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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 7,789 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alexander Petrov is the 74th most popular chess player (up from 92nd in 2019), the 1,115th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,191st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alexander Petrov ranks 74 out of 374. Before him are Isidor Gunsberg, Maia Chiburdanidze, Isaac Boleslavsky, Luděk Pachman, Alessandro Salvio, and István Csom. After him are Gideon Ståhlberg, Louis Paulsen, Friðrik Ólafsson, Grigory Levenfish, Lev Polugaevsky, and Reuben Fine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Alexander Petrov ranks 30. Before him are René Caillié, Duchess Marie of Württemberg, François-Auguste Biard, Ferenc Gyulay, Ludwig Rellstab, and Ignaz von Döllinger. After him are Imre Frivaldszky, Henri Druey, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Amos Bronson Alcott, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, and Frederick Catherwood. Among people deceased in 1867, Alexander Petrov ranks 38. Before him are James Ferguson, Mohammad Afzal Khan, Jean Pierre Flourens, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Simon Sechter, and Juan Álvarez. After him are Ramón Castilla, Georgi Sava Rakovski, Benoît Fourneyron, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, and Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Petrov ranks 1,115 out of 3,262. Before him are Dmitry of Suzdal (1322), Ivan Mosjoukine (1889), Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912), Pavel Batov (1897), Yevgeny Grishin (1931), and Nikolay Kamov (1902). After him are Paul Gorguloff (1895), Dmitry Laptev (1701), Boris Parygin (1930), Aleksandr Khinchin (1894), Alexander Miasnikian (1886), and Vera Alentova (1942).

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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), Elisaveta Bykova (1913), Olga Rubtsova (1909), Vladimir Kramnik (1975), Alexander Kotov (1913), and Semyon Alapin (1856). After him are Peter Romanovsky (1892), Igor Bondarevsky (1913), Alexander Khalifman (1966), Viacheslav Ragozin (1908), Gennadi Sosonko (1943), and Lev Alburt (1945).

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