CHESS PLAYER

Alexander Kotov

1913 - 1981

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Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Ко́тов; (12 August [O.S. 30 July] 1913 – 8 January 1981) was a Soviet chess grandmaster and author. He was a Soviet chess champion, a two-time world title Candidate, and a prolific writer on the subject of chess. Kotov served in high posts in the Soviet Chess Federation, and wrote most of his books during the Cold War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Kotov has received more than 144,781 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Alexander Kotov is the 54th most popular chess player (up from 66th in 2019), the 859th most popular biography from Russia (up from 944th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alexander Kotov ranks 54 out of 461. Before him are Rudolf Spielmann, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Milan Vidmar, Jan Timman, Pedro Damiano, and Lajos Portisch. After him are Lionel Kieseritzky, Magnus Carlsen, Salo Flohr, Aleksandar Matanović, Géza Maróczy, and Viswanathan Anand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Alexander Kotov ranks 129. Before him are René Schneider, Heinrich Bär, Mouloud Feraoun, William Tolbert, Albert Cossery, and Anthony Quayle. After him are Donald Maclean, Charles Berlitz, Amrita Sher-Gil, Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, Géza Kalocsay, and George Koval. Among people deceased in 1981, Alexander Kotov ranks 77. Before him are Kirill Kondrashin, Franjo Šeper, Marcel Bezençon, Yakov Pavlov, Nisargadatta Maharaj, and Glauber Rocha. After him are Manuel Urrutia Lleó, Savitri, Harry Harlow, Helmut Gröttrup, Nargis, and Jerzy Neyman.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Kotov ranks 859 out of 3,761. Before him are Yekaterina Budanova (1916), Tatiana Samoilova (1934), Ludmila Belousova (1935), Erich von Drygalski (1865), Vyacheslav Zudov (1942), and Walter Krupinski (1920). After him are Aleksei Gubarev (1931), Pavel Tretyakov (1832), Vladimir Ilyushin (1927), Semyon Kurkotkin (1917), Aino Kallas (1878), and Anatoli Bugorski (1942).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Alexander Kotov ranks 12. Before him are Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Vera Menchik (1906), Yuri Averbakh (1922), and Andor Lilienthal (1911). After him are Elisaveta Bykova (1913), Vladimir Kramnik (1975), Olga Rubtsova (1909), Semyon Alapin (1856), Alexander Petrov (1799), and Igor Bondarevsky (1913).

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