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Jonathan Penrose

1933 - 2021

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Jonathan Penrose, (7 October 1933 – 30 November 2021) was an English chess player, who held the titles Grandmaster (1993) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1983). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jonathan Penrose has received more than 171,025 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jonathan Penrose is the 104th most popular chess player (up from 177th in 2019), the 2,962nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,262nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Chess Player.

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  • 48.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Jonathan Penrose ranks 104 out of 374Before him are Leonid Stein, Jean Dufresne, Michael Adams, Ernst Falkbeer, Peter Romanovsky, and Erich Eliskases. After him are Edgard Colle, Vasja Pirc, Richard Teichmann, Georg Marco, Petar Trifunović, and Igor Bondarevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jonathan Penrose ranks 267Before him are Arif Malikov, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Lucian Pintilie, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Nicolae Rainea, and Ayako Wakao. After him are Titus Buberník, H. D. Deve Gowda, James Wolfensohn, Bob Rafelson, Wayne Rogers, and Najah al-Attar. Among people deceased in 2021, Jonathan Penrose ranks 395Before him are Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei, Lars Høgh, Bipin Rawat, Modibo Keita, Ramsey Clark, and Tamara Rylova. After him are Jan Sokol, Fofi Gennimata, Wayne Thiebaud, Bernard Lown, Catherine Tizard, and Kees de Jager.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jonathan Penrose ranks 2,962 out of 7,765Before him are Christina Pickles (1935), Nathalie Emmanuel (1989), Francis Hauksbee (1660), Robert Knox (1791), Lee Kerslake (1947), and Dawn Addams (1930). After him are Brian O'Nolan (1911), Thomas Digges (1546), Anthony Phillips (1951), Roy Urquhart (1901), Andrew Birkin (1945), and Andy Cole (1971).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Jonathan Penrose ranks 4Before him are Howard Staunton (1810), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), and Michael Adams (1971). After him are Alexander McDonnell (1798), Henry Bird (1830), Amos Burn (1848), Harry Golombek (1911), Nigel Short (1965), Fred Yates (1884), John Nunn (1955), and Raymond Keene (1948).