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Gyula Sax

1951 - 2014

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Gyula Sax (18 June 1951 – 25 January 2014) was a Hungarian chess grandmaster and International Arbiter (1995). In 1972 he won the European Junior Chess Championship in Groningen. Sax was awarded the IM title in 1972 and the GM title in 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gyula Sax has received more than 43,448 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Gyula Sax is the 184th most popular chess player (down from 175th in 2019), the 617th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 524th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Hungarian Chess Player.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Gyula Sax ranks 184 out of 374Before him are Leonid Shamkovich, Alexei Shirov, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladimirs Petrovs, Gedeon Barcza, and Arnold Denker. After him are Harry Golombek, Predrag Nikolić, Robert Byrne, Oleg Romanishin, Julio Bolbochán, and Eros Riccio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Gyula Sax ranks 447Before him are Gary Rossington, Costică Ștefănescu, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Nedim Gürsel, Roger Pontare, and Doug Collins. After him are Vladimir Romashkin, Ellen Nikolaysen, Roy A. Tucker, Marietta Giannakou, Peabo Bryson, and Ildikó Schwarczenberger. Among people deceased in 2014, Gyula Sax ranks 396Before him are Sirkka Polkunen, Klaus Schmidt, Patrice Wymore, Henry Hartsfield, Ibrahim Touré, and Göte Hagström. After him are Khushwant Singh, Georg Stollenwerk, Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Carmen Zapata, Jürgen Kurbjuhn, and Lynsey de Paul.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Gyula Sax ranks 617 out of 866Before him are Béla Békessy (1875), Ilona Novák (1925), Ádám Szalai (1987), László Bálint (1948), Attila Csihar (1971), and Pál Dárdai (1976). After him are Iván Menczel (1941), Ödön Tersztyánszky (1890), Tibor Berczelly (1912), Tibor Csík (1927), Ildikó Schwarczenberger (1951), and István Gaál (1933).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Hungary

Among chess players born in Hungary, Gyula Sax ranks 16Before him are Levente Lengyel (1933), Lajos Asztalos (1889), Győző Forintos (1935), Endre Steiner (1901), Susan Polgár (1969), and Gedeon Barcza (1911). After him are Sofia Polgár (1974), Zoltán Almási (1976), Richárd Rapport (1996), Péter Ács (1981), Anna Rudolf (1987), and Csaba Balogh (1987).