CHESS PLAYER

Alexander Alekhine

1892 - 1946

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Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine (October 31 [O.S. October 19] 1892 – March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Alekhine has received more than 1,334,371 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Alexander Alekhine is the 5th most popular chess player (down from 4th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Russia (up from 114th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Chess Player.

Alexander Alekhine is most famous for being a chess player. He is considered one of the greatest chess players of all time.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alexander Alekhine ranks 5 out of 461. Before him are Bobby Fischer, Wilhelm Steinitz, José Raúl Capablanca, and Mikhail Tal. After him are Boris Spassky, Emanuel Lasker, Mikhail Botvinnik, Anatoly Karpov, Tigran Petrosian, Max Euwe, and Garry Kasparov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Alexander Alekhine ranks 10. Before him are Manfred von Richthofen, Ivo Andrić, Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Haile Selassie. After him are Pearl S. Buck, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Louis de Broglie, Theodor Eicke, Oliver Hardy, and Sepp Dietrich. Among people deceased in 1946, Alexander Alekhine ranks 14. Before him are Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Hans Frank, Ion Antonescu, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Mikhail Kalinin, and Gerhart Hauptmann. After him are Gertrude Stein, Wilhelm Frick, Werner von Blomberg, Julius Streicher, Karl Haushofer, and Fritz Sauckel.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Alekhine ranks 101 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Bukharin (1888), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Ivan Konev (1897), Alexander Glazunov (1865), Lev Kamenev (1883), and Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850). After him are Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869), Tokhtamysh (1342), Ilya Prigogine (1917), and Sergey Lavrov (1950).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Alexander Alekhine ranks 1. After him are Boris Spassky (1937), Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vasily Smyslov (1921), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Vera Menchik (1906), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), and Alexander Kotov (1913).

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