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Leonid Shamkovich

1923 - 2005

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Leonid Aleksandrovich Shamkovich (Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Шамко́вич; June 1, 1923 – April 22, 2005) was a chess Grandmaster and chess writer. He was born in a Jewish family in Rostov-on-Don in Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Shamkovich has received more than 20,934 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Shamkovich is the 178th most popular chess player (down from 155th in 2019), the 1,965th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,625th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 178 out of 374. Before him are Artur Yusupov, Herman Steiner, Chantal Chaudé de Silans, Susan Polgár, Xie Jun, and Max Weiss. After him are Alexei Shirov, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladimirs Petrovs, Gedeon Barcza, Arnold Denker, and Gyula Sax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 360. Before him are Monica Lovinescu, Hedy Schlunegger, Ron Flockhart, Sumner Redstone, Donald Nicol, and John Pulman. After him are Vladimir Tendryakov, Boris Sagal, Paavo Lonkila, Inge Keller, Latifa al-Zayyat, and The Fabulous Moolah. Among people deceased in 2005, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 272. Before him are Ismail Merchant, Aulis Kallakorpi, Derek Bailey, David Lange, Dahlia Ravikovitch, and Ihor Rybak. After him are Paul Winchell, John N. Bahcall, Givi Nodia, Spencer Dryden, M. Scott Peck, and Wolfgang Blochwitz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 1,965 out of 3,262. Before him are Andrei Kobyakov (1960), Alexander Nesmeyanov (1899), Valentina Prudskova (1938), Irina Slutskaya (1979), Valentin Gavrilov (1946), and Yekaterina Gamova (1980). After him are Mark Rakita (1938), Leonid Khabarov (1947), Vladimir Tendryakov (1923), Mischa Zverev (1987), Aleksey Buldakov (1951), and Boris Mayorov (1938).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 25. Before him are Igor Bondarevsky (1913), Alexander Khalifman (1966), Viacheslav Ragozin (1908), Gennadi Sosonko (1943), Lev Alburt (1945), and Artur Yusupov (1960). After him are Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990), Larissa Volpert (1926), Alexander Grischuk (1983), Alexandra Kosteniuk (1984), Alexander Morozevich (1977), and Irina Levitina (1954).

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