The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Syria
This page contains a list of the greatest Syrian Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 374 Chess Players, 2 of which were born in Syria. This makes Syria the birth place of the 36th most number of Chess Players behind Belgium and Denmark.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Syrian Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Syrian 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)
With an HPI of 49.42, Philipp Stamma is the most famous Syrian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Philipp Stamma (c. 1705 – c. 1755), a Syriac native of Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, later resident of England and France, was a chess master and a pioneer of modern chess. His reputation rests largely on his authorship of the early chess book Essai sur le jeu des echecs published 1737 in France (English translation: The Noble Game Of Chess 1745). This book brought the Middle Eastern concept of the endgame to the attention of Europe and helped revive European interest in the study of the endgame. Stamma died in London c. 1755, with two sons surviving him.
2. Yasser Seirawan (1960 - )
With an HPI of 40.58, Yasser Seirawan is the 2nd most famous Syrian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages.
Yasser Seirawan (Arabic: ياسر سيروان; born March 24, 1960) is a Syrian-born American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Seirawan is also a published chess author and commentator.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as chess players born between 1705 and 1960. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living chess players include Yasser Seirawan. The most famous deceased chess players include Philipp Stamma.
