Yuri Dokhoian
Yuri Dokhoian was born in the Altai region of Russia in 1964. He began playing chess while still a young child and enrolled in a Moscow chess school at the age of eleven. After finishing school in 1982, he entered the Moscow Physical Institute. Dokhoian became a chess grandmaster in 1988.

The following is a brief summary of Dokhoian's tournament record as a grandmaster:

1988:	Plovdiv - 1st place Erevan - 3rd place Sochi - 3rd place
1989:	Wijk aan Zee - 1st place
1992:	Berliner Sommer - 1st place
1993:	Godesberg - 1st place Lublin - 1st place Munster - 1st place

Frederick A. Friedel
Frederick A. Friedel studied philosophy, mathematics and linguistics in Hamburg and at Oxford. After a brief university career he became a science journalist on German television, specializing in computers and artificial intelligence. He is the editor of a magazine on computer chess and has staged a number of world computer chess championships. He has also written a standard textbook on the subject in German.

In 1987 he founded the software company ChessBase, which produces a chess database system used by virtually all professional chess players. The company is also responsible for the popular chess playing program Fritz. For many years Frederick has been a close personal friend and advisor of Garry Kasparov and many of the world's leading players. He is married and has two children.