The Most Famous
Chess Players from Belarus
This page contains a list of the greatest Belarusians Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 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.
Top 10 Chess Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Belarusians Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Belarusians 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 Belarusians Chess Players.
- #1
Dawid Janowski
1868 - 1927
HPI 63.2126 langsPolish chess player
- #2
Lev Polugaevsky
1934 - 1995
HPI 61.0426 langschess player (1934–1995)
- #3
Boris Gelfand
b. 1968
HPI 56.7449 langsBelarusian-Israeli chess player
- #4
Viktor Kupreichik
1949 - 2017
HPI 51.9216 langsBelarusian chess player (1949-2017)
- #5
Evgeny Agrest
b. 1966
HPI 47.0517 langsSoviet-born Swedish chess grandmaster
- #6
Ilya Smirin
b. 1968
HPI 46.0621 langsBelarusian-Israeli chess player
- #7
Aleksej Aleksandrov
b. 1973
HPI 44.9817 langsBelarusian chess player
- #8
Alexei Fedorov
b. 1972
HPI 40.9816 langsBelarusian chess player
- #9
Yury Shulman
b. 1975
HPI 39.0417 langsBelarusian American chess grandmaster
- #10
Sergei Zhigalko
b. 1989
HPI 36.1718 langsBelarusian chess player
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Belarusians Chess Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
1990s(1)
1980s(2)
1940s(1)
1930s(1)
1860s(1)
Overlapping Lives
Which Chess Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Chess Players since 1700.
