1937 - Today
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, Lajos Portisch ranks 48 out of 374. Before 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.
1702 - 1792
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 42
1923 - 2012
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 43
1877 - 1944
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 44
1796 - 1840
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 45
1810 - 1874
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 46
1480 - 1544
HPI: 55.06
Rank: 47
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 48
1908 - 1983
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 49
1969 - Present
HPI: 54.80
Rank: 50
1870 - 1951
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 51
1913 - 1989
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 52
1874 - 1918
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 53
1841 - 1924
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 54
Among people born in 1937, Lajos Portisch ranks 130. Before 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.
1937 - Present
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 124
1937 - 1996
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 125
1937 - 2016
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 126
1937 - 2021
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 127
1937 - 2011
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 128
1937 - 2021
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 129
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 130
1937 - 2013
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 131
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 132
1937 - 2010
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 133
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 134
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 135
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.80
Rank: 136
Among people born in Hungary, Lajos Portisch ranks 221 out of 866. Before 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).
1930 - 2016
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 215
1891 - 1976
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 216
1906 - 1988
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 217
1898 - 1968
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 218
1845 - 1914
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 219
1894 - 1971
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 220
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 221
1925 - 2015
HPI: 54.88
Rank: 222
1914 - 1995
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 223
1544 - 1608
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 224
1893 - 1977
HPI: 54.80
Rank: 225
1911 - 2007
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 226
1949 - 2014
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 227
Among chess players born in Hungary, Lajos Portisch ranks 3. Before 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).
1976 - Present
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 1
1917 - 1998
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 2
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 3
1870 - 1951
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 4
1854 - 1930
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 5
1940 - 2021
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 6
1951 - Present
HPI: 46.14
Rank: 7
1932 - 2010
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 8
1950 - 2023
HPI: 45.38
Rank: 9
1933 - 2014
HPI: 45.21
Rank: 10
1889 - 1956
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 11
1935 - 2018
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 12