Mikhail TalHermanis MatisonsVladimirs PetrovsAlexei Shirov
Alexander ShabalovDana Reizniece-Ozola

The Most Famous

Chess Players from Latvia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Latvians Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 7 of which were born in Latvia. This makes Latvia the birth place of the 22nd most number of Chess Players behind Bulgaria and Austria.

Top 7 Latvian Chess Players

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

  1. #1
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    Mikhail Tal

    1936 - 1992

    HPI 75.7169 langs
    Mikhail Tal is most famous for his chess playing. He was a Soviet chess grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion. He was also a chess...Read moreShow less

    Mikhail Tal is most famous for his chess playing. He was a Soviet chess grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion. He was also a chess writer and a chess coach.

  2. #2
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    Hermanis Matisons

    1894 - 1932

    HPI 55.6115 langs

    Latvian chess player (1894-1932)

  3. #3
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    Vladimirs Petrovs

    1907 - 1943

    HPI 53.8115 langs

    Latvian chess player (1908-1943)

  4. #4
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    Alexei Shirov

    b. 1972

    HPI 52.7436 langs

    Latvian-Spanish chess player

  5. #6
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    Alexander Shabalov

    b. 1967

    HPI 42.7016 langs

    American chess player (born 1967)

  6. #7
    Photo of Dana Reizniece-Ozola

    Dana Reizniece-Ozola

    b. 1981

    HPI 39.7618 langs

    Latvian chess player and politician

Overlapping Lives

Which Chess Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Chess Players since 1700.

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