CHESS PLAYER

Albin Planinc

1944 - 2008

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Albin Planinc (also spelled Planinec) (18 April 1944 – 20 December 2008) was a Slovenian-Yugoslavian chess Grandmaster. He was born in a working-class family in Briše near Zagorje in the Central Sava Valley, in German-occupied Slovenia. Planinc won the Slovenian youth championship in 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albin Planinc has received more than 84,803 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Albin Planinc is the 181st most popular chess player (up from 191st in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 104th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Slovene Chess Player.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Albin Planinc ranks 181 out of 461. Before him are Adolf Schwarz, Herman Steiner, Hikaru Nakamura, Amos Burn, Max Weiss, and Mir Sultan Khan. After him are Győző Forintos, Juan Corzo, Serafino Dubois, Vladimir Tukmakov, Oleg Romanishin, and Alexei Shirov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Albin Planinc ranks 602. Before him are Ramiro Blacut, Lorne Michaels, Gunhild Hoffmeister, Sonal Mansingh, Judee Sill, and Benjamin Kogo. After him are James Arthur, Lynn Harrell, Regine Heitzer, Saira Banu, James H. Clark, and Gennady Yevryuzhikhin. Among people deceased in 2008, Albin Planinc ranks 319. Before him are Estelle Reiner, Randy Pausch, Walter Haummer, Lilyan Chauvin, Tony Hillerman, and Anatoly Karatsuba. After him are Halszka Osmólska, Heinz Wewers, Ann Savage, Buddy Miles, Jerry Wexler, and Pippa Bacca.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Albin Planinc ranks 115 out of 340. Before him are Fredi Bobic (1971), Željko Milinovič (1969), Ivan Tavčar (1851), Richard Verderber (1884), Milenko Ačimovič (1977), and Tanja Ribič (1968). After him are Maksimilijan Mihelčič (1905), Valerio Perentin (1909), Josipina Turnograjska (1833), Zdenko Verdenik (1949), Svetlana Makarovič (1939), and Janez Potočnik (1958).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Slovenia

Among chess players born in Slovenia, Albin Planinc ranks 3. Before him are Milan Vidmar (1885), and Vasja Pirc (1907).

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