CHESS PLAYER

André Chéron

1895 - 1980

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André Chéron (September 25, 1895 – September 12, 1980) was a French chess player, endgame theorist, and a composer of endgame studies. He was named a FIDE International Master of Chess Composition in 1959, the first year the title was awarded. Chéron was the French champion three times (1926, 1927, and 1929) and played on the French team at the 1927 Chess Olympiad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Chéron has received more than 18,689 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. André Chéron is the 135th most popular chess player, the 4,468th most popular biography from France and the 5th most popular French Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, André Chéron ranks 135 out of 461. Before him are Viacheslav Ragozin, Henrique Mecking, Carlos Torre Repetto, Miroslav Filip, István Csom, and István Bilek. After him are Boris Kostić, Borislav Ivkov, Simen Agdestein, Bernhard Horwitz, Horatio Caro, and Florin Gheorghiu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, André Chéron ranks 224. Before him are José María Peña, Hertha Sponer, Eduard Bagritsky, Luigi Cevenini, Gerald Patterson, and Edmund Wilson. After him are Pauline Pfeiffer, José Bergamín, Alfredo Zibechi, Doris Humphrey, H. A. R. Gibb, and Bert Lahr. Among people deceased in 1980, André Chéron ranks 224. Before him are Pedro Vallana, Erast Garin, Sahir Ludhianvi, Rudolf Bürger, Max Miedinger, and Christian Møller. After him are Adolph Deutsch, Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Zezé Procópio, Jadwiga Jędrzejowska, Marin Preda, and Luis Muñoz Marín.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Chéron ranks 4,468 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Paul Proust (1940), Eugénie Cotton (1881), Jean Cayrol (1911), William de Longchamp (1101), Yves Coppens (1934), and Alfred Manessier (1911). After him are André Pilette (1918), Emmanuelle Devos (1964), Patrick Achi (1955), Daniel Marot (1661), Bernard Clavel (1923), and Joseph-Alfred Serret (1819).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In France

Among chess players born in France, André Chéron ranks 5. Before him are François-André Danican Philidor (1726), Legall de Kermeur (1702), Pal Benko (1928), and Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800). After him are Chantal Chaudé de Silans (1919), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (1990), Étienne Bacrot (1983), Laurent Fressinet (1981), and Marie Sebag (1986).

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