CHESS PLAYER

Grigory Levenfish

1889 - 1961

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Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish (Russian: Григо́рий Я́ковлевич Левенфи́ш; 19 March 1889 [O.S. 7 March] – 9 February 1961) was a Soviet chess player who scored his peak competitive results in the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice Soviet champion, in 1934 (jointly with Ilya Rabinovich) and 1937. In 1937 he drew a match against future world champion Mikhail Botvinnik. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigory Levenfish has received more than 60,649 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Grigory Levenfish is the 94th most popular chess player (down from 78th in 2019), the 820th most popular biography from Poland (down from 680th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Grigory Levenfish ranks 94 out of 461. Before him are Levon Aronian, Gideon Ståhlberg, Luděk Pachman, Ignatz Kolisch, Veselin Topalov, and Jacques Mieses. After him are Reuben Fine, Alexander Beliavsky, Ernst Grünfeld, Georg Marco, Ossip Bernstein, and Igor Bondarevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Grigory Levenfish ranks 179. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Janssens, Gottfried Fuchs, Arthur Waley, Zofia Zamenhof, Ostap Vyshnya, and Sadhu Sundar Singh. After him are Hans Felber, Sewall Wright, Nathan Altman, Otto Tief, Clifton Webb, and Marcel Moyse. Among people deceased in 1961, Grigory Levenfish ranks 116. Before him are Ida Siekmann, Henri Deloge, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Elia Dalla Costa, Kiyotake Kawaguchi, and Richmond K. Turner. After him are Beppo Levi, James Thurber, Giulio Cabianca, Maneca, Eduard Tisse, and Jeff Chandler.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Grigory Levenfish ranks 820 out of 1,694. Before him are Chava Alberstein (1946), Jadwiga Piłsudska (1920), Hermann Boehm (1884), Alfred Saalwächter (1883), Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg (1761), and Eugen Schüfftan (1893). After him are Rainer Barzel (1924), Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), Fritz Laband (1925), Helena Pilejczyk (1931), Alina Szapocznikow (1926), and Zofia Nałkowska (1884).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Grigory Levenfish ranks 10. Before him are Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Szymon Winawer (1838), and Edward Lasker (1885). After him are Daniel Harrwitz (1823), Valery Salov (1964), Monika Soćko (1978), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (1998), Radosław Wojtaszek (1987), and Mateusz Bartel (1985).

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