
Dawid Janowski
1868 - 1927
Polish chess player
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This page contains a list of the greatest Belarusians Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 544 Chess Players, 12 of which were born in Belarus. This makes Belarus the birth place of the 14th most number of Chess Players behind Armenia and Serbia.
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Belarusian Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Belarusian Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Belarusian Chess Players.

1868 - 1927
Polish chess player

1934 - 1995
chess player (1934–1995)

b. 1968
Belarusian-Israeli chess player

1949 - 2017
Belarusian chess player (1949-2017)

b. 1966
Soviet-born Swedish chess grandmaster

b. 1968
Belarusian-Israeli chess player

b. 1973
Belarusian chess player

b. 1972
Belarusian chess player

b. 1975
Belarusian American chess grandmaster

b. 1989
Belarusian chess player
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Which Chess Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 12 most globally memorable Chess Players since 1700.