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The Most Famous

CHESS PLAYERS from Kyrgyzstan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Kirghiz Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 374 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Kyrgyzstan. This makes Kyrgyzstan the birth place of the 59th most number of Chess Players behind Egypt and Uganda.

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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.

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1. Ernesto Inarkiev (1985 - )

With an HPI of 24.59, Ernesto Inarkiev is the most famous Kirghiz Chess Player.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Ernesto Inarkiev (Russian: Эрнесто 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.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as chess players born between 1985 and 1985. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living chess players include Ernesto Inarkiev.

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