CHESS PLAYER

Harry Golombek

1911 - 1995

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Harold "Harry" Golombek OBE (1 March 1911 – 7 January 1995) was a British chess player, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Golombek has received more than 103,561 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Golombek is the 221st most popular chess player (down from 185th in 2019), the 5,421st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,547th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Chess Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Harry Golombek ranks 221 out of 461. Before her are Nigel Short, Tony Miles, Smbat Lputian, Fenny Heemskerk, Antoaneta Stefanova, and Roberto Grau. After her are Alexander Morozevich, Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin, Alexander Grischuk, Fred Yates, and Yuri Balashov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Harry Golombek ranks 383. Before her are Alf Martinsen, Sidney Wood, Sybille Bedford, Nino Borsari, Hugh Marlowe, and Amelia Boynton Robinson. After her are Mitch Miller, Foy Draper, Jean Muir, Rudi Ball, Vaughn Monroe, and Hank Greenberg. Among people deceased in 1995, Harry Golombek ranks 308. Before her are Stig Sjölin, John C. Stennis, Frank Perry, Burton Jastram, Ed Flanders, and Iqbal Masih. After her are Terry Southern, Margaret Chase Smith, David Marshall, Einari Teräsvirta, Johnny Carey, and Vivian Blaine.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harry Golombek ranks 5,421 out of 8,785. Before her are Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880), Muriel Pavlow (1921), Andrea Arnold (1961), Redvers Buller (1839), Alistair Darling (1953), and Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814). After her are Richard Bauckham (1946), Thomas Warton (1728), Bryan Forbes (1926), Andrew Davies (1936), Walter Smith (1948), and George Lansbury (1859).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Harry Golombek ranks 13. Before her are Amos Burn (1848), Jonathan Penrose (1933), John Owen (1827), John Nunn (1955), Nigel Short (1965), and Tony Miles (1955). After her are Fred Yates (1884), Raymond Keene (1948), and Stuart Conquest (1967).

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