CHESS PLAYER

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 168,852 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jonathan Penrose is the 195th most popular chess player (down from 104th in 2019), the 4,845th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,954th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jonathan Penroses by language

Over the past year Jonathan Penrose has had the most page views in the with 24,285 views, followed by Chinese (2,782), and German (1,380). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (76.69%), Chinese (37.38%), and Egyptian Arabic (30.77%)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Jonathan Penrose ranks 195 out of 461. Before him are Xie Jun, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Anatoly Lein, Paul Felix Schmidt, Vitaly Tseshkovsky, and Vladimirs Petrovs. After him are Leonid Shamkovich, Nick de Firmian, Isaac Kashdan, Gyula Sax, Nana Ioseliani, and Robert Byrne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jonathan Penrose ranks 464. Before him are Daniel Massey, Milena Hübschmannová, Lou Albano, Michael Parenti, Janusz Sidło, and Pete Wilson. After him are Raúl Sánchez, David Storey, Jean Boiteux, Thérèse Steinmetz, Penelope Lively, and Bobby Smith. Among people deceased in 2021, Jonathan Penrose ranks 544. Before him are Udo Zimmermann, Aleksandr Rogozhkin, Jean-Denis Bredin, Enrique Chazarreta, Vicente Cantatore, and Lester Bird. After him are Ray Kennedy, Vyacheslav Vedenin, Michael Constantine, Keri Hulme, Mikhail Zhelev, and Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jonathan Penrose ranks 4,845 out of 8,785. Before him are Lucy Hawking (1969), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (1983), Joe Spence (1898), Basil Dearden (1911), Lawrence Stone (1919), and Anna Friel (1976). After him are Peter Sallis (1921), Edward Lhuyd (1660), Ray Kennedy (1951), Mark Mazower (1958), Nick Land (1962), and Michael Winterbottom (1961).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Jonathan Penrose ranks 8. Before him are Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Michael Adams (1971), Alexander McDonnell (1798), Horatio Caro (1862), Henry Bird (1830), and Amos Burn (1848). After him are John Owen (1827), John Nunn (1955), Nigel Short (1965), Tony Miles (1955), Harry Golombek (1911), and Fred Yates (1884).

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