| Click on underlined names to read biographies | |
| Charter members | |
| 2001 | Jose Raúl Capablanca, Robert (Bobby) James Fischer, Emanuel Lasker, Paul Charles Morphy and Wilhelm (William) Steinitz |
| 2003 | Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Vasily Smyslov and Boris Spassky |
| 2004 | Anatoly Karpov, Alexander Alekhine, and Max Euwe |