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The Most Famous

CHESS PLAYERS from Turkey

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This page contains a list of the greatest Turkish Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 374 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Turkey. This makes Turkey the birth place of the 54th most number of Chess Players behind Australia and Myanmar (Burma).

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkish Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Turkish 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. Suat Atalık (1964 - )

With an HPI of 35.56, Suat Atalık is the most famous Turkish Chess Player.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Suat Atalık (born October 10, 1964) is a Turkish-Bosnian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Turkish Chess Champion and the first Turkish chess-player ever to obtain title of chess Grandmaster.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as chess players born between 1964 and 1964. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living chess players include Suat Atalık.

Living Chess Players

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