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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 55,022 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Alexander McDonnell is the 116th most popular chess player (down from 112th in 2019), the 3,138th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,905th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alexander McDonnell ranks 116 out of 374Before him are Igor Bondarevsky, William Lombardy, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Oscar Panno, Boris Gelfand, and Boris Kostić. After him are Wolfgang Uhlmann, Adolf Schwarz, Carlos Torre Repetto, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Wolfgang Unzicker, and Boško Abramović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Alexander McDonnell ranks 37Before him are Charles Wilkes, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Paolo Savi, Willibald Alexis, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, and Karl von Holtei. After him are Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Abigail Fillmore, Mpande kaSenzangakhona, Alexander Brullov, Andrea Maffei, and Eduard Friedrich Poeppig. Among people deceased in 1835, Alexander McDonnell ranks 25Before him are Tomás de Zumalacárregui, Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Leopoldo Nobili, Franz von Paula Schrank, Rain-in-the-Face, and Ivan Martos. After him are Muthuswami Dikshitar, Thomas Hardwicke, Wenzel Müller, James Hogg, William Cobbett, and Gilbert Thomas Burnett.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander McDonnell ranks 3,138 out of 7,765Before him are Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), Charles Avison (1709), Grey Owl (1888), Dave Charlton (1936), Charles Crichton (1910), and David Murray (1909). After him are John D. Barrow (1952), Peter R. Hunt (1925), Bonnie Wright (1991), Stephen Gardiner (1497), Clare Hollingworth (1911), and Robert Kerr (1755).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Alexander McDonnell ranks 5Before him are Howard Staunton (1810), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Michael Adams (1971), and Jonathan Penrose (1933). After him are Henry Bird (1830), Amos Burn (1848), Harry Golombek (1911), Nigel Short (1965), Fred Yates (1884), John Nunn (1955), and Raymond Keene (1948).