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Friðrik Ólafsson

1935 - Today

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Friðrik Ólafsson (born 26 January 1935) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster. He was president of FIDE from 1978 to 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friðrik Ólafsson has received more than 56,248 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Friðrik Ólafsson is the 82nd most popular chess player (down from 77th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Iceland (down from 30th in 2019) and the most popular Icelander Chess Player.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Friðrik Ólafsson ranks 82 out of 461. Before him are Adolf Albin, Isidor Gunsberg, Maia Chiburdanidze, Rudolf Charousek, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, and Harry Nelson Pillsbury. After him are Nana Alexandria, Friedrich Sämisch, Robert Hübner, Jean Dufresne, Alexander Petrov, and Levon Aronian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Friðrik Ólafsson ranks 215. Before him are Valentin Gaft, Vladimir Aksyonov, France-Albert René, Richard M. Karp, Armando Picchi, and Peter Brown. After him are Milkha Singh, Belinda Lee, Nicola Cabibbo, Diahann Carroll, Tom Atkins, and Enzo Jannacci.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Friðrik Ólafsson ranks 38 out of 190. Before him are Steingrímur Hermannsson (1928), Geir Haarde (1951), Davíð Oddsson (1948), Stefán Karl Stefánsson (1975), Guðbrandur Þorláksson (1542), and Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval (1885). After him are Sturla Þórðarson (1214), Gunnar Hansen (1947), Jón Ögmundsson (1052), Hannes Hafstein (1861), Eiður Guðjohnsen (1978), and Baltasar Kormákur (1966).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Iceland

Among chess players born in Iceland, Friðrik Ólafsson ranks 1. 

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