The Most Famous
Chess Players from Estonia
This page contains a list of the greatest Estonians Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 4 of which were born in Estonia. This makes Estonia the birth place of the 29th most number of Chess Players behind Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Top 4 Estonian Chess Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Estonians Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Estonians Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Paul Keres
1916 - 1975
HPI 70.5747 langsPaul Keres is most famous for being a chess grandmaster and for being the only person to win the chess World Championship title three times.
- #2
Lionel Kieseritzky
1806 - 1853
HPI 61.4124 langsBaltic German chess player (1806-1853)
- #3
Vladas Mikėnas
1910 - 1992
HPI 56.3416 langsLithuanian chess player
- #4
Paul Felix Schmidt
1916 - 1984
HPI 52.2815 langsEstonian chess player and chemist (1916–1984)
Overlapping Lives
Which Chess Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Chess Players since 1700.
