The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Myanmar (Burma)
This page contains a list of the greatest Burmese Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Myanmar (Burma). This makes Myanmar (Burma) the birth place of the 53rd most number of Chess Players behind Japan, and Australia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Burmese Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Burmese Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Manuel Aaron (b. 1935)
With an HPI of 38.42, Manuel Aaron is the most famous Burmese Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Manuel Aaron (born 30 December 1935) is the first Indian chess master in the second half of the 20th century. He dominated chess in India in the 1960s to the 1980s, was the national champion of India nine times between 1959 and 1981. He is India's first chess player to be awarded the FIDE Title of International Master title, and is one of the key figures in introducing international chess practices to India; until the 1960s, Indian chess (known as chaturanga) was often played using many local traditional variants (e.g. in lieu of castling, the king could execute a knights move once, if it had not been checked). Aaron helped popularize the international variety, forming many chess groups and urging players to study openings and other formal chess literature.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Burmese chess players born between 1935 and 1935. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Burmese chess players include Manuel Aaron.
