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Akiba Rubinstein

1880 - 1961

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Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandmaster in 1950, at its inauguration. In his youth, he defeated top players José Raúl Capablanca and Carl Schlechter and was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the World Chess Championship in 1914, but it was cancelled due to the outbreak of World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akiba Rubinstein has received more than 264,171 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Akiba Rubinstein is the 25th most popular chess player (up from 27th in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 268th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Akiba Rubinstein ranks 25 out of 374. Before him are Paul Keres, Viktor Korchnoi, Vera Menchik, Ruy López de Segura, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Richard Réti. After him are Miguel Najdorf, Judit Polgár, Savielly Tartakower, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Johannes Zukertort, and Bent Larsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Akiba Rubinstein ranks 38. Before him are Giuseppe Moscati, Paul Ehrenfest, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Andrei Bely, Vojtech Tuka, and Álvaro Obregón. After him are Mack Sennett, María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Alfred Einstein, Ernest Bloch, Gideon Sundback, and Ugo Cavallero. Among people deceased in 1961, Akiba Rubinstein ranks 25. Before him are Paul Landowski, Dashiell Hammett, Maria of Yugoslavia, Grandma Moses, Eero Saarinen, and Luigi Einaudi. After him are Wolfgang von Trips, Paul Wittgenstein, Lee de Forest, Blaise Cendrars, Arthur Drewry, and Karl Korsch.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Akiba Rubinstein ranks 242 out of 1,454. Before him are Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Przemysł II (1257), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), Władysław I Herman (1043), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), and Dieter Wisliceny (1911). After him are Miguel Najdorf (1910), Kurt Tank (1898), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Henryk Szeryng (1918), Victor Klemperer (1881), and Anna von Schweidnitz (1339).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Akiba Rubinstein ranks 5. Before him are Emanuel Lasker (1868), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Adolf Anderssen (1818), and Siegbert Tarrasch (1862). After him are Miguel Najdorf (1910), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Szymon Winawer (1838), Grigory Levenfish (1889), Edward Lasker (1885), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), and Valery Salov (1964).

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