CHESS PLAYER

Carl Schlechter

1874 - 1918

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Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Schlechter has received more than 87,244 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Carl Schlechter is the 35th most popular chess player (up from 53rd in 2019), the 412th most popular biography from Austria (up from 475th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Chess Player.

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  • 57.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Carl Schlechter ranks 35 out of 461. Before him are Miguel Najdorf, Savielly Tartakower, Vera Menchik, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Bent Larsen, and Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona. After him are Gioachino Greco, Lyudmila Rudenko, Legall de Kermeur, Efim Bogoljubov, Howard Staunton, and László Szabó.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Carl Schlechter ranks 61. Before him are Thomas J. Watson, André-Louis Debierne, Franz Schmidt, Isaac Carasso, Martin Lowry, and Emilie Louise Flöge. After him are Reginald Johnston, Wu Peifu, Johannes Schober, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Marguerite Long, and Avgustyn Voloshyn. Among people deceased in 1918, Carl Schlechter ranks 62. Before him are Victor Adler, August Oetker, Mikhail Alekseyev, Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, Sidónio Pais, and Hermann von Eichhorn. After him are Fritz von Below, Michel Zevaco, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Moisei Uritsky, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia, and Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Carl Schlechter ranks 412 out of 1,424. Before him are Carola of Vasa (1833), Herbert Bayer (1900), Gustav Ucicky (1899), Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria (1876), Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein (1869), and Mizzi Kaspar (1864). After him are Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe (1833), Karl Rappan (1905), Hermann Bahr (1863), Hermann Nitsch (1938), Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818), and Jean Améry (1912).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Austria

Among chess players born in Austria, Carl Schlechter ranks 1. After him are Rudolf Spielmann (1883), Ernst Grünfeld (1893), Erich Eliskases (1913), Johann Berger (1845), Eva Moser (1982), and Markus Ragger (1988).

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