Editing Grandmaster (chess) (section)

==Honorary grandmasters==
Starting from 1977, FIDE awarded honorary Grandmaster titles to 32 players based on their past performances or other contributions to chess. The following players have been awarded honorary Grandmaster titles. Marić and Honfi were awarded the title posthumously in the year of their death, and Sultan Khan 58 years later.
* 1977 – [[Julio Bolbochán]], [[Esteban Canal]], [[Borislav Milić]], [[Carlos Torre Repetto]]
* 1981 – [[Arnold Denker]]
* 1982 – [[Lodewijk Prins]], [[Raúl Sanguineti]]
* 1983 – [[Vladimir Alatortsev]], [[Alexander Konstantinopolsky]], [[Erik Lundin]]
* 1984 – [[Eero Böök]], [[Stojan Puc]]
* 1985 – [[Harry Golombek]], [[Mario Monticelli]], [[Jaroslav Šajtar]]
* 1986 – [[Arthur Dake]], [[Theodor Ghițescu]]
* 1987 – [[Vladimir Makogonov]], [[Vladas Mikėnas]], [[Bogdan Śliwa]]
* 1988 – [[George Koltanowski]]
* 1990 – [[Andrija Fuderer]], [[Rudolf Marić]] (posthumously)
* 1991 – [[Dragoljub Minić]]
* 1992 – [[Heinz Lehmann (chess player)|Heinz Lehmann]], [[Rudolf Teschner]]
* 1993 – [[Jonathan Penrose]]<ref>{{cite web|title=FIDE Chess Profile – Jonathan Penrose|url=http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=400360|publisher=[[FIDE]]|access-date=2019-09-04|archive-date=2021-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019223636/https://ratings.fide.com/profile/400360|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1996 – [[Károly Honfi]] (posthumously), [[Enrico Paoli]]
* 1999 – [[Péter Dely]]
* 2003 – [[Elmārs Zemgalis]]
* 2024 – [[Sultan Khan (chess player)|Sultan Khan]] (posthumously), [[Andreas Dückstein]], [[Iivo Nei]]