The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Kyrgyzstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kirghiz Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Kyrgyzstan. This makes Kyrgyzstan the birth place of the 61st most number of Chess Players behind Uganda, and Albania.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kirghiz Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Kirghiz Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ernesto Inarkiev (b. 1985)
With an HPI of 36.75, Ernesto Inarkiev is the most famous Kirghiz Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Ernesto Kazbekovich Inarkiev (Russian: Эрнесто Казбекович Инаркиев; born 9 December 1985) is a Russian chess grandmaster, the first ever from Kalmykia. He was European champion in 2016. Since July 2005, Inarkiev has continuously been among the 100 highest FIDE-rated chess players in the world. Inarkiev was part of the Moscow team that won the Russian championship in rapid chess in 2015.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kirghiz chess players born between 1985 and 1985. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kirghiz chess players include Ernesto Inarkiev.
