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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 55,706 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Grigory Levenfish is the 78th most popular chess player (up from 95th in 2019), the 680th most popular biography from Poland (up from 722nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Grigory Levenfish ranks 78 out of 374. Before him are Alessandro Salvio, István Csom, Alexander Petrov, Gideon Ståhlberg, Louis Paulsen, and Friðrik Ólafsson. After him are Lev Polugaevsky, Reuben Fine, Adolf Albin, Pal Benko, Levon Aronian, and Rudolf Charousek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Grigory Levenfish ranks 146. Before him are Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, Ernest Marsden, Manuel Prado Ugarteche, Antonio Caggiano, James Whale, and Louis Van Hege. After him are Otto Deßloch, Sewall Wright, Zhang Qun, W. S. Van Dyke, Erich Pommer, and Reggie Walker. Among people deceased in 1961, Grigory Levenfish ranks 85. Before him are Carlos Luz, Nina Bari, Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, Otto Ruge, Charles Coburn, and Barry Fitzgerald. After him are Elia Dalla Costa, Kjeld Abell, Yaşar Doğu, Max Weber, Morris Travers, and Hari Singh.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Grigory Levenfish ranks 680 out of 1,454. Before him are Martin Gray (1922), Krystyna Skarbek (1908), Hypatius Pociej (1541), Stefanie Zweig (1932), Duchess Agnes of Württemberg (1835), and Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865). After him are Aleksander Zawadzki (1899), Marcin Kromer (1512), Aleksander Gierymski (1850), Joanna Chmielewska (1932), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), and Karl Decker (1897).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Grigory Levenfish ranks 9. Before him are Adolf Anderssen (1818), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Johannes Zukertort (1842), and Szymon Winawer (1838). After him are Edward Lasker (1885), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), Valery Salov (1964), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (1998), Monika Soćko (1978), and Radosław Wojtaszek (1987).

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