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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 136,443 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Kotov is the 66th most popular chess player, the 946th most popular biography from Russia (down from 901st in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alexander Kotov ranks 66 out of 374. Before him are Olga Rubtsova, Milan Vidmar, Vladimir Kramnik, Rudolf Spielmann, Lionel Kieseritzky, and Szymon Winawer. After him are Semyon Alapin, Isidor Gunsberg, Maia Chiburdanidze, Isaac Boleslavsky, Luděk Pachman, and Alessandro Salvio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Alexander Kotov ranks 132. Before him are Edith Pargeter, Eugene Odum, Albert Cossery, Motoo Tatsuhara, Tadao Horie, and Alfonso López Michelsen. After him are Stefan Heym, Gig Young, George Koval, William P. Rogers, Milivoj Ašner, and Walter Andreas Schwarz. Among people deceased in 1981, Alexander Kotov ranks 88. Before him are Franjo Šeper, Nargis, Glauber Rocha, Edith Head, Bobby Sands, and Ricardo Wolf. After him are Claude Auchinleck, Jerzy Neyman, Edvard Kocbek, Lanza del Vasto, Mohammad Beheshti, and Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Kotov ranks 946 out of 3,262. Before him are Boris Shakhlin (1932), Boris Volynov (1934), Nikolai Korotkov (1874), Lazar Berman (1930), Panteleimon Ponomarenko (1902), and Olga Baclanova (1893). After him are Lidiya Skoblikova (1939), Sadri Maksudi Arsal (1878), George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg (1852), Georgy Vitsin (1917), Anna Kournikova (1981), and Yevgeny Khrunov (1933).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Alexander Kotov ranks 15. Before him are Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), Elisaveta Bykova (1913), Olga Rubtsova (1909), and Vladimir Kramnik (1975). After him are Semyon Alapin (1856), Alexander Petrov (1799), Peter Romanovsky (1892), Igor Bondarevsky (1913), Alexander Khalifman (1966), and Viacheslav Ragozin (1908).

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