CHESS PLAYER

Edgard Colle

1897 - 1932

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Edgard Colle (18 May 1897 – 19 April 1932) was a Belgian chess master. He scored excellent results in major international tournaments, including first at Amsterdam 1926, ahead of Savielly Tartakower and future world champion Max Euwe; first at Meran 1926, in a strong field ahead of Esteban Canal; and won twice outright at Scarborough in 1927, and again in 1930, ahead of Maróczy and Rubinstein. Colle's playing career was cut short by ill health. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgard Colle has received more than 88,145 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Edgard Colle is the 120th most popular chess player (down from 105th in 2019), the 619th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 505th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Edgard Colle ranks 120 out of 461. Before him are Sonja Graf, Vasja Pirc, Daniel Harrwitz, Jackson Showalter, Alexander McDonnell, and Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa. After him are Gedeon Barcza, Wolfgang Unzicker, Erich Eliskases, Boris Gelfand, Arturo Pomar, and Oscar Panno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Edgard Colle ranks 228. Before him are Pixinguinha, Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer, Alma Rubens, George Murdock, Nils Asther, and Fausto Acke. After him are Henri Frankfort, Douglas Hartree, Diana Karenne, Martti Marttelin, Luis Batlle Berres, and Miguel Fleta. Among people deceased in 1932, Edgard Colle ranks 109. Before him are Dora Carrington, Stanisław Narutowicz, Constantin Coandă, Marcel Boulenger, Charles Winckler, and Edward Marsh. After him are Émile Grumiaux, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Swarnakumari Devi, Albert Londres, and Giuseppe Vitali.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Edgard Colle ranks 619 out of 1,190. Before him are Louis Glineur (1849), Jan Pieter Schotte (1928), FM-2030 (1930), Étienne Gailly (1922), Louis Versyp (1908), and Paul Deman (1889). After him are Théo Lefèvre (1914), Émile Grumiaux (1861), Alexandre Czerniatynski (1960), Matthias Schoenaerts (1977), Françoise Mallet-Joris (1930), and George Van Biesbroeck (1880).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Belgium

Among chess players born in Belgium, Edgard Colle ranks 1. After him are George Koltanowski (1903).

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