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Legall de Kermeur

1702 - 1792

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François Antoine de Legall de Kermeur (1702–92) was a French chess player, and was possibly the world's best player from about 1730 to 1755. His name is variously written Kermur, Sire de Legalle, by Twiss, and Kermur and Kermuy, Sire de Legal, by others. In the List of Subscribers to Philidor's second edition it stands as in Twiss, but the spelling was, probably, in both cases Philidor's own.Along with other famous players, he played in Paris's Café de la Régence, and is considered to have been possibly the strongest player in the world around the 1730s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Legall de Kermeur has received more than 43,198 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Legall de Kermeur is the 42nd most popular chess player (up from 48th in 2019), the 2,006th most popular biography from France (up from 2,202nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Legall de Kermeur ranks 42 out of 374Before him are Gioachino Greco, Efim Bogoljubov, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, László Szabó, Lyudmila Rudenko, and Andor Lilienthal. After him are Svetozar Gligorić, Frank Marshall, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Howard Staunton, Pedro Damiano, and Lajos Portisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1702, Legall de Kermeur ranks 7Before him are Anne Bonny, Emperor Nakamikado, Thomas Bayes, Jean-Étienne Liotard, Maria Clementina Sobieska, and Muhammad Shah. After him are Sava Petrović, William Fermor, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Francesco Zuccarelli, Jack Sheppard, and Enrichetta d'Este. Among people deceased in 1792, Legall de Kermeur ranks 16Before him are Nguyễn Huệ, Tiradentes, Robert Adam, Johann van Beethoven, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, and Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Jacques Cazotte, Denis Fonvizin, Antonio Rosetti, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Antoine Louis, and Maximilian Hell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Legall de Kermeur ranks 2,006 out of 6,011Before him are Recceswinth (620), Gaspard Ulliel (1984), Patrick Tambay (1949), Martine Carol (1920), Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807), and Jean-Marc Ayrault (1950). After him are Joseph Monier (1823), Fernand Cormon (1845), Guillaume Postel (1510), Jacques-François Blondel (1705), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), and Jean Maximilien Lamarque (1770).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In France

Among chess players born in France, Legall de Kermeur ranks 2Before him are François-André Danican Philidor (1726). After him are Pal Benko (1928), Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800), Chantal Chaudé de Silans (1919), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (1990), Laurent Fressinet (1981), Étienne Bacrot (1983), and Marie Sebag (1986).