
Stepan Popel	Ukraine/Poland France	United States
Yuniesky Quesada Perez	Cuba	United States
Alejandro Ramirez	Costa Rica	United States
Samuel Reshevsky	Poland	United States
Katerina Rohonyan	Ukraine	United States
Jacob Rosenthal	Poland Netherlands	United States
Nicolas Rossolimo	France	United States
John William Schulten	Germany	United States
Gabriel Schwartzman	Romania	United States
Gregory Serper	Uzbekistan	United States
Alexander Shabalov	Latvia	United States
Leonid Shamkovich	Soviet Union Israel	United States
Anna Sharevich	Belarus	United States
Miron Sher	Russia	United States
Kamran Shirazi	Iran	United States France
Yury Shulman	Belarus	United States
Mikhail Shur	Azerbaijan	United States
Wesley So	Philippines	United States	2014
Wilhelm Steinitz	Austrian Empire United Kingdom	United States
Alexander Stripunsky	Ukraine	United States
Dariusz Świercz	Poland	United States
Povilas Tautvaišas	Lithuania	United States
Oscar Tenner	Germany	United States
Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova	Uzbekistan	United States
Myroslav Turiansky	Soviet Union Austria	United States
Milan Vukcevich	Yugoslavia	United States
Aleksander Wojtkiewicz	Soviet Union Poland	United States
Alex Yermolinsky	Soviet Union	United States
Anna Zatonskih	Ukraine	United States
Elmārs Zemgalis	Latvia	United States
Yaroslav Zherebukh	Ukraine	United States
Raset Ziatdinov	Uzbekistan	United States
Luis Ernesto Rodi	Argentina	Uruguay
Jaime Bograd	Romania	Venezuela
Gerardo Budowski	Germany	Venezuela Costa Rica
Ariel Marichal Gonzalez	Cuba	Venezuela
Antonio Medina	Spain	Venezuela
Wilson Palencia	Colombia	Venezuela
László Tapasztó	Hungary	Venezuela
Felix Ynojosa	England	Venezuela

To countries in Asia

Name	Previous federation	New federation	Year	Ref.
Igors Rausis	Latvia	Bangladesh Czech Republic
Paul Truong	United States	Cambodia
Izak Aloni	Poland	Palestine/Israel
Boris Alterman	Soviet Union	Israel
Boris Avrukh	Kazakhstan	Israel
Dina Belenkaya	Russia	Israel	2022
Alexander Bagrationi	Ukraine	Israel
Valeri Beim	Soviet Union	Israel Austria
Abram Blass	Poland	Palestine/Israel
Angela Borsuk	Ukraine	Israel
Moshe Czerniak	Poland	Palestine/Israel
Boruch Israel Dyner	Belgium	Israel
Roman Dzindzichashvili	Soviet Union	Israel United States
David Enoch	Germany	Palestine/Israel
Sergey Erenburg	Russia	Israel United States
Boris Gelfand	Belarus	Israel
Leonid Gofshtein	Soviet Union	Israel
Alexander Goldin	Russia	Israel United States
Vitali Golod	Ukraine	Israel
Izaak Grynfeld	Poland	Israel
Andrei Gurbanov	Belarus	Israel
Lev Gutman	Soviet Union	Israel Germany
Alexander Huzman	Ukraine	Israel
Bella Igla	Russia	Israel
Boris Kantsler	Kyrgyzstan	Israel
Michael Klenburg	Ukraine	Israel
Alla Kushnir	Soviet Union	Israel
Vladimir Liberzon	Soviet Union	Israel
Aleksandras Machtas	Lithuania	Palestine/Israel
Houshang Mashian	Iran	Israel
Victor Mikhalevski	Soviet Union	Israel
Vadim Milov	Russia	Israel Switzerland
Ariah Mohiliver	Poland	Palestine/Israel
Jacob Murey	Soviet Union	Israel
Menachem Oren	Poland	Palestine/Israel
Raaphi Persitz	United Kingdom	Israel Switzerland
Yosef Porath	Germany	Palestine/Israel
Edward Porper	Soviet Union	Israel Canada
Lev Psakhis	Soviet Union	Israel
Meir Rauch	Poland	Palestine/Israel
Salome Reischer	Austria	Palestine
Leonid Shamkovich	Russia	Israel United States
Yuliya Shvayger	Ukraine	Israel
Ilya Smirin	Soviet Union	Israel
Lazare Suchowolski	Poland Australia	Israel
Emil Sutovsky	Soviet Union	Israel
Gedali Szapiro	Poland	Israel
Yan Teplitsky	Russia	Israel Canada
Mark Tseitlin	Soviet Union	Israel
Isakas Vistaneckis	Lithuania	Israel
Victor Winz	Germany	Palestine/Israel Argentina
Leonid Yudasin	Russia	Israel
Tatiana Zatulovskaya	Russia	Israel
Yaacov Zilberman	Soviet Union	Israel
Domingo Ramos	Philippines	Japan
Yevgeniy Pak	Uzbekistan	Kazakhstan
Vladislav Tkachiev	Russia	Kazakhstan France
Eva Repková	Slovakia	Lebanon
Evgenij Ermenkov	Bulgaria	Palestine
Christian Michel Yunis	Chile	Palestine
Zhu Chen	China	Qatar
Gong Qianyun	China	Singapore
Li Ruofan	China	Singapore
Enrique Paciencia	Philippines	Singapore
Olimpiu G. Urcan	Romania	Singapore
Buenaventura Villamayor	Philippines	Singapore
Wu Shaobin	China	Singapore
Zhang Zhong	China	Singapore
Jose Camacho Collados	Spain	South Korea
Alexey Kim	Russia	South Korea
Gamil Agamaliev	Azerbaijan	Turkey
Ekaterina Atalik	Russia	Turkey
Cemil Gulbas	Belgium	Turkey
Mikhail Gurevich	Soviet Union Belgium	Turkey
Alexander Ipatov	Ukraine Spain	Turkey
Ergin Mollaoglu	Bulgaria	Turkey
Dragan Šolak	Serbia	Turkey
Trần Thanh Tú	Vietnam	Japan

To countries in Europe

Name	Previous federation	New federation	Year	Ref.
Vangjel Buli	Italy	Albania
Robert Aloma Vidal	Spain	Andorra
Oscar de la Riva Aguado	Spain	Andorra
Juan Mellado Triviño	Spain	Andorra
David Norwood	England	Andorra
Josep Oms Pallise	Spain	Andorra
Maria Kursova	Russia	Armenia
Sergei Movsesian	Georgia Czech Republic Slovakia	Armenia
Arsen Yegiazarian	Russia	Armenia
Valery Atlas	Soviet Union Liechtenstein	Austria
Valeri Beim	Soviet Union Israel	Austria
Ivo Donev	Bulgaria	Austria
Alexander Halprin	Russia	Austria
Tunç Hamarat	Turkey	Austria
Stefan Kindermann	Germany	Austria
Julius Perlis	Poland	Austria
Davit Shengelia	Georgia	Austria
Regina Theissl Pokorna	Slovakia	Austria
Gadir Guseinov	Russia	Azerbaijan
Zaur Mammadov	Russia	Azerbaijan
Arkadij Naiditsch	Latvia Germany	Azerbaijan
Stefan Beukema	Netherlands	Belgium
Vladimir Chuchelov	Russia	Belgium
Alexander Dgebuadze	Georgia	Belgium
Andrija Fuderer	Yugoslavia	Belgium
Mikhail Gurevich	Soviet Union	Belgium Turkey
Mher Hovhannisyan	Armenia	Belgium
Vadim Malakhatko	Ukraine	Belgium
Ulvi Sadikhov	Azerbaijan	Belgium
Victor Soultanbeieff	Ukraine	Belgium
Anna Zozulia	Ukraine	Belgium
Inna Dubinka	Ukraine	Belarus	2001
Suat Atalık	Turkey	Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia
Ivan Galić	Croatia	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Borki Predojević	Serbia and Montenegro	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dalibor Stojanović	Serbia and Montenegro	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tatjana Lematschko	Soviet Union	Bulgaria Switzerland
Ilja Lebović-Nader	Azerbaijan Russia	Croatia
Emir Dizdarević	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Croatia
Valentina Golubenko	Estonia	Croatia
Esad Gorić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Croatia
Fazil Havej	Azerbaijan	Croatia
Zdenko Kožul	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Croatia
Bojan Kurajica	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Croatia
Mario Lazzaratti	Italy	Croatia
Danijel Lumelović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Croatia
Iván Morovic	Chile	Croatia
Drazen Muše	Germany	Croatia
Mladen Muše	Germany	Croatia
Dragan Novaković	Serbia and Montenegro	Croatia
Miroslav Pucovski	Serbia	Croatia
Dražen Sermek	Slovenia	Croatia
Domagoj Vlašić	Ukraine	Croatia
Vasilios Kotronias	Greece	Cyprus
Thomas Hinks-Edwards	England	Czech Republic
Alexey Kislinsky	Ukraine	Czech Republic
Epaminondas Kourousis	Greece	Czech Republic
Peter Michalik	Slovakia	Czech Republic
Sergei Movsesian	Georgia	Czech Republic Slovakia Armenia
Vitezslav Priehoda	Slovakia	Czech Republic
Igors Rausis	Latvia Bangladesh	Czech Republic
Oleg Spirin	Russia	Czech Republic
Joanna Worek	Poland	Czech Republic
Kassa Korley	United States	Denmark
Aron Nimzowitsch	Russian Empire	Denmark
Jana Bellin	Czechoslovakia	England
Murray Chandler	New Zealand	England
Dagnė Čiukšytė	Lithuania	England
Anya Corke	Hong Kong	England
Daniel Howard Fernandez	Singapore	England
David Friedgood	South Africa	England
Bogdan Lalić	Croatia	England
Sue Maroroa	New Zealand	England
Michael Rahal	Spain	England
Mihai Suba	Romania	England
Robert Wade	New Zealand	England
Alexander Alekhine	Soviet Union	France
Silvia Aleksieva	Bulgaria	France
Amir Bagheri	Iran	France
Abraham Baratz	Romania	France
Ossip Bernstein	Russian Empire	France
Josef Cukierman	Poland	France
Josif Dorfman	Soviet Union	France
Alireza Firouzja	Iran	France	2021
Tigran Gharamian	Armenia	France
François Godart	Belgium	France
Hichem Hamdouchi	Morocco	France
Borya Ider	Mongolia	France
Andrei Istrățescu	Romania	France
Victor Kahn	Russia	France
Lionel Kieseritzky	Livonia	France
Anthony Kosten	England	France
Bachar Kouatly	Lebanon	France
Vladimir Lazarev	Russia	France
Nikolay Legky	Ukraine	France
Nino Maisuradze	Georgia	France
Léon Monosson	Soviet Union	France
Catalin Navrotescu	Romania	France
Vladimir Okhotnik	Ukraine	France
Stepan Popel	Poland/Ukraine	France United States
Anda Šafranska	Latvia	France
Andrei Shchekachev	Russia	France
Kamran Shirazi	Iran United States	France
Almira Skripchenko	Moldova	France
Andrei Sokolov	Russia	France
Boris Spassky	Soviet Union	France
Savielly Tartakower	Poland	France
Vladislav Tkachiev	Russia Kazakhstan	France
Miodrag Todorcevic	Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro	France Spain
Anatoly Vaisser	Soviet Union	France
Ivan Cheparinov	Bulgaria	Georgia
Levon Aronian	Armenia	Germany
Albert Becker	Austria	Germany Argentina
Alexander Belezky	Ukraine	Germany
Aleksandar Berelovich	Ukraine	Germany
Igor Berezovsky	Russia	Germany Monaco
Efim Bogoljubov	Soviet Union	Germany
Rustem Dautov	Russia	Germany
Michael Fedorovsky	Ukraine	Germany
Michael Feygin	Ukraine	Germany
Daniel Fridman	Latvia	Germany
Rafael Fridman	Latvia	Germany
Karl Gilg	Czechoslovakia	Germany
Igor Glek	Russia	Germany
Alexander Graf	Uzbekistan	Germany
Bernhard Gregory	Russian Empire	Germany
Lev Gutman	Soviet Union Israel	Germany
Baldur Hönlinger	Austria	Germany
Vlastimil Hort	Czechoslovakia	Germany
Otto Junge	Chile	Germany
Ketino Kachiani	Georgia	Germany
Igor Khenkin	Russia	Germany
Jerzy Konikowski	Poland	Germany
Leonid Kritz	Russia	Germany
Jonas Lampert	Switzerland	Germany
Elena Levushkina	Uzbekistan	Germany
Paul List	Russian Empire	Germany United Kingdom
Jakov Loxine	Russia	Germany
Jakob Meister	Russia	Germany
Marta Michna	Poland	Germany
Leonid Milov	Ukraine	Germany
Paul Mross	Poland	Germany
Illya Mutschnik	Ukraine	Germany
Arkadij Naiditsch	Latvia	Germany Azerbaijan
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	Romania	Germany
Luděk Pachman	Czechoslovakia	Germany
Sergej Salov	Russia	Germany
Sergiu Samarian	Romania	Germany
Massoud Amir Sawadkuhi	Iran	Germany
Paul Felix Schmidt	Estonia	Germany
Nikolai Shalnev	Ukraine	Germany
Igor Solomunović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Germany Serbia
Eugen Tripolsky	Ukraine	Germany
Leon Tuhan-Baranowski	Poland	Germany
Roman Vidonyak	Ukraine	Germany
Artur Yusupov	Russia	Germany
Johannes Zukertort	Poland	Germany United Kingdom
Yelena Dembo	Israel Hungary	Greece
Atanas Dimitrov	Bulgaria	Greece
Andreas Kelires	Cyprus	Greece
Igor Miladinović	FR Yugoslavia	Greece
Cao Sang	Vietnam	Hungary
Alexander Chernin	Soviet Union	Hungary
Yelena Dembo	Israel	Hungary Greece
Hoang Thanh Trang	Vietnam	Hungary
Oliver Mihok	Germany	Hungary
Szidonia Vajda	Romania	Hungary
Henrik Danielsen	Denmark	Iceland
Lenka Ptáčníková	Czech Republic	Iceland
Alexander Baburin	Russia	Ireland
Wolfgang Heidenfeld	South Africa	Ireland
Brian Reilly	France United Kingdom	Ireland
Esteban Canal	Peru	Italy
Fabiano Caruana	United States	Italy
Alberto David	Luxembourg	Italy
Igor Efimov	Georgia	Italy Monaco
Carlos Garcia Palermo	Argentina	Italy
Lexy Ortega	Cuba	Italy
Francesco Rambaldi	France	Italy
Elena Sedina	Ukraine	Italy
Eugenio Szabados	Hungary	Italy
Stefano Tatai	Hungary	Italy
Bela Toth	Hungary	Italy
Olga Zimina	Russia	Italy
Alexander Zlochevskij	Russia	Italy
Lūcijs Endzelīns	Estonia	Latvia Australia
Igor Kovalenko	Ukraine	Latvia
Evgeny Sveshnikov	Russia	Latvia
Valery Atlas	Soviet Union	Liechtenstein Austria
Vladas Mikėnas	Estonia	Lithuania
Elvira Berend	Kazakhstan	Luxembourg
Michael Wiedenkeller	Sweden	Luxembourg
Kiril Georgiev	Bulgaria	North Macedonia
Vladimir Georgiev	Bulgaria	North Macedonia
Torben Sorensen	Denmark	Malta
Igor Berezovsky	Russia Germany	Monaco
Algimantas Butnorius	Lithuania	Monaco
Igor Efimov	Georgia Italy	Monaco
Robert Fontaine	France	Monaco Switzerland
Damir Levacic	France	Monaco
David Marciano	France	Monaco
Nenad Sulava	Croatia	Monaco
Tea Lanchava	Georgia	Netherlands
Iwona Bos-Swiecik	Poland	Netherlands
Roberto Cifuentes	Chile	Netherlands Spain
Anish Giri	Russia	Netherlands
Sopiko Guramishvili	Georgia	Netherlands
Käty van der Mije-Nicolau	Romania	Netherlands
Iozefina Păuleţ	Romania	Netherlands
Peng Zhaoqin	China	Netherlands
Ivan Sokolov	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Netherlands
Gennadi Sosonko	Soviet Union	Netherlands
Erika Sziva	Hungary	Netherlands
Hiong Liong Tan	Indonesia	Netherlands
Sergei Tiviakov	Russia	Netherlands
Maxim Devereaux	England	Norway
Bjarke Sahl	Denmark	Norway
Jonathan Tisdall	United States	Norway
Michał Krasenkow	Russia	Poland
Aleksander Wojtkiewicz	Soviet Union	Poland United States
Jurij Zezulkin	Belarus	Poland
Irina Bulmaga	Moldova	Romania
Tim Walast	England	Romania
Bibisara Assaubayeva	Kazakhstan	Russia
Roman Babici	Moldova	Russia
Alisa Galliamova	Ukraine	Russia
Ernesto Inarkiev	Kyrgyzstan	Russia	2000
Sergey Karjakin	Ukraine	Russia
Kateryna Lagno	Ukraine	Russia
Svetlana Matveeva	Kyrgyzstan	Russia
Maxim Pavlov	Ukraine	Russia
Leonid Raikin	Ukraine	Russia
Elena Tairova	Belarus	Russia
Tatjana Vasilevich	Ukraine	Russia
Valeriy Yoshan	Ukraine	Russia
Kira Zvorykina	Belarus	Russia
Jacob Aagaard	Denmark	Scotland
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant	Georgia	Scotland
Andrew Greet	England	Scotland
Matthew Turner	England	Scotland
Suat Atalık	Turkey Bosnia and Herzegovina	Serbia
Dejan Pavlović	Montenegro	Serbia
Igor Solomunović	Bosnia and Herzegovina Germany	Serbia
Ranko Szuhanek	Romania	Serbia
Jovana Vojinović	Montenegro	Serbia
Sergei Movsesian	Georgia Czech Republic	Slovakia Armenia
Indira Babataeva	Kazakhstan	Slovenia
Alexander Beliavsky	Ukraine	Slovenia
Zvonimir Meštrović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Slovenia
Adrian Mikhalchishin	Ukraine	Slovenia
Anna Muzychuk	Ukraine	Slovenia
Salo Flohr	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union
Emanuel Lasker	Germany	Soviet Union United States
Andor Lilienthal	Hungary	Soviet Union
Olga Alexandrova	Ukraine	Spain
Alexis Cabrera	Cuba Colombia	Spain
Renier Castellanos Rodriguez	Chile	Spain
Roberto Cifuentes	Chile Netherlands	Spain
Diego Del Rey	Argentina	Spain
Javier Gil Capape	Australia	Spain
José Angel Guerra Méndez	Cuba	Spain
Irisberto Herrera	Cuba	Spain
Eduardo Iturrizaga	Venezuela	Spain
Alexander Ipatov	Ukraine	Spain Turkey
Ibragim Khamrakulov	Uzbekistan	Spain
Oleg Korneev	Russia	Spain
Ana Matnadze	Georgia	Spain
Viktor Moskalenko	Ukraine	Spain
Miguel Muñoz Pantoja	Peru	Spain
Orelvis Perez Mitjans	Cuba	Spain
Daniel Rodriguez Pineda	Cuba	Spain
Horacio Saldano Dayer	Argentina	Spain
Alexei Shirov	Latvia	Spain
Mihai Suba	Romania	Spain
Miodrag Todorcevic	Yugoslavia France Serbia and Montenegro	Spain
Elizbar Ubilava	Georgia	Spain
Renier Vazquez Igarza	Cuba	Spain
Arturo Vidarte Morales	Peru	Spain
Evgeny Agrest	Russia	Sweden
Juan Manuel Bellón López	Spain	Sweden
Leho Laurine	Estonia	Sweden
Jerzy Lewi	Poland	Sweden
Sebastian Bogner	Germany	Switzerland
Branko Filipović	Croatia	Switzerland
Robert Fontaine	France Monaco	Switzerland
Joseph Gallagher	England	Switzerland
Viktor Gavrikov	Lithuania	Switzerland
Ernő Gereben	Hungary	Switzerland
Barbara Hund	Germany	Switzerland
Nedeljko Kelecevic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Switzerland
Viktor Korchnoi	Soviet Union	Switzerland
Tatjana Lematschko	Soviet Union Bulgaria	Switzerland
Vadim Milov	Russia Israel	Switzerland
Ivan Nemet	Yugoslavia	Switzerland
Raaphi Persitz	England Israel	Switzerland
Artur Popławski	Poland	Switzerland
Peter Petrovich Saburov	Russia	Switzerland
Adolf Seitz	Germany Argentina	Switzerland
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kalinin	Belarus	Ukraine
Vladimir Makarov	Moldova	Ukraine
Sergey Smolin	Russia	Ukraine
István Fazekas	Czechoslovakia	United Kingdom
Isidor Gunsberg	Hungary	United Kingdom
Bernhard Horwitz	Germany	United Kingdom
Ernest Klein	Austria	United Kingdom
Imre König	Austria/Hungary Yugoslavia	United Kingdom United States
Čeněk Kottnauer	Czechoslovakia	United Kingdom
Paul List	Russian Empire Germany	United Kingdom
Johann Löwenthal	Hungary	United Kingdom
James Mason	United States	United Kingdom
Olga Menchik	Soviet Union Czechoslovakia	United Kingdom
Vera Menchik	Soviet Union Czechoslovakia	United Kingdom
Jacques Mieses	Germany	United Kingdom
Wilhelm Steinitz	Austrian Empire	United Kingdom United States
Mir Sultan Khan	India	United Kingdom
Johannes Zukertort	Poland Germany	United Kingdom
Nigel Davies	England	Wales
Lajos Asztalos	Hungary	Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Mirko Bröder	Hungary	Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov	Poland	Yugoslavia
Irina Chelushkina	Ukraine	FR Yugoslavia
Maria Manakova	Russia	FR Yugoslavia
Svetlana Prudnikova	Russia	FR Yugoslavia

To countries in Oceania

Name	Previous federation	New federation	Year	Ref.
Romanas Arlauskas	Lithuania	Australia
Béla Berger	Hungary	Australia
Igor Bjelobrk	New Zealand	Australia
Arianne Caoili	Philippines	Australia
Bobby Cheng	New Zealand	Australia
Lūcijs Endzelīns	Latvia	Australia
Temur Kuybokarov	Uzbekistan	Australia
Naum Levin	Soviet Union	Australia
Daniela Nuțu-Gajić	Romania	Australia
Karlis Ozols	Latvia	Australia
Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky	Vietnam	Australia
Julia Ryjanova	Russia	Australia
Lajos Steiner	Hungary	Australia
Franciszek Sulik	Poland	Australia
Zhang Jilin	China	Australia
Lev Aptekar	Soviet Union	New Zealand
William Fairhurst	England Scotland	New Zealand
Helen Milligan	Scotland	New Zealand
Ortvin Sarapu	Estonia	New Zealand

See also

• List of sportspeople who competed for more than one nation
• FIDE flag player

References

• "Player transfers from 2000". FIDE.
• "Alphabetical list of players on FIDE lists 1971-2001". Olimpbase.