CHESS PLAYER

Krishnan Sasikiran

1981 - Today

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Krishnan Sasikiran (Tamil: கிருஷ்ணன் சசிகிரண்; born 7 January 1981) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He was one of Viswanathan Anand's seconds in the World Chess Championship 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krishnan Sasikiran has received more than 105,494 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Krishnan Sasikiran is the 436th most popular chess player (down from 390th in 2019), the 1,649th most popular biography from India (down from 1,345th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 23.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Krishnan Sasikirans by language

Over the past year Krishnan Sasikiran has had the most page views in the with 10,651 views, followed by Russian (846), and Chinese (744). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (90.71%), Tamil (58.31%), and Arabic (52.36%)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Krishnan Sasikiran ranks 436 out of 461. Before him are Kirill Alekseenko, Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi, Dinara Saduakassova, Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn, Shen Yang, and Harika Dronavalli. After him are Maxim Rodshtein, Deysi Cori, David Antón Guijarro, Zhao Xue, Zaven Andriasian, and Jon Ludvig Hammer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Krishnan Sasikiran ranks 1,373. Before him are Kosei Nakamura, Ryuji Kitamura, Kohei Miyazaki, Johnny Oduya, Tomasz Motyka, and Billy Martin. After him are Crystle Stewart, Justin Williams, Kazuhisa Hamaoka, Yusuke Yoshizaki, Masato Kawaguchi, and Mike Lewis.

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In India

Among people born in India, Krishnan Sasikiran ranks 1,649 out of 1,861. Before him are Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (1979), Arjun Bijlani (1982), Harika Dronavalli (1991), Antara Mali (1975), Diana Penty (1985), and Swara Bhaskar (1988). After him are Ajinkya Rahane (1988), Pratyusha Banerjee (1991), Sana Saeed (1988), Aparna Popat (1978), Danish Siddiqui (1983), and Anirudh Ravichander (1990).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In India

Among chess players born in India, Krishnan Sasikiran ranks 10. Before him are Humpy Koneru (1987), Tania Sachdev (1986), Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (2005), Pentala Harikrishna (1986), Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (1979), and Harika Dronavalli (1991). After him are Yuzvendra Chahal (1990), Parimarjan Negi (1993), Surya Shekhar Ganguly (1983), Gukesh D (2006), Nihal Sarin (2004), and Padmini Rout (1994).

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