CHESS PLAYER

Ignatz Kolisch

1837 - 1889

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Baron Ignatz von Kolisch (6 April 1837 – 30 April 1889), also Baron Ignaz von Kolisch (German) or báró Kolisch Ignác (Hungarian), was a merchant, journalist and chess master with Jewish roots. Kolisch was born into a Jewish family in Pressburg (known today as Bratislava). Both in business and as a chess player he was eminently successful. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ignatz Kolisch has received more than 29,182 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ignatz Kolisch is the 91st most popular chess player (up from 93rd in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 118th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovak Chess Player.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Ignatz Kolisch ranks 91 out of 461. Before him are Robert Hübner, Jean Dufresne, Alexander Petrov, Levon Aronian, Gideon Ståhlberg, and Luděk Pachman. After him are Veselin Topalov, Jacques Mieses, Grigory Levenfish, Reuben Fine, Alexander Beliavsky, and Ernst Grünfeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Ignatz Kolisch ranks 73. Before him are Horace Parnell Tuttle, Dwight L. Moody, Henry Becque, Altaf Hussain Hali, Theodore Gill, and Amelia Dyer. After him are Francis Marrash, Wilhelm Kühne, Jorge Isaacs, Charles Yerkes, Tigran Chukhajian, and Mary Harris Jones. Among people deceased in 1889, Ignatz Kolisch ranks 56. Before him are Albrecht Ritschl, Laura Bridgman, Jean-Baptiste Arban, Belle Starr, Louis Faidherbe, and Ivan Larionov. After him are Josip Filipović, Sergey Botkin, Ludwig Anzengruber, Miles Joseph Berkeley, Ole Jacob Broch, and Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Ignatz Kolisch ranks 126 out of 418. Before him are Stan Mikita (1940), Jaromil Jireš (1935), Marián Masný (1950), Ján Chryzostom Korec (1924), Margit Slachta (1884), and Pál Szinyei Merse (1845). After him are Roland Jacobi (1893), Igor Matovič (1973), Pavol Molnár (1936), Ladislav Pavlovič (1926), Miloslav Mečíř (1964), and János Csernoch (1852).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Slovakia

Among chess players born in Slovakia, Ignatz Kolisch ranks 2. Before him are Richard Réti (1889). After him are Adolf Schwarz (1836), Herman Steiner (1905), Max Weiss (1857), and Ľubomír Ftáčnik (1957).

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