The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Chile
This page contains a list of the greatest Chilean Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Chile. This makes Chile the birth place of the 53rd most number of Chess Players behind Mexico, and Ireland.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chilean Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Chilean Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Klaus Junge (1924 - 1945)
With an HPI of 54.64, Klaus Junge is the most famous Chilean Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Klaus Junge (1 January 1924 – 17 April 1945) was a Chilean-German chess master who was among the world's leading players during World War II. An officer in the Wehrmacht, he died during the Battle of Welle shortly before the end of the war.
2. Iván Morovic (b. 1963)
With an HPI of 42.47, Iván Morovic is the 2nd most famous Chilean Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 14 different languages.
Iván Eduardo Morovic Fernández (born 24 March 1963) is a Chilean chess player with the title of International Grandmaster. Born in Viña del Mar, he began to play chess at age 9. In 1979 he won the Pan American Junior Chess Championship. In 1980, Morovic took third place in the World Junior Chess Championship in Dortmund, behind Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short. The following year he won the Chilean Chess Championship. At 22 he became the first Chilean to be awarded by FIDE the title of International Grandmaster (GM). His best tournament participation was in 1993, when he won in Las Palmas, ahead of Viswanathan Anand, with whom he drew. Morovic's best Elo rating is 2613, achieved in 1999. He took part in thirteen Chess Olympiads, playing for Chile in 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1996, 2002, 2004, 2010 and 2012, and representing Croatia in 2000.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Chilean chess players born between 1924 and 1963. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Chilean chess players include Iván Morovic. The most famous deceased Chilean chess players include Klaus Junge. As of April 2024, 1 new Chilean chess players have been added to Pantheon including Iván Morovic.
