CHESS PLAYER

Lev Alburt

1945 - Today

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Lev Osipovich Alburt (born August 21, 1945) is a chess Grandmaster, writer and coach. He was born in Orenburg, Russia, and became three-time Ukrainian Champion. After defecting to the United States in 1979, he became three-time U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Alburt has received more than 120,882 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Lev Alburt is the 143rd most popular chess player (up from 157th in 2019), the 1,930th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,878th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Russian Chess Player.

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  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Lev Alburt ranks 143 out of 461Before him are Borislav Ivkov, Simen Agdestein, Bernhard Horwitz, Horatio Caro, Florin Gheorghiu, and Artur Yusupov. After him are Hermanis Matisons, Gennadi Sosonko, Klaus Junge, Carl Mayet, Levente Lengyel, and Mišo Cebalo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Lev Alburt ranks 456Before him are June Gable, Philip Pettit, Zurab Sakandelidze, Vladimir Maksimov, Leslie West, and Vincent Nichols. After him are Mats Wahl, Tony Duvert, Mohammed Hazzaz, Eva Janko, Richard Armitage, and Betty Stöve.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Alburt ranks 1,930 out of 3,761Before him are Leonid Abalkin (1930), Artur Yusupov (1960), Anatoly Krutikov (1933), Michael Lucas (1972), Viktor Sidyak (1943), and Nikolay Milyutin (1818). After him are Viktoriya Tokareva (1937), Alexander Rosenbaum (1951), Gennadi Sosonko (1943), Yekaterina Gradova (1946), Alexander Odoevsky (1802), and Konstantin Yuon (1875).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Lev Alburt ranks 23Before him are Alexander Petrov (1799), Igor Bondarevsky (1913), Alexander Khalifman (1966), Peter Romanovsky (1892), Viacheslav Ragozin (1908), and Artur Yusupov (1960). After him are Gennadi Sosonko (1943), Ratmir Kholmov (1925), Anatoly Lein (1931), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944), Leonid Shamkovich (1923), and Irina Levitina (1954).