The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Réunion
This page contains a list of the greatest Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Réunion. This makes Réunion the birth place of the 43rd most number of Chess Players behind Canada, and Vietnam.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1796 - 1840)
With an HPI of 56.22, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais is the most famous Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.
Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795 – December 1840) was a French chess master, possibly the strongest player in the early 19th century.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as chess players born between 1796 and 1796. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased chess players include Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais.
