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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 45,985 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Elisaveta Bykova is the 52nd most popular chess player (up from 57th in 2019), the 776th most popular biography from Russia (up from 809th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Elisaveta Bykova ranks 52 out of 374Before her are Howard Staunton, Pedro Damiano, Lajos Portisch, Salo Flohr, Viswanathan Anand, and Géza Maróczy. After her are Carl Schlechter, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Mark Taimanov, Magnus Carlsen, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, and Dawid Janowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Elisaveta Bykova ranks 113Before her are Maurice Wilkes, Hélio Gracie, Yasuo Suzuki, Philip Abelson, Trevor Howard, and Lucien Goldmann. After her are Georgy Flyorov, Véra Clouzot, Nikolai Amosov, Tikhon Khrennikov, Bill Hewlett, and Waldemar de Brito. Among people deceased in 1989, Elisaveta Bykova ranks 97Before her are Hassan Fathy, Nicolás Guillén, Ondrej Nepela, Carlos Puebla, Sergei Sobolev, and Franz Binder. After her are Abbie Hoffman, André Cayatte, Mel Blanc, Hans Hellmut Kirst, Ahmed Abdallah, and Arnaldo Ochoa.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Elisaveta Bykova ranks 776 out of 3,262Before her are Yevgeny Dragunov (1920), Sergei Sobolev (1908), Samuil Marshak (1887), Aleksey Arakcheyev (1769), Alexander Zinoviev (1922), and Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919). After her are Leonid Krasin (1870), Ludmila Belousova (1935), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Semyon Kurkotkin (1917), Alexey Pajitnov (1956), and Alexander Godunov (1949).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Elisaveta Bykova ranks 12Before her are Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Vera Menchik (1906), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Yuri Averbakh (1922), and Andor Lilienthal (1911). After her are Olga Rubtsova (1909), Vladimir Kramnik (1975), Alexander Kotov (1913), Semyon Alapin (1856), Alexander Petrov (1799), and Peter Romanovsky (1892).