CHESS PLAYER

Alexander Petrov

1799 - 1867

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Alexander Dmitrievich Petrov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Петро́в) (February 12, 1794 – April 22, 1867) was a Russian chess player, chess composer, and chess writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Petrov has received more than 8,425 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Petrov is the 87th most popular chess player (down from 74th in 2019), the 1,330th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,113th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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  • 51.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alexander Petrov ranks 87 out of 461. Before him are Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Friðrik Ólafsson, Nana Alexandria, Friedrich Sämisch, Robert Hübner, and Jean Dufresne. After him are Levon Aronian, Gideon Ståhlberg, Luděk Pachman, Ignatz Kolisch, Veselin Topalov, and Jacques Mieses.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Alexander Petrov ranks 36. Before him are Henri Druey, Ferdinand Reich, Petrache Poenaru, Robert von Mohl, Tanaka Hisashige, and George Arnott Walker-Arnott. After him are Nathaniel Palmer, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Manuel Bulnes, Joachim Barrande, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, and Heinrich von Kittlitz. Among people deceased in 1867, Alexander Petrov ranks 43. Before him are Simon Sechter, Ramón Castilla, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Georgi Sava Rakovski, and Benoît Fourneyron. After him are August Böckh, Santiago Derqui, Artur Grottger, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, and José Mariano Salas.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Petrov ranks 1,330 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (1940), Simon Vratsian (1882), Léon Poliakov (1910), Nikolay Beketov (1827), Alexei Uchitel (1951), and Mikhail Isakovsky (1900). After him are Konstantin Fedin (1892), Sergei Shchukin (1854), Dmitry Milyutin (1816), Albert Shesternyov (1941), Aleksandr Deyneka (1899), and Katarzyna Kobro (1898).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Alexander Petrov ranks 17. Before him are Andor Lilienthal (1911), Alexander Kotov (1913), Elisaveta Bykova (1913), Vladimir Kramnik (1975), Olga Rubtsova (1909), and Semyon Alapin (1856). After him are Igor Bondarevsky (1913), Alexander Khalifman (1966), Peter Romanovsky (1892), Viacheslav Ragozin (1908), Artur Yusupov (1960), and Lev Alburt (1945).

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