CHESS PLAYER

István Csom

1940 - 2021

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István Csom (2 June 1940 – 28 July 2021) was a Hungarian chess player who held the FIDE titles of Grandmaster and International Arbiter. FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1967 and the Grandmaster title in 1973. He was Hungarian Champion in 1972 and 1973 (jointly). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of István Csom has received more than 18,522 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). István Csom is the 133rd most popular chess player (down from 73rd in 2019), the 542nd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 316th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Hungarian Chess Player.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, István Csom ranks 133 out of 461. Before him are Vladas Mikėnas, Esteban Canal, Viacheslav Ragozin, Henrique Mecking, Carlos Torre Repetto, and Miroslav Filip. After him are István Bilek, André Chéron, Boris Kostić, Borislav Ivkov, Simen Agdestein, and Bernhard Horwitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, István Csom ranks 378. Before him are Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Arati Saha, Albert Razin, Kurt Ahrens Jr., and John Castle. After him are Marshall Berman, Osamu Watanabe, Jean-Paul Proust, Jimmy Ellis, Richard Marcinko, and Pauli Nevala. Among people deceased in 2021, István Csom ranks 390. Before him are Bobby Unser, Ramsey Clark, Lothar Metz, Francesco Morini, Vera Nikolić, and Mauro Bellugi. After him are Kees de Jager, Fausta Morganti, Lee Wan-koo, Modibo Keita, Curtis Fuller, and Shlomo Hillel.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, István Csom ranks 542 out of 1,077. Before him are György Piller (1899), József Turay (1905), Ferenc Karinthy (1921), Sándor Tarics (1913), József Katona (1791), and Victor Varconi (1891). After him are Tibor Kemény (1913), Dezső Földes (1880), Ágnes Hranitzky (1945), István Mészáros (1930), István Fekete (1900), and István Bilek (1932).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Hungary

Among chess players born in Hungary, István Csom ranks 8. Before him are László Szabó (1917), Lajos Portisch (1937), Géza Maróczy (1870), Isidor Gunsberg (1854), András Adorján (1950), and Gedeon Barcza (1911). After him are István Bilek (1932), Levente Lengyel (1933), Lajos Asztalos (1889), Zoltán Ribli (1951), Endre Steiner (1901), and Susan Polgár (1969).

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