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The Most Famous

CHESS PLAYERS from Croatia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Croatian Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 374 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Croatia. This makes Croatia the birth place of the 48th most number of Chess Players behind Iceland and Ireland.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Croatian Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Croatian Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Petar Trifunović (1910 - 1980)

With an HPI of 48.27, Petar Trifunović is the most famous Croatian Chess Player.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Petar Trifunović (31 August 1910 – 8 December 1980) was a Yugoslav and Serbian chess player, who was awarded the international grandmaster title, and was a five-time Yugoslav champion.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as chess players born between 1910 and 1910. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased chess players include Petar Trifunović.

Deceased Chess Players

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