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Boris Kostić

1887 - 1963

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Borislav Kostić (24 February 1887 – 3 November 1963) was a Yugoslav 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 28,074 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Kostić is the 115th most popular chess player (down from 110th in 2019), the 204th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 175th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Serbian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Boris Kostić ranks 115 out of 374Before him are Petar Trifunović, Igor Bondarevsky, William Lombardy, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Oscar Panno, and Boris Gelfand. After him are Alexander McDonnell, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Adolf Schwarz, Carlos Torre Repetto, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, and Wolfgang Unzicker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Boris Kostić ranks 180Before him are Géza Csáth, Hranush Arshagyan, Joseph Orbeli, Georges Vézina, Yuri Shaporin, and Thoralf Skolem. After him are Igor Severyanin, Sigrid Fick, Louise Arner Boyd, Arcadio Larraona Saralegui, Gregorio Marañón, and Alf Landon. Among people deceased in 1963, Boris Kostić ranks 129Before him are Benjamin Jones, Robert Kerr, Amelita Galli-Curci, Ernie Davis, Thoralf Skolem, and Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed. After him are Learco Guerra, Erik Lundqvist, J. D. Tippit, Sonny Clark, István Somodi, and Nils Hellsten.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Boris Kostić ranks 204 out of 564Before him are Géza Csáth (1887), Slobodan Santrač (1946), Ljubomir Davidović (1863), Ivan Toplak (1931), Käthe von Nagy (1904), and Marijan Beneš (1951). After him are Sanja Ilić (1951), Vera Nikolić (1948), Ljubiša Spajić (1926), Goran Paskaljević (1947), Milovan Glišić (1847), and Neda Arnerić (1953).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Serbia

Among chess players born in Serbia, Boris Kostić ranks 3Before him are Borislav Ivkov (1933) and Svetozar Gligorić (1923). After him are Boško Abramović (1951), Ljubomir Ljubojević (1950), Aleksandar Matanović (1930), Andrija Fuderer (1931), and Peter Leko (1979).