CHESS PLAYER

Boris Kostić

1887 - 1963

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Borislav Kostić (24 February 1887 – 3 November 1963) was a Serbian chess grandmaster and a popularizer of the game. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Kostić has received more than 30,317 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Kostić is the 136th most popular chess player (down from 115th in 2019), the 265th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 204th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Serbian Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 30k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Boris Kostić ranks 136 out of 461. Before him are Henrique Mecking, Carlos Torre Repetto, Miroslav Filip, István Csom, István Bilek, and André Chéron. After him are Borislav Ivkov, Simen Agdestein, Bernhard Horwitz, Horatio Caro, Florin Gheorghiu, and Artur Yusupov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Boris Kostić ranks 215. Before him are Janne Lundblad, Ivan Kavaleridze, Friedrich Gogarten, Adriaan Fokker, Gregorio Marañón, and Jakob van Hoddis. After him are Sid Kimpton, Karl Johan Svensson, Albert Paris Gütersloh, David Keilin, René Maran, and Martín Luis Guzmán. Among people deceased in 1963, Boris Kostić ranks 168. Before him are Al St. John, Ernst Wetter, József Turay, Fernando Altimani, Dionisio Mejía, and Abram Deborin. After him are David Keilin, Kay Sage, Ion Agârbiceanu, Arthur Jonath, Sonny Clark, and Oskari Tokoi.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Boris Kostić ranks 265 out of 661. Before him are Marko Pantelić (1978), Branislav Sekulić (1906), Mihailo Petrović (1957), Vlade Divac (1968), Szilárd Bogdánffy (1911), and Zoltán Beke (1911). After him are Borislav Ivkov (1933), Kosta Tomašević (1923), Anica Dobra (1963), Luka Lipošinović (1933), Luka Jović (1997), and Ljubomir Lovrić (1920).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Serbia

Among chess players born in Serbia, Boris Kostić ranks 4. Before him are Svetozar Gligorić (1923), Aleksandar Matanović (1930), and Ljubomir Ljubojević (1950). After him are Borislav Ivkov (1933), Andrija Fuderer (1931), Milunka Lazarević (1932), Boško Abramović (1951), and Peter Leko (1979).

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