The Most Famous
Chess Players from Syria
This page contains a list of the greatest Syrians Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 2 of which were born in Syria. This makes Syria the birth place of the 44th most number of Chess Players behind Vietnam and Belgium.
Top 2 Syrian Chess Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Syrians Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Syrians Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Philipp Stamma
1705 - 1755
HPI 58.0619 langsSyrian chess master
- #2
Yasser Seirawan
b. 1960
HPI 51.3730 langsAmerican chess player
