CHESS PLAYER

Elisaveta Bykova

1913 - 1989

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Elisaveta Ivanovna Bykova (or Elisabeth Bykova, Russian: Елизаве́та Ива́новна Бы́кова; 4 November 1913 – 8 March 1989) was a Soviet chess player and twice Women's World Chess Champion, from 1953 until 1956, and again from 1958 to 1962. She was awarded the titles of Woman International Master in 1950, International Master in 1953, and Woman Grandmaster in 1976. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elisaveta Bykova has received more than 50,025 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Elisaveta Bykova is the 62nd most popular chess player (down from 52nd in 2019), the 973rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 774th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Elisaveta Bykova ranks 62 out of 461. Before her are Magnus Carlsen, Salo Flohr, Aleksandar Matanović, Géza Maróczy, Viswanathan Anand, and Dawid Janowski. After her are Mark Taimanov, Vladimir Kramnik, Olga Rubtsova, Szymon Winawer, Semyon Alapin, and Isaac Boleslavsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Elisaveta Bykova ranks 143. Before her are Stefan Heym, Eiji Toyoda, Malietoa Tanumafili II, Johann Niemann, Fritz-Julius Lemp, and Motoo Tatsuhara. After her are Alfonso López Michelsen, Edith Pargeter, Gig Young, Hajo Herrmann, Ljuba Welitsch, and František Čáp. Among people deceased in 1989, Elisaveta Bykova ranks 107. Before her are André Cayatte, Zinka Milanov, Mel Blanc, Edward Ochab, Leyla Mammadbeyova, and Gilbert Simondon. After her are Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Hans Hellmut Kirst, Harry Andrews, Richie Ginther, Yūsaku Matsuda, and Gerhard Schröder.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Elisaveta Bykova ranks 973 out of 3,761. Before her are Mikhail Romm (1901), Viktor Afanasyev (1948), Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow (1910), Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890), Peter Struve (1870), and Igor Strelkov (1970). After her are Viktoria Brezhneva (1907), Pavel Grachev (1948), Sergei Ivanovich Mosin (1849), Olga Rozanova (1886), Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (1869), and Boris Volynov (1934).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Elisaveta Bykova ranks 13. Before her are Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Vera Menchik (1906), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), and Alexander Kotov (1913). After her are Vladimir Kramnik (1975), Olga Rubtsova (1909), Semyon Alapin (1856), Alexander Petrov (1799), Igor Bondarevsky (1913), and Alexander Khalifman (1966).

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