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The Most Famous

CHESS PLAYERS from Mexico

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This page contains a list of the greatest Mexican Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 374 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Mexico. This makes Mexico the birth place of the 49th most number of Chess Players behind Ireland and Croatia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mexican Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Mexican 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. Carlos Torre Repetto (1904 - 1978)

With an HPI of 47.74, Carlos Torre Repetto is the most famous Mexican Chess Player.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Carlos Jesús Torre Repetto (29 November 1904 – 19 March 1978) was a Mexican chess player and the first from his country to be awarded the title of grandmaster, which was accorded by FIDE in 1977.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as chess players born between 1904 and 1904. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased chess players include Carlos Torre Repetto.

Deceased Chess Players

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