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Lajos Portisch

1937 - Today

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Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik". One of the strongest non-Soviet players from the early 1960s into the late 1980s, he participated in twelve consecutive Interzonals from 1962 through 1993, qualifying for the World Chess Championship Candidates Cycle a total of eight times (1965, 1968, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985, and 1988). Portisch set several all-time records in Chess Olympiads. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lajos Portisch has received more than 100,269 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Lajos Portisch is the 48th most popular chess player (down from 46th in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Hungary (down from 197th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Hungarian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Lajos Portisch ranks 48 out of 374Before him are Legall de Kermeur, Svetozar Gligorić, Frank Marshall, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Howard Staunton, and Pedro Damiano. After him are Salo Flohr, Viswanathan Anand, Géza Maróczy, Elisaveta Bykova, Carl Schlechter, and Joseph Henry Blackburne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Lajos Portisch ranks 130Before him are Eugen Doga, Amos Tversky, Carmen Pereira, Jovan Divjak, Facundo Cabral, and Ned Beatty. After him are Aslan Usoyan, Olusegun Obasanjo, Erich Segal, Dyan Cannon, Ted Nelson, and Archie Shepp.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Lajos Portisch ranks 221 out of 866Before him are Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), Kálmán Kalocsay (1891), Antal Doráti (1906), István Dobi (1898), Ödön Lechner (1845), and Paul Lukas (1894). After him are Jenő Buzánszky (1925), Annie Fischer (1914), Sigismund Rákóczi (1544), Miloš Crnjanski (1893), Teddy Kollek (1911), and Tommy Ramone (1949).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Hungary

Among chess players born in Hungary, Lajos Portisch ranks 3Before him are Judit Polgár (1976) and László Szabó (1917). After him are Géza Maróczy (1870), Isidor Gunsberg (1854), István Csom (1940), Zoltán Ribli (1951), István Bilek (1932), András Adorján (1950), Levente Lengyel (1933), Lajos Asztalos (1889), and Győző Forintos (1935).