The Most Famous
Chess Players from Denmark
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 2 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 45th most number of Chess Players behind Belgium and Syria.
Top 2 Danish Chess Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Danish Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Danish Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Bent Larsen
1935 - 2010
HPI 65.7743 langsDanish chess grandmaster and author (1935–2010)
- #2
Jacob Aagaard
b. 1973
HPI 43.3423 langsDanish-born Scottish chess grandmaster
