CHESS PLAYER

István Bilek

1932 - 2010

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István Bilek (11 August 1932 – 20 March 2010) was a Hungarian chess grandmaster. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of István Bilek has received more than 17,195 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). István Bilek is the 134th most popular chess player (up from 144th in 2019), the 548th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 510th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Hungarian Chess Player.

István Bilek is most famous for being an international chess grandmaster, double silver and bronze medalist sakkolimpikon, three-time Hungarian champion (1963, 1965, 1970), a master trainer and writer.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, István Bilek ranks 134 out of 461Before him are Esteban Canal, Viacheslav Ragozin, Henrique Mecking, Carlos Torre Repetto, Miroslav Filip, and István Csom. After him are André Chéron, Boris Kostić, Borislav Ivkov, Simen Agdestein, Bernhard Horwitz, and Horatio Caro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, István Bilek ranks 336Before him are Tinka Kurti, Soon-Tek Oh, Richard Lugar, Casey Kasem, Frank Beyer, and Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. After him are Solomon W. Golomb, Clifton Williams, Cesare Perdisa, John Lyons, Els Borst, and Jacques Roubaud. Among people deceased in 2010, István Bilek ranks 283Before him are Brita Borg, João Morais, Vesna Parun, Irina Arkhipova, Jean-Paul Proust, and Anneliese Rothenberger. After him are Doris Eaton Travis, Urbano Navarrete Cortés, Bernard Clavel, Nelly Landry, Werner Krämer, and Federico Vairo.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, István Bilek ranks 548 out of 1,077Before him are István Csom (1940), Tibor Kemény (1913), Dezső Földes (1880), Ágnes Hranitzky (1945), István Mészáros (1930), and István Fekete (1900). After him are Károly Kisfaludy (1788), Ferenc Mészáros (1950), Menyhért Lónyay (1822), István Géczi (1944), Ferenc Kósa (1937), and Iván Menczel (1941).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Hungary

Among chess players born in Hungary, István Bilek ranks 9Before him are Lajos Portisch (1937), Géza Maróczy (1870), Isidor Gunsberg (1854), András Adorján (1950), Gedeon Barcza (1911), and István Csom (1940). After him are Levente Lengyel (1933), Lajos Asztalos (1889), Zoltán Ribli (1951), Endre Steiner (1901), Susan Polgár (1969), and Győző Forintos (1935).