| Click on underlined names to read biographies | |
| Charter members | Paul Morphy and Robert Fischer |
| 1986 | Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky, Isaac Kashdan, George Koltanowski, Harry Pillsbury and Frank Marshall |
| 1987 | Wilhelm (William) Steinitz and Sam Loyd |
| 1988 | Arpad Elo and Hermann Helms |
| 1989 | Al Horowitz |
| 1990 | Hans Berliner |
| 1991 | Arthur Dake and John Collins |
| 1992 | Gisela Gresser, George Mackenzie and Arnold Denker |
| 1993 | Victor Palciauskas and Pal Benko |
| 1994 | Arthur Bisguier, Larry Evans and Robert Byrne |
| 1995 | Ed Edmondson |
| 1996 | Fred Reinfeld |
| 1997 | Kenneth Harkness |
| 1998 | Milan Vukcevich |
| 1999 | Benjamin Franklin |
| 2000 | Edmar Mednis |
| 2001 | Lubomir Kavalek |
| 2003 | Lev Alburt, Walter Shawn Browne and Donald Byrne |
| 2004 | Leonid Shamkovitch and Anatoly Lein |