CHESS PLAYER

Alexander McDonnell

1798 - 1835

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Alexander McDonnell (1798–1835), sometimes spelled MacDonnell, was an Irish chess master, who contested a series of six matches with the world's leading chess player Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais in 1834. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander McDonnell has received more than 55,867 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Alexander McDonnell is the 118th most popular chess player (down from 116th in 2019), the 3,371st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,130th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Chess Player.

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  • 48.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alexander McDonnell ranks 118 out of 461. Before him are Ernst Falkbeer, Nicolas Rossolimo, Sonja Graf, Vasja Pirc, Daniel Harrwitz, and Jackson Showalter. After him are Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Edgard Colle, Gedeon Barcza, Wolfgang Unzicker, Erich Eliskases, and Boris Gelfand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Alexander McDonnell ranks 48. Before him are Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling, Alexander Brullov, Friedrich Eduard Beneke, Karl von Holtei, Paolo Savi, and Mpande kaSenzangakhona. After him are Abigail Fillmore, Andrea Maffei, Ditlev Blunck, Gustav Rose, Melchior von Diepenbrock, and Jacques Jasmin. Among people deceased in 1835, Alexander McDonnell ranks 29. Before him are Leopoldo Nobili, Ivan Martos, Andreas Miaoulis, Rain-in-the-Face, Gian Domenico Romagnosi, and Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito. After him are Pauline Auzou, Muthuswami Dikshitar, Wenzel Müller, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, James Hogg, and Thomas Hardwicke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander McDonnell ranks 3,371 out of 8,785. Before him are Alan Cumming (1965), Eva Le Gallienne (1899), Trevor Bolder (1950), Stephen Baxter (1957), Simone Perrotta (1977), and Peter Ackroyd (1949). After him are Robert W. Paul (1869), Gillian Rubinstein (1942), David Octavius Hill (1802), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), Henry Bishop (1786), and Freddie Bartholomew (1924).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Alexander McDonnell ranks 4. Before him are Howard Staunton (1810), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), and Michael Adams (1971). After him are Horatio Caro (1862), Henry Bird (1830), Amos Burn (1848), Jonathan Penrose (1933), John Owen (1827), John Nunn (1955), Nigel Short (1965), and Tony Miles (1955).

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