CHESS PLAYER

Lev Polugaevsky

1934 - 1995

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Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky (Russian: Лев Абрамович Полугаевский, IPA: [pəlʊɡɐˈjefskʲɪj]; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1962 and was a frequent contender for the World Championship, although he never achieved that title. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Polugaevsky has received more than 110,674 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Lev Polugaevsky is the 75th most popular chess player (up from 79th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Belarus and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Chess Player.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 75 out of 461. Before him are Michael Adams, Vlastimil Hort, Louis Paulsen, Edward Lasker, Pal Benko, and Philipp Stamma. After him are Adolf Albin, Isidor Gunsberg, Maia Chiburdanidze, Rudolf Charousek, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, and Harry Nelson Pillsbury.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 216. Before him are Oleg Basilashvili, Kir Bulychev, Shirley Jones, Aram Tigran, Uwe Johnson, and Roberto Clemente. After him are Gennadiy Aygi, Fayza Ahmed, Juraj Herz, Francisco J. Ayala, Richard Swinburne, and Zilda Arns. Among people deceased in 1995, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 138. Before him are Miguel Torga, Josef Hügi, Luis Regueiro, Sergio Bertoni, Anatoly Tarasov, and Václav Ježek. After him are Gisela Mauermayer, Osvaldo Pugliese, Kukrit Pramoj, Burl Ives, Oles Honchar, and John Brunner.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 102 out of 368. Before him are Zivia Lubetkin (1914), Nahum Goldmann (1895), Radasłaŭ Astroŭski (1887), Pyotr Klimuk (1942), Ivan Yarkovsky (1844), and Carl Anton von Meyer (1795). After him are Ivonka Survilla (1936), Jerzy Giedroyc (1906), Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982), Vasily Ignatenko (1961), Valeriya Novodvorskaya (1950), and Chaim Kanievsky (1928).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Belarus

Among chess players born in Belarus, Lev Polugaevsky ranks 2. Before him are Dawid Janowski (1868). After him are Boris Gelfand (1968), Viktor Kupreichik (1949), Evgeny Agrest (1966), Ilya Smirin (1968), Alexei Fedorov (1972), Aleksej Aleksandrov (1973), Yury Shulman (1975), Sergei Zhigalko (1989), and Sergei Azarov (1983).

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